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Cleveland is like a big small town. We have like one of everything you need. Little italy has the houses almost stacked on top of each other so close. And it seems like Everybody Knows somebody that knows somebody. So, for this to happen in little italy it was a horrible crime in the sense that it is a tightknit communicate where things dont happen like that. At 1 30 on saturday, september 24th, 1988, a jogger noticed something floating in doan creek, a narrow waterway that twists through Rockefeller Park in cleveland, ohio. The case began when a jogger found the body of this poor young victim. Two other detectives handled the scene. Took a bunch of photographs, made a short report. Detectives noticed immediately that the victims neck was sliced open from eartoear. The victim, a young male who appeared to be in his early 20s, also had three stab wounds in his chest and small cuts to his wrist and elbow. He was wearing no shoes and the only thing on him was 7, found in his pocket. No we
joe supposedly grabs the knife and goes after anthony in the creek bed, stabbing him. and yet there were no tire tracks or anything on the side of the creek. and so i thought, whoa, something s not right here. neil believed espinoza had to be lying. but a witness who was lying did not necessarily mean joe was telling the truth. neil needed to know more about joe s background. joe s father died when he was 17 years old. joe is the only boy in the family. so his father s death was very traumatic for him. i had to become the breadwinner. and as soon as i graduated i went right into the military. i was what they call a shade tree mechanic. i worked on everything from a jeep all the way up to a 35,000 kw generator that used to launch missiles.
to. i need help. nobody will help me. i didn t do this. and i was very resistant to doing that. i knew that these death row cases were immense cases. 5, 10, 15 volumes long. i m like no, it s one volume big. that s all it is. one volume? that s where the attorney of him kicked in. i was just stunned that a man could be brought to trial for his life and be convicted in the amount of space it took to record that event was in one volume. so i thought, whoa. something is not right. in addition to being a priest and a lawyer, neil was a registered nurse with 15 years experience in critical care. it s one of those like if you re a believer it s a god moment. a priest who was an r.n. and an attorney. where did that come from? and he shows up right at joe s cell.
i think it was an older couple said they heard someone say, let s dump the body in the basement. joe and his lawyers believed that at the very least the withheld evidence provided reasonable doubt the crime could have happened differently than the state presented at trial. in july 2004, joe s team went before judge o malley to obtain a new trial. we put up all our witnesses. the newly discovered people, the newly discovered evidence. by far the most powerful witness at the hearing was chris longenecker, stoney lewis alleged rape victim, who had been found living in florida. neil convinced chris that his testimony could save joe s life. i wasn t able to do anything for tony because and so i figured, if i could help someone