"Day by day the suspect list was growing"

The Daily Crime

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4.3 • 627 Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2021

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Police in East Cleveland, Ohio, have announced arrests in connection to the disappearance and death of 22-year-old Alishah Pointer. Marisa Saenz has been reporting on this case for WKYC in Cleveland. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Coming up, this is definitely something written out of a movie script.
0:06.0	This is probably one of the bizarre cases that I've ever seen.
0:08.8	For Vault Studios, I'm Reid Redmond.
0:11.2	You're listening to The Daily Crime.
0:17.2	On November 5th, 22-year-old Alicia Pointer was reported missing.
0:26.6	She'd last been seen the day before.
0:28.3	East Cleveland Police, the FBI, and the Secret Service putting in 18-hour days in an effort
0:33.9	to find Alicia.
0:35.0	Detectives since Sunday have basically been working day and night.
0:38.5	Within a week, Poinner's body would be discovered in a burned out home in East Cleveland, Ohio.
0:43.6	Pointer's body was found in this home on Savannah Avenue in East Cleveland last Tuesday.
0:49.3	Investigators believe she was murdered for information about a crime in Cleveland.
1:03.2	Joining us is Marissa Sines from WKYC in Cleveland.
1:08.0	Marissa, this is a tragic case that's been developing over the last couple months.
1:10.7	Tell us a little bit about Alicia Pointer. What have you learned about
1:11.6	her through your coverage of this story? Sure. Hi. Yeah. Thanks for having me. This was a very,
1:17.2	quote, bizarre case. And I use that word because the police chief in East Cleveland, where all of this
1:23.7	unfolded or ultimately came to an end, used that word himself. He said, he called
1:28.2	it something straight out of a movie. So just for some background, what we know, according to police,
1:33.6	East Cleveland Police, is that Alicia Pointer was last seen by her family Thursday, November 4th.
1:40.0	And her family filed a missing person's report on November 5th, which was actually her birthday.
1:45.0	She had just turned 22 years old and she was actually a twin sister.
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