He came to me with pieces of the case that he felt were questionable. kuz interviewed dozens of witnesses and discovered pieces of evidence that joe s defense didn t have at trial. i got in touch with the two detectives who first responded to this case and confirmed my instinct that there was more to the story than had previously been told. the human body holds eight to ten pints of blood. when tony s body was found, he had two pints of blood left. yet there was no blood or forensic evidence of any kind along the river bank. based in part on that, the two detectives were adamant that tony klann had been murdered elsewhere, not at the river bank as eddie espinoza had claimed. if the location of the murder is different from what the key prosecution witness is claiming, that s a pretty big discrepancy. but the lead detective on the case, leo allen, did not visit the river bank until four or
Along the river bank. based in part on that, the two detectives were adamant that tony klann had been murdered elsewhere, not at the river bank as eddie espinoza had claimed. if the location of the murder is different from what the key prosecution witness is claiming, that s a pretty big discrepancy. but the lead detective on the case, leo allen, did not visit the river bank until four or five days after the murder. we re involved in other cases. not the only case we have. my goodness. we ve got all kinds of work to do. so there was no reason for my partner and i to actually go back there to see what we could see. but we did go back there just to see where the heck it happened. the two original detectives were never called to testify at joe s trial. the prosecutor suggested a defense trial counsel that they didn t need to talk to anybody
Police asked if the caller could come in to help i.d. the body. that morning, homicide detective leo allen was at the morgue working on another case. i got notified by the morgue personnel that a man was there who thought he could identify the young man that was found on saturday. and that s how we got started. the man who came to the morgue was paul lewis, widely known by his nickname stoney, apparently because of his affinity for being high. stoney identified the victim as his upstairs neighbor, tony klann. tony klann was 19. only a year earlier he had left home. his father told me that he had written a note in which he said i emancipate myself. this was a young man searching for his identity. stoney lewis had last seen tony on friday night drinking at a bar called coconut joe s. tony was with three co-workers,
Witnesses and discovered information that joe s defense didn t have at the trial. i got in touch with the two detectives who first responded to this case and confirmed my instinct that there was more to the story than had previously been told. the human body holds eight to ten pints of blood. when tony s body was found, he had two pints of blood left. yet there was no blood or forensic evidence of any kind along the river bank. based in part on that, the two detectives were adamant that tony klann had been murdered elsewhere, not at the river bank as eddie espinoza had claimed. if the location of the murder is different from what the key prosecution witness is claiming, that s a pretty big discrepancy. but the lead detective on the case, leo allen, did not visit the river bank until four or five days after the murder. we re involved in other cases. not the only case we have. my goodness. we ve got all kinds of work to do.
Who claimed to have knowledge of the crime. police asked if the caller could come in to help i.d. the body. that morning, homicide detective leo allen was at the morgue working on another case. i got notified by the morgue personnel that a man was there who thought he could identify the young man that was found on saturday. and that s how we got started. the man who came to the morgue was paul lewis, widely known by his nickname stoney, apparently because of his affinity for being high. stoney identified the victim as his upstairs neighbor, tony klann. tony klann was 19. only a year earlier he had left home. his father told me that he had written a note in which he said i emancipate myself. this was a young man searching for his identity. stoney lewis had last seen tony on friday night drinking at a bar called coconut joe s.