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The Case of Tyrone Noling
📻 Episode #589
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Sep 03, 2026
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…
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 more than 3 decades, Tyrone is still on death row. Jason talks to Tyrone Noling and Brian Howe, Tyrone's attorney, with an update from attorney Dan Nadratowski on Tyrone's pending clemency petition before Ohio Governor Mike DeWine.
Read the Ohio Parole Board’s clemency recommendation:https://drc.ohio.gov/about/resource/reports/clemency-reports/clemency-report-for-tyrone-noling
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In Their Own Words — transcript excerpts
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00:05:07“Speaker 4: And in one, he did have a gun that they Speaker 4: got from another robbery. And the gun went off accidentally Speaker 4: and shot directly into the floor. But Tyrone made sure Speaker 4: that no one was hurt before running away. I mean, Speaker 4: this is not a guy who was out to hurt anyone.”
00:20:21“Speaker 4: consistent with what they wanted to hear, right? That was Speaker 4: when he implicated the subject of our show today, Tyrone Knolling. Speaker 4: And then Craig turned to one of the other kids, D. Alessandro, Speaker 4: who said he knew nothing about the murderers. But his”
00:33:49“Speaker 6: to move forward on the Rule 42 access. Specifically, there's Speaker 6: an issue about the extent to which the defense expert Speaker 6: is going to have access to the state's file. Speaker 4: So it's taken a year and a half of pushback Speaker 4: from the state to decide the conditions of the release”
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Also on the podcast: #234 Tyrone Noling · #377 Tyrone Noling · #431 Tyrone Clark