You can read about Marty's story here: http://www.martytankleff.org/GUI/Content.aspx?Page=Home

Check out the blog link as well.

Marty was wrongfully convicted of killing his parents...he has been in prison for 15 years now. His parents were killed when he was 17, so all of his adult life has been spent in prison. :(

The reason I am posting though is that 48 Hours did a story on Marty and it was announced today that the episode has been nominated for an Emmy Award. :)

Here's hoping that will bring more attention to him and to the injustice Suffolk County has handed him.

MAJOR UPDATE!!!

From Marty's site:


Creedon's Son Says Father Told Him He Killed Tankleffs

The son of Joey “Guns” Creedon has signed a sworn affidavit stating that his father told him last year that he “killed Marty Tankleff’s parents,” providing details of how the murders were committed. In Suffolk County court today, Marty Tankleff’s lawyers filed the affidavit along with a motion to reopen the hearing.

In the three-page affidavit (http://www.martytankleff.org/PDF/joejraffidavit.pdf), Joseph J. Guarascio states:

“According to my father, Joseph Creedon, he and Peter Kent waited outside of the house until Jerry Steuerman gave them a signal. My father told me that [he] brought a cable from a bicycle brake line with him that he had stripped of the black plastic cover. He told me that he used the cable to choke him, which I understood to be Mr. Tankleff. He also told me that they (he did not say who) hit Mr. Tankleff with a snub nose .38 special. He told me that it was Kent who stabbed the ‘lady,’which I understood to be Mrs. Tankleff. According to my father Kent stabbed ‘her’ by or in the bed. He then told me that he had to go back into the house after they left because they had forgotten something.”

According to the boy's affidavit, [his father] “said that at some point he went up some steps and looked into Marty’s room and saw he was asleep.” Among the physical evidence at the crime scene were bloody glove prints near the light switch in Marty’s bedroom. Gloves were never found at the scene, although Glenn Harris’s sworn affidavit mentions that Joseph Creedon had gloves on him in the getaway car.

The affidavit also states, “My father told me that after they left Harris threw a pipe that they used out of the car.” Last year Harris led Marty’s private investigator, Jay Salpeter, to a wooded lot where Harris said a pipe had been thrown. Salpeter subsequently searched the site and recovered a pipe matching Harris’s description.

According to the son, the conversations with his father took place in April of last year, when the extended family was together for a funeral, some nine years after he last saw his father. “That first day with my father in New York was a good time,” said the boy. During the visit, Creedon took his son to the boy’s grandmother’s home, where Creedon showed him a safe filled with cash and jewelry, according to the statement. “He told me that one day the stuff in the safe would all be mine.” Next, according to the boy, Creedon showed him several guns, along with handcuffs and leg shackles, telling him, “this was for Glenn Harris if Harris testified.”

“When my father told me that he had killed the Tankleffs, I just didn’t know what to do because I was so scared and shocked," reads the affidavit. "I didn’t tell anyone about this because I was afraid of my father and what he might do to me or my mother. After many months of holding this inside, in February of 2005, my mom found me crying in bed one night and asked me what was wrong. At that point I told my mother everything and it felt very good to get it off my chest.”

Joseph Guarascio turned 17 on July 8th, making him almost exactly the same age Marty Tankleff was when the murders took place.

Following is a statement from the Tankleff family:

“Enough is enough. Not only should Marty be released, we call on Suffolk County District Attorney Thomas Spota to arrest Joseph Creedon, Peter Kent and Jerry Steuerman for the murders of Arlene and Seymour Tankleff. If DA Spota refuses to enforce the law, then it’s time for Governor George Pataki, Attorney General Eliot Spitzer or the U.S. Attorney to step in. How many witnesses need to swear that Joseph Creedon confessed to these murders before the officials sworn to protect us start doing their jobs? This statement is chilling in its alleged details of how my aunt and uncle were savagely murdered. These people either should be arrested or those in authority should be called upon to explain why not.”

-Ron Falbee, nephew of murder victim Arlene Tankleff and cousin of Marty Tankleff
August 3, 2005

See the affidavit here: http://www.martytankleff.org/PDF/joejraffidavit.pdf

I saw that episode of 48 Hours and I hope that this man finally has a fair day in court. I pray for truth and justice.