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The Case of Andrew Krivak

📻 Episode #33
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Aug 21, 2017

About This Episode

This special edition of Wrongful Conviction Behind Bars was recorded inside of Wende Correctional Facility, a maximum-security prison in Buffalo, NY with Anthony DiPippo’s co-defendant, Andrew Krivak, and his attorney Professor Adele Bernhard. On November 22nd, 1995, a hunter found the remains of 12-year-old Josette Wright in a wooded area of Putnam County, NY with…

The Case

This special edition of Wrongful Conviction Behind Bars was recorded inside of Wende Correctional Facility, a maximum-security prison in Buffalo, NY with Anthony DiPippo’s co-defendant, Andrew Krivak, and his attorney Professor Adele Bernhard. On November 22nd, 1995, a hunter found the remains of 12-year-old Josette Wright in a wooded area of Putnam County, NY with her hands and feet hog-tied behind her back and her underwear shoved down her throat. Detectives investigating the murder arrested 16-year-old Dominic Neglia on unrelated drug charges. During questioning, detectives claimed that Neglia said 18-year-old Anthony DiPippo, his girlfriend at the time Denise Rose, Andrew Krivak, Adam Wilson, Bill McGregor were involved in the rape and murder of Wright. Although co-defendants, they were convicted in separate trials in Putnam County Supreme Court in 1997, based largely on the testimony of Wilson, McGregor and Rose, and sentenced each to 25 years to life in prison. While Anthony DiPippo denied any involvement in the crime and testified in his trial, Andrew Krivak signed a false confession in which he admitted to raping Josette Wright but not killing her and implicating Anthony DiPippo in the murder. In 2016, Andrew Krivak’s legal team sought to introduce newly discovered evidence that points to Howard Gombert, who is serving time in Connecticut for sexual assault, as the killer, which ultimately led to the acquittal and release of his co-defendant, Anthony DiPippo. The motion seeking a new trial was denied, largely due to his false confession. However, in 2019 a judge threw out his conviction and granted him a new trial. He is still in prison awaiting his new trial.

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00:08:01

“Speaker 1: just outrageous. Speaker 7: I think it's very shocking, and. Speaker 1: It's particularly outrageous because of her age. I mean, it's Speaker 1: not like she was seventeen, where you'd say, well, you know, Speaker 1: sometimes seventeen years run away. Speaker 5: She was in school every day, she wasn't getting into”

00:30:50

“Speaker 1: who is so clearly should be under extreme scrutiny for Speaker 1: this crime and should be being questioned and should be Speaker 1: held accountable. You should be held accountable, I mean, and Speaker 1: this little girl deserves justice and she's not getting it either. Speaker 2: And may I just point out too, and we got”

00:52:39

“Speaker 5: they had found jewelry in the van. They then called Speaker 5: witnesses at the trial to say that they recognized the Speaker 5: jewelry as belonging to Joeset. When I first learned about Speaker 5: this case, which was quite a long time ago, Andy Speaker 5: wrote me and he described the evidence, and I got”

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