The Cleveland State Murders

Who Killed...?

Bill Huffman

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

3.8 • 595 Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Over the course of several months in 1982, Spisak, driven by his Nazi beliefs, killed three people at CSU - the Rev. Horace Rickerson; CSU student Brian Warford; and Timothy Sheehan, an assistant superintendent for buildings and grounds at the university. Spisak also shot John Hardaway, a factory worker, and Coletta Dartt, a CSU employee. - Cleveland.com Spisak would go on "hunting parties" and targeted Rickerson, Warford and Hardaway because they were black, according to his parole records. SOURCES: https://www.cleveland.com/metro/2011/02/frank_spisak_executed_for_csu.html www.cleveland.com/open/index.ssf/2011/02/as_nazi_sympathizer_frank_spis.html blog.cleveland.com/metro/2011/02/frank_spisak_executed_for_csu.html www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2011/02/17/17-ohio-execution.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfP_tC7OWpI www.users.on.net/~bundy23/wwom/spisak.htm Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Slow Burn Media, Evergreen Podcast, presents Who Killed, a podcast that provides a voice for the voiceless.
0:12.0	Spent years on death row, but tonight Nazi sympathizer Frank Spisak is dead.
0:17.0	Spisak was executed today by the state of Ohio.
0:20.0	His death was by lethal injection for the
0:22.6	murders of two men and a teenager at Cleveland Sint University in 1982. News Channel 5's John
0:28.4	Kosick joins us now. John did Spisak apologize for his crimes?
0:32.9	Well, Leon Spisak's final statement was in German from the Book of Revelation,
0:37.3	Chapter 21 verses 1 to 7, which speaks of a new heaven and earth.
0:41.3	He stopped, though, before reading verse 8.
0:43.8	That verse references the fiery fate that awaits murderers.
0:48.4	In the seconds after being sentenced to death in 1983, Frank Spiesack turned to his attorney with one request.
0:55.3	He indicated that he wants to be electrocuted as soon as possible.
1:01.4	He told him he wanted to be electrocuted as soon as possible, yes.
1:05.6	Soon as possible turned into 27 years, the longest of any maid ever executed in Ohio. This morning at 1034,
1:13.0	the 59-year-old Spizak was dead by lethal injection. As medical workers prepared Spiesack's IV,
1:19.4	the brothers of victim Brian Warford looked on. Mr. Duke then expressed his opinion that they
1:25.5	ought to hook him up to some kind of an electrical generator
1:28.1	rather than go through the medical procedure they were doing other witnesses included the daughter
1:33.9	of timothy she and john hardaway who survived being shot by spezac no family members of
1:39.2	spezac were present i really wanted to be there for him, but I didn't know how.
1:44.7	Carolyn Jaiskoe grew up with Spiezac and his two sisters. Yes, I do feel bad for him. Yes, I do. He was a really mixed up kid. He was really mixed up. Spisak's surviving victim, John Hardaway, didn't speak today, but he did speak in 1983. On the day he learned, Spiezac would die. On that day, he said this day couldn't come soon enough.
2:04.2	I don't have... speak in 1983 on the day he learned Spiesack would die. On that day, he said this day couldn't come soon
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