Good Cop/Bad Cop: Solving the Murder of Heather Bogle | Full Episode

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

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Length: 41min 10sec (2470 seconds)

Published: Tue Jul 18 2023