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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Jane, like Sarah, felt cornered.
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And then, one weekend in February of 2000, all hell broke loose in that cottage.
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Gombert held Jane and the baby hostage in their own home, raped and beat Jane for three days straight, and threatened to kill her.
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Finally, he maimed her in such an intimate way that it can't be spelled out here.
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All while their baby was desperately ill, spiking a very high fever.
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So please, let's take her to the doctor.
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But Gombert wouldn't let them leave the house, and the baby's fever worsened.
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Jane's only hope, Gombert had a court date that Tuesday.
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If he missed it, they'd send the marshals to arrest him.
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Finally, Tuesday came, and Gombert left for court.
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At the ER, they treated her baby immediately.
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She had double pneumonia, said the doctor, and would have died or suffered brain damage had Jane not called when she did.
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The cops were summoned to the hospital.
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They took Jane's statement, photographed her wounds and bruises, and collected the DNA on her garments.
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And then they swarmed the cottage to arrest Gombert.
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They cuffed him as he tried to slither off on his belly.
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That day, February 29th, 2000, was momentous for many reasons.
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For one, it took Gombert off of the streets and almost surely saved two lives, James and the babies.
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For another, it compelled the Connecticut cops to do what the Putnam cops refused to, build a criminal case against Gombert.
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When the cops searched the cottage, they found a trove of stolen goods hidden in the ceiling of Jane's garage.
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