i thought it was really cold blooded when i heard about it. matt was 2010, four years after matt s death. the same year sergeant queen received a big gift. maybe was the fact prosecutors were appointed. maybe it was sergeant quaint investigation. maybe it was the karaoke. whatever was, that s when the coroner changed his ruling on matt manner of death from undetermined to homicide. and with that little bureaucratic struggle appearance, everything changed. you see that little thing? for, one for the very first time, holly was invited to the police station to give a formal statement. holly, we re investigating the death of matthew podolak. the coroner s office has ruled it a homicide. chewing gum, looking casual. holly came in without a lawyer and was read her miranda rights. are you willing to talk with officers without consulting a lawyer or any
i ve got to help myself get out of this jam. i m going to tell on holly, right? also, he was concerned that she would try to put this on me. so now we have a conspiracy theory going on here that holly is now going to blame you for the death of matt, is that what you re telling me? it s just an attorney s recommendation. this attorney. who bent over backwards to provide jamison with a job in a place to stay while he was on probation from an earlier conviction. and, what happened? kennedy stole from him. jamison threatened your life? he threatened me. yes. he threatened your family also? yes you had mental problems he was not stable, right? correct. according to the defense, not even the police believed kennedy. for more than two years they did nothing about his allegations. and after those years, one according to the defense they couldn t find any other evidence, they put a story to the test. by orchestrating that phone
loved him for what he was. he was a good kid. i mean he didn t give into any trouble. to be honest with you, my dad is a cop. so, he started to put the fear of god with me and my brother when we started growing up. matt told his mom, patricia, he was going to join the police force when he came home from brooklyn after extending the navy. brooklyn, ohio, by the way, is one of the towns around the edge of cleveland. matthew always wanted to be a police officer. since he was little. his dad, land, was a 39 -year-old veteran of the brooklyn pd. there was a point in time where it looked like we may even work together. but life is full of disappointments. matt did not get the call. and so, instead, he went to work for his uncle who is phoenix industrial power coated engine parts for ford, another company. what did you think of that job of his over at the factory? my uncle owned the shop. so he liked it.
but soon after the corner talk to matt s uncle, after he got a proper list of the chemicals, he pretty much ruled out any industrial caused all of those chemicals were safe to work with. they were osha proved and they had masks to wear. so, if not that, what? perhaps a cause all to but a depressed young man overwhelmed with his sudden responsibility and the pain of his kidney stones decided to end it all it was a corners investigator who brought up the subject of matt s mother , and she was questioning me would matthew had committed suicide? never, said his mother. never! but it was his family had to admit, a not unreasonable question given mass depression and all. even though mark believed his brother had that under control. he went to a doctor to get some help with that.
going to die because of kidney stones. three months after his death, matt podolak s family gathered for a meeting. matt family arranged. it before, that they told mark that they ve been discussing a wrongful death suit against the hospital where matt died. my mom called me over and she said, we re going to talk with a lawyer, tonight we re gonna find out the next steps of what s going to happen. but matt s father wasn t exactly straight with her son, that was not what was going to happen so, when i got to her house, the whole family was there and i was like, where is the lawyer? and she s like, he s not here. no lawyer. something far more disturbing. the autopsy report matt s mother did not want her surviving son hearing about this over the phone, afraid of how he d react. and i felt like it was almost like an intervention it was weird it was so surreal so, she sent me down in the whole family was there as a supporting. and they said, we got the corners report back. and it