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foreign Sandusky County is the kind of place where you would want to raise your kids
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it's very warm it's very welcoming it's very rural my name is Chris Hilton I am the sheriff
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of Sandusky County in northwest Ohio this is not the kind of place where a crime like this occurs
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it's the place that something like this is a shock [Music] April of 2015 Heather Bogle went to work
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at the whirlpool corporation located in Clyde Ohio my name is Sean O'Connell I was the lead
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investigator of the Heather Bogle investigation she worked midnights which means she
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would clock in roughly at 10 10 30 in the evening she worked her shift and she clocked out at approximately 6 17 that
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following morning she was last seen leaving the parking lot of the whirlpool Corporation
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and then he disappeared she failed to pick up her daughter from school and this was like clockwork she never failed
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to pick up her daughter the Sandusky County Sheriff's Department tonight is working to solve a mystery where is 28
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year old Heather Bogle her family is the one that within hours they were posting
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signs putting things on Facebook and all other types of social media somebody has her and they need to bring
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her home why would they want to uh kidnap her I don't know and as the the minutes and the hours
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went by and people became more and more worried because they could not find her she doesn't have any enemies that we
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know of we just have no idea how this could happen she had a lot of chaos going on a lot of things were going on
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in her personal life she was vulnerable at that point she's an amazing woman and
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she's always there for me and we want her to know we're here for her this is solved
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the old-fashioned way bit by bit tracking down every potential lead because you never know when that lead
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turns into a break the day after she disappeared I get a phone call from the sheriff's office
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that Heather's vehicle had been located I had roll Patrol unlock the vehicle and
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then we popped the trunk and we saw something that we did not expect to see I don't think anybody had a clue about
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the mystery the Intrigue and the story that was going to come out of the opening of that trunk
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foreign [Music] foreign [Music] a lot of times in law enforcement we look at things and we try not to see
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them for what they are it's almost as if it's not real but this one was different say Sheriff
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Chris Hilton what they found inside the trunk of Heather bogle's car was painfully real what did they find in the
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trunk they found a beautiful young woman who had been savagely beaten and murdered
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that beautiful young woman was Heather Bogle when you know what she looked like when you saw the pictures of her and to
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see what was in the trunk of the car it was as if they were two completely different things and when you look at
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that kind of stuff it it sinks in it it's home her wounds told a harrowing story of
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torture unbelievably awful and grit says prosecutor Tim Braun a lot of defensive
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wounds on the hand for blocking bringing your hands up protecting what did that tell you told me she'd
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fought that she was physically overpowered by someone beaten down and then handcuffed cause of
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death two shots to the back penetrating vital organs in her chest Heather's body was placed in the trunk
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of her car curled up in a semi-fetal position wearing an oversized Mickey Mouse t-shirt
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looked like it had been posed to create a certain effect her hands were coiled up it looked like a child sleeping to
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some degree Heather's hair had been chopped off at the scalp imagine taking like a pocket
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knife and just going like this with it just picking it up and chopping It Off and her fingernails cut down to the
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cuticles possibly her murderer's attempt to destroy DNA says Braun so somebody had cleaned her up extremely carefully
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after she died who would want to do this to her a psychopath well we're praying for wisdom
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and under Lord God and I pray for the family of Heather this evening father I pray for our friends
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shocked frightened and grief struck the locals turned out in droves demanding Justice for Heather Bogle and holding
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benefits for her five-year-old daughter Mackenzie the woman who walks out of the
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world pool Factory at 6 17 am Heather Bogle who is she a 28 year old single mother
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who worked hard at that factory to provide a wonderful life for her daughter she was well liked
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with dreams for a better life Heather had just finished nursing school she wanted something better than working
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at Whirlpool not that Whirlpool is bad but she wanted some more for herself and for her for her daughter
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but the days leading up to her death were fraught with tension she had just failed her nursing board exams and was
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in the midst of an ugly breakup for the past year Heather had been involved in her first same-sex
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relationship with a woman she met at Whirlpool Carmela bedia but they just had a big blow up there had been threats
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made hadn't there there had been that yes the text messages and the phone calls and some of the exchanges were
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very very nasty lead detective Sean O'Connell says Carmella was one of the first
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people he looked at there was an uh some type of a verb or altercation between Heather and her girlfriend Carmella that
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Wednesday Heather goes in to work on Wednesday evening and leaves work Thursday morning not to
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be seen but after examining Carmela's phone records and speaking to her several times O'Connell determined Carmella was
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not the killer you were comfortable ruling her out absolutely he was not so quick to rule out this
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woman Kiana Bohr a single mother who lived in the apartment complex where Heather's car and body were discovered
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is it fair to say the your interactions with Kiana Bohr early on raised your suspicion about her
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absolutely absolutely yeah from her demeanor from her reluctancy on wanting to talk to us yeah absolutely
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but even more than that it was that Mickey Mouse shirt on Heather bogle's body there was some speculation that the
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shirt that was found on Heather Bogle again it's a red XL Mickey Mouse type t-shirt cannabor was seen to be wearing
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that same type of t-shirt Andy says her Facebook postings read like a confession
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referenced here in the police report Kiana is making statements on her Facebook page that I can't believe what
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happened just happened O'Connell says she also makes mention in another post about doing eight to ten years for
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murder and pleading Insanity the day Heather disappears the day that she disappeared yes April 9th of 2015. he
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says he became even more suspicious when he learned that Omar Satchel a man who served time on home invasion and
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Firearms charges was in Kiana's apartment the night Heather's body was found one more Satchel very quickly becomes a
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person of interest to you you did why cause of his involvement as far as being in the vicinity of the time of her body
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being discovered O'Connell believed Omar knew Heather that he sometimes sold her pot but even
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more importantly O'Connell says he found a link between Omar satchel and what possibly could have been the gun used to
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kill Heather during the course of my investigation I find out that Omar may have stolen a
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small caliber type firearm neither the gun nor the bullets were ever found but O'Connell claims A source
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told him that a third accomplice a friend of Omar is named Kerry Jeffrey dumped the murder weapon so according to
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my source who was standing next to Kerry Kerry walked up along the Riverbanks and
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tossed this black bag containing the fire I'm using the homicide into the river which ultimately prompt us to launch a
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dive team into the river and hopes to recover the bay came up empty came up empty
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so what would the three of these people have as a motive to kill Heather bubble I don't know what their motive would
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have been O'Connell didn't have enough to arrest them but continued building his murder
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case against the three a case newspaper man Matt westerhold was watching with interest
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he and his paper had a long history reporting on the detective we were concerned because we didn't believe
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detective O'Connell could conduct a legitimate investigation westerhold had just found his next big
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story was this bad police work or was he a bad cop it was both [Music] [Music] there was Kiana Bohr before Heather
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bogle's murder got a house for me and my kids got a good job at a nursing home and everything was going real smooth
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and then there's Kiana born now so it's like the Dark Cloud that's always over my head and who put that
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dark cloud over your head says detective O'Connell targeted her from the night Heather's body was found
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I lived in this apartment right over here raiding her apartment they went out of their way to throw all of our
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pictures in the trash and storming the nursing home where she worked with a warrant for her DNA
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I'm reeling a resident out the dining room to go get him ready for bed and the whole all the detectives the police come
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in there guns out and they had their guns drawn yes O'Connell publicly named Kiana a suspect
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she lost her job her apartment and her reputation I had to keep my son out of school I have people in my inbox telling
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me I'm a monster and me and my kids deserve to die and all that type of stuff because what he told the newspaper
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and the newspaper put out there Kiana says she was an easy target poor black and voiceless she says O'Connell
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never even asked her if she had an alibi he never did that because he wasn't interested in ruling me out he was just
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interested in making me guilty he was trying to find facts that would fit his theory that you were involved
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Kiana had several run-ins with Sean O'Connell before he helped put her ex-boyfriend in prison for a mandatory
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10 years on a drug charge she says that's what she was talking about in her Facebook post that O'Connell found so
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incriminating the only reason why I would have posted about the eight to ten years is because I was upset that my
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child's father just got 10 years mandatory for his first drug defense here he is doing 10 years for a drug
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offense and they're people who get eight to ten for Murder by putting Insanity that's what you were posting and it
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didn't have anything to do nothing at all with Heather Bogle and that Mickey Mouse shirt found on
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Heather's body the one he insinuated belonged to Kiana was it your shirt no I only owned one Mickey Mouse hoodie well
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sweatshirt in my life so it's a sweatshirt not a t-shirt you don't own a t-shirt no were you involved in the
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death of Heather Bogle no did you cover up having a role in covering up Heather bogle's death
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desperate to clear her name Kiana contacted Matt westerhold managing editor of the Sandusky Register I've
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never had a criminal Suspect come to me and say hey I'm being targeted by police
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for a murder I didn't commit that's never happened he quickly came to believe O'Connell was
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framing her if you interview uh kyota Boris she's very believable and and it seemed obvious that you know she didn't
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know anything about this westerholt had been covering Sean O'Connell and his then boss former
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Sheriff Eric Overmeyer for years publishing numerous reports accusing them of corruption and incompetence one
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headline that the paper ran the headline is Sheriff over Meyer and detective O'Connell have a history botching
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high-profile cases right Fair headline yeah absolutely we probably documented a half dozen different cases where the
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families involved you know were complaining bitterly about how they were treated by law enforcement
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and there was no doubt in my mind that that they were botching these investigations my guest today is keona
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Bohr westerhold featured Kiana's story on his webcast several times do you do you consider yourself a victim of
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detective O'Connell's I very much do he was determined to keep the pressure on O'Connell we like to say that's who we
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are that's what we do in this case we turned out to be a consistent persistent Watchdog that didn't give up
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despite the public scrutiny O'Connell spent a year and two months pursuing his theory that Kiana Omar and Kyrie acted
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together to kill Heather Bogle even in the face of strong scientific evidence to the contrary
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authorities found DNA under Heather's cuticle they believed left by her killer but it didn't come back as Omar Satchel
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did not didn't come back as Kiana boers it did not didn't come back as Kerry Jeffries it did not so the fact that the
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DNA under her fingernails does not belong to any of those three doesn't rule them out in your mind it does not
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but in his report to the prosecutor seeking an indictment O'Connell didn't even mention that the DNA did not match
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in a mission that would soon come out in the open just one week later detective O'Connell was taken off the case and
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placed on leave I knew the end was coming he was forced to resign he wasn't the only one in trouble I take full
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responsibility today Sheriff overmyer was arrested and sent to prison for stealing drugs
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sounds to me like law enforcement in the Sandusky County Sheriff's Department not
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in Tip-Top shape between openmeyer and O'Connell well yeah if you're your Sheriff who is the the lead officer of
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your criminal drug task force has an addiction problem you got problems O'Connell's Bogle file was handed over
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to the state Bureau of Investigations what they've discovered was not only shocking says Chris Hilton who took over
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as Sheriff it was Criminal he attempted to indict people for murder that had absolutely nothing to do with
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it is this a case of a cop being overly ambitious is is racism or is this incompetence anything I could say would
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be pure speculation Nobody Knows the case better than you what do you think I'm gonna say it's a little combination
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of everything you just said newly elected Sandusky County prosecutor Tim Braun agreed he opened a criminal
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investigation that led to O'Connell's arrest and indictment on four felony charges
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he lied he falsified police reports he tampered with evidence he tried to make a case that he didn't have
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and he tried to push it through O'Connell was charged with misleading a public official and destroying
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concealing and tampering with evidence you're looking at some serious charges I'm looking at some very serious charges
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did you mishandle evidence absolutely not you knowingly make false statements absolutely not altered destroy conceal
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remove evidence of course not so where are they getting it from they're getting it from
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speculation that's not how Chris Hilton sees it was there any reason to focus on Kiana bore
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after the first day or two I would say no she had nothing to do with it and neither he says did Omar Satchel or
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Kerry Jeffrey the BCI investigation showed the three suspects never knew Heather never met Heather never sold
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their pot but Sean O'Connell still stands behind his investigation right or wrong so you
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can be wrong but that doesn't mean you had tunnel vision I could be detectives are wrong all the time you were just
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wrong I'm not even here to say that I'm wrong because the investigation I never had the
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opportunity to close out that job fell to the new sheriff and he wasn't going to stop until he got it
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right I knew it was a solvable case I just knew it had to be done right I said we
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are going to open this up to the point where it just happened every lead every person everybody is a suspect until we
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can eliminate them and that's what we did thank you Heather Bogle had been dead for nearly
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two years when Sheriff Hilton and his team took over the investigation they had no clue who killed her but were
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positive it was not a random killing we felt that whoever did this had something
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personal against Heather someone she just had a huge fight with someone who'd written her an angry note
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found in the car where she lay dead in the trunk someone like Heather's ex-girlfriend Carmela bedillo
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to me she would be a logical person to investigate I mean again when you look at the condition with which Heather was
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found there was passion and anger and what whoever did that Carmella who had been quickly cleared by
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O'Connell went straight to the top of Hilton's suspect list so you guys are basically I was done
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like well it sounds like she was she was done too she was brought in for questioning the last month I'll agree
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with everybody it was horrible it was Rocky it was you didn't know what was going to happen
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next but the sheriff would soon rule out Carmella when he found a new suspect investigators started digging through
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Heather's social media and Gmail accounts and suddenly there it was stored in Heather's GPS records by
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Google an electronic trail of coordinates showing Heather's exact movements from the moment she left work
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at 6 17 a.m is this your aha moment absolutely we knew we had something we could at least say definitively this is
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where she went after she left work that morning at 6 30 a.m 13 minutes after leaving
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work Heather's phone GPS places her in a trailer home a few miles from the whirlpool plant
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and we find out later that day it belongs to Daniel Myers who was Daniel Myers we had no idea it's
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time we find out very quickly that Daniel Myers worked with Heather we find out that he worked with her that
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night we find out that he left approximately the same time that morning that's when we went aha we got something
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[Music] investigators knocked on Daniel Meyer's door he was Cooperative but not overly he kind of distanced himself from
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knowing Heather they recorded their conversation did you know her at all very very little very little just more
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very I mean very limited conversation one of the things he says that really makes the hair stand up like why are you
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still investigating this is what he's asking like this is this is done it's over with it's been two years yes it's a
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little odd that you know you guys are I know it's cold case and you guys are just you know grasping at straws trying
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to figure out when I listened to it I was like oh my God this might be our guy this this might be
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our guy and then the Clincher was at the end of that interview they asked for a DNA sample well I'm gonna pass on that I
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didn't really know the girl or anything like that he's the first person that said no
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investigators returned two days later with a warrant for his DNA to match it against the DNA found under Heather's
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cuticle we're going to search for it for your DNA okay so what we wanted you to do is to
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be a little more forthcoming to help us narrow this thing down because you know what we're narrowing it
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down okay okay they got their sample and results came back five days later my major came into
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my office and he says Sheriff at DNA belongs to Danny Myers I think we almost wanted to break into
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tears it was it was like we have him we got him they learned this man who said he barely
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knew Heather Bogle had contributed 125 dollars and wrote a warm condolence note on her GoFundMe page and made sure
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people knew he was at Heather's funeral he signs the registry book at her funeral yes
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it's the kind of guy who's trying to look normal he's trying not to do anything that would trigger in anybody's
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mind that maybe Danny Myers is just a little different it turns out Daniel Myers had been
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hiding in plain sight all along shortly after Heather's murder a Whirlpool employee sent an email to detective Sean
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O'Connell saying she knew someone capable of this crime and she's she Point Blank told us I was
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going to tell him I thought it was Daniel Myers but O'Connell already fixated on his
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three suspects never followed up if you had worked the whirlpool angle a little harder do you think Daniel
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Meyer's name might have surfaced I don't know how we could have worked it any harder I mean what more could we have
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done it didn't take Sheriff Hilton very long to figure it out just five months after opening the new investigation he
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and his team arrested the single father at a summer Campground and the only thing that he ever said was
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oh my God they're here to get me and then we took him into custody and that was pretty much the last thing he
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said to us I think he got a story to tell we'd like to hear it okay searching the trailer investigators
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never found the gun or bullets that killed Heather but they did find damning evidence new floorboards bought less
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than a week after her murder meaning what meaning we believe we found where she was murdered in his trailer
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and he would have replaced the subflooring because it was covered in blood blood possible bullet holes any
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number of reasons you got to cover it up the trailer yielded other Secrets he liked to keep women's underwear in a
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safe slowly they began piecing together a disturbing picture of a sexual predator
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a man focused on control domination and humiliation he had videos and of himself
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with women and other women he was very disturbing when it comes to his sexual fetishes
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after Daniel Meyer's arrest ten women came forward saying he raped them none of them went to the police
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beforehand and said this guy at the plant sexually attacked me in this trailer they were all embarrassed and
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ashamed by it investigators say Myers picked women he thought would stay silent and what better way to to solidify that
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than to find ones that are vulnerable and Heather Bogle was vulnerable reeling over her nasty breakup with
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Carmela and they learned from Myers she was also upset over a text her brother said calling her too stupid to pass her
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licensed practical nursing exam and here's Daniel Myers come tell me all about it that's right
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she went to his trailer says Braun expecting a friend but finding a killer I think it happened immediately as soon
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as she came in the door [Music] I think he came on to her sexually she probably immediately rejected him
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I think he grabbed her I think she punched him in the face we know he had one cracked tooth and one broken tooth
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that he repaired with Super Glue and that I think he physically overpowered her beat her into submission
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handcuffed her beat her some more stripped her probably had her on the bed and we know that because he ended up
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replacing his mattress at the end of the month after the half homicide occurred and I think he tortured her for a long
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time and then I think he shot and killed her if you think Danny Myers could be a
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serial killer I've always considered that a possibility in a relatively strong one
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interested in learning more about the case see evidence photos on Facebook at 48 hours
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prosecutor Tim Braun has made a career of putting violent Killers Behind Bars and says Daniel Myers seems like a pro
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most people first time they kill somebody they're overcome with emotion they do stupid things Danny Myers
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rationally and meticulously attempted to cover this case up that usually takes experience
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he seemed to have it down to a science says Brawn cutting down Heather's fingernails and cleaning her body in an
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apparent attempt to remove DNA evidence have I dealt in the past with people who've attempted to destroy genetic
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material absolutely and usually not their first rodeo not their first rodeo and they get good at kill covering
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up because they want to do it again and so when I saw that yeah it raised a lot of questions in my mind
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lorianne Haley says if Tim Braun is looking for proof Daniel Myers killed before
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he doesn't need to look any further than her sister Leanne sluder you think your
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sister was murdered yes by Danny yes no question no question Leanne was Daniel Meyer's ex-girlfriend
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and the mother of his son nearly six years before Heather bogle's death Leanne was found with a single gunshot
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to her chest this crime scene photograph shows the 22 caliber rifle beside her authorities
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quickly ruled it a suicide when you heard that word suicide no in a way no I just talked to her 12 hours prior
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there is no indication whatsoever that she was crying for help or given me any signal
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even more alarming says lorianne is why Leanne had a gun at all I knew my sister hated guns she would
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not allowed to have a gun in her house that's a giant red flag yes he supposedly told investigators it was for
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her protection dinner myself protection from what Daniel Myers admitted to giving the gun
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to Leanne for her security but lorianne was skeptical of how her sister could use it to shoot herself in the chest
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with its long barrel and then leave it lying neatly next to her body how could she do that with a rifle yeah
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impossible bigger well that's the issue a lot would remain unanswered says Tim Braun Leanne
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sluder suicide in my opinion was not a properly processed crime scene in the sense that it was not photographed well
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evidence wasn't collected it wasn't done correctly so if they had done gun residue tests on Daniel Meyer's
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hands in that 2009 investigation they would know unequivocally whether he had shot that
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weapon that sounds like standard operating procedure right well this is Sandusky County Sheriff's Office and at
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that time it was not a professional agency I believe the investigators at the time
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took Daniel at his word that she killed herself do you think if your sister's death had
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been properly investigated Heather Bogle would be alive yes he didn't hesitate one bit no
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investigators recently took another look at Leanne's death they came to the same
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conclusion of suicide after determining Leanne was physically able to reach the rifles trigger after all
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an undated letter also surfaced authorities say this is her handwriting and reads like a suicide note all I ever
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wanted was to just die so that the hurt would stop Daniel Meyer's relatives say they found
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it in his home after his arrest I don't believe it was fully authenticated I don't understand why he
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had it for so long and then all of a sudden it pops up Case Closed done It's just sad that you know the justice
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system wasn't on our side I know that he killed her he knows it problem is you can't prove it
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now lorianne is hoping to get Justice for her sister through another victim's case if found guilty of killing Heather
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Bogle Daniel Myers could be sentenced to death and in your view your sister's killer Yes would be executed yes not
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just Heather bogle's killer it would be both yes how strong a case do you have in my
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experience we had a very very good case Tim Braun has Meyer's DNA under Heather's fingernail the GPS records
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placing her at his trailer and his history of violence against women but there's one huge obstacle
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Sean O'Connell from a trial lawyer's standpoint it was a nightmare it's a nightmare because you have the original
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investigator pointing the finger at other people and that would provide a convenient
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alternate suspect theory for any defense attorney so before Daniel Myers could stand trial the prosecutor believed Sean
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O'Connell would have to be discredited once and for all officially ruling out his three suspects Omar Satchel Carrie
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Jeffrey and Kiana Bohr I just hope O'Connell did to us doesn't affect Heather's Justice
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and convicting Daniel Myers and they were about to find out tomorrow at this time I could be at a
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local County Jail getting ready to be booked in I don't want that to happen I don't think that should happen I don't
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think what I did warns this to happen [Music] it was a stunning change of Fortune Sean
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O'Connell once a detective charged with upholding the law hey buddy is now facing a trial for breaking it accused
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of four felonies in connection to his Heather Bogle murder investigation in which he focused on three innocent
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people O'Connell remains defiant do you feel you owe Omar Satchel Kiana bore and
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Kerry Jeffries an apology why would I apologize I mean if you look at if you look they didn't do it how do we know
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that for sure but the day's trial was set to begin O'Connell finally admitted to a mistake
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he pled guilty to one felony count tampering with evidence by omitting the DNA results that excluded his three
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suspects all I can do now is just kind of hope for the best not only for me but for my
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family when it comes time for sentencing the former detective arrived at his sentencing hearing with his wife and
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family by his side hoping for probation but preparing for prison when I took this investigation as I've done with
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many other investigations throughout my career O'Connell addressed the court in a plea for leniency I wasn't purposely
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trying to leave out anything I was just trying to highlight what I had at that point judge Patricia Cosgrove zeroed in
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on his failure to report the DNA results why didn't you include that you're right
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your honor I did not include it and I take full responsibility for that and for what it's worth I apologize for not
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doing that but again I did that because I was simply trying to get the prosecutor a feel on why I thought it
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was these three people one of those three people Kiana Bohr finally got the chance to address the man she says
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ruined her life I have lost time with my children time with my family I have lost friends I have lost family I
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have pretty much lost every single thing that I've had because of this man and I'm still trying to get it back
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after listening to all the testimony judge Cosgrove took a hard line I gave him some consideration for his 25 years
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of service his military service his volunteer work but he has to go to prison this has to send a message to
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other law enforcement officers hey when you look at a case look at all of it and
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when you present a case present all of it today's the day of sentencing take him into custody
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Sean O'Connell was sentenced to two years in state prison what about uh O'Connell the newspaper man who had
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covered O'Connell Through The Years in this case and several others was overwhelmed
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to see deep huh the families it was a moment a Vindication for the families that he hurt
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because he he hurt them so bad and and he could have there it would have been so easy to just do the right thing
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is Sean O'Connell where he should be in prison anytime somebody that wears the same badge that I do
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gets in trouble breaks the law convicted of a crime they need to pay for it I believe he is where he should be
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with the O'Connell case now resolved Braun was finally ready to take on Daniel Myers in court
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we had more than enough to prove it Beyond A Reasonable Doubt but within days of the trial starting Myers
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derailed the proceedings you all right what's going on he was found face down in itself one two three dazed and
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incoherent in what turned out to be a failed suicide attempt do I think he was trying to commit
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suicide I think he was trying to create a medical emergency buy some time buy some time
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but time finally ran out Daniel Myers chose to plead guilty rather than face the possibility of a death sentence you
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understand that a plea of guilty is a complete admission of guilt yes I want you to know that you took away a
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mother and a friend and a loved one that no one could ever get back one time suspect Carmela bedillo spoke directly
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to the man who tortured and killed her former girlfriend now I want you to know Daniel miles
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forgive you people say Sheriff how could he do this why would he do this to such a young
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beautiful woman what was he thinking and I would tell them this man is a monster
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Daniel Myers will have a lot of time to think about what he has done he'll spend
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the rest of his days in prison with no chance of parole after nearly four years the people of
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this County finally saw Justice is a great place I think it's a little better now
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and I'm proud of that Heather bogle's memory will live on in the hearts and minds of the people of
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Sandusky County who are now free to remember the beautiful young mother she was and
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imagine a life that could have been right now it seems as if everything is unpredictable we're all stuck at home
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and like you I'm feeling a bit helpless right now but I want you to know we are here for you all working together you
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are not alone that's right because we're all in this and we're all in this together
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