Joe Benigno

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

I asked the sheriff's office and the Putnam DA to forward my questions to him. matched

Nothing. matched

Ditto my efforts to reach any Putnam cops who'd had dealings with Howard Gombert. matched

I called the Carmel PD, who'd been looking at Gombert hard for the disappearance of a second young girl. matched

I called the Ken PD who'd botched the Amy Ferrander rape case, then tossed the forensic evidence in the trash. matched

I tried the Putnam Sheriff's office, hoping someone would pick up there. matched

By now you can guess how that turned out. matched

And so with no one left to ask, I went to the source. matched

In the summer of 21, I found Gombert in prison. matched

What follows after the break are taped excerpts of those calls. matched

That's the voice of Gombert himself. matched

saying he's fine talking to me. matched

With a guy like Gombert, you don't barge right in. matched

You work your way up to what you want. matched

And so I started not by asking about Josette, but about his surviving female accusers. matched

Here he is on his ex-girlfriend, Anne-Marie, the girl he impregnated when she was 16 and who then charged him with years of rapes. matched

Hey, now listen, I didn't mean to start beating her. matched

No. matched

Did you sodomize her against her will? matched

Did you choke her? matched

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