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Cleveland is like a big small town. We have like one of everything you need. Little italy has the houses almost stacked on top of each other so close. And it seems like Everybody Knows somebody that knows somebody. So, for this to happen in little italy it was a horrible crime in the sense that it is a tightknit communicate where things dont happen like that. At 1 30 on saturday, september 24th, 1988, a jogger noticed something floating in doan creek, a narrow waterway that twists through Rockefeller Park in cleveland, ohio. The case began when a jogger found the body of this poor young victim...

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Theory, joe's team would need to interview the alleged rape victim. but chris longenecker had vanished without a trace. the new discoveries in joe's case caught the attention of one of the most prominent law firms in town, jones day, which agreed to fight for joe on a pro bono basis. >> it was like night and day. it went from i have two appeals left and then they're going to murder me to now i have neil and all these resources from the world's third largest law firm backing me up. >> armed with the fact that prosecutor carmen marino had withheld information, joe's team submitted a sweeping dis...

I think it was an older couple said they heard someone say, "let's dump the body in the basement." >> joe and his lawyers believed that at the very least the withheld evidence provided reasonable doubt the crime could have happened differently than the state presented at trial. in july 2004, joe's team went before judge o'malley to obtain a new trial. >> we put up all our witnesses. the newly discovered people, the newly discovered evidence. >> by far the most powerful witness at the hearing was chris longenecker, stoney lewis' alleged rape victim, who had been found living in florida. neil co...

There from the fact he had a firearm in his apartment. and the whole time that i was being assaulted, i told him, this is not consensual, this is rape. >> chris says just after the rape tony klann showed up at stoney's apartment. >> there was a knock at his door. it was tony klann. and then i left when tony left. because i figured that was my way out. i told him that paul lewis raped me. and sort of freaked out a little bit. and then i went to the police department and filed a report. >> soon after, stoney was arrested and indicted for reportedly raping chris. he spent a few weeks in jail befo...