Joe Benigno
speaker
694 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 22 Jul
Joe Benigno’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 2 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 2.
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Vocals by Rob Reddy of Californicorns.
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Written by Leo Schofield and Kevin Herrick at the Florida Department of Corrections, Hardy Correctional Facility.
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This series includes sensitive and potentially distressing topics, including sexual assault and abuse involving children.
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Listener discretion is advised.
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By the time Anthony's second trial finally started, he gathered reams of proof pointing away from his guilt and pointing instead to Howard Gombert as Josette's possible killer.
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Alas, proof compiled in prison is a far, far thing from proof presented at trial.
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To simply get a hearing is a Herculean climb for someone serving life without parole.
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You must first persuade a judge to grant your motion.
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If you somehow get that hearing, you must then convince the judge to let in new relevant facts, not just the ones presented at your previous trial.
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And as Anthony had learned in Putnam County, the judges there seemed deeply disinterested in new facts.
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But to convey how strong his new proof was, we'll need to return our attention to the devil.
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When last we left Gombert, he'd pulled up stakes and moved across state lines to Connecticut.
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His father, Howard Sr., owned a ramshackle house in the working-class hamlet of New Fairfield.
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Gombert did not get along with his father, a burly, beer-guzzling ex-Marine.
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We spoke to three of Gombert's victims who spent time in that house.
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They told us that Gombert and his father fought like sailors.
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They'd literally sucker punch each other in front of guests.
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At some point in his boyhood, Howard either ran away or was kicked out by his dad, said those women.
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By the age of 15, he was living in the woods, sleeping in a tent in the dead of winter.
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He knew every square inch of those woods, the woman told us, and fed himself on what he stole or killed.
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