The 5th District Court of Appeals has upheld a Stark County judge's dismissal of a former Alliance Police chief's lawsuit relating to a podcast about the 1999 murder of a city resident.
Stark County Common Pleas Judge Natalie R. Haupt last fall dismissed Larry Dordea's lawsuit accusing Maggie Freleng, host of the Murder in Alliance podcast; the Obsessed Network; Sue Gless Thorne; and John Hardin and Jason Baldwin of Proclaim Justice of defamation per se, civil conspiracy and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
In the lawsuit, Dordea alleged that several involved with Murder in Alliance made defamatory statements about him on the podcast by claiming that he brought a date to the crime scene, compromising the investigation. Murder in Alliance is a podcast that centered around the killing of Alliance resident Yvonne Layne.
Layne was found with her throat slashed on April 1, 1999. David Thorne, the father of one of Layne's children, was accused of hiring someone to kill her and convicted of complicity to aggravated murder in 2000. He was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
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