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[light gentle music] - [Lisa] That was
her freshman year, the first game they went to.
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- Look at what
they wear to games. - I know. And then even same thing there. Ohio State gear, head to toe.
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- [Makenzie] Dad looks young. - Yeah. It's definitely
aged us all significantly.
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[camera shutter clicks] She and I would go to
a mission situation with our church, where we
would go down and serve meals.
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I can just remember her
being so compassionate, and she was very
thankful and happy
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to be able to be a
part of doing something to put a bright
spot in their day. - When she was very
excited about something
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she would have the
biggest, brightest smile, and she loved the fact that
she could light up a room
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just by smiling and being
excited and kind to people, and it would really
shift the tone
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of anywhere that she was at. [tense dramatic music] [siren wailing] - On February 9th, 2017, it was
a cold, miserable, snowy day
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in Grove City, Ohio, when we got the call that
a body was discovered in the Scioto Grove Metro Park.
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- [Witness] Hello. - [Operator] Hello, 911. - [Witness] Yeah, I think
there's a body out here.
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Please send somebody, hurry! - [Operator] Okay. - I heard that there
had been a body found,
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I knew there was
a missing student. And I just told my
boss, "Hey, I'm going." - What happened to
Reagan, I think,
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is every woman's nightmare, every parent's, every
friend's nightmare. You're just trying
to live your life
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and get from point
A to point B safely, and it's interrupted by
something violent and senseless.
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- Her last words were was,
"I just want to live." And that's really
all she wanted.
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- Some days, it feels
like a lifetime, and some days, it feels
like just yesterday.
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I'm gonna wake up, and
it's all been a nightmare and it's not real, but it is. [tense thoughtful music]
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[light gentle music] - There's the
picture that we used that you put on her
chair for the wedding.
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- Yeah. Why'd you pick this one? - 'Cause it's pretty and
captures that light about her,
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and all around her
halo, you know? It's just so illuminating. Reagan came into this world
like a burst of energy,
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the shining bright
light that she was. She was born at 1:08 a.m. Boy, did she let everybody
know that she was there
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and she was just
this wide awake, and, "Hi, everybody. Here I am." And that's really who
and how she was always.
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- Growing up in Ohio, was
in a really small community, and everybody was
very tight-knit.
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We knew everybody on the street. Some kids grew up and
became our babysitters, and we hosted all holidays
my entire childhood,
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being Thanksgiving
and Christmas, and everybody was
welcome at our house. - Reagan and her father loved
a lot of the same things.
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[camera shutter clicks] Football, for example. Loved football.
Loved Ohio State.
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And that was her
and Toby's thing. And I can remember a time that Toby took her to a
football game at Ohio State
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when she was like four or five, and she had her little Ohio
State cheerleader outfit
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and everything on. And she had said at that game that she was going to
go to school there.
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And sure enough, she did. [tense thoughtful music] There was a career opportunity
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for Toby that came about around holiday time of
Reagan's senior year. We had made the
decision as a family
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that she was going to
be going off to college. Makenzie was willing
and open to move with us
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to this opportunity in Florida. And we moved that summer, and then she got
settled at Ohio State.
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- The last special time
that I had seen her was the last time we went
and visited her in Ohio.
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[light gentle music] This was the first
time that I got to go, and really, like,
sleepover at her apartment.
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She was very protective over me, and when Reagan was in the
shower, her roommate came to me
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and said, "Do you wanna
go get some food with us?" I thought it was the coolest
thing that I got to be invited
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to go out and do something
with these older girls, and Reagan called one of them
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and was like, "What have you
done with my little sister?" Like, "Is she in the
car with you right now?"
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And she was so not happy that
they took me out of the house without telling her.
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The next morning,
our parents came over and they had just a
really big tailgate.
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And that was, I think for all
of us, a really core memory that we all have, was
getting to go to this game.
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It was her last
game as a student. [crowd cheering] - I think if Toby and I
had to quantify something
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that we're really proud of, it was bringing our two
daughters into this world and the way our family
unit and network was.
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Very positive, very
loving, very happy home. [light tense music] - Reagan's future
was very bright.
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She had just gotten her first
real job outside of college, in Cleveland. She was about to move there.
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She was going to utilise
her degree in psychology and essentially,
try to help people
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because she cared
so much about them. - Reagan consistently
would always talk to my dad
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to check in with him every day and let him know that
she made it home safe. - Her and I had had a
conversation that day, 3:45.
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I'll never forget, because
I was in a Walmart, and I was talking on the phone and pushing the cart
at the same time
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and I had crashed it
into a display of bananas while I was on the
phone with her.
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And she was laughing at me, and she was like,
"Seriously, Mom?" But her and I had
had a very fun,
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bantery conversation that day. Reagan was going to work that
night, and it was a new job.
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We weren't super
thrilled about it, the fact that this job was
keeping her out in evenings,
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but she was excited about it because she was looking for additional ways to
earn some money.
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- On the 8th, we
hadn't heard from her, and it started to get
a little suspicious.
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But on one hand, my dad was
growing more and more concerned and on the other, you
had to remind yourself
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that she was 21
years old, almost 22. She was a full-fledged
grownup at that point.
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But I knew when we had
gone to bed that night, it was just a little
off in our house.
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- She had talked to my husband right prior to going into work. But when she didn't
text, he was uneasy
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'cause he hadn't been
able to get a hold of her, and her phone went
right to voicemail.
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[sparse tense music] - The next morning, I got up and I was getting
ready for school,
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and I went down and had
my breakfast like normal, and my mom had my
lunch sitting out.
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And when I went to
leave, they both told me, "If you hear from
your sister today,
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"let us know immediately." And to me, that was
kind of a red flag. - As time had started progress,
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we're getting really
uncomfortable. I called her work and they
hadn't heard from her.
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I was not able to
report her as missing because I was not the
last person to see her,
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so they had to call. - [Employee] So we had an
employee leave work last night and she has not been home.
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Her phone is off,
nobody can find her. She hasn't been
home at all either. Her mom's been calling,
looking for her.
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We can't find her
car around work. - I was getting ready
to tweet this photo, and I thought, "If
I tweet this out,
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"one, that makes this very real, "and two, if she ends up
being completely fine,
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"there's no way of
taking this back." But I tweeted it out, and it instantly started
to go off like wildfire.
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And I had people
get my cell phone and start reaching
out to me somehow, and news stations and
broadcasters and et cetera.
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- The roommates had confirmed that her bed hadn't
been slept in. And obviously, that
was very concerning
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because she never did
anything like that. She always came home. And what we didn't
know at that point
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was there was a Jane
Doe that had been found. Makenzie was at work and
Toby and I were home,
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but we were trying to
stay off of our phones so that if we got
a phone call... [tense thoughtful music]
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Sorry, this is gonna
take me a minute. - [Operator] 911. - [Witness] Hello? - [Operator] Hello, 911?
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- [Witness] Yeah, I think
there's a body out here at Scioto Grove Metro Park. I don't know if this
is a fake or what.
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I'm afraid to get close to it. Please, send somebody. Hurry! - [Operator] Okay,
don't get near it.
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- [Witness] It's bloody. It's got the arm over its face. I'm afraid to get near it.
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I can't tell if it's
fake or what, man. - [Operator] Can you tell
if it's male or a female
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or anything like that? - [Witness] It's a female. I don't think this
person's alive.
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[sombre tense music] - The information that
we got on the call was an individual that saw
what they believed to be a body
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laying probably about
50 feet off the road. We immediately dispatched
officers out to that area
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to find out what was going on. - Working in the
prosecutor's office, we would frequently
hear about offences
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or homicides that
had took place. I found out pretty quickly
after a body had been found.
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There was no identifying
information, her purse was gone, no cell phone,
anything like that.
00:11:30
So the Grove City
Police Department had to coordinate locally and see if there were any
reports of missing people.
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- We had confirmation
from our patrol officers who arrived on the scene,
that it was a human being.
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- [Officer] But there
is possibly a body. It's gonna be, he said possibly
a female who was bloody
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with an arm over the face. - I was one of the
first investigators
to approach the body,
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and you could see that it was
a young female in her 20s. She didn't have any clothes
on, she was wearing a necklace,
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and she had an apparent gun
wound to the back of her head. Since she didn't
have any clothes on,
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we were looking for
identification, purse, or anything along
the lines of that. The entrance to the park,
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there was a few houses
out around there. We started go out there
and scour the area
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and talk to witnesses and
see if they heard anything, if they saw anything. And no one had.
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- I was in the newsroom when I heard that there
had been a body found at Scioto Grove Metro Park.
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And I remember, at this point, I knew there was
a missing student. As a reporter, your main
goal is to report true
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and accurate information. So as much as your
mind might want to say, "Hey, I know there's a
missing Ohio State student.
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"I know right now there's a
young woman who has been found," you cannot in any
way, tell people that.
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Of course, it comes to mind, but you can't really
assume anything. - We started searching databases
to try to get an identity
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on who the victim may be. [light tense music] We got a phone call
from some females
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in the campus area of
Ohio State University, along with the Short North
area, of a friend of theirs
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that matched the description
of the victim that was missing and they haven't seen
or heard of from her
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for over 24 hours. We showed the
friends the necklace and the tattoo that we
had taken photographs of.
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They looked at both of those
and they were able to say, "Yes, that's a matching
tattoo that Reagan had,
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"and that's a necklace that
she would've been wearing." Once we had a pretty good
idea that it was Reagan,
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we still needed to make
the 100% identification from a family or a
friend of Reagan.
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So we had to reach out to
the family and let them know. - I got this phone call,
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and this guy asked
me if I was by myself or if Toby was with me, and I'm like, "No,
Toby is here with me."
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And then he just proceeded to tell me that a body of a young woman had been found
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that morning in Scioto Grove Metro Park. They were fairly certain
that it was Reagan.
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[gentle sombre music] and there's nothing
in this world that would ever prepare a parent
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to get a phone call like that. And I can remember
standing there, saying, "You have to be
mistaken. It can't be it."
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You know, "It's not her." - People around Ohio State
were rightfully scared, and this could have been
any Ohio State student.
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So, people were
rightfully upset. People were scared. People were wondering, "Do we
have a killer on the loose?"
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And they did. [light tense music] The day she was found, we
did not find out from police
00:15:20
on that day that
this was Reagan. They told the family,
they told friends, but police did not
publicly put that out there
00:15:25
until the next day. - Looking back on it, I
mean, a lot of it is a blur. I can remember this
information was out there
00:15:36
and the media had
started to pick up on it. We knew we needed
to get to Makenzie
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because she had put
it out on social media that her sister was missing and was asking for
help and all of that,
00:15:49
and we did not want her hearing
this from anybody but us. And so we got into the car
00:15:57
and we drove up to
where she worked. And she took one
look at Toby and I, and immediately knew
00:16:06
something was horribly,
horribly wrong. - I instantly knew
what had happened. Just from the looks
of their faces,
00:16:15
I knew that she wasn't found
alive, she had been found dead. The look on their faces
00:16:22
was, it's not like she
had been in a car accident and something like
that happened,
00:16:28
it was complete and
utter devastation. - I just kept hoping and
praying that it was a mistake.
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And my brother
actually was in route to go to the morgue to
identify her because,
00:16:48
obviously, we were in Florida. And I just kept praying
he was gonna get there and he was gonna call me
and say, "No, it's not her."
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But that's not the call
that we got. [sniffles] - One of the worst things
I've ever did as a journalist,
00:17:06
as far as the
impact it had on me, is I went to Reagan's
apartment, knocked on the door,
00:17:11
her roommates opened the door,
just clearly in hysterics. At that point, it
was pretty clear
00:17:16
that, while police
hadn't told us yet, this was Reagan
who had been found. We didn't have anything
00:17:21
until maybe 10, 15 minutes
before the 11 o'clock news that we could report as fact
and know that it was Reagan.
00:17:33
- We went from looking for her and thinking that she
was out there alive, or had been in an accident
and couldn't get ahold of us,
00:17:42
or that even maybe she was
being held hostage somewhere. I don't think our mind
ever went straight to
00:17:49
that she was not going
to be found alive. So when we did hear that
and hear those words,
00:17:57
I think we all just went into
a state of complete shock. - It literally feels like
00:18:05
somebody has sucked all
the air out of your lungs and kicked you in the
stomach at the same time.
00:18:17
And we knew, at this point, that the person they
thought was Reagan, at that point, had been shot.
00:18:31
[sparse tense music] - When the police
discovered Reagan's body, they were initially unaware
of what happened to her.
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But the autopsy revealed that she had two bullet wounds
in the back of her head,
00:18:44
one of which was
fired at close range. - We believed that it was going
to be a murder investigation
00:18:53
because there was
no weapon around for this to be self-inflicted. We didn't know if
this was going to be
00:18:57
a domestic-related issue, if the killer would've known
the victim at the time, or exactly what we
had on our hands
00:19:03
at that particular moment. [tense uneasy music] The first 24 hours of a
homicide investigation
00:19:13
is very important because
you need to track down as many leads as you
possibly can find
00:19:17
and so that we can quickly
try to recover any evidence and get the case resolved.
00:19:24
- There were some aspects
of the way that Reagan died and what happened in her
last moments that suggest
00:19:30
this killer really wanted to
demean her in her last moments. She was forced to undress
and was found laying naked.
00:19:38
This is, of course, very
upsetting for the family, but you can imagine for Reagan,
she was trying to comply,
00:19:44
hoping that it may save
her life, but it didn't. - The police, by gathering
that surveillance footage
00:19:55
from the Bodega Bar, they were
able to determine what time she had last been seen alive,
00:20:00
and then kind of work
their way from there to see had anybody else seen her or had contact with her
within her inner circles
00:20:07
or anybody that knew who she was once she walked out
of the bar that night. - This is a video of Reagan
leaving the bar that evening.
00:20:16
That's her saying
goodbye to the bartender. And as she walks out the door, we're watching this to
see if anyone follows her.
00:20:22
She walks down the street over to where she
normally parks her car at. - Young women are told
over and over growing up,
00:20:33
"Be careful when you're
walking in parking lots. "Be careful when
you're out alone."
00:20:36
And so, to have it
actually happen to somebody is just unfathomable. [gentle sombre music]
00:20:43
- They had asked for
her cell phone records. And then we had talked
about her vehicle,
00:20:52
and we reported it
missing and stolen. They eventually, were
able to find her vehicle,
00:21:02
and it was through a licence
plate reader on a trash truck that was driving down the
street and it pinged it.
00:21:11
[tense thoughtful music] - One of the biggest leads
that they were following up in,
00:21:18
in that kind of first 24
to 36 hours, was her car, which had been located in an area that it
should not have been.
00:21:28
- I can remember one of the
questions of them asking me was, "Did she smoke?" My reaction was like,
"Absolutely not."
00:21:35
I'm like, "No, she did not
smoke. I know that for a fact." And then, one of the other
things that they had called
00:21:42
and asked us about was,
"Was there any reason "she would've had a gas can
in the back of her trunk?"
00:21:51
And again, my reaction, I
can remember being like, "No. "She wasn't stupid." Like, "Why would she drive
around with a gas can?
00:21:59
"That's dangerous." - Once the vehicle was located,
an investigator arrived and started looking in
through the windows.
00:22:10
He was able to see that in
the front seat of the vehicle looked like it had
burn marks on it.
00:22:18
- They noticed two
very important things. Number one was a gas can. In the car, it looked
like the killer
00:22:23
had maybe tried to douse the
car in gas and set it on fire, ultimately unsuccessful.
00:22:29
That would've been something
that might have gotten rid of any kind of DNA
or other evidence.
00:22:33
The police were also able to
locate some cigarette butts, both inside the car and
right outside the car.
00:22:40
The cigarette butts outside
the car looked fresh. [tense suspenseful music] - They knew that whoever
had driven that car,
00:22:47
whoever had left that
stuff in the car, I believe, police would tell
you they knew right then
00:22:50
that was their key to figuring
out who was responsible. - So, at this point,
we're probably 24,
00:22:57
26 hours into the investigation,
and we haven't slept. So, our sergeant sent us home
00:23:05
while the crime lab was trying to extract DNA
from the cigarette butt. And within an hour
of being home,
00:23:13
we got a phone call
from our sergeant saying that the lab made
a positive identification
00:23:18
on the cigarette butt that
was inside the vehicle. [uneasy pulsing music]
[image crackling]
00:23:22
I immediately recognised
the suspect as Brian Golsby. He was an individual that we
prosecuted a few years ago,
00:23:29
prior to this incident, for
rape and kidnapping as well. [tense thoughtful music]
00:23:36
- Reagan Tokes didn't
know Brian Golsby at all. They had never crossed paths,
they had never interacted.
00:23:42
He was a complete and
total stranger to her. - Once we had, Brian identified
as a person of interest,
00:23:49
we issued an arrest warrant. [gentle pensive music] The officer showed up,
they identified Brian,
00:23:58
and immediately brought him to the Grove City Police
Department to be interviewed.
00:24:04
[tense ominous music] - [Officer] Watch your head. Put your belt on real quick. [seatbelt clicking]
00:24:30
- When we found out
he was arrested, I think, there's a
big sense of relief that someone got caught.
00:24:36
And then it's almost
immediately like, "Why?" Like, "Why would someone do
this to an innocent girl?"
00:24:41
There was no connection
between the two. - [Brian] So, I don't get
to know what's going on?
00:24:47
- [Officer] You'll
be able to talk to Detective Deskins
here soon enough. - Brian Golsby was not
a Grove City local.
00:24:55
And he was not known
to Grove City Police, but he was certainly known to the Columbus
Police Department,
00:25:01
as well as the
Ohio prison system. Brian Golsby had been
released from prison not too long before
this offence.
00:25:10
He had committed a
very similar offence against another woman where
he had sexually assaulted her,
00:25:17
held her against her will. But in that instance, he let
her live, he let her get away.
00:25:22
She reported it, and he ended up going to
prison for several years. - There was a woman that
he held at knife point
00:25:33
and raped in front of her child. A plea deal was given to him and he had reduced
sentencing time
00:25:43
that he shouldn't have had. And had this
ridiculous situation not happened with
his prior sentencing,
00:25:50
he would never have been
on the street that night and should have never crossed
paths with my daughter,
00:25:55
and she would still
be here with us. [gentle thoughtful music] [light tense music]
00:26:03
- Knowing that he only
did six years in prison for his previous crimes
was very disheartening.
00:26:10
Very disappointing
to not only me but the other investigators or officers that had
worked on that case.
00:26:18
- He was staying kind of, I believe, we refer to
them as halfway houses for people who had been out
of jail but still were kind of
00:26:25
working their way back
into normal society. And that's where he had
been staying at the time,
00:26:29
and they found Reagan's
car nearby them. So he was still
fresh outta jail. - So, I take it I still won't
be able to get no cigarette?
00:26:37
- Detective Deskins
will be in here, and I don't know if he's
going to offer you one or not,
00:26:40
to be honest with you. I don't have any on me. - Once Brian was arrested and being brought to the back
to the police department,
00:26:48
I knew that we had
to formulate a plan. I knew that I had to have
someone else in the room with me
00:26:52
so that we could
effectively interview Brian. I also knew that we
couldn't just go in there
00:26:57
with nothing in our hands. So some of the strategy was to, since we knew where Reagan was
parked at, to go onto Google
00:27:05
and print off photographs
of the Street View area, just so he wouldn't know where
those photographs came from.
00:27:11
He wouldn't know if it
was surveillance video or what type of
photographs we had.
00:27:18
- You keep talking about
me killing somebody, man. me shooting somebody. But you're still
telling me you're...
00:27:23
You're trying to get me admit
to something I didn't do. I honestly don't understand.
00:27:28
- Well, this is
what's gonna happen. During the interview, Brian did admit to the kidnapping part of Reagan.
00:27:36
He admitted to making
Reagan drive him around to different locations and getting money out of an ATM.
00:27:49
He also admitted to raping her during one of the cigarette
breaks that we had. However, he would not admit
00:27:58
to him being the
one that shot her. - He said that he had run
into an old friend named TJ
00:28:07
and that TJ was the person that had actually pulled the
trigger and killed Reagan.
00:28:12
- He said that once
they got to the park, he's the one that exited
the vehicle with Reagan,
00:28:17
made her take all
of her clothes off, and as she was walking
away, TJ pulled the gun up
00:28:23
and shot her back of the head, and then advanced on her again and shot her again on
the side of the head.
00:28:29
[gun blasting] We, at no time, believed
that TJ existed, it was just a way for
Brian to tell us the story
00:28:39
by diverting the actual
murder away from him and onto someone else. - I think it became clear to him
00:28:47
that the police had evidence, and so he had to
sort of scramble, and develop this fictional TJ
00:28:54
that had committed the offence. - [Officer] She walks
out in the grass? - Yes. - [Officer] It's kind
of down the hill?
00:29:00
- I said, "Stop." - [Officer] And you said stop? And then you go down- - No, no. I said, "Don't
move for 30 minutes."
00:29:06
- [Officer] What'd you say that? - She said, "All I
wanna do is live. "I got you, I got
you, I got you."
00:29:09
[tense thoughtful music] - It was very important
throughout this
interview process
00:29:13
for us to find
the murder weapon. After about an hour and
a half of talking to him
00:29:20
specifically about the
location of this weapon, he finally told me, "All right, I'll tell
you where the weapon's at
00:29:26
"if you could give me
a couple hamburgers." As soon as Brian started
eating one of the hamburgers,
00:29:32
he said that he threw it
in the storm sewer grate and gave me the location
of where it was at.
00:29:38
- One of the other detectives that was interviewing
Brian Goldsby had built a rapport with him.
00:29:42
And when they left
the interview room, to go into another part
of the police station
00:29:46
to have a cigarette,
something like that, at that time, Brian
Golsby admitted that he had killed Reagan.
00:29:52
I don't think he ever
acknowledged there was no TJ in the interview with
Detective Forney.
00:30:00
- He says, "Walk until
I tell you to stop." She walks, she's naked. She walks, he tells her to stop.
00:30:11
He gets behind her. At first, I heard a "click,
click." Nothing happened. So I'm thinking the gun
that he gave me was fake.
00:30:18
- Mm-hmm.
- And then he goes, "Pow!" She falls. She's laying on the ground. I'm looking on the car,
00:30:29
and he bends down
and shoots her again. "Pow!" [tense suspenseful music] - During the interview,
we realised that Brian
00:30:41
had an ankle bracelet
attached to his ankle from the conditions
of his parole. At the time, we did not know
that it was GPS-enabled,
00:30:49
that he was being
tracked continuously. - He's a registered
tier-three sex offender,
00:30:55
which means he's committed
sexual crimes in the past. We know that. He's got
this GPS monitor on.
00:31:01
It's tracking him, but they're not actively
watching what he's doing, as I think a lot of
people assume they would.
00:31:08
- What it revealed was, at the moment that
he kidnapped Reagan, the GPS also had a speed,
his speed that he was walking
00:31:16
and/or riding or
driving a vehicle. And you could see
where the speed went from two to three miles
per hour of him walking
00:31:23
to, all of a sudden,
now he's going 25, 35, 40 miles an hour. - GPS coordinates put
him at every single place
00:31:31
that Reagan had been. Everything was lining up with where his ankle
monitor had gone.
00:31:38
- So Brian took a bus
from his halfway house where he was staying
at, to this area.
00:31:43
He got off the bus couple
blocks down the road, and he just started walking
aimlessly around the city,
00:31:50
just waiting to try to find
someone to take advantage of. And when Reagan was
walking down this street
00:31:57
that presented that
situation for him, and this is where he
intercepted her at, down here at her car.
00:32:04
[tense dramatic music] And we knew, at that point,
that he was in Reagan's car. It matched up the timeline
with Reagan leaving the bar.
00:32:13
- At one point, he
had Reagan Tokes drive from her place of work, Bodega, throughout some of the
Downtown Columbus area.
00:32:22
He had her stop at several ATMs. - Reagan would've been
terrified, at this point,
00:32:27
having a stranger in
her car with a gun, not knowing what
was going to happen, where she was going to go,
00:32:34
and him telling her to
turn at different points during her drive. So, one of Brian's goals for
the night was to rob Reagan.
00:32:45
So he forced her to
drive to the first bank and withdraw some money. They're unsuccessful.
00:32:52
Drove to another bank
and tried another card, again, they were unsuccessful. - The car was stopped
for a period of time
00:32:59
in the German Village area, which is right on the
outskirts of Downtown Columbus.
00:33:09
- German Village is
a nice part of town, but it's also has its
criminal element to it.
00:33:14
And they parked in
this location here, probably up against
one of these buildings.
00:33:18
So he forced her to
remove her clothing. I'm sure Reagan was absolutely
in shock and terrified
00:33:27
and unable to do much because
he had the gun pointed at her while he raped her. - I think that was one of the
hardest things for me to view,
00:33:36
that piece of evidence, and that particular part
of the GPS evidence, because I could see how
maybe she had some hope
00:33:43
that he was gonna let her go. - So once they
leave this location where Brian has raped her,
00:33:49
now they drive to back to the
first bank, the Chase bank, and go through the
ATM machine again.
00:33:57
And Reagan is successful in withdrawing $60
from her account. The only other video that
we had of Reagan and Brian
00:34:08
was at the gas station where
they put gas into Reagan's car. [tense ominous music]
00:34:17
- I think as we started to
get all of those details, it just made you so angry to hear that how long she
had been kidnapped for.
00:34:27
It went on for hours. To think that she was
marched out to a field and killed like an execution,
00:34:36
just you can't even comprehend what she must have
been thinking. Other than what we do know
her last words were was,
00:34:45
"I just want to live." And that's really
all she wanted. She wanted to be
able to come home
00:34:51
and get to see her family again. [light gentle music] - [Lisa] And look,
do you remember that?
00:35:06
- [Makenzie] Oh, had
her little jacket. - I know, with her
little jacket on. And you still had
your braces on there.
00:35:12
But, remember, we sent that
to Dad for Valentine's Day. That was the picture we took
00:35:16
and we made him a Valentine.
- What a look! [both laughing] Reagan was a very
kind-hearted person.
00:35:25
Her friends would always say that she had a song
for everything. So she was making a bagel,
00:35:30
she'd sing a song about the
bagel she was gonna eat. Or she just was constantly
talking or having chatter
00:35:37
or wanting to have a good time. - It was unbelievable
the amount of people that attended her funeral
00:35:47
[gentle sombre music] and came to not only honour her but to support us as well.
00:36:00
- Her funeral was held
on Valentine's Day. My mom and I always said
we were so sore after
00:36:08
from so many hugs that
we had given to people. - I can remember, at
her funeral, a young
lady talked to me
00:36:17
about how she was a
classmate of Reagan's, and she was going through
a terrible family situation
00:36:24
at the time that she
came to the school. And Reagan was the one
person that was very kind
00:36:29
and welcoming to her in, and invited her to
sit with her at lunch and became her friend, and
introduced her to other people.
00:36:39
And she literally ended up only
being there for like a week because of what was
going on in her family.
00:36:44
She's like, "But I went
through the rest of my life "saying, 'Reagan
Tokes was my friend.'"
00:36:50
So that's the kind
of person she was. [light tense music] It was a year before this
actually went to trial.
00:37:09
To sit in the same room with
her killer was horrible. But I went into that
trial resigned with
the thought process
00:37:17
that I knew justice would
serve itself appropriately for Reagan, and that we
would accept the outcome.
00:37:29
- Brian Golsby did stand up and apologise for
what he had done and admitted that there
was no mysterious TJ.
00:37:38
There was no other person that
had committed the offence. But he still was very subdued.
00:37:42
I think that was hard
for some people to take as a genuine
expression of remorse.
00:37:47
[tense suspenseful music] - It was a really long trial and my parents had
gone to all of the days
00:37:58
leading up to the
final sentencing day, and I had come in to
attend the sentencing.
00:38:06
There were times where
we would leave the room when they were talking about
something in great detail
00:38:11
or showing any sort of
images from the crime scene. - Brian was very well
coached in court.
00:38:19
He would just sit there and do what his
attorneys told him to do because he knew that the
evidence that we had against him
00:38:27
was pretty substantial and that he was looking
at the death penalty. So he was trying to do
everything that he could
00:38:34
to avoid the death penalty. - Brian Golsby's defence team
brought up his upbringing
00:38:40
because we were seeking
the death penalty. I don't know that I
agree with all of it
00:38:45
because there's a lot of people that face adversity
in their childhood and do not end up committing
offences like Brian Golsby did.
00:38:51
But in this particular instance, I think it resonated
with the jury. - We were sent home, and
we were worried just that
00:39:04
maybe it wouldn't
finish up in that day. But we ended up
getting a phone call that we needed to be back
there almost immediately.
00:39:11
- The jury thought that
based upon the evidence that his defence team presented,
00:39:16
that a sentence of life without
parole in the prison system was the best result.
00:39:21
[tense ominous music] - Even though the
evidence was so clear that this was the right person,
00:39:31
there's still a
fear in your mind, and so I think when we all heard that he was guilty
on all counts, was
very relieving for us
00:39:39
because we knew we had done
and the police had done and our counsel had done
what they said they would do,
00:39:46
and that was to get
justice for Reagan and the verdict fell
on her 23rd birthday.
00:39:54
- My personal impression
of Brian was that he didn't care that he took
the life of an innocent victim.
00:40:01
He was very self-centered and could care less about
anyone else on this planet. And if he wouldn't
have been caught,
00:40:10
he probably most likely
would've done this again. - To know that he will
have to sit there forever
00:40:17
is a really good feeling to know that he would never be able
to harm somebody again.
00:40:22
I hope he's haunted every
day for what he's done. I hope he has hell on Earth and then he will have
hell in the afterlife.
00:40:32
- Does it bring
my daughter back? Does it give me
complete peace and calm? Do I feel complete
justice over it?
00:40:40
No, I don't. I don't. And I would be a liar if I
wasn't not honest about that. - Seeing my parents go through
this, it 100% broke them.
00:40:56
And with my mom,
I think, for her, she has to be doing something, and so that's how the
foundation came about
00:41:05
and just really wanting
to find justice for Reagan and do good by her. [camera shutter clicks]
00:41:12
- After Reagan was murdered, her parents almost immediately
jumped into action. I've never seen
anything like it.
00:41:18
It was immediate from them. They wanted to make change. They wanted to make
sure that no one else
00:41:22
had to endure what
they had to endure. - The Reagan Tokes
Act is something that her parents
really championed.
00:41:30
Brian Golsby had been
released from prison and was on supervision, and the Reagan Tokes
Act allows judges
00:41:37
to give what we call an
indeterminate sentence. - The first part of
the Reagan Tokes Act
00:41:43
is actually now in law
in the state of Ohio. The second half deals
with the ankle monitoring
00:41:50
and the monitoring in real-time, with consequences
for that as well. Because, I'm sorry, there
is no price that I would put
00:42:02
that would be too high or too valuable on
my daughter's life. Evil does not get to have
the last word in this.
00:42:14
[camera shutter clicks]
[light gentle music] - It scared me to lose her and to lose the identity
of having an older sister
00:42:23
that I knew was always
looking out for me. 100% robs you of any
childhood I had left.
00:42:32
Reagan and I always had
a back-and-forth banter of who would be the
first to get married,
00:42:40
who would be the first
to have children. And the other difficult thing is I met my husband in college,
00:42:48
and so, of course, he's
never gotten to meet Reagan. On the wedding day, we honoured
her in a few different ways.
00:42:59
I had a chair saved in the front row of
the chapel for Reagan. And I had asked my florist
00:43:05
if they could incorporate
her favourite flower, which was an orchid. And I asked my mom to
bring a photo of her
00:43:12
so that it could be kind of
like we saved a seat for her. - It's really quite remarkable
what Reagan's legacy
00:43:20
through the Reagan Delaney
Tokes Memorial Foundation has been able to accomplish.
00:43:25
And we've raised a
considerable amount of money and awarded upwards of
$400,000 of scholarships,
00:43:35
at this point, to
well-deserving students. - The community definitely
still remembers Reagan
00:43:41
and what happened to her. The park where her body was
found now has a memorial, with a swing, lots of
great flowers and plants.
00:43:50
I think that the Tokes
are remarkable people, that they have
taken this tragedy and really tried to make
change as a result of it.
00:44:02
- I would love Reagan to be
remembered for the kind, loving, generous, bright light
spirit that she was.
00:44:12
She was a good friend. She loved her family. She loved the Lord,
she had her faith.
00:44:20
She went out into the world
and she did good things. - It's a very strange
concept to think of
00:44:28
that she will no longer
be a part of our present and future experiences
through life.
00:44:35
But we know that she's
looking down on us and she's watching
everything that we do.
00:44:41
[camera shutter clicks] I think she would be really
proud to know that we've created
00:44:47
the legacy in her honor so that she can
continue on with us. [tense thoughtful music]