Brad Milkey
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first heard Nov 2024
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Jury selection is underway in the sex trafficking and racketeering trial of music mogul Sean Diddy Combs. Prosecutors accused Combs of forcing his alleged victims into drug-fueled sex parties he called freak-offs and then threatening them into silence.
Federal prosecutors and defense attorneys are now working to seat a 12-person jury for what's expected to be a high-profile and closely watched trial. Combs has pleaded not guilty to all charges. Next up, a story out of Mississippi. After 49 years on death row, the execution date has been set for 78-year-old Richard Gerald Jordan. Jordan is Mississippi's longest-serving death row inmate.
He was sentenced to death back in 1976 for kidnapping and killing a woman. He filed multiple death sentence appeals, the most recent of which was denied in October. His execution is now set for June 25th. Lastly, a Connecticut man is facing one of the state's most serious charges, murder with special circumstances, after police say he beat his 12-year-old son to death with a baseball bat.
Officials say 52-year-old Anthony Andrew Esposito Jr. is accused of killing his son at their home. Because the victim was a minor, the charge carries the harshest possible penalty under state law, life in prison without the possibility of parole. Esposito is also charged with criminal attempt to commit murder after allegedly trying to also kill his 16-year-old daughter.
During his arraignment last week, prosecutors said Esposito told police he beat his son because he was being disrespectful. He's now being held on a $3 million bond. No plea has been entered. Now, let's get into this week's big story. ABC's chief investigative reporter Josh Margolin is here in the studio to tell us about these horrifying allegations of captivity in Waterbury, Connecticut.
So I can't stress enough to our listeners that this is a disturbing story, right? There are going to be details here about physical abuse, about psychological abuse, but it's worth examining. So here's the gist. A man claims he was held captive for 20 years by his stepmother, confined to a locked room inside their house.
The only way authorities apparently found him is because he set the place on fire. The stepmom, Kimberly Sullivan, now faces charges of kidnapping, felony assault, of cruelty to persons and other crimes. But Josh, let's examine this, I guess, through the eyes of the people who discovered this. Take us back to the night of the fire. What happened? First of all, just...
So here's that.
And is he talking at this point? Like, obviously, there's going to be psychological damage here, you'd think. But do police say he's able to articulate his mental state or his apparent escape plan? Actually, the police report...
How does he describe this all starting, I guess? Apparently, police think this started when he was around 11. What does that look like? It actually, according to police, started before that, allegedly.
And we're actually going to take a quick break right here. But when we come back, we're going to hear about what life was allegedly like behind that closed door.
All right. We are back with ABC's chief investigative reporter, Josh Margolin. So, Josh, once Kimberly Sullivan is allegedly holding her stepson like this in captivity, what is that like? I guess, like, is there allegedly a routine or is he just in the room all day or do we know?
So he didn't go to school. Did he interact with neighbors? I mean, was there any? No. Who around these people knew what was going on?
Wait, let's talk about the family then. So we keep talking about the stepmother. So it's not just a stepmother and her stepson in this house. It's a whole family. It's a whole family, apparently.
But so then- because we're talking about sort of what people around this knew, the welfare checks. So there are welfare checks early on when they're looking into how this kid who was in school is being treated. What happens? Do those continue then after you get withdrawn from school?
So you never actually have to show up like you don't have to produce the kid to outside authorities at any point. OK, so then a few weeks after that fire in March, the stepson's stepmom, Kimberly Sullivan, is charged and arrested with kidnapping, felony assault, cruelty to persons and other crimes in connection with all this. Tell me about her case and how she pleads. Well,
So the lawyer is saying like, she just happened to be there. This was a tyrannical father who now happens to be dead. Right. Right.
Well, and the half sister, she was outside the courthouse. She talked to reporters. Our affiliate WTNH was there. She says she doesn't even believe Kimberly Sullivan's story.
You've covered a lot of cases, right? You're sourced up and down with cops and so many different police departments. You could even tell listening to the police here how disturbed they were by this. So here's a clip of Waterbury Police Chief Fernando Spagnuolo at a press briefing in March. This was also from our affiliate WTNH.
So do they have a sense as to why, Josh, like what would cause someone to do something like this if they think it was the stepmother?
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