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The Case of David Smith
📻 Episode #546
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Oct 10, 2025
About This Episode
On October 15, 2015, Quortney Tolliver was attacked with a hammer in her home in Ravenna Township, OH. She woke up from a medically induced coma weeks later with absolutely no recollection of the incident. Nevertheless, Portage County detectives pressed her to identify the person they “found out who did this” – 47 year old…
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The Case
On October 15, 2015, Quortney Tolliver was attacked with a hammer in her home in Ravenna Township, OH. She woke up from a medically induced coma weeks later with absolutely no recollection of the incident. Nevertheless, Portage County detectives pressed her to identify the person they “found out who did this” – 47 year old David Smith. Ms. Tolliver refused to identify Mr. Smith until she faced her own charges and had a dream with Mr. Smith in it, apparently indicating that he was the perpetrator. Based on Ms. Tolliver’s fraught identification alone, a jury convicted Mr. Smith of attempted murder and sentenced him to 22 years in prison.
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00:06:21“Speaker 3: There was a lock box which someone opened, whoever did this, Speaker 3: that was not swabbed or fingerprinted. It was gathered but Speaker 3: never used as evidence and has since been lost. There Speaker 3: was a laptop that the contents of which were never investigated,”
00:24:44“Speaker 1: had sidestepped with her testimony, which was supported by surveillance Speaker 1: footage of random black cars traveling toward the trailer park. Speaker 3: There's not a single photo of what her actual black Speaker 3: Cadillac looks like. Even though they had a search, weren't Speaker 3: for it, and they searched it all. They took not”
00:42:03“Speaker 2: there and came back at twelve o'clock with a guilty verdict, but. Speaker 1: A plan to return the Sixth Circuit was already in motion. Speaker 1: After all, these fucking people acted like they couldn't properly Speaker 1: comprehend the Sixth Circuit's order. But if the conviction was vacated,”
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