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Monday morning in a residential Community located in Franklin Township a panic crazed young woman clothed only in
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an ill-fitting blue bathrobe with her head shaved and handcuffs dangling from her left wrist was pounding on the door
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of a home located in Melody village now to be clear Captain this Franklin Township that we are talking about is
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located along the Cuyahoga River and North East Ohio the homeowner opened the door trying to comfort the traumatized
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woman asking what was wrong to which the woman responded called the police call the police between lapses into
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hysterical sobbing that staggered even hard-bitten police officers she said to police that she had been abducted at
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gunpoint around 10 15 PM the night before in a Mahoning County filling station while she was working a shift
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alone she went on to tell police that she was handcuffed and forced to lay down in a
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van and she could not see where her abductor was taking her after traveling what seemed like a good amount of
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distance she felt the van turn into a driveway and heard a garage door open she could tell that the van had pulled
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into a garage then she heard the door activated once again this time closing behind the van she was now trapped her
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abductor ordered her out of the van and threw a door the garage was attached to a home as terrified as she was she could
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not help but to notice how normal the place looked in fact the home was extremely neat and tidy once inside the
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man quickly started in with the name calling and degrading this woman and threatening her with pain and death she
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was maliciously instructed to undress he handcuffed her to a weight bench during the next approximate nine hours
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he raped and forced her to perform a series of sex acts during the course of which she was tortured with electrical
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shock torture her head was shaved a plastic bag was placed over her head and taped around the neck until she passed
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out she was punched in her stomach and chest area and beaten with a belt until she bled then after the hours of Torment
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she was handcuffed and tied Face Down on a Bed her captor after threatening his prisoner told her he was leaving for
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work and he would return in about three hours within minutes she was able to escape
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the home running out the front door into the streets of this quiet neighborhood eventually arriving on the doorstep of a
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neighboring house across the street where someone answered the door and the police were called yeah could I imagine
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what's going through her head at that time and also couldn't imagine what was going through the neighbor's head when
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this lady comes upon your your front door yeah the call came in around 8 30 a.m the distress call and at 11 A.M this
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guy Robert Bob Buell returned to his three-bedroom slab house where he was of course greeted by police and quickly
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hand they should have just punched him right in the dick and then cuffed him Bob Buell was the home owner and of
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course this woman is going to be able to identify him as her abductor attacker torture the list goes on and on this
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obviously Captain will be an open and shut case police had the woman's story they had blood and marks to prove it and
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police were going through the home when Robert Buell returned home at 11 A.M you
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got him they found the weight bench they found ligatures some still tied to bed post they found the man's gun that the
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victim said was used in the abduction they also found weapons and torture devices one of which is described as
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electrical cord or extension cord basically cut in half with wires fully exposed on one end in the other end
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fully intact so you could still plug it into the wall electrical outlet this guy's an animal scumbag
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piece of [ __ ] as said this was an open and shut case but based off of the atrocities carried out by Bob Buell
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now the question is what is this guy capable of fully capable of and has he done anything more
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that we should be aware of so when they're tearing through his house building their case against him for this
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woman who thankfully she got out of there she managed to escape this house of horrors
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they're starting to find things there at his home that they're going wait a second
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this is matching up with some of the physical evidence that we found at the Christa Harmon body disposal site right
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remember they had a lot of physical evidence a lot of items that were found near her body they found a cardboard
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boxes a plastic for a lack of better word plastic trash bag they found some clothing items and this is very
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interesting to them because now they think they know what this monster is capable of but what else has this guy
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done yeah I mean the the abduction is sophisticated the the ways in which he tortured this victim
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you could say it's sophisticated it's not doesn't seem like this is his first time that's right going off of the
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witness statement off of the victim statements it seems like one of two things either this guy's done this
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before because he seems very precise and deliberate with his commands and his demands with his victim that either this
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guy's done this before or this was incredibly well rehearsed to the point where everything was going according to
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his plan so who is this guy Robert Anthony Buell Robert Anthony Buell was born September 10 1940 in Norwood Ohio
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he grew up a Skinny kid and his parents called him Butchy at home better than douche he was the first of two children
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born to a family that was described as destined to disintegrate he attended Williams Avenue Elementary School in
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Norwood this was a working class suburb of Cincinnati his mother was a waitress she would tell her children that their
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father was no good that he drank all the family's money away like the colonel so
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this soon would lead to the separation of Robert's parents custody of the children was awarded to
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the mother shortly after the divorce the children were put into boarding school in 1959 Robert graduated from Norwood
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High School in October of 61 he enlisted in the U.S Navy where he became an Electronics technician when he left
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Cincinnati Robert seemed to have slammed the door on his past especially on his family in 1962 he gets married and in
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1965 he and his wife welcomed into this world Robert's only child this is a daughter that same year he is honorably
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discharged from the U.S Navy Robert Bob Buell enrolls at the University of Akron
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taking night classes in 1968 Bob moves into the quiet residential community of Melody Village in Summit County Ohio
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so this case when our victim breaks free and escapes his home this takes place way back in 1983 right but Robert Buell
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had moved into this home in 1968 so like you pointed out you couldn't imagine what's going through her head and and
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all the horrible things she's been put through but the neighbors as well because this is a guy that was known in
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the community yeah I mean anybody that lives in lived there for 15 years right he's a he's a fixture in that Community
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Bob then works as a loan officer for sentrain Bank centran bank in Akron Ohio now in 1975 Bob Ewell takes a job
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working as a loan and Grant specialist this is a job change for him but alone and Grant specialists in the Akron
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planning Department's rehabilitation program so he takes this job in 1975 captain and he's still working there in
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83 when this woman manages to escape from his home that's the job he was going off to and it looks like he was
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going to return to his prisoner on his lunch break I'm guessing where he's then greeted by police yeah but so I'm
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guessing at this point he's not married yeah they separate him and there's no child living at that location well they
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separated and this is it seems to be there there was probably some other things going on but in August of 1978
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you think Buell was arrested in Uniontown for public indecency now for this he simply pays a small fine and
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less than two years later record of this conviction is expunged in September of a
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80 Bob and his wife of 18 years according to what I could find say that they mutually decided to call it quits
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and that's when they got their divorce in August of 81 we're going to go through some some things that Bob might
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be suspected of things that were going on in the area yeah so in August of 81 a stranger fondles a 13 year old
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Doylestown girl in the basement of her home and I have very little details about this alleged crime here
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but she would later identify this quote-unquote stranger as Bob Buell she identifies him picks him out of a
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photograph I'm I'm uncertain what this stranger was doing at the home I don't know if there was but Bob was doing a
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large party going on uh and it happened to be someone she didn't know it it's all a little bit weird without having
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the details here in this case but what is interesting is afterward after this poor girl was fondled in the basement
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someone starts placing Anonymous phone calls to the home of the 13 year old victim right it's a male caller that's
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asking for the little girl by name that's sicko now it's just two months later when Tina Harmon disappeared and
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was killed in late March of the following year in 1982 an Akron woman is abducted at knife point from a local
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mall she is robbed and sexually assaulted by the attacker she reports the attack to
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police but she's unable to identify the assailant less than four months later in
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mid-july Krista Harrison who we talked about last week is abducted and killed then September 30th
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1982 a 26 year old Barberton woman is abducted at gunpoint outside of a Local Tavern the attacker did little to hide
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his identity he forced her to walk with him into a nearby Field this is you know
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off into the distance into the darkness where she was beaten and sexually assaulted now just like our Akron victim
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she reports the attack to the local authorities and although the assailant did nothing to hide his face she was
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only able to provide a description of the unknown man that vague description as Vegas it is will be similar but not
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spot on to a suspect composite sketch that we saw stemming from the Krista Harrison murder investigation yeah I
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mean if you put Robert up to these these sketches yes they look similar but anybody with like average
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length hair with a mustache white and skinny is going to fit that that that sketch yeah so my thoughts on the sketch
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here and and this is where my mind jumped to immediately when Bob is picked up for abducting this woman she escapes
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from his home when police show up there that one now they know what this guy is up to I mean these are horrible horrible
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crimes yeah piece of [ __ ] okay this this is beyond just abduction and rape this
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is this is a whole nother horrible level here right and police we said that they
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found some items that were seem to be matching up as far as physical evidence goes to the Krista Harrison murder case
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but I think and you're right I mean these composite sketches are there they are vague because it's just a very brief
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encounter that the witness had with with Krista Harrison's abductor right but I mean he looks it looks to me like
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somebody sat down looking at Robert Buell and drew a picture of him that's that's how close I think the uh the
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composite sketches are to him now it helps him to go undetected that he lives a distance away from where these other
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crimes went down right now just before the spring season of the following year so now we are at uh the first of March
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1983. well and hold on there for a second too because I also think his occupation plays into this a little bit
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and we kind of talked about this in the previous case of the of the disheveled guys the the farm hands that get accused
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of a crime and you go well they kind of fit that profile if he's a loan officer he's shown up every day to work probably
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in a suit and tie so that I think along with um his house and the neighborhood in
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which he lives and I just got a notification that you sent me a picture um you know his occupation the place
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where he lives the neighborhood and then the and the condition of the house in which he kept it we really is All By
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Design to throw people off any kind of scent that this guy is an animal well on the first of March in 1983 a
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male driver of a dark-colored van approached two young girls ages 13 and 12 and Lodi Ohio some people say Lodi
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some people say Lodi he pulls a gun and threatens both of them and attempts to abduct them right then and there the
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girls immediately scream at the sight of the gun and they flee the attacker so this guy was unable to control the
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situation unable to control his targets and with the risk of being spotted by somebody else the would-be abductor
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returns to his van and speeds away into the night now we've talked about this van before you we believe it's uh like a
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dark red or a maroon color tendon windows and has the circle windows in the back well we have a few
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different descriptions based off of witness statements that they believe either a it's often referred to as a
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dark colored van right because what we have here is different Witnesses throw a different color
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name you know they might one witness might say purple one might say brown one might say a dark maroon color right but
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what is agreed upon is that it was a dark full-size van that that was in question for the Krista Harrison case
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well not to step on your toes but does Robert have a van matching this description uh he does and that's where
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things get a little wonky that's going to be ultimately his downfall is this van
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this van is very much involved in a lot of these cases be it either he uses it to abduct someone or
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as we're later going to suspect maybe he's using it to transport a body at some point as well now what's weird
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though is with the Krista Harrison case we have a witness who says that they thought they spotted a man
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fleeing the area of the dump site that morning and he described a man but the man was driving a car not a van where
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we're at in the timeline captain we're at the early part of 1983. before we move on too far I do want to point out
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this whole time since August of 1981 remember the Anonymous phone calls the these
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continued periodically off and on to the home of that 13 year old Doylestown victim yeah calls from the creepo now on
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the 8th of March 1983 one of the phone calls is then traced to the melody Village residence of Bob Buell got him
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on May 10 1983 in a back alley in the Tiny Town of jeromesville Ohio this is located in the sticks of Ashland County
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a man approached a little girl the encounter starts with a question followed by you know everyday
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pleasantries but ends with him attempting to pull her into his vehicle thankfully the girl gets away and after
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telling her parents this incident is reported to the authorities where the child
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is able to offer a brief description of the vehicle the vehicle is described as a two-door Sub-Compact car which turned
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out to be a Ford Pinto now the very astute and aware child was able to provide authorities with a license plate
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number for the guy that tried to abduct her authorities find that the vehicle in
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question is registered to Bob buell's ex-wife so in the coming weeks detectives will go to the home or I'm
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sorry buell's ex-wife's home to ask about the Ford Pinto this is where this guy is kind of getting lucky right I
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mean he's smart he's using resources to evade capture and detection really but the police
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what do they have to go on they have a license plate well they're going to go and talk to his ex-wife who does not
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live with him so that doesn't immediately put Bob Buell on the radar it is a little weird that these
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Anonymous one of the Anonymous phone calls is traced back to his home so he should be on someone's radar by
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this point right but the other tricky thing where he got lucky as well is remember we talked about the bag the
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plastic bag and the cardboard box that was found near Krista Harrison's body they were able to trace that back to to
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Sears to the department store and it was used to sell black car seats vehicle seats remember they traced that to about
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25-ish people that lived in northeastern Ohio police would do a check on these individuals however none of them owned a
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vehicle at the time of Krista Harrison's abduction that matched the vehicle that
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was described by the witnesses so Bob has this full-size van but it's it's distinctly different from the one
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that it that is believed to have been spotted by these Witnesses so another another case where this guy may have
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just got lucky somebody misremembered something or didn't remember something correctly when they gave the information
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to the police well and I wonder being a loan officer maybe he does auto loans and maybe he has some contacts with some
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local dealers maybe he's using somebody else's vehicle or or dealer's vehicles uh later that same month Captain a 29
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year old woman is abducted at gunpoint in East Liverpool Ohio she has held prisoner and tormented for what she says
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is three days in a small house that she believes is owned by her abductor on June 25th 1983 Deborah K Smith
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vanishes from a downtown Street Carnival in Massillon Ohio and sadly her lifeless body will be found a little
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more than a month afterward on Sunday October 16 1983 a 28 year old woman is abducted at a Damascus Ohio gasoline
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service station she is the one that was taken to a location that she believes could be the home of her abductor she's
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the one that escaped the following morning when her attacker leaves the home now later that day Bob Ewell
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returns to his home where he's greeted by local police the man of course is arrested identified as Robert Anthony
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Buell the owner of the home and over the course of the coming months Bob Buell wood admit to having committed the May
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83 Abduction of the East Liverpool Ohio woman and the October 83 Abduction of the Damascus woman so he's confronted
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with this stuff he's arrested for it and through their investigation they're going to get him to admit to abducting
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raping and torturing these two women but one thing that's incredibly different from some of these other cases that
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they're starting to wonder could he be connected to the one woman escaped The Other Woman
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was eventually let go bye by the captor right so on the last day of January 1984
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Bob Ewell at this time is 43 years old he's sentenced to 121 to 320 years in prison after pleading no
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contest to 16 felonies in connection with the two admitted abductions he would be eligible for parole after
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serving at least 58 years so he would have to live to be 101 years old to have his next possible day of freedom
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foreign [Music] [Music] all right cheers mates make sure you go to iTunes give us a five star review and
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and cheers to you Colonel cheers to you Captain starting on the day of BOB ewell's arrest in October of 83 local
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authorities including the FBI and detectives from several counties immediately began collecting evidence to
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build a case against Bob Buell for the abduction that we just talked about now what they're finding they're
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starting to link this to Krista Harrison's case with physical evidence and they're starting to build a case
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against Bob Buell for the abduction and murder of Krista Harrison but if you're law enforcement you have to be
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optimistic because yes you caught him red-handed basically with the one Abduction the other one you didn't catch
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them red-handed but he confessed to it so you have to be optimistic that if you have more evidence and you can lean on
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him more that he might confess to other crimes well and with these serial offenders with these serial killers and
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rapists usually what we end up talking about or the way that we are clued into who the the offender is
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is that there's a victim that manages to get away and we've seen that time and time again and in this case she gets
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away thankfully they start finding evidence inside his home that links him to the physical evidence found at the
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body dump site of Krista Harrison now we got all these different communities and
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different law enforcement agencies working together focusing in on Bob Bill and they start noticing that some of the
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physical evidence that Krista Harrison's dump site is similar to physical evidence that they found on Tina Harmon
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right and at the time this is this is just weird and bizarre but from 1980 to about 1983 there were roughly
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about a dozen abduction and murders of child female victims in the state of Ohio
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we know that Bob Buell was active for some of that time he had he pled no contest to two abductions rapes and
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tortures of these grown women and so now he's kind of linked through the media through some of the investigators and at
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least in the eyes of the public he might be responsible could he be responsible for all of these well yeah because one
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these are happening the Northeast part of Ohio we know he's from Cincinnati which would
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be the South West part so even if he doesn't have a bunch of contacts with his family he still might have friends
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in that area well that that gets him traveling through the whole state we know he's a loan officer so he's not
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traveling a bunch for his job with those connections he'd be traveling through the whole state of Ohio eventually
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investigators would decide that they have enough evidence against Bob Buell to charge him for the murder and
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Abduction of Krista Harrison and his trial was scheduled to start March 19 1984 and the trial would take place in
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the city of Cleveland it would take some time Captain but he is found to be guilty of Krista Leah Harrison's murder
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and for this he is sentenced to die by the state of Ohio time to die Bob you're talking about a guy who's already facing
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a minimum of 58 years all the way up to 300 years in prison for previous crimes and now I mean what what are you left to
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do with this guy he's already serving basically life in prison and now you've figured out oh he also abducted and
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killed a child so of course they sentence him to die Bob Buell would maintain that he was innocent
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from the time that they arrested him until the time that they eventually put him to death innocent of he admits yeah
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he admits to abducting and and traumatizing adult women but says that he had nothing to do with with Krista
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Harrison's case he had nothing to do with any of the child cases is what he claims and I mean
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he goes on to say uh look I claims that he's innocent he says there's no eyewitnesses and we'll come back to that
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or DNA evidence connecting him to the crime okay you have to keep in mind this is the
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early 80s right I don't know that we would expect to see conclusive DNA evidence connecting him to the crime at
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the time the no eyewitnesses this is an interesting statement and this is actually a true statement even though
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the composite sketch looks like Robert Buell these are the witnesses that saw the
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described man at the park right abduct Krista Harrison what we learn is he's able to say this
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definitively to to the public and in interviews and not be lying to us because apparently Roy remember he said
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goodbye Roy or see you later Roy or something to that effect when he abducted Krista Harrison right Roy
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couldn't pick Bob Buell out of a photo lineup that's odd so this is a weird situation it's all it's
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the reverse of the Tina Harmon wrongful convictions right the Tina Harmon wrongful convictions we had fake
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eyewitnesses so-called eyewitnesses that said that they uh somebody admitted the
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crime to them the murder to them and no physical evidence and they got a conviction which were eventually
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overturned but here in this case Captain we have a lot of physical evidence connecting Bob
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Buell to the murder of Krista Harrison but we can't get an eyewitness even though there were witnesses to the
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actual abduction yeah but I think and I'm just going to go out on a limb here you know we have a lot of times that
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these killers or these serial killers that we believe are responsible for I mean the age of the victims that he is
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admitting to kidnapping and torturing they're a little bit older of victims and so I oh I can confess to those but I
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can't confess to this crime against a child because we know that there is prison Justice most of the time for
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those individuals well not only that prison Justice or not they're sentencing him to die that's that his sentence is a
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death sentence right that's what I'm saying there's all these more motivating reasons uh to to lie about this
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but then you but then it makes you wonder and and just go with me on this for a little bit
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it makes you wonder if the the science or the studying of these individuals correct
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most of them have some kind of type of victim that they're looking for and we have him at least pinpointed on two
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victims and they're very similar is it possible that he was connected to any other individual
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that he would help uh you know I'll help uh abduct a kid and I'll give the kid to you if you help
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abduct you know a teenager and give them to me if that makes any sense an adult yeah yeah you but it would be
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um it would make sense on why they can't pick him out of the lineup because whoever uh abducted her might
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have not been her killer right I know that's a long shot possibly I mean it's also a good amount of time
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has gone by from the the very brief quick abduction that a juvenile Witness their statements and when Bob Buell is
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actually arrested what we do have too though Captain is we have an adult surviving victims two that we are 100
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aware of and neither of them describe anything other than Bob Buell is the man who abducted and tortured me I know it's
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the early 80s but did Bob have a computer in his house I I do not know I couldn't find anything in the the
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arrest record or the evidence collection that would tell me that he had a computer or not makes me wonder if he
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was a part of some kind of pedophilia ring or some kind of online Network where he'd be exchanging illegal
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pornography or child porn and then one piece of [ __ ] leads you to multiple pieces of [ __ ] well and I I get what
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people were saying because at the time people were like you know this man's saying that he's innocent yes he's a
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horrible horrible person no matter what because of the two crimes we know he did
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commit but he's saying he's innocent of the of this child murder I get what people were
00:37:04
thinking at the time that okay that's not his victimology but right we've been doing this for a little bit of time Ted
00:37:12
Bundy had both adult and child female victims Richard Ramirez had both adult and child
00:37:19
victims BTK BTK adult and child victims Joseph kondro adult and child victims I mean the the list goes on and on and on
00:37:29
Joseph kondro told John Douglas in an interview that he decided you know he one he absolutely had to be a pedophile
00:37:38
no doubt about it but he's not willing to admit that to John Douglas in the interviews he simply tells Douglas it
00:37:44
was easier to abduct female children than it was to abduct female adults one with uh Richard Ramirez I mean he had
00:37:52
victims I think as young as six all the way into the eight into their 80s so that's a huge range and sometimes
00:38:02
with these guys I mean he's he's a sexual sadist Robert Buell is and it may simply have been he was out trolling for
00:38:09
a victim and he happened to come across a 12 year old girl before he came across
00:38:16
a 25 year old woman to abduct he saw an opportunity and he took it you know he claims he was innocent but the
00:38:24
prosecutors argued that the evidence against him and Krista Harrison's case was overwhelming I found it to be very
00:38:32
uh substantial the case they were able to build against him they convicted him on fiber evidence this was fibers that
00:38:40
were found in multiple locations at the dump at the body dump site on on some of
00:38:46
the clothing as well of Krista Harrison and they're able to find these same fibers in his vehicle and in his home
00:38:54
they were able to match paint there was different colors of paint that were found on some of the clothing items
00:39:02
that were discarded near the victim as well and they were able to match paint on those clothing items to paint found
00:39:09
inside of his home right so what you're saying is no matter what this this idiot
00:39:15
said he he's guilty of this crime but it's also oddly um it's almost like Richard
00:39:22
Ramirez in Reverse in the sense of Richard had what 16 charges against him sexually assaulting Miners and or or
00:39:33
raping Miners and he let all the children victims go as far as We Know but the other victims he he killed and then it's
00:39:44
almost in Reverse you know we we don't know that he was going to kill the the second adult that he captured he let the
00:39:52
first one go if he would have let the second one go that's it's kind of a weird yeah but
00:39:57
there's the devil's in the details my friend what was one of the details that the surviving victim said he placed a
00:40:04
bag over my head taped it to my neck and left it there until I passed out so the
00:40:10
the two child victims Tina Harmon and Krista Harrison both were described in their autopsies as having been choked
00:40:20
they died due to strangulation right probably due to some choking with a rope type item and with hands now a lot of
00:40:31
times in this I apologize there's no way to deliver this other than than how I'm
00:40:36
about to do it a lot of times these guys they're sexual sadists they they enjoy just like we said in the trailer last
00:40:43
week they enjoy inflicting the pain and seeing the pain in the eyes and on the face of their victim right and if
00:40:49
choking and strangulation is their thing a lot of times they will choke and strangle till the person will pass out
00:40:57
revive them and do it again and do it again and do it again what I'm pointing out here where people say oh he let go
00:41:05
these these women that he tortured well that may be who knows I 100 percent believe and we'll get into to why we
00:41:14
should all agree that Buell killed Krista Harrison and Tina Harmon who knows maybe his intention was to
00:41:23
drive them out in the middle of nowhere and let them go but their children you cannot inflict
00:41:30
the same amount of pain in in other torture right to that of a child that you could a
00:41:38
woman who a full-grown person who knows maybe he intended to let them go and they they died during the torture
00:41:46
process yeah I think um lethal injection not too easy even electric chair too easy I think what they do they put them
00:41:55
on it in a chair they they make him spread eagle and then they take they take hold on they take
00:42:01
I'm trying to keep this sophisticated a little bit but this is sophisticated this is a physics you you use that
00:42:08
extension cord he had and you plug it in and then you take the other hand and you
00:42:12
just jab him right in the balls well the thing is till death if torture was his thing and it it definitely sounds like
00:42:21
it was you can take a little bit of joy in this next statement you know some people find this to be psychological
00:42:29
torture he was strapped up and ready to go back in 1996 they were going to put him to death I mean he was he was
00:42:36
seconds away from being put to death and they they called it off eventually he would be a sentence to death and
00:42:44
executed on uh September of 2002. now he was only ever convicted of killing Krista Harrison he was suspected
00:42:56
of multiple child abduction and murders police always said in those counties said we have some evidence that we
00:43:04
believe links Robert Buell to these cases and their stance always was case closed right this guy's been sentenced
00:43:11
to death You Can't Kill a Man twice and he's been executed that always sucks though for the victim's family of the
00:43:19
other cases because you want to know for for certain correct and the thing is what if you know it might be a very
00:43:26
small percentage chance but what if they're wrong so what ends up happening in Tina
00:43:34
Harmon's case is the family they come forward and they're like well we wanted we want to know for sure we understand
00:43:41
that the the police are saying Robert Buell did this and they're like yeah we believe you but
00:43:47
we want to know for sure well another thing is if if it's not the right guy then you have a equal animal on the
00:43:55
street preying on these victims well the interesting thing with the Tina Harmon case was
00:44:04
they had Bob buell's DNA on file the state of Ohio yeah and they had DNA evidence in Tina Harmon's case and so
00:44:15
the family was petitioning saying hey test this DNA let's make sure that it was Robert Buell and the county
00:44:25
was like well we would but it's awfully expensive so guess who came after the county old
00:44:32
friend of the show James Renner Jimmy he comes after the county and he says well
00:44:38
how much does it cost maybe we can figure out a way to raise the money and we'll get somebody else to pay for it
00:44:43
right if the county can't afford it the county comes back and this is what this is egg on the face
00:44:50
right where they go yeah it's like 400 500 to conduct these tests oh yeah you offer offer that to the family
00:44:59
that's not much sons of [ __ ] offer it to the family hey it's five hundred dollars we we don't want to use taxpayer
00:45:07
money even though we should even though you probably paid more taxes last quarter than what we're gonna what we
00:45:15
need to run these tests offer it to the family you pieces of [ __ ] you know what
00:45:22
I mean so what ends up happening Captain is hold on a little girl died their their little girl died and you're gonna
00:45:29
put a price tag on that you pile of [ __ ] okay sorry well eight years after the
00:45:37
state of Ohio executed Robert Buell they did conduct the DNA testing and confirmed 100 percent that they found
00:45:46
his DNA on our victim Tina Harmon so he has been conclusively linked to two of the three murders that we discussed here
00:45:57
today the three child murders got him the other thing too is a lot of those crimes that we talked about where the
00:46:04
stranger abduction yeah the these crimes that were reported but they didn't have
00:46:10
anybody to link them to after Bob Buell was arrested these victims started coming forward saying that was the guy
00:46:17
that tried to abduct Me right so he's been linked to all of those now per Wikipedia Bob Buell
00:46:26
it was listed on his page on Wikipedia up until December of last year that he was most likely responsible for the
00:46:35
North Columbus murder of eight-year-old Kelly Ann Prosser however we find out that that was not
00:46:43
true because in June of last year Columbus Deputy police chief Greg bodker held a press conference 38 years after
00:46:54
Kelly's murder and thousands of man hours expanded there was a break in the case Columbus Cold Case detectives
00:47:03
received permission to utilize two new new investigative tools to solve Kelly's case
00:47:10
one was something we referenced earlier called the fifth floor which is a podcast that is put out from time to
00:47:18
time from Columbus PD they discussed her Cold Case on their show the fifth floor
00:47:25
the other technology was a process that we've discussed multiple times on this show and have already here today it was
00:47:33
the technology being used around the country to locate violent offenders who are not trackable using traditional
00:47:41
detective work we're talking about genetic genealogy investigations right so in early 2020 the Cold Case unit
00:47:50
hired Advanced DNA to test samples taken from Kelly's Body Advanced DNA was able
00:47:56
to match the DNA in the sample to a third cousin of a family which came primarily from West Virginia and was
00:48:04
Caucasian the family was associated with two surnames and one of these one of the
00:48:10
these surnames was Jarrell the genetic evidence pointed to a Harold Warren Jarrell as
00:48:19
that of being the killer of Kelly Anne Prosser so after 38 years Captain the Columbus PD were finally able to close
00:48:29
Kelly's case and they identified Harold Warren Jarrell as her killer now the detective the Cold Case detective said
00:48:39
quote he was not anywhere near the top of our list in fact he had never been mentioned in the original case File well
00:48:48
we see that from time to time it's rare but we do see it and this was a case of stranger
00:48:57
it's a stranger child abduction which is so rare and his name also the reason why
00:49:02
it's so hard to solve his name didn't appear in the case File because he had nothing he was nowhere near the the
00:49:10
circles the Social Circles of this little girl or her family he must have just spotted her alone
00:49:18
and either tricked her to getting into his car or he abducted her yeah they they
00:49:23
weren't able to make a rest on on Herald but he died in Nevada in 1996 and he was
00:49:31
67. yes Robert Buell seems like a perfect the age of victims the manner in which he does it and seems
00:49:42
brazing as far as being able to abduct people in broad daylight obviously the the picture doesn't match up and
00:49:50
obviously he would have been in jail at the time of Amy mihalovic's abduction but that's why I question yes I know
00:50:00
it's early 80s but sometimes these sick individuals have communications with each other
00:50:08
whether it's online or through mail and I just I really just think um maybe it's
00:50:15
a long shot of a lead but he could have been connected to somebody because it's very similar to
00:50:21
the crimes that he committed well that's one thing that we discussed at length with James Renner in regards to this
00:50:28
case we call him a nephew but he's not technically a nephew of Robert Buell who has been suspected in some other crime
00:50:36
some people think that maybe the nephew is responsible for Amy mihalovic's murder personally I feel like the nephew
00:50:44
just happens to be Robert buell's nephew right and that that they didn't really do anything in cahoots together I think
00:50:54
that Robert Buell is guilty of the crimes we suspect him of and like I said up until December that's
00:51:02
probably a Prosser case probably more yeah probably some more but this kellyanne Prosser case was solved in the
00:51:11
middle of last year and it in his Wikipedia page still had him as the prime suspect in her case six months
00:51:18
after it was solved right so I've I'm glad to see that that has been updated and changed and it's just really a
00:51:27
unique look at this monster that was living in Northeast Ohio and because of what we know the crimes
00:51:35
we know he committed he's been suspected in so many other crimes that were left unsolved at the time after his execution
00:51:43
date we have one cold case that solved eight years after he's executed and then kellyanne Prosser's case it
00:51:51
solved 38 years after her murder and it turned out to be somebody completely different yeah and I I know I don't say
00:51:59
this enough and I don't want to get too sappy on you Colonel but the amount of knowledge that you're
00:52:06
putting out in these episodes especially like a four-parter it says heads and tails above
00:52:12
so many other hosts and look other True Crime hosts are great storytellers but is it too early to start calling you the
00:52:21
goat the goat of True Crime I mean this is a lot of knowledge that you're passing on
00:52:27
and you and Renner and I know not everybody's a fan of the king of Cleveland hey not everybody's a fan of
00:52:35
the colonel either that's true but I'm seeing these other shows get Awards I just don't think you're getting the
00:52:42
credit and I'm gonna say it and maybe some people are gonna get mad guess what be mad
00:52:47
he might be the goat maybe next the goat maybe the colonel maybe the crispy Colonel is the crispy goat
00:52:56
but on a serious note let's okay let's get serious the thing that I'm really proud of you and and ren are doing is
00:53:02
the porch light project anybody can donate look we just got done explaining that they didn't want to spend 500 bucks
00:53:12
to give answers to the victim's family Katina Harmon's family yeah the porch light project is taking on cases and
00:53:20
helping but it's not cheap and they need your help so if you could take you know
00:53:27
five bucks 10 bucks whatever instead of going to Starbucks tomorrow donate to the porch light project and you can do
00:53:35
so at porchlightonline.org hit the support us button and you can donate there well and
00:53:42
I really like the work that porchlight is doing I'm very proud of the work that we've done there I'm going to Pat myself
00:53:48
on the back for something else though right here Captain as long as you don't stroke yourself I like getting things
00:53:54
right I like things being correct and that's why we we present the information we have in a certain way here in the
00:54:04
garage because we want the record to be correct I don't know that I was the person that that is singly responsible
00:54:13
for this but I can say this I emailed Wikipedia over and over and over last year
00:54:21
until they removed that sentence from Robert buell's Page saying that he was the prime suspect in Kelly and Prosser's
00:54:30
murder because we knew starting in June of last year that he was not responsible
00:54:37
right for that murder in fact in a June 2020 news conference announcing that they solved Kelly's case Kelly's family
00:54:47
thanked law enforcement for their dedication to their case over nearly four decades via a letter that was read
00:54:56
aloud and it a portion of it was this quote when kellyanne left for school the morning of September 20 1982 we did not
00:55:06
expect our time with her would abruptly end or that our future would change in every way imaginable one moment we had
00:55:15
this dazzling mischievous eight-year-old little girl then suddenly all we had left were memories photographs that will
00:55:24
never age a calendar marking a dreadful new holiday a grave and pieces of Kelly's life stored in a box so they now
00:55:34
have their answers but sadly that's all they have I want to thank everybody so much for
00:55:53
joining us here in the garage cheers to all you True Crime addicts Colonel do we
00:55:59
have any recommended reading this is exciting this fantastic book came out just yesterday we were able to get an
00:56:06
advanced copy so we could review and we are very happy to recommend to you the Low Country murder of Gwendolyn Elaine
00:56:14
Fogle a cold case solved this is by special agent Lieutenant Rita Schuler who worked on the case shortly after she
00:56:23
joined the South Carolina law enforcement Division and she couldn't let this case go not even after her
00:56:31
retirement in 2001. you know I love these old cold cases Captain this is about the 1978 murder of Gwendolyn Fogle
00:56:41
it was the Walterboro police Department's top Cold Case for 37 years check out the Low Country murder of
00:56:50
Gwendolyn Elaine Fogle available now on Kindle and paperback and if you are busy
00:56:55
don't worry about writing that title down now we have that listed for you along with a bunch of other great true
00:57:02
crime books on our recommended page at True Crime garage.com and until next week be good be kind and don't matter
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