what may well be a long time behind bars. it will not be his first visit. he has a series of mug shots from a a series of arrests in florida. there was nothing like this. >> these guys were animals. you don't -- i wouldn't treat -- i wouldn't treat an animal -- i wouldn't treat a squirrel this way. what they tried to do was just just preposterous. what else can you say? i hope they get everything they deserve. >> reporter: the murder has left two families devastated. >> it's really horrible when you do something good for somebody and the next thing it turns out the way it did. >> reporter: it turned out to be murder. 26-year-old joey comunale was stabbed 15 times on sunday morning. and rackover is now charged with his murder and disposing of his body in a shallow grave in monmouth county. the body was burned, as well. also charged in the crime is lawrence dilione who is charged in the crime grew up near the place where the body was buried.

took the body out of there and brought to to jersey, but it's unclear, again, because they are both uncooperative. >> rackover born james in florida, a troubled youth until meeting a prominent east side jeweler, but he tried to turn around his life. the elder rackover devastated now that this mitsvah turned to tragic. >> he can't believe it, can't talk, breaks down, cries, all he say, why i did something so good and something so good turns out to be so bad. >> so many questions about that. thanks to jim here in new york. it's just, the new york media has been all over the story. a tragic one seeing all the young people involved. >> wait to see how the legal case unfolds now. >> yeah. >> and we'll be right back.

how did pig tracks get on the ceiling? ? spider pig does whatever a spider pig does ? ? can he swing from a web ? ? no, he can't practice he's a big ? >> homer simpson makes everything better. >> absolutely. unless you're a member of the simpson family, it's not every day that you see a pig as a pet. >> unless you live in new york, i've seen everything as a pet. this morning, hearing about what

an adorable little piglet who has now grown into much, much more than a family pet. she's become a social media star as well as a social movement here's abc's juju chang. >> reporter: she was the bundle of joy derek walter and steve jenkins always hoped for. >> we got her as a piglet. so she was very small. >> reporter: a tiny adorable pig named esther. >> she grew up, settled into the family very quickly. >> reporter: she continued to grow and grow and grow. until derek and steve realized esther was no mini pig. esther was a big, fat pig. >> what's this? what's this? >> she is our 650-pound mini pig that lives with us in our house. >> reporter: unable to part ways, she became a beloved house pet.

she's 650 pounds of pure piggy love. and now esther's a full blown social media celebrity with nearly 270,000 followers on instagram and over 800,000 likes on facebook. >> oh, she wasn't paying attention. >> i know, i know. >> reporter: steve and derek acknowledge keeping a 650 pound pig in your house can cause problems. >> she loves to root in the blankets. it's one of her pig's natural instincts to do is to root up their beds and make them fluffy. >> we go through a mattress about every two months. >> but the lack of sleep hasn't slowed them down. they now have over 250 animals living with them including chickens, rams, roosters, bunnies and pigs. >> come on in. >> reporter: 11 more esther-sized piggies who, unlike esther, live in the barn. >> you guys love watermelon! >> oh, look at that. >> reporter: all those hungry oinkers means lots and lots of

>> all of our pigs here eat a kibble that we have actually manufactured for them. >> we ate $3,000 worth of pig foot last year, and that was four tons. >> reporter: which, of course, is not cheap. thankfully, esther's fame helpings cover bills. she has an online store bringing in cash, and her owners put out a book. but the biggest attention gutter still those witty, clever posts. >> it's her ability to make you think about things entirely differently. people write us and say, oh, i'll never eat pork again. but they also write-up and say i've had a really hard time smiling, esther. you're the first thing that's made my smile in weeks. >> yep. just a pig promoting a happy, positive life one oink at a time. juju chang in ontario, canada. >> you know, you got to think the pigs that don't live in the house, leek, why does that one get to sleep on the couch? we're out here in the hay.

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well, you know, it's been six years since j.k. rowling's last harry potter film. and now the highly anticipated harry potter prequel is now out there. >> all right. "fantastic beast" and where to find them is in the movie, andy plays a wizard who arrives in 1926 new york with a suitcase full of magical creatures hoping to procure a rare beast, but it's not long before those creatures manage to escape. >> oh. >> commander. >> it was open? >> just a smidgen. >> awesome effects there. >> yeah.

just a smidgen of high praise from the critics earning a certified fresh 85% on rotten tomatoes. richard lawson described it as ripe with political allegory, unafraid of grimness in a way that the previous harry potter films, which were about children, couldn't quite be. and richard roper called it an effective if not everlasting magical spell. next, describe the year's best movies and a stone-cold instant classic. casey affleck, who is pretty good, plays a jon janitor in boston is forced to move back to the fishing village where he grew up to raise his teenage nephew and face a past that forced him to leave in the first place. >> we're not going to be here much longer. >> we're not moving to boston. >> i don't want to talk about that right now. >> you said you got the money to move.

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they found exotic animals living in unfit conditions... taking a live look outside right now where the temperatures are dropping.... right now it's the coldest it has been all season... let's get right over to 13 first alert meteorologist greg bennett who is watching just how cold it might get.. sunny skies are back but this morning is near freezing for freezing in area just outside of the city! freeze warnings are up until 7am this morning for pahrump, sandy valley, indian springs, searchlight, laughlin and northwest arizona. temperatures within these areas will range between 25 and 32 degrees! within las vegas, morning lows will range between 37 and 43 degrees! luckily for all of southern nevada, winds are much lighter this morning and will remain as such through the weekend.