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The Case of Dan Carnevale
📻 Episode #446
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 May 02, 2024
About This Episode
A fire erupted in the basement of an apartment building in Pittsburgh, PA, on January 17, 1993, killing three people. Arson officials believed the fire was set purposefully, but the case went cold for 13 years. Dan Carnevale was arrested for the fire in 2006 based on the questionable testimony of a man claiming to…
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The Case
A fire erupted in the basement of an apartment building in Pittsburgh, PA, on January 17, 1993, killing three people. Arson officials believed the fire was set purposefully, but the case went cold for 13 years. Dan Carnevale was arrested for the fire in 2006 based on the questionable testimony of a man claiming to be an eyewitness. All of the physical evidence in this case had been destroyed so the case against Dan relied solely on this witness, the testimony of a jailhouse informant, and junk science hypotheses. Dan was ultimately sentenced to life in prison without parole for arson and the three deaths.
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00:05:04“Speaker 3: five thirty, it's a six alarm fire. The fire has Speaker 3: moved from where it began in the basement all the Speaker 3: way to the roof, and the northwest corner of the Speaker 3: Columbia Apartment building collapses. Three apartment residents are killed. One Speaker 3: visitor is very severely injured.”
00:19:47“Speaker 4: in the county jail. Speaker 5: And now emerges a jail house informant by the name Speaker 5: Of Sean. Burns here's What Sean burns tells everybody in Speaker 5: all of this, Time DAN carnivali explains To Sean burns Speaker 5: this individual in protective custody The Alleghany County jail is”
00:35:00“Speaker 3: pititition the court to withdraw all, charges And dan was Speaker 3: finally released and. Speaker 4: EXONERATED i got Released march, eighteenth the first day OF Speaker 4: covid that nobody was. Speaker 3: Allowed out of the house the very first day of Speaker 3: like everybody was being kind of like sent home from your.”
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