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begins. by the time it ended, it had touched a shattered family, a stunned law enforcement agency and a surprisingly long potential of suspects, whose names became known to all. often on datelined we tell the stories of families and detectives who find themselves bound together by the same murder, who end up working side by side towards a common goal. sometimes pursuing the same investigation from two different angles. often each can wind up appreciating the efforts of the other. this, wasn't that.
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at the center of this human cyclone of distrust, is a young mom who worked in that plant. heather bogle worked overnights. one eight hour shift after another, a single parent with a singular mission -- >> her main focus was always her daughter. >> heather's younger sister jen. >> she wasn't too concerned about getting into a relationship. it was more being responsible and taking care of her kid. making sure she was working enough hours to support them both. >> you look up to her? >> yeah, she was more like apparent to me than she was a sister. >> even though she was just 18 months older? >> yeah. because shows looked out for me. >> at 28, heather bogle was mostly looking out for her five year old daughter mckenzie. heather had never married mckenzie's father and sister jen says that her romantic life had never worked out as much as her professional life. >> there was a lot of guys wanted to be her boyfriend.
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she was very pretty. >> everybody says her smile was the best while they'd ever seen, that is completely true. >> carmela was the close of close friends. >> when i said that you made an impact on people, she touched her soul not their hearts. >> heather bogle sliced up each day into a life sized jigsaw puzzle. after clocking out at 6 am, she would sleep during the day. waking in time to pick up mackenzie from day care. and then the two could have an evening together until the spin cycle began again, around 10 pm. her factory job and made it all possible. heather's cousin pat was also her coworker. >> i remember she got her first check. she was overjoyed. she was thrilled. almost like she hit the lottery. >> that schedule went like clockwork until april 9th 2015.
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that is heather punching out at six 7 am, wearing a whirlpool t-shirt. we don't know for sure what happened next. we do know that she didn't pick up mackenzie later that day, at first jen thought that heather overslept. >> i called and her four phone went straight to voice mail, over and over again. >> which was unusual? >> very unusual. >> the hours passed and no one had seen has the. the family called police and were told to give it some time. that didn't work for jen, and along with a couple of friends they made these flyers and started putting them everywhere. with every passing minute, you're getting a little bit more -- >> frantic. definitely. i kept trying to tell myself, she's okay we're gonna find her. there has to be some reasonable explanation. >> except there wasn't. the family filed a missing families report with the sheriff's office. and that put them in touch with detective sean o'connell.
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sun o'connell was looking at heather's phone record. >> i think her phone was last pinned at around 9:20. >> that ping fixture for nearly six miles wide. the cell company couldn't narrowed down anymore. and then her phone stops? >> then it stops. either her phone had been destroyed or her phone, obviously, was shut off or lost power. >> while the search continued o'connell started finding out as much as he could about heather bogle. one of the first things he learned was that heather was in the midst of trying something new. she had begun dating a woman. which is where carmela comes in. were you love with her? >> absolutely. >> we love with you? >> absolutely. >> your serve? that >> yeah. >> as we've all learned too often into well, love can lead to jealousy. carmella and her fought and o'connell heard that they had
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recently broken up. what did you find out about the nature between her and carmella? >> i don't think it was a relationship that has a really wanted to be in, that was my take from talking to family primarily. i think heather was mixed on to i want to be with carmella, do i want to be with other persons. >> and then the wondering about where heather was stopped. the day after she vanished, sheriff's deputies found her 12-year-old car in an apartment building's parking lot. it wasn't where heather or her family lived. the car was locked, and on the front seat a hand written note. >> that note was from carmella. >> what does it say? >> it pertain to an argument that they were involved in. how much she loves heather and that type of thing. >> detectives opened the trunk and then heather bogle was missing no longer. she had been shot twice and badly beaten. bruises on her ankles and
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wrists indicated that she had been bound. she was wearing a mickey mouse t-shirt which wasn't hers and it didn't have any holes in it. meaning someone had trust heather after she was murdered. and that shooting didn't happen in the trunk, not enough blood there and no bullet holes. and there was one more thing. something downright weird. heather killer had taken scissors to her long hair. cut it, unevenly, close to her scalp. what do you make of that? >> i thought it was odd. it made me believe that whoever did this, probably did it out of anger. >> anchor was only one of the emotions heather's family was feeling. >> i am in tears. my wife says what is wrong? and i say we just found her. >> my gut fell to the floor. i was in shock. i couldn't even comprehend that this is real life. >> it was. now detective sean o'connell began a real life investigation. so, who would want to kill
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heather bogle? >> i don't know. >> it wouldn't take him long to find suspects. that is suspects, plural. >> the detective gets his first lead from hit a neighbor in that apartment building. why did she see? coming up. >> she tells me sometimes between 1:30 and 3:00 in the morning, she sees the victims vehicle being parked, and the subject getting out of the driver side wearing a hoodie. taking off on foot. >> what detective set a search dog did next -- >> the dog alerts apartment be. >> when dateline continues. try claritin cool mint chewabls for powerful allergy relief plus a cooling sensation. live claritin clear.
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you down. >> in high school heather boggle audition for a game show. as a young woman she wanted to be a nurse. as a mom she loved her daughter. and now, where you ahead of town she was gone. sean o'connell's investigation began with some basic forensics. >> fortunately the coroner's office was able to look at some dna underneath her fingernails. >> was it in the national database? >> it didn't come back to anybody. >> he started asking questions near where the body was found, at the somerton apartments. >> i talked to a female and she
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tells me sometimes between 1:30 and 3:00 in the morning she sees the victims vehicle being parked and a subject getting out of the drivers side wearing some sort of hoodie and taking off on foot heading in the northern direction. >> man or woman? >> couldn't tell. >> that is your killer? >> that is my person being responsible for dropping off the vehicle with the victims body. >> investigators went looking for security footage that might help i.d. the person in the hoodie. at the same time it was clear heather's car wasn't the primary crime scene. so o'connell says he brought in a cadaver dogs. he thought that that killing route was somewhere nearby. >> i'm looking for someplace, somewhat secluded, someplace that is indoor where the crime might have occurred. didn't find anything. i thought let's bring the cadaver dog back to the somerton apartments where the vehicle was found. the dog automatically alerts on
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apartment b, which happens to be the apartment of keyona bor. >> she was a 25 year old single mother who lived there for about a year. mcconnell knew her to her longtime boyfriend, someone o'connell described as a drug dealer. an autopsy found heather bogle had marijuana in her system and detective o'connell thought that maybe she went to the somerton apartments to buy more of it. so he paid her visit. >> keyona appeared to be evasiveness, nought wanting to talk to us which i thought was a little odd. >> o'connell said something else also made him suspicious of keyona bor. >> one of the things we did was go into keyona some facebook attack account and we notice that she had a theme of making clothing that she was known to wear, it was mickey mouse related. >> because, remember -- >> when we found the victim of the victim was wearing an xl,
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red t-shirt with a mickey mouse face on. it >> heather wouldn't wear a size xl? >> no. >> would keyona wherein xl? >> sure. >> circumstantial? sure. investigators found security footage from a grocery store that seemed to show heather bogle car driving in the direction of the somerton apartments. >> the video is a vhs quality. it's not really clear. it appears to be the victims vehicle and it is the right time. >> the only other car o'connell saw that video during those old early morning hours was a wet white suv. it was headed in the same direction towards the somerton apartments. o'connell wanted to know more about that car. can tell the make or model? >> cannot. >> anybody involved drive a white suv? >> there were some pictures of omar satchel, where he is associated with a white suv, yes. >> this is omar satchel he was
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friends with keyona bor and had been seen at the somerton apartments in the days and weeks before heather's murder. he had a lengthy criminal record, ranging from drug offenses to some violent crimes. more importantly, this is a photo from omar's instagram account showing him in a white suv. that helped spur o'connell forward. even though he had no murder weapon and no eyewitnesses, o'connell says he continue to pick up top that omar satchel, keyona bor and as many as two others were somehow involved. he says he heard from an informant that someone had disposed of a gun in the sand dusky river, right after the murder. o'connell's diverse couldn't find it. that did not make him think twice. you still think it is a good investigation? >> yes, i do. i truly do. >> and so o'connell had omar
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satchel arrested on unrelated weapons charges hoping he would be able to add murder to that. and o'connell named his suspects in heather bogle suspects publicly, in the news. a day of reckoning was coming. >> one suspect is about to make an explosive accusation of her own aimed at her accuser. coming up. >> you knew detective o'connell before all of this began? >> correct. >> there was some bad blood between the two of? you >> correct. >> why the family thinks this detective is blowing the investigation. >> my gut instinct was sean wasn't doing what he was supposed to be doing. everything he was doing was wrong. >> when dateline continues. n dateline continues
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thought he was on his way to figuring out who had killed heather bogle. he named three suspects. all of whom were connected to the somerton apartments, where heather's car and body were found. o'connell's theory was that heather had gone to that apartment complex to buy drugs. >> i'm thinking that she is there to make maybe some sort of a purse purchase for personal use. and then something on the bad side had happened at that. point >> o'connell suspected heather may have bought drugs from keyona bor, who is living at the somerton apartments, when heather was murdered.
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>> you ever sell marijuana to heather? >> no, i never sold. drugs and best >> investigators found some people who thought they might have seen heather in that part might complex before. you never seen? >> i don't recall seeing heather. i pretty much stayed to myself and my did my business. >> why would a cadaver dogs lead police from their trunk of heather's car into your building an almost year apartment? >> i don't believe they lead them to my door like they told the media. i believe that he just fabricated that piece of evidence. >> accusing law enforcement of amazing making up evidence is usually a losing proposition. keyona bor said this was all about history. >> you knew detective o'connell before all of this began? >> correct. and >> there is some bad blood between the two of you? >> correct. >> what was the nature of? that >> he pretty much had a personal vendetta against my child's father. >> and you think you just got caught in the middle? that >> correct. i think that i was a familiar
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face face in the right place for him at the right time for him. a perfect opportunity. >> remember, he o'connell says he believed keyona he bor mickey mouse apparel, like the t-shirt in which heather was found. keyona says that isn't true either. that was at your t-shirt that heather bogle was founded? >> no. >> detective o'connell says when they came to door the order and asked whether you knew heather bogle that, you seemed invasive. >> correct. >> why would you have been evasive? >> i was invasive because i was smoking marijuana at the time and i gotten on my door. and i cracked the door and the police were at my door. >> so if you seem to vases and close the door it's -- >> it's because i was smoking, actually. >> o'connell's other primary suspect was omar satchel. did >> you know heather bogle? >> no. >> never matter? >> no. never matter. i don't even know what she looked like until somebody should be on the phone. >> like keyona bor, omar satchel says, o'connell's
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investigation was essentially a frame job. >> honestly, i just think they were looking for someone to pin it on. and as my lawyer told me at the time, i was the perfect scapegoat. >> why were you the perfect scapegoat? >> i'm african american and i had priors. i had a record. >> and that he definitely does. this is your record. and it is the proverbial record that is as long as my arm. so, it's not exactly shocking that they thought you could've been a suspect in this. >> i understand that. i'm like, i can't help it, i don't know anything about this. what do you want me to do? i volunteered my dna. i volunteered a mouth swabs. >> and omar's dna was not a match for what was found under heather's fingernail. >> o'connell posh satchel's
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friend kayree jeffery could've been a suspect. but he was in a match either. neither was keyona bor. omar had an alibi for the day heather of's murder. and as for the photo of omar in the white truck. >> i'm taking a picture, in the rearview mirror. that picture was taken two years before i ever came to -- that truck has never even been in fremont, ohio. >> after having their patients tried for four months, heather's family came to the conclusion that fog sean o'connell was dead wrong. >> my gut instinct was that sean just wasn't doing what he was doing. everything he was doing was wrong. >> heather's family thought the real suspect was somewhat much closer to heather. and they thought the best clue might be that haircut given to death heather bogle by her killer. >> coming up -- >> stories of bad blood between heather and her brother. >> they were fighting a lot? >> oh yeah, he knew what to say that we get under her skin. >> it is fair to assume that
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heather and josh did not see eye to eye. >> got a fell in my mind if i shamed heather, i would shame her into doing the right. things >> do you regret sending heather that tax. >> yeah, definitely. >> and concerns about her ex girlfriend, carmela all. >> there is the never a question of if carmela love my sister, it was just the shoe lover that much that she went crazy and color because she couldn't have her. >> adore remember telling her that your dad to me. >> your dad to me? >> when dateline continues. the first and only 24-hour eye allergy itch relief drop now without a prescription. a single drop of pataday once daily relief extra strength works on the cells that make your eyes itch...fast. in minutes you get relief that lasts 24 hours. that's a full day and night in one drop. make it a pataday with the drop that's right for you. available everywhere
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what disney world says masks are optional outdoor common. areas now back to dateline. >>tional outdoor detective seanl what he thought were three possibly, for good suspects, in big heather bogle's murder. the way he shot, she had been the victim of a drug dealer turned violent. but heather sister jan and her cousin pat fog o'connell was way off base. was heather involved in drugs? >> no, she smoked pot. but she never did any kind of other drugs. >> less than a spoonful. it was to help her anxiety. >> your family and the sheriff's department were very much on the same page. that came pretty quickly? >> very quickly. i say about a month into it. >> jan and pat thought should o'connell be looking closer to home. a lot closer. and at someone with whom
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heather had a volatile relationship. that person was heather's brother, josh feasel. they were fighting a lot. >> oh yeah. >> according to josh jan, jean sent heather an ugly text message just hours before heather went missing. berating her for failing a nursing exam. to stupid to pass the lpn exam exam. low expectations of yourself. typical trash like your mom and dad. >> he knew what to say that would get under her skin. >> it was fair to assume that heather and josh didn't always see eye to eye. >> o'connell said josh was less than cooperative went approached by investigators. >> josh would have his good days and be willing to talk to us. and josh would have his bad days and not wanting to talk to us. >> at one point, o'connell said he asked for josh is dna, just rule him out. >> he wouldn't give it to us initially. >> that's got to make you sit up a little straighter. >> it did.
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>> i sat down with josh. what was it like to be accused of having played a part in killing your sister? >> i felt like you guys are crazy to think i would do that. >> you love your sister? >> definitely. only person in my family who feel i felt like wanted me to succeed was my sister, heather. >> josh agreed his angry text message was hurtful. he explained that by saying it was simply a misguided attempt at tough love. >> i fell in my mind if i shamed heather, i would shame her into doing the right things. but it was the wrong approach, clearly. and it was abusive. >> do you regret sending heather that tax? with >> as for why josh -- according to police. when they went to you and ask for your dna you said no. >> they never went to. me >> just said o'connell never asked him for it. >> they never even tried to get my dna. at the end of the day, i know i'm innocent. and their opinion doesn't
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matter. facts are facts, opinions are opinions. >> jen and pat thought there was someone else who should be looked at with suspicion. someone much closer to heather. her ex girlfriend, carmela. you guys go back and forth between curb carmela and josh being involved? >> i did. they were the only two that made sense in my mind. >> jan said it was common knowledge that carmela and heather fought. >> and they fought about what, usually? >> it was mostly jealousy self. >> something else that implicated carmela, said jan, was the way heather's killer cut her here. >> heather died her here a lot. and it was kind of fried and she didn't think carmela like her here. i was just instantly like, her here is cut off, what do you mean who would touch or hear? and nobody made sense except for carmela. >> jan and pat share their feelings with detective o'connell. >> the investigator, when you have somebody's here cut,
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they're doing it as a means of getting even. they're doing it as a means of anger, frustration. thief >> add to that, the note from carmela found in heather's car. for >> i remember telling her, your dad to me. in the. know >> your dad to? me >> hard words that carried weights like knives. and i didn't know the weight four of them. i took her for granted. >> do you regret writing? that >> oh yeah. in more ways than one. >> carmela says there was never a serious argument about heather's here. >> i would have never said anything to make her feel bad or think that her here wasn't looking good. it was just the color preference. i said i liked it better blond. but it still looks. nice that's literally all that was. said >> so that is not fight about her here? >> no, there was never a fight about her here. the main thing with her, if he felt that something was off, you couldn't communicate about it. and i can't tell you how many times we agreed to just disagree. >> carmela said the
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investigation ultimately built a wall between her and heather's family. >> of course i am her. i'm like, why would they even suspect me? >> well, here is why. >> there was never a question that carmela love my sister. it was just, did she love her this much that she went crazy and killed her because she couldn't have? her >> heather's family was convinced that carmela was a very strong suspect. >> they were very well convinced of. that >> you are not as convinced? >> i was not as convinced. >> o'connell said he didn't think josh anything to do with it either. and o'connell said his drug theory is still the best theory. by now, pat and jen had become so frustrated with o'connell, they actually called his bosses to complain. we >> were begging them, take him off the case. he's not doing anything. he's not doing his job. he's not looking into leads. he's not even talking to us. they kind of sugarcoat it and were like, well he's the best executive we have. and we trust that he's doing
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his job. we can tell you everything. will have him update you guys once a week. is that fair? we're like, we just want to know what is going on. you know? tell us what is going on, what's the. we >> did that happen? >> no. it didn't. >> all he needed, he said, was a little more time. instead, all the clocks suddenly stopped. the world blows up? >> the world blows up. >> coming up -- and arrest. but it's not one of the suspects. >> i was actually dumbfounded. it all made sense of why we weren't getting any answers. >> then, startling news turns the case upside down. >> it's not the way i wanted to end my law enforcement career, by any means. >> tough? >> very tough. >> when dateline continues for. nues for we're carvana, the company
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about failure. had there is murder was still unsolved after 16 agonizing months. >> there had to be a point where you thought this would not be solved. >> there was lots of points where we thought this would never be solved. >> by now, pat and jan, had lost all faith in the sheriff's investigation and in sheriff detective sean o'connell. >> i knew he was of traffic -- even called him a couple times
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because i was very frustrated. >> so frustrated that jim and pat finally decided to take matters into their own hands. appealing directly to the community for help. >> we made like elections style signs that suggest is for heather and we sold them. >> we want to keep going. >> if i'm not going to do. it will do. it >> then something happened that no one expected. there had been a arrest. only wasn't of heather's killer. it was of the sheriff himself. >> i was actually dumbfounded at first. >> sheriff kyle was caught stealing prescription pain pills held in county custody. >> your sheriff had a drug problem. >> he did. >> he was supporting his habit by -- the sheriff eventually pleaded guilty and was sentenced to four years in prison. to, jan it was yet another indication of the sheriff's office in disarray. >> it all made sense of why we
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weren't getting any answers. >> that turned out to be just the beginning. soon detective shot o'connell was under investigation for how he was handling or mishandling the had their vocal murder case. the state attorney generals office began looking at the allegations that o'connell was tampering with evidence, and coercing witnesses. >> you're sort of accused here of misleading, concealing, slanting, all to sort of fit your theory that you had blinders on. >> yes. >> did? you >> absolutely not. no. would i was doing was following the leads on where they were taking me. >> to heather's family, the announcement that detective o'connell was under investigation came as welcome news. >> anything that didn't fit into what he thought was going on he just kind of dismissed and didn't even look back at. he just wanted to be able to
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put pin it on somebody and somebody to go to jail for it. >> facing possible criminal charges, o'connell resigned from the sheriff's office, and began managing the mcdonald's. >> it's not the way that i want to end my law enforcement career by any means. >> tough. >> very tough. >> you guys saw a side of the sheriff's department that most people don't ever see. >> yeah. we never thought we would be a part of that because the law. >> the monumental job of restoring the counties faith in its sheriffs officers willis jump-starting the had their investigation now belt of the newly elected sheriff, and his newly appointed lead detective, nick. >> what condition was the case? in >> in trouble. it was a mess. >> >> was detective o'connell just over his head or just wrong? or deliberately trying to focus the investigation on people who don't have anything to do with it? >> in my opinion, it started
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off with probably going on the wrong path. i think where it ended up for him was sticking to that path so he would not be wrong. >> he began by looking at the three main suspects. omar, satchel cannot, bore and -- and he found exactly nothing connecting any of them to the murder of heather bogle. >> we stopped looking for them at this point we've all the evidence that it took us another way. the investigation not only focused on them but name them publicly. nothing pointing to them. >> no. >> next he focused on josh, and his fractious relationship with his sister. events to gators obtained josh is dna and compared it to the mystery dna under heather's nails. >> not the guy. >> not his dna. that's correct. >> so then what about carmella?
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>> you looked pretty hard at camilla. didn't? you >> very hard. >> he considered whether carmela could be responsible for heather's jagged haircut. >> it certainly peaked my interest. >> but he soon found carmela to be both cooperative and credible. >> carmela was extremely heartbroken. and anything that she could do to try to bring whoever did this to heather bogle the justice she was going to do. >> carmela's the unaided match either and when detectives asked carmela to take a polygraph carmela agreed and passed, and so she too was -- >> a soon as i passed a polygraph first thing i said was that we can do the job. >> for those who had been publicly named by o'connell as heather's suspected murderers were that they were no longer
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suspect, a reason to celebrate. >> what has this all done to you? >> this has destroyed my life. it's hard for me to get employment. >> did anyone apologize for making you famous in a way you don't want to be? >> now. they pretty much it's over, with move on with their life. >> my face will put in the paper. murder suspect. murder suspect. murder suspect. 3 to 5 times a week. it still bothers me. you go to some places people look at, you they recognize your name, they recognize your face, and they give you those looks. >> and so the major wiped the slate clean. >> it was a start over case. i needed to go back to the beginning. >> and two heather's last known whereabouts. 6:17 am leaving the world pool parking lot, he then examine the phone records indicating her phone last ping a cell tower at 9:20 am in an area not far from the plant. >> we had a radius at that
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time. >> how begin? area >> 5.7 miles. it's a pretty big area. >> if only there were a way to narrow it down, and then investigators found one, and it turned out the prime suspect had been under their noses the whole time. >> coming up. >> that name came up in an investigation before? >> not to our knowledge at that point. >> a new name surfaces, along with an eye-popping detail. >> where does he? work >> whirlpool. >> same as heather bogle? >> yes. >> a case about to explode. >> we got weakened the knees. my might exploded. my might exploded.
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welcome. back a new lead detective was retracing heather bogle's steps on the day she vanished. -- to roughly a six mile radius. now investigators were about to use a powerful tool to narrow those miles down to feet. in a case complicated by scandal, and alleged misconduct, the biggest twist we are still ahead. here is josh mankiewicz with the conclusion of jacket. >> major nick katsopolis and his team worked overtime, trying to answer a bankers box full of questions. starting with, what happened to heather immediately after she
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left whirlpool? information from cell towers in and around cell dusky county provided little help, but what about satellite information? >> if your cellular devices communicating with the gps satellite it will continue to do that once in a while. in this particular case, heather bogle's phone did communicate with the satellite. >> it was one of the many avenues shawn o'connell had not tried previously. >> we were able to retrieve that data through a search warrant that we served on google. >> that data was madam from heaven. it pinpointed the location of heather's phone with far greater position than a cell tower ever could. >> it puts her phone very close to a trailer, in the trailer park. >> to within just a few feet of the trailers front door. >> and who lives? they're >> daniel myers. >> that name come up in the investigation? before >> now to our knowledge
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at that point. >> suddenly katsopolis had a fresh lead. he began to click. >> myers. age? >> 40. >> single? >>. single >> whirlpool, same as bogle. -- it later emerged that he thought -- would be critical interviews with whirlpool employees. and so he never picked up myers trail. he also mr. failed to follow up an email sent by a tipster, pointing him in the direction of daniel myers. >> any indication that the investigator did speak with a person? >> no. >> because if they had they would have heard the name daniel myers. >> correct. >> now katsopolis and his partner were paying myers of visit which the major recorded. >> how are you doing? dan? >> he could have told us anything. we're friends. she stopped by to have a cup of
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coffee. >> then she left and i never saw her again. >> yes. >> except daniel myers didn't say that. >> did you know her at all? >> very, very little. very little. >> she was completely trying to distance himself from her. >> we don't yet say we know that she and her phone were at your address the day that she vanished. >> no, no not yet. >> did you ever know her to have friends in this trailer park? >> like i said, i didn't really know her very well. >> okay. did you ever see her back here? >> no. >> it certainly made him look more suspicious than initially. >> but let us to issue search warrants. >> including one to search myers trailer. >> the investigators found that several parts of that trailer sub flooring had been replaced. >> he had to fix some damage that was done to his trailer by firing so bullets into it. >> correct. >> katsopolis also issued a
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warrant for buyers dna, and suddenly that mystery dna under heather's nails had a name. >> we about fainted. it was in fact dan myers, i'll tell you get a little weak at the. needs >> to years after heather's body was found daniel myers was arrested and charged with her murder. >> katsopolis thought miners may have lured heather to his trailer hoping to have sex with her, and attacked her when she refused. >> ever hear the name danny myers before? >> never. never. >> she never talked about him? >> never. >> myers that in jail for a year and a half and then came word of a deal. >> in exchange for no death penalty, myers agreed to plead guilty to others murder and receive life without parole. at sentencing, then da, tim brand gave the bogle family a glimpse into headers last moments. >> this was her body as it was discovered. >> as for heather's cut hair,
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he said that was not just the final insult in a crime of passion. he was it says, myers deliver and futile attempt to remove all traces of his dna from heather his body. >> heather bogle was the real hero in this case because she fought back, and that evidence was in her fingernails. >> she helped her own -- >> she really helped to solve her own murder, yes. >> mister miners that you wish to make a statement? >> i have nothing to say. >> had their loved ones did. carmella was able to speak to daniel myers just before he was let away to begin serving his life sentence. >> i want you to know daniel myers i did not forgive you. no one in this room can say that they forgive the devil. i'm excited for your future. i know it's going to be a short one. i hope you run hell you piece of shed. >> when you think about it what
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do you think? >> i just think of the memories that i have with her and i can close my eyes and i know she's not, there but i can still see. it >> are you going to be okay? >> i think at this point we are all repairing the damage that has been done. >> not the least of which was the damage done to kamala's relationship with heather's family. >> at some point you realize that you had been wrong about carmella. >> part of me really didn't want to believe the whole time. >> feel bad? >> yeah. horrible. >> me too. >> what did you say to? her >> cried. >> she tried to apologize, i said no, don't because that's what she felt, and that was your sister, and it was justified. bottom line, we were fighting against each other for loving the same person. >> daniel myers would not be the only person sent to prison as a result of the heather bogle case. >> in july of 2014 former
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detective, sean o'connell admitted to evidence tampering. other charges including witness coercion, dereliction of duty, were dropped. his punishment? two years in prison. >> i can assure you that -- >> at his sentencing, o'connell spoke directly to heather's family. >> again i apologize to the bogle family. i truly do. i can assure you that i will resist doing everything in my power as a police officer to find those persons responsible for heather's death. >> for all those swept up in this investigation, this was a long journey to justice. involving not just a search for heather's killer, but the battle with the sheriff's office run amok. a battle jim bogle was determined to win. >> this girl was. tough investigating all night, working, taking care of kids. her number one priority was still heather.
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