Kayelee Gates and her fiancé, Christian Capraro, had driven for 23 hours to reach Silver Spring, Maryland.
They had rented a bedroom in the house of Christopher Goisse using the Airbnb platform.
On their first evening, the couple spent some intimate time together in the shared bathroom.
While they were relaxing in bed, Capraro, whose job involves installing smoke detectors, grew suspicious when he noticed that the room was equipped with two smoke detectors.
His suspicions led him to discover a hidden camera in the detector above the bed, as stated in the lawsuit.
A similar hidden camera was also found in the bathroom.
Capraro removed the hidden camera from the bedroom, and they immediately checked into a hotel where they contacted the Montgomery County Police Department.
“I definitely have had many cry sessions about it,” she explained.
“Like, I can feel my heart start beating really heavy and fluttery whenever I start thinking about the situation. Whenever I start thinking about the situation — I get a little shaky even talking about it.”
The couple’s attorney, Dan Whitney Jr., expressed their deepest concerns, explaining that not knowing where the recordings might end up is like “opening Pandora’s box.”
At the time of the police’s arrival, Christopher Goisse, who is a licensed psychiatric nurse practitioner in Maryland, was in the master bedroom of the home.
Initially, he allowed the police to search the house but later refused them entry into his twin brother, Larry Goisse’s bedroom.
However, the police soon discovered that Larry was indeed in the bedroom.
In Larry’s room, the police found a locked safe. Larry refused to provide the code for it.
The police had to return later with a search warrant to open the safe, where they found “multiple hidden cameras, including but not limited to the hidden camera smoke detectors removed from the bathroom.”
Currently, Larry Goisse is in jail following a separate incident. He pleaded guilty to federal charges of drug diversion and health care fraud on October 4, 2022.
“It gives me the heebie-jeebies not knowing if someone looks at me weird if there’s a potential they have seen it. That always lurks in the back of my head every time I meet somebody,” Gates told Fox 5 DC.
The couple is now seeking damages exceeding $75,000 to compensate for the immense stress and invasion of privacy they have endured.
He has previously denied any involvement, suggesting to the outlet that it was a “possibility” the guests themselves might have installed the devices.
Update: The lawsuit is still active, with the most recent court filings submitted in May 2024 as the case continues to develop.
