Anastasia Nicolazzi
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard Jun 2025
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Of course, all FBI investigators are not what you see on TV, you know, and you need the people that are sitting behind the desk or are working on the computer screens, the accountants that know how to crunch the numbers. But it wasn't exactly what he'd envisioned when he decided to sign up.
But here's something interesting. The call didn't come in as a suspicious death or even a shooting.
While, yes, of course, people hear gunshots. And, of course, at times, you know exactly what it is. But you don't always. You know, for those of you that haven't heard them, they can sound like other things. They can just sound like pop, pop, pop. They can sound like firecrackers. Sometimes it just gets lost in that cityscape noise. And it sounds like, at least for most, that's what happened here.
And also just think of what it was called in for, right? A person unconscious on the ground. This is a city. They are very busy being EMTs and investigators. So are they getting out there in seconds or minutes, like when they hear that there are, like you said, Scott, shot, fired, or someone down a result of some violence? Or is it, again, not taking their time? Maybe it's the wrong way to put it.
but that those critical moments may have been lost by what the caller knew or didn't know when they placed that call.
And so now that Jacob takes over the role as cold case investigator tasked with this case, he now on his own is going to start by looking deeply into Anton and who he was.
And so there is nothing in Antone's life that is pointing to a motive for murder. So if it isn't about the person, you have to start to look more closely at the place.
Now, let's remember the time that we're talking. We're talking earlier in the 2000s. And so during that time period from 2007 to 2011, the FBI estimated that approximately 13 percent of all homicides annually were gang related. And that was throughout the U.S.
And again, you know, whether it is gang related or not, we hear about cases of mistaken ID all the time. You know, remember we featured one recently on AOM, Elliot Dickerson, wrong place, wrong time. They thought he was someone that had been in a fight. He wasn't. So again, not gang related, but mistaken ID.
You know, the unfortunate thing with these gang rivalries is they really just take this violence to the street at times with no regard about the others, the innocents that get caught up in their melees.
Now, here's a piece of information that adds more credence to the theory that Antone was innocently caught up in the crosshairs of maybe some sort of gang violence. And it has to do with another homicide.
You know, any homicide can create fear in a community and fear of retaliation. But I think when it comes to the potential for it being perpetrated by gangs, there's even more of that.
So knowing all these truths, one of the early things that Jacob did was try to incentivize people to come forward. And here's what he did.
And that reward today is up to $60,000. And here's why shining a spotlight on this case or any case like it just might help the investigation. It is because through this podcast and through you hitting play on your phone or wherever you listen to your podcast, it has reach.
It has reach for people who may never have heard about this case before or didn't know Anton's name to now know it and to recognize maybe know how, if they know something, they can help.
Well, I don't know that I've ever actually thought to myself about people that are incarcerated listening to podcasts. I mean, it makes perfect sense, right? They have a lot of time on their hands and they have access to computers, which are authorized in law libraries. And I don't know how that works with what they can watch or what they can listen to necessarily.
But it also is not uncommon to hear about cell phones being smuggled in. So people do have a lot of access even when they're inside of prisons and jails.
You know, when we were talking about this case and whether we were going to profile it at all, it doesn't necessarily have all the various legs or twists that we're able to give you on others. But that's exactly why we chose to talk about it today. Because this case, while it needs to be solved for Anton and his family, it represents so many that are out there. And what better platform do we have
then to try to get the word out on those too, to all of you, our AOM community, who have showed that you are like-minded and care as much about these cases and the people impacted as we do.
Tune in next week for another new episode of Anatomy of Murder.
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