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The Case of Marty Tankleff
📻 Episode #180
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Jan 13, 2021
About This Episode
This is an updated episode that originally aired on November 7, 2016.
The Case
This is an updated episode that originally aired on November 7, 2016.
On September 7th, 1988, Marty Tankleff awoke for his 1st day of his senior year of high school only to find his mother had been killed, while his father held on by a thread. Curiously, he became the target of the investigation, despite some glaringly suspicious characters.
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00:05:12“Speaker 2: And there were threats. We later learned about two weeks Speaker 2: before September sixth, Jerry Struman threatened to cut my father's Speaker 2: tongue out, and it got so bad that my father Speaker 2: was even looking into buying a shotgun because he was fearful. Speaker 1: Now we've set the stage. There's the poker game, right.”
00:18:28“Speaker 1: went to a party. Speaker 2: In the early nineteen nineties, Joseph Creeden, who was an Speaker 2: enforcer for Todd Steuermann, was at a party where he Speaker 2: admitted his involvement in the murders to Carlene Kovaks. So Speaker 2: the idea that Todd Struman and Jerry Schuman were responsible”
00:33:25“Speaker 2: family they went to his funeral. I mean, it's kind Speaker 2: of unheard of that students can develop a bond like that. Speaker 2: Every one of the student groups, even after they've graduated, Speaker 2: continue to work on any of the cases that they Speaker 2: were connected with, and if they're in a position where”
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