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The Case of Anthony Apanovitch
📻 Episode #187
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Mar 03, 2021
About This Episode
On August 23rd, 1984, Mary Anne Flynn was found dead in her Cleveland, OH bedroom. She had been strangled and severely beaten and there was evidence she had been sexually assaulted. There were multiple suspects including a violent ex-boyfriend, an ex-tenant who was an attempted rapist and an exterminator who had a copy of the…
The Case
On August 23rd, 1984, Mary Anne Flynn was found dead in her Cleveland, OH bedroom. She had been strangled and severely beaten and there was evidence she had been sexually assaulted. There were multiple suspects including a violent ex-boyfriend, an ex-tenant who was an attempted rapist and an exterminator who had a copy of the house key. But investigators focused solely on Tony Apanovitch, a local painter Flynn hired to work on her house. Apanovitch cooperated with investigators and told them he last saw her between 4 and 4:30 on the day of her death to ask about painting the window trims. There were no witnesses and no physical evidence linked Apanovitch to the crime. Nevertheless, he was convicted of aggravated murder, aggravated burglary, and 2 counts of rape and sentenced to death.
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00:04:02“Speaker 3: in the neighborhood. Speaker 1: So later that night, mary Ann Flynn was raped and Speaker 1: brutally murdered in her bedroom. She'd been strangled and severely beaten, Speaker 1: and semen was found and collected from both her mouth Speaker 1: and her vagina. Speaker 2: Yes, so mary Anne's body was transported to the County”
00:15:40“Speaker 2: a Morgue attendant one of the personnel at the crime scene. Speaker 2: So what the state argued to the jury was disregard Speaker 2: the hair. What we found out later is that the hair, Speaker 2: as I noted, was found between her bound hands behind”
00:28:54“Speaker 1: is he calling us from death row? Speaker 2: Well, the state appealed to the Ohio Supreme Court. What Speaker 2: the Ohio Supreme Court determined was that under the Ohio Speaker 2: DNA Testing Statute that in order for a death row Speaker 2: prisoner to get an evidentiary hearing on the issue of DNA,”
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