Sword and Scale Host

Then there was the elaborate cover-up, including commissioning a guy named DeLugo to burn the house down after he'd removed the dogs and the carpeting.

He used Alicia for contact because he was already in jail.

DeLugo said no, he wouldn't do it.

And the defensive wounds on Tom indicated a serious altercation where Tom lost control of the blade.

Not to mention the lies.

The overwhelming number of lies.

So detectives had one more card to play with Tom.

The polygraph.

And when the subject turned to John Mann, Tom's story started to crack.

It was May of 2017 in a suburb of good old Cleveland, Ohio, the home of the Browns and a whole lot of killers and even worse, Ohioans.

Thomas Nuff had been out of prison for just a few weeks.

He was drifting between motels, borrowing from his sons, and leaning on his girlfriend, Alicia Stoner, who drove him, gave him money, and even picked him up.

the morning after he killed at least one person inside the house on Nelwood Road.

So yeah, you know, Tom was just living his best life.

John Mann lived in that house with his partner Regina Capobianco.

By then, Regina had long since given up her part of the bargain for living there and was dating other men.

She had also been writing to Tom while he was in prison.

In fact, it was Regina and John who picked him up on the day he was released.

Regina may have expected to carry on a relationship with Tom, but he already had Alicia.

And he also realized that Regina's drinking and other bizarre behaviors could land him right back in prison on a parole violation.