Chapter 3: The Investigation

Accused

Cincinnati Enquirer

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🗓️ 15 February 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Investigating any crime scene requires finesse, but in the case of Rhoda Nathan’s 1994 beating death, at least some of the detectives arriving at the Embassy Suites hotel, many who had never investigated a murder before, thought they were dealing with a heart-attack victim. As such, they say they didn’t immediately secure the scene, allowing outsiders to tromp through a room that was already teeming with all kinds of hotel-user DNA.

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0:00.0	Join Wundry Plus and Apple Podcasts or the Wundry app to binge all seven episodes of
0:05.5	Accused Season 4, the impending execution of Elwood Jones, Early and Add Free.
0:12.2	Since Nadie and Choir in USA Today's subscribers can also listen early and add free by going to
0:17.7	Accused Podcasts.com, previously unaccused.
0:33.4	But if he was in this room and you were talking to him, it was really nice.
0:37.4	While he's telling you how he murdered these women and used to torture animals and burn
0:42.6	cats and everything else.
0:44.2	How was an asshole?
0:45.2	Elwood is wrongfully convicted.
0:49.0	When I first start reporting a case, I begin skeptical.
0:52.8	I figure I need to look at everything fresh.
0:56.2	I approach with the thinking that maybe the original investigation might have been flawed,
1:01.9	which can cause friction, of course, because oftentimes police departments see nothing
1:06.5	wrong with how a case was handled.
1:09.4	And the murder case against Elwood Jones, that's not true.
1:13.2	The Blue Ash Police Department knew straight away that their handling of the crime scene
1:17.9	might prove problematic.
1:21.0	How I know that is thanks to a former police officer who said so to an investigator on
1:26.1	Elwood's defense team in 2002.
1:30.0	Dave Hoffman had not only been a police officer back in 94 when Rodinathan died, but he'd
1:36.4	actually been at the Embassy's Sweet Sotel where she was killed.
1:41.2	In a twist, he was there doing security work while off duty, so he didn't take part in
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