CLEVELAND (WJW) – New court documents show the estranged husband of Aliza Sherman spoke to state agents with the Bureau of Criminal Investigation about his wife’s 2013 murder.
A motion filed in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court Wednesday states that in 2022, Sanford Sherman was interviewed by two state BCI agents. The agents interviewed Sherman in Florida after Cleveland police received a tip on the case.
“On April 26, 2022, an anonymous tipster provided information to Crime Stoppers – a hotline/web based law enforcement tip service – and told them the following: ‘I work as a nurse manager overseeing patients in South Florida. It was brought to my attention that a patient, Sanford Jay Sherman, had confessed to the nurse practitioner [full name given but withheld from this court filing – the state will refer to him as John Doe herein],1 at his primary care office that he moved to Florida after killing his wife. There exists a hospital document dated 4/20/2022 from [name of hospital given but withheld from this court filing] where the ED physician notes the patient “told staff that the FBI is looking for him.” The same note also says he is a retired surgeon and a widow. I then searched his name on Google to see if this information would coincide with any news articles to give credit to this confession and I found the story about Aliza Sherman and the cold-case involving her death,’” the motion states.
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The agents went to Florida to interview the person who Sherman allegedly made the confession to, but that person told investigators that it never happened, saying, “the patient never said anything related to the homicide.”…