Episode 281: Joey Comunale

The First Degree

Alexis Linkletter and Jac Vanek

News, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.5 • 10K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

On Sunday, November 13, 2016, Pat Comunale worries about his son, 26-year-old Joey Comunale. Joey was supposed to arrive at his father’s house to watch football, but he never shows up. After a brief investigation, investigators discover that Joey has been brutally murdered by either 25-year-old Jimmy Rackover, 28-year-old Larry Dilione, or both. Jimmy and Larry, both affluent men with powerful friends, met Joey at a late night after party held in Jimmy’s New York City luxury apartment. Following a drug-fueled argument, Joey was brutally beaten and stabbed to death. After failing to dismember Joey’s body in Jimmy’s bathtub, Larry and Jimmy push Joey out of Jimmy’s penthouse’s fourth floor window onto the busy Manhattan sidewalk. To this day, Larry claims Jimmy dealt the final blow to Joey, while Jimmy claims the opposite. In episode 281, Alexis unravels the complicated politics, scandals, and accusations that shroud Joey Comunale’s murder in mystery.

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0:00.0	It's a degree.
0:02.0	First degree.
0:04.0	First degree.
0:05.0	First degree.
0:06.0	First degree.
0:07.0	The first degree.
0:08.0	The first degree.
0:09.0	You see it on the news.
0:10.0	See it on the table, you see it on Facebook.
0:13.0	These things are supposed to happen in movies, not in real life.
0:16.0	He struck me as harmless. If I were to see him on a dark street, I wouldn't have feared him.
0:27.0	I would have been like, oh, it's fucking Larry. He wouldn't have been the person I was afraid of.
0:32.0	You never know who you're with or who you're around or what circumstances are going to lead you to do something heinous.
0:40.0	It just surprises me that, it always surprised me that he did it.
0:44.2	Even if he didn't deal the final blow,
0:47.5	he was in a large part of part of the assaults,
0:50.8	the cover-up, the cleanup, the moving across state lines. the
0:55.0	assault, the cover up, the cleanup, the moving across state lines. There was a lot of times he could have made a better choice.
1:00.0	Welcome to the first degree of the true crime Podcast that you might end up on. My name is Alexis Lindletter.
1:07.3	You might notice that Jack Vanick, the sweet soothing sounds of her voice, are suspiciously absent.
1:13.6	Everybody I know is sick, including Jack Vanick.
1:16.8	You got to put your health first.
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