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The Case of Tyrone Noling
📻 Episode #377
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Jul 20, 2023
About This Episode
On April 5th, 1990, Bernhardt and Cora Hartig, both 81, were shot to death in their Atwater, OH home with a .25 caliber gun. Miles away, 18-year-old Tyrone Noling was involved in two non-violent robberies – in one, he stole a .25 caliber gun and in the second, it accidentally discharged, hurting no one. This…
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The Case
On April 5th, 1990, Bernhardt and Cora Hartig, both 81, were shot to death in their Atwater, OH home with a .25 caliber gun. Miles away, 18-year-old Tyrone Noling was involved in two non-violent robberies – in one, he stole a .25 caliber gun and in the second, it accidentally discharged, hurting no one. This gun, however, was not the Hartig murder weapon, and despite other, more viable suspects, Portage County investigators targeted Tyrone and convinced his friends to testify against him. All witnesses have since recanted, but after 3 decades, Tyrone is still on death row. Jason talks to Tyrone Noling and Brian Howe, Tyrone's attorney.
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00:05:09“Speaker 1: to hurt anyone. He was definitely doing some very dumb things, Speaker 1: but not a violent guy. And he was arrested for Speaker 1: those robberies, pled guilty, and ended up serving time in prison. Speaker 1: And that leads us up to this crime, which happens”
00:20:14“Speaker 1: were consistent with what they wanted to hear. Right, that Speaker 1: was when he implicated the subject of our show today, Speaker 1: Tyrone Noling. And then Craig turned to one of the Speaker 1: other kids, the Alessandro, who said he knew nothing about Speaker 1: the murders, but his own attorney convinced him and his”
00:33:43“Speaker 5: State how to move forward on the Rule forty two access. Specifically, Speaker 5: there's an issue about the extent to which the defense Speaker 5: expert is going to have access to the state's file. Speaker 1: So it's taken a year and a half of pushback”
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