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November 9, 2020 37 mins

Caleb Marple and his friend go out on the town for a bit of fun. After getting into an argument in a bar/restaurant, Marple leaves, only to run into trouble. Twelve days later, authorities find his body in a reservoir. What happened to Caleb Marple?

    

Joining Nancy Grace Today:

  • Amanda Albright - sister
  • Darryl Cohen - Former Assistant District Attorney, Fulton County, Georgia, Defense Attorney
  • Dr. Angela Arnold - Psychiatrist, Atlanta Ga www.angelaarnoldmd.com
  • Rob Slattery: Former Brooklyn, Ohio, Police Officer, Swat Team Officer (RET), Private Investigator at JAB Investigative Services, email: jabinvest@aol.com
  • Joe Scott Morgan - Professor of Forensics Jacksonville State University, Author, "Blood Beneath My Feet" featured on "Poisonous Liaisons" on True Crime Network
  • Levi Page - Investigative reporter Crime Online


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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. How does a young guy
the prime of his life end up dead? The curious
death of Caleb Marple Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. Volunteers

(00:38):
gathered near the Center Street Bridge in downtown Cleveland today
looking for a missing Westlake man. Please say. Thirty nine
year old Caleb Marple was last seen late Sunday evening
leaving the Barley House restaurant on West six. Search teams
were hoping to find him or any clues. Our hopes
were that we find him today and that he has okay,

(01:00):
and that we're able to bring him home. But we're
not looking for a body. We're looking for him. If
you know where Caleb Marple is, called Cleveland Police. Here
hearing our friends there at wk YC three News. Everyone
that knew calebs so very very well was looking for
him to return home, and we're stunned when they learn

(01:24):
Caleb is dead. Twizzes and turns throughout the story have
led me to the conclusion that we don't know the truth.
With me and All Star panel to break it down
and put it back together again, Doctor Angela Arnold renounced
psychiatrists joining me out of Atlanta. You can find her
at Angela Arnold MD dot com. Rob Slattery, the PI

(01:47):
hired by Caleb's family. Former Brooklyn, Ohio Officer, SWAT Team member,
Private Eye at JAB Investigative Services. Joseph Scott Morgan, Professor Forensics,
Jackson State University, author of Blood Beneath My Feet on
Amazon Now, the star of Poisonous Liaisons on the True
Crime Network, Crime Online dot Com, investig At Every Reporter,

(02:10):
Levi Page, renowned defense attorney practicing in multiple jurisdictions. Former
Prosecutor Daryl Cohen, and special guest Caleb's sister Amanda Albright.
Let's start at the beginning. This young guy, the whole
world ahead of him, goes out with friends to a restaurant,

(02:34):
the Barley House. Take a listen to this. He would
do anything for anybody. Brianna Robert says her uncle Caleb
was a guy who loved his family and to have
a good time. He was like a jokester, and that's
what The Knight of Me seventeenth started out. As Caleb
and friends went to Barley House in Cleveland. There was
an exchange, verbal exchange, and he was asked to leave

(02:58):
the establishment. But he never went back to his Westlake home.
According to witnesses, Caleb walked about ten more minutes where
he was involved in a fight with a group outside
of the Archer apartments in the Flats. Then he kept
walking for twelve days. His family and friends looked for him.
His body eventually found in the river. His death ruled accidental.
His keys closed. Doesn't make sense, like somebody had to

(03:21):
have placed him there. It doesn't make sense. Here hearing
our friends at WWS News five Cleveland. That was Jesse's
Schultz speaking. So he and his friends are all out
at this Barley House restaurant bar at some point, you know,
everybody's having a good time and drinking. There's a verbal
altercation and Caleb leaves. He spotted on video he doesn't

(03:48):
have his cell phone, so he's obviously trying to figure out, Okay,
now what am I going to do? I don't I
can't find my cell phone with me Levi Page Crime
Online dot Com investigative reporter Levi where was his cell phone? Nancy?
Apparently it was left in the car of the people
that he was riding with to get to downtown Cleveland.

(04:09):
Just to set up the timeline, it's May seventeenth, twenty twenty,
and he's hanging out with friends at Crocker Park Bar,
which is in Westlake, Ohio. That's a nice suburb where
he lived, about twelve miles away from Cleveland, and then
they decided that they wanted to go to Cleveland to
have more fun, to go to another bar, and that's

(04:30):
how they ended up in Cleveland. And his cell phone
was left in someone's vehicle. So this is now where
where he lives. He's like fifteen miles at least from
where he lives in the suburbs. Yes, or Westlake, Ohio
is the suburb. Suburb, very nice area, and then twelve
miles away is Cleveland where he vanished. So he goes
to downtown Cleveland to this Barley House bar restaurant, and

(04:53):
he's with all of his friends. Everybody's having a good time,
and a verbal argument ensued and Caleb leaves. Caleb Marple
leaves to you. Rob Slattery PI at JAB Investigative Services.
Thanks Rob for being with us. Rob. What does that
video surveillance show Caleb is doing outside the Burly House. Well,

(05:17):
we have been provided very little video. We have submitted
multiple requests to the City of Cleveland for the entire
investigative file. We are actually in the court of claims now.
We had to file a lawsuit against the city to
obtain records. Excuse me. We've been able to obtain some records,

(05:39):
but none of the videos. They at first they didn't
have any videos, and then we showed them in other
reports that videos have been turned over to them. They
now admit there's more than two hours of video, but
we still have knocked got our hands on those videos.
What little we do have though, we see that Caleb

(06:00):
to walk away from the barley house, not bothering anybody
and just kind of walks out of you. You know,
I've been there too, Doctor Angel Arnold. Psychiatrists joined me
out of the Atlanta jurisdiction, Doctor Angie, I will never forget.
I was not out of the cab for one minute

(06:20):
before I realized the cab had driven off with my
cell phone. I tried to get myself get the guy back,
but it was gone. So that's what happens here. And
it's a thing like we're so used to our cell phones,
you don't know what to do. And I'm looking at
the video of Kila right now, he comes out of
the barley house, and he's just leaned up. He can

(06:44):
walk fine. He is not inebriated. He's walking around. He's
trying to figure out what am I going to do
without my cell phone? And then finally he just takes off.
At one point I can see him gesture like arms
up in the air, like oh, and he starts walking.
That's what I'm saying, I don't see anything amiss. Yet
I agree with you in what sense. I agree with

(07:06):
what you're saying about what you don't that you don't
see anything amiss. And also I mean, for goodness sake,
everything in our lives are on our cell phones. Nope,
people don't memorize phone numbers or anything anymore. So he's
all on his own now once he's out of that bar,
isn't he. He's not quite sure why he left by himself.
That's just something that I've been pondering. But he's all

(07:28):
on his own now, isn't he? Take a listen to
our friend Alex Stokes at Fox eight. His friends say
they are grateful for the support they have received, both
online and in person. People who can't be here of
Alfred to make flyers or bring snacks or anything that
they could do or drop off to show some type
of support for our search party, but they are still

(07:48):
hoping someone may have more information. Check your phones, check
your instagrams, anything, anyone that was out that night. Every
day that has gone by without him has been painful.
I know my husband's heart is torn out. It was
his best friend, and I've never seen him right so much.
He's very lost straight now, and that's why I'm doing this.

(08:11):
I loved Caleb as well, but I know my husband
is lost. Is lovely. He's trying to stay positive the riddle.
I'm hopeful that he is alive. I do feel that
there's something wrong and I want to be able to
find him. And I really, truly, in my heart, feel
that God is on our side in this. You're hearing friends,

(08:35):
family speaking out. When Caleb first goes missing, I can
see in the video when he leaves the Barley House,
he's walking perfectly fine. He doesn't look inebriated, he's not
in an argument nothing. He walks outside the Barley House,
He's standing there like he's trying to figure out what

(08:56):
am I gonna do without myself? And I can't call
for a taxi. I can't call for an uber and
then finally he throws one arm up and starts walking.
Friends and family at the beginning, holding out hope that
Caleb is alive. Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, What happened

(09:30):
to Caleb Marple with me? Now, let's go to someone
that knows him better than any of us. His sister,
Amanda Albright. Amanda, thank you for being with us the
day you learn Caleb is missing. What happened? Amanda? So,
I was actually at the grocery store and with my daughter.

(09:51):
He had done at text to him, just asking if
he needs us to pick anything up for him, and
what we got back with a response from his neighbor
saying that she had his cell phone and that she
did not know where he went. Okay, wait a minute,
why did the neighbor have the cell phone? Was that
who he got a ride with? It's not clear to

(10:12):
me exactly who they got a ride with that his
neighbor has told police that it was two girls that
they had met that night gave them a ride downtown. Okay,
so they were at first at this local suburban restaurant
bar and then they all decide to go into Cleveland

(10:33):
to the barley house that must be the people they
got the ride with the two girls. Correct. Okay, so
then the neighbor because of the ride ends up with
Caleb's phone. Is the neighbor that you spoke with that
answered his phone? Was he or she at the Barley
House that night? Yes? What did she say happened? She

(10:57):
told us that she did not see him leave, so
she doesn't know why he laughed, and that was basically it.
They laugh without his cell phone. And really those people
are that he went to the Barley House with a
kind of out of the mix because we see him
leaving alone and walking off like he's going to try

(11:20):
to get a ride home to you leave my page,
Crime online dot Com investigative reporter. What happens next? So,
as you mentioned, we saw the security camera of him
walking out alone and ten minutes later, he gets into
a confrontation with a group of people outside of an
apartment Complict Archer apartment. It's less than half a mile

(11:42):
from the Barley House, and one witness told police that
Caleb was body slammed, and the police has said some
witnesses lied to them and we're not forthcoming whatever happened.
We do know that security cameras inside the archer apart
actually so blood on the steps of the apartments inside.

(12:06):
This is a lot of evidence and it's effecting the timeline.
First of all, take a listen to Alex Stoates at
Fox eight. Friends and family of Caleb Marple gathered in
the flats in downtown Cleveland Saturday, organized in several groups
on land and by boat to try and find the
thirty nine year old. We're here because we love Caleb.
Marple had been seen around midnight on May eighteenth at

(12:28):
Barley House, a bar on West sixth Street, where he
had gone with friends. It was reported to police that
he had left his phone in an uber. Caleb's friends
organized the search party because they say this is out
of character for him and they're worried. He's not a
drug user, he doesn't have history of mental illness. Yeah,
he did not have his phone, His car and apartment

(12:48):
are left untouched. He's we feel there's something wrong that
we need to find him and bring him home. While
the search was organized by Caleb's friends, Cleveland police were
there to help. Groups were separated into five zones, covering
both the east and west banks of the flats, and
they will stay within their zone until they look in
every dumpster, every alleyway, knock on every private property doors.

(13:11):
Let me understand something. We leave by page, you're saying
that we're hearing all the friends saying he does not
use drugs. He does not have any mental health issues.
He left his phone in an Uber, but I think
that got lost in translation because somewhere along the way
somebody he left it with his ride, so that was

(13:32):
translated to me and Uber, but it was with the
people he drove to the Brawley house with. So explain
to me, leave by page how he ends up getting attacked.
Hold on, take a listen to Jesse Schultz a WWS
in Westlake police reports, one witness says she saw Caleb

(13:52):
get body slammed. The report shows police found blood near
the Archer apartment's entryway. Now, the goal is to overt
the cause of death ruling and get Cleveland police to
investigate further. It's hard not to question some of the things,
some of the actions that were taken, and how Cleveland
conducted this lack of an investigation. They say they're slowly

(14:16):
putting the pieces together and are confident they'll soon have
a clear picture of what happened that night, But have
one message for anyone involved, well, sooner or later, the
truth's going to come out. Too many people know what
happened that night, too many people were involved. The truth
will come out. But when Amanda Albright, Caleb's sister, is

(14:37):
with us, as well as a private eye hired by
Caleb's family, Leavi Page, How in the world is this
guy who I can tell in the video he's not drunk,
he's walking perfectly fine, he walks away. How does he
end up body slammed and in front of Archer Apartments?
Where is Archer Apartments as it relates to the Barley Half?

(15:01):
Why is there blood found? Is it Cal's blood? So?
The Archer Apartments is about half a mile or less
from the bar that he was at the Barley House.
You can walk there, that's how he got there. And
security cameras show a group of people, young people entering

(15:24):
the apartment. One guy has blood on his hand and
he's ducking fighting his face from the camera. And then
the steps when you enter that apartment building, there's blood
on the steps. We do not know if that blood
has been identified as Caleb's or anyone else's blood. But

(15:46):
what police have revealed is that a witness to this
altercation said that Caleb was body slammed, And they've also
said that some of the people that they have interviewed
have not been forth coming and have led to them
about what happened. I don't understand Rob Slattery PI with
JAB Investigative Services. He's walking along, clearly looking for a

(16:10):
cab or a way to get back home. So he
walks probably about a five minute walk max. To the
first thing he sees, and that's the Archer House apartments.
I assume as a high rise, there are people out front.
How does he get end up getting body slammed? He
ended up the group of people that were entering walking

(16:33):
up and entering into the Archer apartments was the same
group of people from the Barley House that he had
the confrontation with. They just happened to be crossing paths.
He left the bar first, that's documented by video. I
just think he happened to be wandering that way trying
to figure out what he was going to do to
kind of save his night and get home, and he

(16:56):
came across these people and Davey came agitated and more
aggressive by the statements that Westlake Police took. One of
the people finally admitted to shoving Caleb and knocking him
to the ground, and then another one of the people
in the group, the term was scooped him up and

(17:18):
body slammed him. But there's another statement by Westlake Police
one of the females in the group that this person
punched Caleb multiple times. So this was not a mutual
combatant fight. This was an attack that would classify as

(17:38):
an assault. So the same group that he had a
verbal altercation with in the Barley House, he happens upon
five or six minutes later at the Archer House apartments.
There there he was quote body slammed and beaten. Also,

(17:59):
I hope you're sitting down for this. In a police report,
one witness states he quote didn't know where they put
his body. But yet somehow this has been ruled an
accidental drowning crime stories with Nancy Grace. The curious death

(18:34):
of Caleb Marple is weighing on my mind. The pieces
are not fitting together. Take a listen to w KYC
three News Rachel Plansky. Three News investigates has obteen video
surveillance tracking much of Marple's final hours at the Barley
House on West six Commershal Marple talking with friends. One

(18:55):
minute after midnight, he walks out alone. His cell phone
was accidentally left in a car hours earlier. Within fifteen minutes,
he's outside the Archer Apartments on West ninth Street. That's
where he has a confrontation with a group of people.
Whatever happened was swift for bloody. Video cameras don't capture
an assault, but they do show a man walking away
blood dripping from his hand. Witnesses initially said Marvel was

(19:18):
merely pushed. Later a woman admitted he was quote body slammed.
To you, Joseph Scott Morgan, Professor of forensics, JACKSONA State University.
I know you deal strictly with forensic evidence, but I
find that very curious. Why the person going into the

(19:40):
Archer House apartments would duck his head so video surveillance
wouldn't catch his face. The same person with blood all
over his hands that was caught on video. What does
that mean to you regarding the blood, Well, what it
says to me is that if you're obscuring your face
in some way, you have an awareness there you're being watched,

(20:01):
that there is a camera there now too. I would
have to know more relative to what the sourcing of
this blood is. And right now, I think one of
the most troubling things is that, as Levi had mentioned earlier, Nancy,
there was no typology that was done relative to the
source of the blood that they found outside of this place,

(20:23):
and I think that's a shame. Is the blood now
lost forever to Rob's slattery. Private investigator a JAB Investigative
Services hired by Keli Marple's family, did anyone sample the
blood that was found to determine if it is callips there?
As far as the blood on the steps, there is
no documentation that we have been provided to show that

(20:44):
they did secure any of that for testing or just
as evidence. How much blood was there, it appeared to
me was quite a bit. I mean you could actually
during the playing of the video at normal speed, you
could actually see it dripping off of his hand. I mean,
depending on how much blood Joe Scott, it could have
indicated immortal wound. Yeah, yeah, You're absolutely right, it could

(21:08):
and I would I will say this the autopsy report
which I reviewed, there are two injuries. If our listeners
will simply take your right hand and place it directly
above your right ear. Just go up about two or
three inches. There's a two inch laceration right there, and
then behind that there's a one inch laceration. And when

(21:29):
they say laceration, Nancy, that means that's not a cut, Okay,
contrary to what people think when they hear laceration that's
associated with blood force trauma. What I would like to know,
I think is these people that are talking about him
being body slam, I'd like to know what the point
of contact was if they saw this fellow being body slam.

(21:50):
I want to know at what point where did his
body touch ground? Did when he was bodyslam did he
impact on that space? That space that we've talked about
adjacent to the right side of to the right ear,
is that the point of contact where where this concussive
event took place. So if he has quote body slammed,

(22:10):
gets notch unconscious and then as the witness said, he
didn't know where they put the body. Yeah, if he's
thrown in the water in that condition, he would drown, Yeah,
he would. And I have to tell you, you know,
looking through the autopsy reports, one of the things that
kind of jumps out at you. If I ever hear
that someone is drowned. The first place I'm going to

(22:33):
go in the autopsy, in the autopsy report or the
weight of the organs nancy both to his left and
his right lungs or double the standard weight. So he
had inhalated water. Now, if he was incapacitated by this
trauma to the head, he would not have had the ability,

(22:54):
okay to fight against this. He would have just been
in the water floating and have him wholighted the water,
subsequently drowning too. Amanda joining us is his Keeleb's sister.
Did Kelle know how to swim? Yeah, no doubt about it,
No doubt. Yes, guys, take a listen to our friend
Dave Mackett Crime online dot Com. Thirty nine year old

(23:17):
bachelor Caleb Marple is out with friends at a Crocker
Park bar when the group decides to go downtown to
Cleveland's Warehouse District just after midnight. He finds himself outside
the bar alone and without his cell phone. He left
that inside the car of a woman who drove him
and two friends downtown. Street cameras follow Marple as he
walks around for about ten minutes when he arrives at

(23:37):
the Archer Apartments, where he is involved in a confrontation
with a group of people. Witnesses tell police that Marple
was pushed during the altercation. The report was later changed
when a witness claimed Marple was body slammed. Surveillance video
from the Archer Apartments doesn't show the incident, but it
does show six to eight people entering the apartment complex,
with one man ducking his head from camera view with

(23:58):
blood dripping from his hand. A woman walking behind the
man is seen pointing out the blood drops on the
indoor steps. Caleb Marble has never seen again. To Amanda Albright,
Caleb's sister, Amanda, again, thank you for being with us.
What do you believe happened that night? I believe that
either he was placed in the water or he substained

(24:19):
some sort of injury that would have, you know, if
he were to have fallen in But even that, I
don't think it's possible given the location in which he
was found. What do you mean by given the location?
The location that he was found is a small water

(24:40):
bay which has fencing all around, so he would have
had to have jumped over a since to have gotten
in the water over there, and this is not a
area where we see a lot of river flowing in
and out. To you, Rob Slattery, the pi Hire by

(25:01):
Kilbs family. I didn't realize that the water, the body
of water where he was found was surrounded by a fence.
There is quite a bit of fencing and railings and
different things to divide the water's edge for people passing by.
And they kind of tried to make it sound like

(25:23):
he he just wandered in and that was ed. He
fell in. It was his own fault. One of the
troubling parts that we see is with this timeline. He
was recovered on May twenty ninth. May thirtieth were the
riots in downtown Cleveland, and we believed that at that

(25:43):
point this was everything stopped. It was shelved. June first
was the day that the autopsy was signed off. On
June sixth, they decided that there were going to be
no charges for anyone, even though they had statements that
Caleb was struck and slammed to the ground. They decided

(26:06):
that there was insufficient evidence to even charge anybody with
the assault of Caleb. Logistically, Rob Slattery, how far away
is Archer apartments are Archer apartments. I guess it's high
rise where he was body slammed and one of his
attackers is left literally dripping in blood. How far is

(26:27):
that from where his body is found in a body
of water surrounded by a fence, Because he's body slammed
less than thirty minutes before he disappears. So how far
away is Archer Apartments from the body of water? It's
really not that far. It's over a bridge and down

(26:50):
several streets walking ten minute walks while minute walk roughly
something like that. So there he is. He would have
to walk after body slammed, losing blood, beaten up two
lacerations to the head, he would have to walk about
fifteen minutes, climb over a fence and drown himself. Prime

(27:26):
Stories with Nancy Grace. Guys, we are talking about the
curious death of a young man and the prime of
his life starts out a local restaurant bar with his buddies.
They meet up with some women. They decide to go
downtown Cleveland. That's where the trouble starts. At another restaurant

(27:48):
bar named the Barley House. He goes in his phone,
is left and in his ride's car everybody's having a
good time. He leaves the bar after he gets a
verbal fuss with somebody. He starts walking, trying to get
away home. About five to eight minutes away, he gets

(28:12):
to the Archer House apartment complex and there he runs
in fortuitously with the same people that argue with him
at Burley House. They body slam him and beat him.
One witness saying he quote didn't know where they put

(28:34):
the body. Yet this still remains an accidental death ruling.
Take a listen to Brian Duffy are cut nine at
WOIOTV nineteen. Caleb Marple's family believes that justice is within reach,

(28:54):
that the truth they believe in is just an investigation away.
Marple lost his life after a night out in the
Warehouse district. We're putting together quite a puzzle here, and
we're just trying to get justice for the family. Rob Slattery,
a former police officer, is the private investigator that Marple's
family hired. The medical examiner has ruled Caleb's death is accidental,

(29:16):
but Slattery believes there is now critical information regarding witness
statements and evidence regarding the condition of Caleb's body that
needs to be looked at in a different light, and
we hope it changes his mind to where they change
the cause of death to undetermined at this time. Witness statements,
Slattery says, include two who claimed to have known that
Marple was dead in the days after the altercation, even

(29:38):
though the body was not found until twelve days after
he went missing. That's a critical point he'll make to
the medical examiner. I believe it forces the local law
enforcement to take another look at this and with me,
Rob Flattery, that private investigator who was speaking with Brian
Wio tell me about w this is that no Caleb

(30:01):
was dead before his body found. I got a phone
call from one of the people that was at the
Barley House in that group of people also at the Archer,
and I believe he was kind of just trying to
feel me out for information. But he tripped up and
he admitted that the next day he knew that Caleb

(30:22):
was dead. And I said, really, And I said, how
did you know that? He goes well? I got a
phone call from somebody and I said, who called you?
He goes well? I you know, he's stuttering. Well, I
don't remember he goes I kind of you know what,
I'm a little foggy and who called me? And I said, well,
it's amazing. I said, I need to meet with you.
I like take a formal statement. And he says, well,

(30:42):
why are you honing in on us? He says, it
seems like you're bullying and you're just picking on us.
And I said, well, you just admitted to knowing of
that someone was dead. You got a phone call that
he was dead, and his body hadn't been found for
another eleven, almost twelve days. They said, you guys were
the last ones to see them alive. I said, you
don't find that puzzling. I'm not going to ask you

(31:05):
the name because I know you would have already told
me if you wanted it to be public. But you
do know who you were speaking with, right I do.
Have you given the information to police yet? We're actually
going back and forth with the Cleveland Law Department trying
to get all the records from them. I have not
given this to them yet for the simple fact that

(31:26):
I don't think they'll do anything right now unless their
hands are tied, and this show today is going to,
I believe, help us tremendously with their qual The video
shows a group of six to eight people entering archer,
one man ducking his hand from the camera view, noticeably
dripping blood from his hand. A woman who follows points

(31:49):
to blood drops on the indoor steps. So this person
is still dripping blood even after he gets inside the archer.
That's a lot of blood. I mean, I don't understand

(32:10):
to you, Daryl Cohen, not only a renowned defense attorney
now but former prosecutor. I don't see how this could
be ignored by police and the District attorney's office. They're
in Cleveland. When you've got a witness and knows the
person's dead and their bodies are not found till ten
days later, that's a smoking gun, Daryl, Nancy, it's a

(32:32):
smoking ak forty seven. I don't understand. On a practical matter.
I do because they're overwhelmed and the pandemic has created
a morass of problems for law enforcement. And it was
pointed out earlier that there were riots in Cleveland, as
there were all over the country. But that doesn't excuse

(32:56):
a lack of good, solid investigating. And let me, Nancy,
let me return to this dying drowning. Let's just assume
for the moment he had been beaten up he had
been body slam He was bloody, and he was trying
to escape, and he did scale the fence or jump

(33:17):
the fence, and maybe he went into the water to
avoid being killed. Maybe he fell into the water. I
don't know, none of us were there. But that is murder. Yes,
he drowned because he was in the water in all likelihood,
but that is murder. But also when you take into
account the witness that says he didn't know what they

(33:40):
did with the body, indicates to me that killed was
dead and then the body was moved. Just so you know,
the local District Attorney's office phone number there is two
one six four four three seven eight hundred repeat two
one six three seven eight hundred and Brett if you

(34:03):
could double check that number for me. The Cleveland District
Attorney's office Cleveland Police is two one six six two
one one two three four repeat two one six six
two one one two three four. Why is it this
case being investigated? Straight back to keel AB's sister, Amanda Albright, Amanda,

(34:26):
what if anything are police or the District Attorney's office
telling you? Well, it should be clear from the police
report that Cleveland police did not speak to one individual
involved in this case. All the interviewing was done by Westlake.
The Westlake Police number is four four zero eight seven

(34:49):
one three three one one repeat four four zero eight
seven one three three one one Back to Rob Slattery.
The private investigator hired by kill family was the body
slamming and the Westlake Police jurisdiction or the Cleveland Police jurisdiction.
It was in Cleveland, down outside the Archer apartments. And

(35:11):
where his body was found is that in Westlake or
Cleveland police jurisdiction? It's Cleveland, all Cleveland. So the body
slamming and the discovery of Kelub's body all in Cleveland, correct, Guys.
I want you to hear from the victim himself. This

(35:34):
is Kellub. He was the best man for his best
friend's wedding, who the friend gone now into a deep depression.
Here he is toasting the best man. I'd like to
say a few quick where's delf of men in Christina.

(35:54):
It's truly an honor to be a part of this wedding.
I've known men since we were a kid, and I've
watched him grow into an exceptional young man. He's truly
blessed to have found his beautiful bride, Christina. There's no
one better that two of them are great people and
have been great friends to me over the years, and

(36:17):
I know that they will have a wonderful life and
a beautiful marriage. And so here's the minie Christina, We
love you. Congratulations. Just hearing his voice and life changes things,
doesn't it. It was man and Christina that helped lead

(36:38):
the search for Kellup when he went missing. You heard
them speaking earlier to a man, to all bride, Kilob's sister.
When you hear his voice, what do you think, horribly
trying to hear We wait as justice and falls. Nancy
Grace Crime Story, signing off good bye friend,
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