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The Case of Joe D'Ambrosio

📻 Episode #223
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Sep 22, 2021

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About This Episode

19 year old Anthony Klann was stabbed to death in Cleveland, Ohio in September of 1988. Two men who had a lot to gain worked with detectives to spin a narrative, claiming two other men, Joe D'Ambrosio and Michael Keenan, committed the murder on September 22nd; however, Anthony Klann was still very much alive the…

The Case

19 year old Anthony Klann was stabbed to death in Cleveland, Ohio in September of 1988. Two men who had a lot to gain worked with detectives to spin a narrative, claiming two other men, Joe D'Ambrosio and Michael Keenan, committed the murder on September 22nd; however, Anthony Klann was still very much alive the following night.

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00:04:45
“Speaker 1: So I'd like to set this stage a bit here. Speaker 1: This is the late eighties and liter Lily on the Speaker 1: east side of Cleveland, Ohio, very reminiscent of Tony I. Speaker 1: Panovitch's story. Actually, you know, bar culture, lots of partying Speaker 1: going on, and in this case there's coke drinking and”
00:19:25
“Speaker 3: didn't know no better. You have to do very little Speaker 3: work as an attorney for a three judge panel case. Speaker 1: So the trial took place on February sixth, nineteen eighty nine, Speaker 1: in the Cayahoga Court of Common Please, as you said, Speaker 1: in front of a three judge panel. The prosecutor was”
00:33:51
“Speaker 5: Give him whatever you want at that point, exactly right, Speaker 5: And Jesus, I feel like I need a drink after Speaker 5: hearing your story. Speaker 4: There's a part that you guys don't know and never Speaker 4: made it into the trial records or trial transcripts. But”

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