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This week\\u2019s episode involves a twisted web of convictions (perhaps wrongful), acquittals (also possibly wrongful), the murder of a young woman and the disappearance and probable murder of a second young woman \\u2013 all wrapped around two potentially really bad guys and one no-doubt-about-it nasty scumbag.\\xa0\\xa0The story unfolds in tony Putnam County, an affluent New York City suburb north of Manhattan in southern upstate New York, where in October 1994 12 year-old Josette Wright disappeared.\\xa0 Just over 13 months later, Josette\\u2019s remains were discovered.\\xa0 Two young men \\u2013 Anthony DiPippo and Andrew Krivak \\u2013 were charged and, in 1997, convicted of Josette\\u2019s murder \\u2013 in separate trials.\\xa0\\xa0DiPippo has always maintained his innocence. Krivak confessed.\\xa0\\xa0Seems simple.\\xa0 Except\\u2026well, a couple of things.\\xa0\\xa0It turns out that Krivak has claimed, almost from the moment he accepted his sentence, that his confession was coerced, and there\\u2019s evidence to indicate the investigator who questioned Krivak used tactics that may have led to a false confession.\\xa0\\xa0And Anthony DiPippo?\\xa0 Well.\\xa0 He has been granted three separate trials \\u2013 convicted the first two times and finally acquitted in the third.\\xa0\\xa0So how can two men convicted of the same crime have been dealt such different outcomes?\\xa0\\xa0It all revolves around our certified scumbag in this matter \\u2013 one Howard Gombert, who is currently serving a 30-year sentence for the sexual assault of an 8-year-old girl in Connecticut in 2000 \\u2013 and who is also the prime suspect in the disappearance of 17 year-old Robin Murphy in April of 1995.\\xa0 Women\\u2019s underwear with Robin\\u2019s DNA on it was found in a trunk of what can only be described as \\u201ctrophies\\u201d in the home of Gombert\\u2019s girlfriend \\u2013 but with Robin\\u2019s body having never turned up, prosecutors have been unable to arrest Gombert for her murder.\\xa0\\xa0And then there\\u2019s this:\\xa0 there are ties between Robin Murphy, Josette Wright and Howard Gombert that make Gombert a more than reasonable suspect in both cases.\\xa0\\xa0Add to all of this the fact that Anthony DiPippo\\u2019s original trial attorney had also represented\\u2026wait for it\\u2026Howard Gombert!\\xa0\\xa0Join Melissa as she unravels the tangled facts and seeks to get to the bottom of who killed whom \\u2013 and if you know anything about either case, please call the Putnam County New York Sheriff\\u2019s Office at (845) 225-4300.