Investigation Discovery 'See No Evil' show to feature Craig Rideout case

Oct 11, 2023

Investigation Discovery will air a show this week featuring the Craig Rideout murder case.

The hour-long episode, dubbed "The Devil's Bathtub," will chronicle what led a mother and her son to commit murder.

The episode is scheduled to air at 9 p.m. Wednesday as part of "See No Evil's" 11th season on Investigation Discovery (Channel 138). The show will include interviews with members of the Monroe County Sheriff's Office, who investigated the case, among others.

Craig Rideout was reported missing on the morning of July 20, 2016. By the time that report was filed, investigators had already found his bloody and battered body wrapped in a tarp near a rural roadside in Yates County.

There was also a 911 call from Craig's sister reporting she'd discovered Craig's estranged wife, Laura, in his Penfield townhouse cleaning and removing bags of garbage.

The next day, deputies found two of Craig and Laura's sons at Devil's Bathtub pond in Mendon Ponds Park. A bag of bloody clothing was in the trunk, another bag of evidence was floating in the pond.

Prosecutors charged Colin and Alex Rideout with tampering with evidence, along with their mother Laura and her boyfriend, Paul Tucci. Within months, they'd built a case to charge all four with second-degree murder.

Laura and Craig Rideout were in the midst of divorce proceedings, and a protracted custody fight over the pair's two youngest children was ensnaring the older children.

'See No Evil" is a true-crime show that highlights how crimes are solved with the assistance of surveillance cameras.

In the 2017 trial, surveillance videos showed three of the defendants purchasing items at area Wal-Mart locations in the hours before the murder. Those items were later used in the botched attempt to hide Craig Rideout's body, according to prosecutors. Bloody clothing also tied each of the defendants to the crime, they argued.

A jury convicted Colin and Laura Rideout of murder and tampering charges. Alex Rideout was convicted of tampering with evidence for helping clean up the crime scene and attempting to dispose of evidence.

Paul Tucci was acquitted of all charges.

Alex Rideout, now 26, was released from prison in 2021 after serving a 3½ years.

Colin and Laura Rideout both remain incarcerated in maximum-security prisons - Colin, now 29, in Attica Correctional Facility in Wyoming County, and Laura, now 51, in Bedford Hill Correctional Facility in Westchester County. Colin is not eligible for parole until 2043 and Laura until 2056.