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Wrongful Conviction

#223 Jason Flom with Joe D'Ambrosio

Wrongful Conviction

Lava for Good Podcasts

True Crime

4.65.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

19 year old Anthony Klann was stabbed to death in Cleveland, Ohio in September of 1988. Two men who had a lot to gain worked with detectives to spin a narrative, claiming two other men, Joe D'Ambrosio and Michael Keenan, committed the murder on September 22nd; however, Anthony Klann was still very much alive the following night. Learn more and get involved at: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/urge-governor-dewine-to-end-executions-in-ohio https://www.witnesstoinnocence.org/ https://www.wrongfulconvictionpodcast.com/with-jason-flom Wrongful Conviction with Jason Flom is a production of Lava for Good™ Podcasts in association with Signal Co No1.

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On Saturday, September 24, 1988, the body of 19-year-old Anthony Cland was discovered on the

0:07.8

east side of Cleveland, Ohio in Rockefeller Park's Don Creek.

0:11.7

He had been stabbed in the chest three times and his throat was slit on the verge of decapitation.

0:17.4

The ground around him was undisturbed, suggesting that the murder occurred elsewhere.

0:23.2

One of the three men who came to identify the body on Monday, September 26, and thus began

0:27.7

to control the narrative, had arguably the most to gain from doing so.

0:31.9

A convicted rapist and drug dealer named Paul Stoney Lewis, who Anthony Cland had once

0:37.1

identified in another rape.

0:39.6

The two other men supported Stoney's narrative a trial.

0:42.9

During the investigation of fourth man emerged, the victims cuckled Edward Espinoza, who joined

0:47.8

the narrative and received leniency for the part he played in the murder in exchange for

0:52.7

his false eyewitness testimony against his employer Michael Keenan and his co-worker,

0:58.3

Joe Diabrosio.

0:59.7

Now some elements of the story were real and occurred on Thursday, September 22, but had

1:05.6

little to do with the actual night of Anthony Cland's murder, Friday, September 23.

1:12.1

Both Michael Keenan and Joe Diabrosio's were about on Friday night were known, and despite

1:17.5

Espinoza's two separate and contradictory avidavits, and knowing about the discrepancy

1:23.5

between the two knights, a prosecution nevertheless forged ahead, hiding a mountain of exulpatory

1:31.2

evidence, and sending Joe Diabrosio and Michael Keenan straight to death row.

1:37.4

This is Ron for Conviction, with Jason Flamme.

1:49.6

This is an announcement for all passengers flying from London Stunsted Airport this

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festive season.

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