Joe Benigno

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694 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 22 Jul

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Bone Valley · Chapter 8 | Chapter and Verse · 22 Jul 2026 podcast

Suddenly, the county was desperate to settle. matched

In days, its offer to Anthony jumped from a quarter million dollars to 12 million bucks, payable immediately. matched

Though he promised himself he wouldn't stop grinding until he'd gotten the truth about Gombert. matched

Anthony had gone as far as he could. matched

He badly needed the money and the chance to start over. matched

To pull up stakes and get far, far away from this misbegotten place. matched

And so in the summer of 2020, he settled with Putnam County. matched

But before he left town, he turned over every file he had on Putnam County to me. matched

For years, I had to be I was the chief investigator telling these guys what we need to do and why we need to do it. matched

And now I to take I don't want to say I take a backseat because I am going to be very proactive here. matched

I don't feel like the weight of the world is on me in the sense like the heart of what I was doing for so many years is Paul's heart now. matched

In the course of our investigation, we filed a FOIL request with the Putnam Sheriff's Records Division. matched

We wanted all the sheriff's records on Howard Gombert, dating back to the early 80s. matched

But the clerk resisted till we got our lawyers involved, then curtly informed us that the records on this person were destroyed. matched

They didn't say how. matched

So no, we still don't know why the cops excluded Gombert as a suspect in Josette's murder. matched

But I'm going to take a minute here to sketch some of the evidence Castaldo had in his possession. matched

Let's start with Josette's family. matched

The day the Putnam cops found her bones, they broke the awful news to her mom, Susan. matched

And the first words out of Susan Wright's mouth, as recorded by the cops on the scene? matched

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