Forensic Expert
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704 appearances
33 recordings
3 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard May 2025
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She recants her confession and says, I made it all up just to get rid of this guy.
She says, I just wanted to get out of this abusive relationship. So you're going to frame him for murder and incriminate yourself? Who does that?
She did say that she was sorry about it all. It was kind of weak compared to what she had been saying.
In the closing arguments, I argued for eight or nine hours. All of the defects in the confession, all the things that were incorrect, I was convinced that she was innocent.
But the prosecution only had to hit the play button on the recorder and say, listen to her words.
And did you pull it tight, the rope tight? Yes, I did. And that's what causes you to believe that maybe she died during that incident at that time?
Uh-huh.
The tape did the argument for him.
We heard a lot of tapes of her making these accusations of what took place and all. She really just convicted herself. We all found her guilty, all 12 jurors.
Now, John, he's up next for trial, but he sees this is bad. She got convicted. He believes he's going to go down. He takes a plea.
John pled no contest to the charge of first-degree murder to avoid the possibility of a death sentence and wound up getting life imprisonment.
Laverne Pavlenak was so convincing that I think people will tell you that John Sosnovsky himself came to believe, like, I guess that must be what happened. Because he blacks out so often, he wasn't really able to account for where he would have been or to provide a more aggressive defense, something like an alibi.
Just before the trial started, there were writings that were made on a bathroom stall door on a truck stop or a rest area.
I killed Tonya Bennett. The people took the blame.
We don't know who wrote it, don't know when it was written, why it was written.
It was classic hearsay, not admissible in evidence. So we never heard about it in the jury.
There's somebody who's claiming credit for the murder of Tonya Bennett.
It's the strangest case I'll have ever worked on. Too many people confessing to the same crime.
I always believed that the truth would come out eventually. I just didn't think the truth would come out of the mouth of a serial killer.
We thought that our case is closed and now it looks like it's anything but closed.
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