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of a well-written letter words are the only tool we have to precisely convey the concepts in our
minds words are one of the best tools we have to express the feelings we are experiencing in both mind and body
one can use the extraordinary power of a letter to tell you what is in their heart
here's a powerful letter that I recently reviewed that moved me and it reads I'm writing to you with all my heart and
a broken one at that my brother Jason Dale Bolton was killed on August 21st 1991.
he was 16 years old he was killed in Indiana near the Fayette Franklin and Rush County lines
my family and many others believe with all of our hearts that he was murdered his Killers did a good job to make it
look like an accident sadly there was not a comprehensive investigation by police
his killers were drug addicts child molesters rapists and pedophiles most of the people that were involved
have been in prison for such things in the years after Jason's murder we believe the police got their
information from the people responsible for the crime and cover-up Foul Play had to be suspected in his
death at that time we believed so but did not know the facts until years later however
based on the lies told at that time they ruled it an accident Jason my brother was killed at the age
of 16 years old in a most horrific way the very people responsible lied to the police and the police based
their conclusions on these untruths my family has tried to get this case investigated for years
we have suffered Jason's death is now on the back burner and left there the facts of the case weren't a thorough
investigation [Music] with the help of others I am trying to get America's Most Wanted FBI and others
involved I'm begging you for your help please put an end to our suffering for justice
my brother was with the wrong crowd these were our neighbors and people we grew up with
I only want the truth he was murdered and we need these people brought to justice as does society
his Killers have lived lives of hideous crimes they should be taken out of society
please do not allow them to continue their ways my family has suffered all these years
instead of them they have made a mockery of our justice system I ask again for your help in this matter
please help us find Justice I have documentation to support my beliefs which I long to share if you
will find it in your heart to investigate I pray that you will put me in touch with the right people I have so much to
share I need someone with an open mind heart compassion and empathy my desire is for the truth to come out
I have no problem for giving law enforcement for their mistakes that is not what this is about as we
made our mistakes in Jason's life as well please allow your heart to open up an honest investigation into Jason's death
this is all we ask what you just heard are portions of a letter written by one of Jason's family
members someone who is begging for help this it's true crime garage [Music] this week we have a case for you that is
unique in many ways I have said time and time again on the show that all of these
cases are unique they are all very different from one another if the case is featured here in the garage it is a
story that must be told this story is tragic no matter what your opinion of the case is it is most certainly one
that bears further examination Jason Dale Bolton age 16 was killed August 21st 1991. that was a Wednesday
he was out that night attending a party with a bunch of his friends or at least people that he believed to be his
friends he was killed in the dark early morning hours of August 21st 1991. his death was
ruled some sort of freak accident to put it plain and simple it was said that a bunch of youngsters
were out partying all night long they had all had a bunch to drink some of them took drugs or at least
smoked a little marijuana and then a traffic accident led to the death of Jason Bolton
he was the victim of a good night which led to a very bad morning that is what the law was told and that is what they
believed and a Coroner's report did nothing to change that Jason's death was ruled an accident of the vehicular
variety Jason was killed after being struck by a car on a County Road in Fayette County Indiana in the dark of
the night well like we said Jason Bolton was 16 years old but who was he leading
up to this night in question that's right Captain he was born just 16 years prior in Connersville and was a lifetime
resident of Laurel Indiana Jason Bolton attended Laurel Pentecostal church and as a little boy Laurel Elementary and
then Brookville middle school and this is a very small community very small rural community Jason was survived by
his parents Gary and Margie Boyer and his grandparents Luther and Alpha Raider here
he's also survived by his two brothers and four sisters now sadly when someone passes away at such a young age
typically their obit will list many more survived by names than proceeded in death by and Jason's list 10 as survived
by and zero in the other column Services were to be held the day after the obituary was printed up in the
Thursday August 22nd 1991 edition of the Palladium Item newspaper Services were held Friday August 23rd at the Laurel
Pentecostal church with the Reverend Ed Seeley officiating burial is in the Laurel North Cemetery
and as sad as it was that is how it was and how it would be for a couple of years but Jason's family they were never
fully satisfied with the explanation that they received from law enforcement and others about Jason's death and the
events of the night leading up to his tragic end for starters the family was told that
Jason was walking to his father's home after a party well on the surface Captain this may
sound reasonable however the family says not only did Jason not reside with his father the two had little to no
relationship at all Jason was estranged from his father right Jason lived with his grandparents and if Jason was intent
on reconciling with his father well then that would have been surprising news to most if not all of
Jason's family right and basically what law enforcement is saying is Jason's out
partying with some friends he's intoxicated now he's looking for a place to stay they believe he was heading on
foot to his father's house and a big problem we're going to have here in this case Captain is the lack of
detailed information in this case the family was told that on this walk from the party to his father's residence
that due to intoxication Jason and another boy or another young man both decided
that it was a good idea to lie down in the middle of the road and that the boys must have fallen asleep
as it said in the newspaper Jason was struck by a car but you hear the previous statements and
it's clear he was run over this is starting to sound all too familiar isn't it Captain yeah we just
need a one Bill Clinton and a one Fami Malek well it's one thing to be intoxicated and walking on a dim Road
and possibly being struck by a vehicle driven by somebody that is also intoxicated
but it's pretty far-fetched for me to hear a story where you go well they're so intoxicated and so tired that they
decided well we'll just uh lay down on the road for a while right I'm I'm not very proud
to report that in my teenage years I had a lot of friends the not very proud part
is some of them were quite dumb some of them were quite creative and some of them regularly intoxicated however I did
not have any friends that were the perfect combination of all three I did not have a friend that was dumb enough
creative enough and drunk enough all at the same time that he would decide that taking a little snooze in the middle of
a county road is a good idea especially in the dark all right let's go through the official
record here this is from the coroner's report the coroner at the time Captain is a man
by the name of Joseph Todd and we also have contributing to this report or the information in this report is Deputy
Sheriff Murray and Trooper Todd fields and it's stated in the report that the time of death for
Jason Bolton is listed at around 3 A.M the time pronounced death is at 4 20 A.M and the circumstances surrounding the
death is as follows It is believed that the deceased and a friend and he is listed here will just give his first
name Timothy have been visiting and drinking beer they decided to walk to the decedent's father's house on County
Road 750 South upon doing so it is believed that the two boys became tired and sleepy due to
alcohol and the late hour and stopped to rest it is believed that the boys fell asleep or passed out on the County Road
and we're in the roadway when a vehicle driven by a one Mr Grimm Came Upon them Mr Grimm told Trooper fields that he
thought that he saw a person in the road and drove left to avoid him this not seeing the second person on the
other side of the road Grimm's vehicle struck the deceased the front left tire struck the deceased
in the groin area causing severe trauma and loss of tissue the body was pushed down the road for a
short distance and then passed over the body crushing the rib cage on the left side and fracturing the skull in two
places the deceased had no ID on his person and was later identified by his sister at
the hospital morgue the cause of death here is listed as massive internal injuries and internal hemorrhaging
the body was released to a funeral home at 8 A.M that morning the 8 A.M the morning of this report and the
investigation as far as the coroner's report States is done by Fayette County coroner Joseph E Todd yeah it doesn't
make a lot of sense to me unless you can prove through like a toxicology report that maybe there's some other drug
involved where these guys would just you know pull a Wizard of Oz where we were just gonna lay down for a while before
we hit the Emerald City it just doesn't add up to me and if you were getting tired why
wouldn't you just go into the grass and go to some kind of level of safety I mean instead of just growing well I'm
just going to lay down in the middle of the road look if there's no doubt and we
know from other information that we've seen there's no doubt that there were substances in Jason Bolton's uh body at
the time of his death and he was only 16 years old and so I get that kids and drunk people make
mistakes it happens all the time this doesn't seem like a likely scenario at all even with factoring in
dumb teenage decisions and intoxication and the thing here that's missing from this report would be statements that
should have been if they were in fact taken at the scene when law enforcement arrived on the scene
those statements here's some issues where you can start to see a problem with this case
you don't have Jason unfortunately to tell us his side of the story and what took place at night
so you are only left with the people at the scene well if they interviewed them and I keep saying if because we don't
have any documentation that these people were interviewed right now I'm not saying it doesn't exist I'm not
saying that police did not conduct those interviews what I'm saying here is where
I'm from and Captain I think you will agree with me on the dumbass Phil when cops arrive at a scene or
they are out cruising around and they see a bunch of 18 17 19 year old boys in a vehicle or arrive on a
scene and that's the situation as well where I'm from they're suspicious of everything if if they show up and you
are 17 to 19 uh young male and you got a vehicle you're probably getting some kind of citation even if you were
perfectly in the right but because it's three in the morning and I smell a little alcohol on you something like
that you're you're going to you're going to get into some kind of trouble so I'm
a little surprised here that the spidey sense of these guys didn't go off when they're arriving on the scene going I
might want to spend a little time here and figure out that this might not be what it appears to be or what these guys
are telling me it is because here's where you have some problems the report specifically lists that the
another guy according to the driver and we're calling him Mr Grimm but let's keep in mind he's only a little bit
older than our victim here we're just calling him that so we do not use his first name
he States in the report that I saw one person in the road so I swerve to avoid that
person and then by accident ran over the other person in the road that I did not
see okay all right that's your story here's the problem where's the person that was in
the road with Jason bolt right that person was not at the scene when police arrived so either a your driver Mr Grimm
is lying or B there was somebody else in the road or there was somebody else that
was supposed to be at that scene when you arrived and they fled before you got there and how many people were in the
vehicle at the time when law enforcement showed up that's what's missing from the
report as well there was more than one person in that vehicle captain we're talking this scene should have had four
to five individuals at the scene when police arrived and we're not saying that it doesn't exist
but what we know from the family what we know from the community and what we know
from the True Crime community and that's what the frustration is here is if you're going to rule this accidental
death then the case is shut and all this information should be given over to the
family the and so if there are interviews they should be released to the public here's the other thing that would make
your make you question this statement okay so we have the guy one of the people that were that was
lying in the road if we are to even believe that that's the way this went down right but according to the story
that was fed to the police and the police it sounds like they believed it because here we sit all of these years
later with a very questionable death suspicious death and if we're to believe that story Jason
was lying in the road with somebody else when police arrive on the scene Jason's
dead and the person that was lying in the road was not injured and is not present at
the scene yeah where did they go exactly but then examine that examine that report a
little bit more it says that it is believed that the very first sentence is that it is
believed that the deceit the deceased and a friend and the friend is named Timothy had been visiting and drinking
beer so by visiting there saying they were at a party and they were drinking and that is common knowledge they're
being nice here by saying it is believed this is what's crazy you gotta peel you gotta rip through the
lines and read through the lines of this report you don't have Jason Bolton to tell you that they were at a party and
they were drinking he's dead you do not have Timothy who was supposedly in the road with Jason at the scene to tell you
that he was at a party with Jason and drinking he's gone he's not at the scene you have the driver you have the driver
and the occupants of the vehicle telling you oh they were at a party and they were drinking well how do you know that
well we were at that same party yeah and we're friends with them or yeah we know
them we're friends with them so all kinds of questions why do you have friends leaving the same party
apparently going in the same direction they're not riding together it seems it's not out of the realm of possibility
here Captain but it seems like a major coincidence that a group of a group of two leave a party decide to lay down or
pass out in the middle of a County Road and then a group of two or three leave the party going in the same direction in
a car and happen to run over one of those individuals and then the other individual flees the scene yeah and if
you are able to question Timothy then wouldn't he be the one he's he's like the answer key to this test if he can tell
us hey you know what we we uh smoked a little pot and made us both feel a little drowsy we didn't decide to stop
on the road and to just lay down we both started feeling a certain way and I believe that we both passed out
now if you told me that if Timothy can tell me that then I might be buying this horseshit story that this is a
just a accident exactly and as far as the coroner's report goes Captain the only witness listed is the driver of the
vehicle so he certainly has a dog in the fight to want to tell his version of the story yeah
because it's either an accident or it's a thing called Murder exactly now when you review the injuries
to our victim here it makes it even a little more even more questionable so according to the injuries here in the
coroner's report uh it says body marks and other information number one they've listed severe Trauma from Tire okay so
number one on the diagram of the deceased they draw what appears to be severe damage to the groin area of of the
deceased and we know from the report that there was a lot of soft tissue damage to that area which to me look I'm not
going to pretend to to understand the science of the of this whole thing I'm not in in forensics or any of that of
course but he's clothed lying in the road of course there's going to be damage but the way that that damage is
described as I don't want to get too descriptive here but to to put it plain and simple the
all of that soft tissue area in the groin area of our victim removed from the body yeah it's a true
crime show this you know stop pretending you know his penis was removed this is a
horrible thing and this is why the family deserves Justice that's this is why this Boy Deserves Justice when when
he's clothed lying in the road they're what they're stating by the report Captain is that he must have been
lying there with his legs open and one of the tires happened to go right in there
field goal the shot is up it's good right down the middle and I I just don't see how that works out
making the injuries as they're described and then when you look at the other injuries they list number two crushed
rib cage left side number three lacerated scalp and skull fractures number four abrasions the abrasions are
to the left arm of the deceased and number five tattoo of skull and letters on of JD on the body so you would have
information about the person on here not just the injuries listed at this portion
of your Coroner's report again think of what our witness right our our one witness that's listed here on the report
says that oh I saw someone in the middle of the road or on one side of the road and I swerved
to miss them to avoid them and I ran over somebody that I didn't see who was lying on the other side of the
road when you look at the injuries and the way that they played out if in fact the car does go over top of Jason
hitting him first in the groin area avoiding both legs yes I get that according to the report
he was pushed down the road for a short distance and then passed over but a lot of these injuries to me don't
seem to line up with the tracks of tires certainly some of these injuries are from the road itself
but I'm seeing a report here that that includes a story here and one and one is not equaling two in my
humble garage opinion I'm glad you brought up math because like you said we only have one eyewitness account there
was more than one person there we should have more than one eyewitness account and so therefore the family the
community doesn't have the full complete story and that onus is on law enforcement
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captain now we do have to point out something here and we've said this is always a problem for law enforcement and
that's why criminals do what they do when law enforcement arrive on the scene here they think that they are responding
to a vehicular accident a tragic one that resulted in the death of one of the people at the scene
but you have to investigate further and we have no proof that they did any of that and I firmly believe had they done
that they might have stumbled upon something else now we know that this is difficult for
law enforcement it has been since the beginning of time and it will be for the until the end of days that's why when
somebody kills someone in a home they burn the house down we've seen how that works out and it works to the
disadvantage of law enforcement we've seen that sometimes a would-be kidnapper forces or or tricks a child into leaving
a note for Mom and then later it's an abduction situation we've seen situations where Ransom note
is left when no intention of giving the person back returning the person was was
ever involved in the mo for the criminal so these things are always complicated for law enforcement we need to point
that out as we go through this because they're showing up on the scene and it sounds
like we only have two people responding to this scene and we're talking about of a vehicle death
a roadside death here and or like we said this is a very small community but this is a tragic accident there should
be more law enforcement involved here's the other issue too you have your one witness
he tells you that well the the two people that were in the road they were at a party they were drinking well where
were you I was at the same party I was drinking um and the the person in my vehicle was
was there as well right away you go oh all four of you came from the same party well first off
that's a little weird but not out of the realm of possibility here's your other question
you know the other guy that was in the road okay where is he where might I find him so I can get a statement tonight
from him right I'm not saying that anybody's done anything wrong here I'm saying this could be a an accident a
horrible accident but I need to get a statement from that individual as well I don't know where he is he he fled when
we call when we called you guys he fled he took off okay well where may he be and oh by the way
who was hosting the party that you all came from I need to talk to the person hosting the
party I need to get a list of names of people that attended the party I can get that I would want to get a list of names
of people that attended that party from the two people in the vehicle the driver
and the passenger I would want to get a list of names of people at that party from the other guy
that was in the road supposedly in the road with Jason passed out I would want to get a list of names of people at that
party from the host whoever hosts the party and cross-reference those names and I want to talk to every one of those
people the other problem here with this case and and pointing in the idea that one of the issues I have with this case
is you go while these guys went to the same party are they friends and you go actually they are part of a pretty close
small circle and so this these friends got separated did they attend the did they attend the
party together because if they did then did they leave the party together nailed it that's the
most important thing right there because the rumor mill in this story has been that there were people at that
party that saw these people leaving together okay so here's here's where I have an issue with everything
together or the other problem would be even just leaving at the same time because if you
got two dudes on foot and two dudes in a car they don't end up at the same spot in the road at the same time nope
now if you have four Dudes leaving together all in a car and two of them end up in the road and
one of them ends up run over we have another problem so that's where the statements in the
lack thereof written documentation of these statements gets in the way of a real true understanding of what happened
that night well and I'll repeat we're not saying that these don't exist they're just they have not been
given to the family and when the family has been questioning this questioning this since 1991.
it's a long time the family has received some of the reports in some photos but not enough to
to rally the troops and get another investigation into this case and that's what I think needs to be done
here my problem is that we've talked about this time and time again captain the other killer is time time is the
killer of evidence and a lot of time has expired in this case the the two documents that we have that
we can review the information on there doesn't add up to me the the the injuries as described
does not add up the report of the one witness who is the driver we know that there was a passenger in the vehicle
there's no mention of him in that report at all or him giving a statement and if it's not clear to everybody
the one witness that we have the statement from he obviously has agenda because if it's
not an accident it's murder and he goes to jail and you know I would argue that he has an agenda even if it is an
accident yes given that he's partying that night that's Reckless Behavior in itself because if they were walking
and he didn't see them because he was intoxicated and he hit them he would be responsible for their death
but his story is they passed out in the middle of the road it's an accident because they passed out in the middle of
the road they're responsible for their own death we do have some rumors coming out of this party saying that this group
of individuals came together and left together but there's also rumors that there was a confrontation or maybe
possibly multiple confrontation at this party yeah and this is where the story gets even more wonky because we
have these unnamed eyewitnesses that give different accounts of what may have happened that night at the party
and some of the Witnesses believe that whatever happened whatever type of altercation that may have led to this
took place after these four individuals including Jason left the party together the other version is that some kind of
altercation took place at the party and the four of them left together however Jason left in the trunk
of the car with the other three want to drive her and two passengers the story being here that if it is not
what it was said to be by the people at the scene by the driver of the vehicle and by what police
ended up believing then it is the murder of Jason Bolton covered up by running him over with this
vehicle and what we need again is the statements from the people at this party because
what what the rumors are and what they have been for all of this time is that uh some type of fight broke out or a
disagreement took place prior to the four of these individuals leaving and then come Sun up one of them's Dead one of
them is being identified by a family member at the county morgue and the other three are sleeping safe
and sound at home in their beds and just so we're clear we have some individuals
at this party saying that they didn't see confrontation so if there was a confrontation it must have happened when
these guys left together then there's another group at that party that claims that there was a
confrontation but that confrontation to happen at the party yeah and it's very weird here too with the coroners report
Captain because one of the things that the state in the coroner's report is that an autopsy was not conducted
however it stated that a toxicology tests were conducted on the decedent and in the toxicology report it's reported
that the alcohol was found in his system as well as Xanax Xanax was also reported
by others or rumored to be part of the evening's festivities if you will for that party
but I find it a little curious that one would not conduct the autopsy but then send off for the toxicology report it's
almost like well if we can confirm that he was intoxicated then that further bolsters their store for their
backs up their story right the of of the statements that we did get the statements that we did take that night
he was messed up and he laid down in the middle of the road it would make more sense to me if you're
sending off for for Toxicology to also conduct the actual autopsy this is a small area as you pointed out
Captain this is not an area where they're overrun and can and have a backlog of of people
that they need to conduct an autopsy on the the other issue and this is one thing that is good
this is this is a horrible story but one thing that is good here is that back in
the day and in this this was true for damn near every County in the this country
but at one time you had coroners and then at another time a lot of that started morphing into you had medical
examiners instead of a corner well the coroner system under the corner system you don't have to have any
medical background at all you're you don't have to be a doctor in fact most of them were not doctors especially in
rural communities and they were simply either elected officials or they were appointed
officials and we saw that with the boys on the tracks case with with your boy Fami
Malek and and all the problems that that created that he was not uh in in our opinion certified or or he would not
hold that position today oh right and then after his his bad reporting they just gave him a
raise and uh gave him a promotion shuffled him off to a better job great job Mr Bill Clinton so here in this
situation we have a very similar situation now I don't know what the credentials of this Joseph E Todd are
but what I do know is he's not a doctor and I do know that he's a County coroner
and not a medical examiner and so where I say there is some good A lot of that in this country has changed
throughout different states and throughout different counties in many of those States and and I I can't get into
all the complicated problems with the old boy the old coroner system uh yeah but his report might not be that
far off true but but his report is not telling us what the intent was and and the intent really becomes from those
eyewitnesses at that party if you tell me Well we had three guys that left but if you tell me that we have eyewitnesses
from that party that said four individuals left but one of them was put in a trunk
just just that alone you're gonna tell you're going to have law enforcement tell me that somehow they released that
guy from a trunk uh one of the other passengers get out they decide to walk ahead uh
far enough ahead that they get drowsy and they decide to fall asleep in the middle of the road
far far enough ahead where the the driver and the other passenger then hit them when they're lying in the road none
of it really makes a lot of sense and and then so when you have these eyewitnesses saying hey they all left
together yes we don't have statements from everybody but the statements from the
driver what is he staying saying happen is he just just outright denying what the eyewitness has said and that's why
there's so many questions in this case and I just don't think it's fair for the family at all you're exactly
right and I think that's where in fact the problem lies right you are right Captain this corner his report goddamn
could be the best that he could do however the report what's clear to me is incomplete
and furthermore I what I suspect happened here is that law enforcement arrived on the scene they interviewed
who was left at the scene and took their statements and chose to believe them and did not investigate any
further yeah this case is so wonky donkey Dicky Wicket and I think that very quickly had they gone that step I'm
not even going to call it an extra step because it's the appropriate step that should have been taken had they just
taken that appropriate step I think they would have found some Witnesses that would have had statements that
would make you that would either completely contradict Mr Grimm's statement or would make you question his statement
because again if the four left at the same time this should not have happened it that car was not going slower than
the people walking if they left at the same time in the vehicle together this should not have happened how did the two
guys end up in the road and scratch that how did Jason end up in the road because
I don't believe the other dude was in the road at all if all four of them left together in the vehicle right and then
the other version of that story is the four of them left together and Jason Bolton was in the trunk of that car he's
a freaking hostage he's a he's abducted by this point and he's 16 years old yeah and if law
enforcement actually believes this [ __ ] story that they're putting out then like I said they owe information to
the family in the community and and case closed right but you haven't provided that information you provided some
but I I also don't think it's fair in a sense to say well this is uh this is the report that the police gave
us and maybe that was the report at the time that doesn't mean that there's other police officers that have been
involved in this investigation or in this investigation that think that there might be more to the story but they just
can't prove it I mean if you have individuals fleeing the scene and you're not you're not able to
question them at that time or later on when you go to question them they're not giving you any information
it could be simply we think we know what happened we think parts of this story are [ __ ] but
you gotta be able to prove it right and I think that you are spot on with 99.9 of that statement and the only part of
it that is weird is I think that you know you're using for a lack of a better term investigation what it looks
like to me and I think you will agree with me Captain is not much of an investigation at all and two people on
the scene two law enforcement officers on the scene that night I mean this is horrible it's a 16 year old kid that was
run over it's horrible if it's an accident it's even more horrible if it's a murder but
either way he deserved the family deserves more than two Law Enforcement Officers
showing up and trying to figure out what happened because like we've said over and over you don't have to be the
smartest person in the room you don't have to be the smartest person at the scene but
if we were law enforcement and we showed up to that scene and we think we both uh you know find
ourselves to be very intelligent and most of the time we think we're right about everything
but we still would call for backup would still call other people in to investigate this crime scene or
this accident scene and we would get that list of names of the people at that party List names of the people at the
the scene that should have been at that scene and we would go and talk to each one of them and that's where I think
that there's well would also try the beer and and give it a three and a quarter star three and a
quarter bottle caps and I think they did question some of these people but where
are the reports right where are the statements if if this in fact is an accidental death that's all public
record uh especially at this point but it should have been public record to the family
at that time as soon as that that determination was made and as soon as there was no investigating going on and
had that been the case look here's the problem that you have with a lot of these cases okay boys on the tracks
there there's another very similar story of some adult males that were killed in
Oklahoma lying on railroad tracks here the narrative is that two boys were lying in the road in all scenarios the
the the boys are men are to be passed out so high or so drunk that they just fell asleep in a location that would end
up with one or two of them being run over by a train or by a vehicle right and the problem with these stories is
that if in fact it is ruled an accident we've seen this time and time again you rule something in accident it's very
difficult very difficult for people for citizens to go in and get that changed to go in and get that ruling changed
because many often the time Captain you're not going to get an additional investigation or even an
investigation until you get that changed and the problem here is that nobody questioned this
the family just like boys on the tracks in Arkansas just like the story in Oklahoma
family questioned it later keep in mind they are mourning the loss of a loved one
they are shook to their core they're not thinking clearly they're not questioning Authority
in the moments the minutes the hours after the death of their loved one no they're hurt they're heartbroken
and there's no media there's no newspapers there's no reporter sniffing around going uh you know this is
something that we should report on because it was a murder it was a homicide no with an accident they
typically write it up in the newspaper once they tell the story on the news once and everybody starts the grieving
process and then we move on so then there's no documentation when you try to go back back retroactively
and figure out what may have actually have happened there there's there's nothing for you to
review yeah because it's possible that this was an accident it just didn't go down the way
the person responsible for the accident is telling us it went down because think about it maybe he left oh
these guys were being [ __ ] so I let them out of my car and they took down the road they took off down the road
well we stayed in our car for a while and drank some more booze and and did some more pills and then we took off and
I passed out at the wheel but I think there's a bunch of stuff in this case that would easily be able to tell us
some answers one did they go to the party together right did they leave the party together when they left
um where in the vehicle were these individuals like you said if two took off on foot
and two took off in a car well did they leave at the same time or not and then also why don't we have a
statement from the other boy that supposedly was passed out in the middle of the road
exactly and again I'm not to just keep going over the same information here why was the party never investigated why
were those individuals not statements requested from those individuals because there's only two law enforcement
officers that showed up and they didn't call anybody else and it was late they got tired you know they decided to lie
down in the middle of the road and take a nap hey you can't call anybody in we'd
have to pay them the other thing too here Captain is we have the time of death listed at about 3 A.M uh what we
do know based off of information that we've received is that it is believed and underlined this a couple times
because it is firmly believed that an hour to possibly closer to 90 minutes expired before
9-1-1 was called so one why the delay two well you have to have a delay to get your story
straight right two according to the information that's out there is that the the caller did not give their name okay
I get it panicked situation but if this information is correct and you've had 60
to 90 minutes you should not be full-on Panic at this point you've had some time to recoup before you called so
the name of the caller was never given and I guess the description of where they were to respond to this accident
was incorrect as well now that could be completely coincidental right that could
also be uh another measure taken by the perpetrator of somebody who's trying to cover up other crimes you got two
scenarios here as far as the 9-1-1 calls if this is called in like you said 90 minutes later well if it's called in by
a passerby Maybe that's the reason why the location wasn't correct because it wasn't from a local
then that means the person that ran over wasn't the caller wasn't the caller so unless they're injured beyond the
ability to go to a phone and call right that's another big question mark and here's the thing too Captain I I
want to try to really direct this the the direction that I think that this should should be
heading here and should have taken it should have headed in 1991. maybe call more than one officer to come well but
on top of that I don't I don't necessarily look at this and go well this was a police cover-up I think that
this was just not investigated I think that they responded to something else and I think that they believed
when they arrived what they were hearing and I I think oftentimes when you are told what the
call is and you are racing towards a scene and you're told why you are going to that scene sometimes you already make
it up in your mind that that's what I'm going to see and witness once I get there and I think they hear this the the
one witness statement maybe two but we don't have any record of a second witness I think they believed it and I
think that they didn't do any type of investigation to confirm or refute the information that they were given by
people at the scene and I think the toxicology report then backed up what they believed happened
so I think that this is not a police cover-up I think this is what you you have uh criminals and in a murder that
took place and the criminals covered it up and unfortunately law enforcement fell
for it yeah I agree with you on on some level but I I do think there's there's two paths there's there's the path that
law enforcement gets there there they're told this story they buy it for the most part
this is the story that then they are able to explain it away to the family but that doesn't mean that there isn't
doubt in their mind but but if they went down two rabbit holes one let's go down
this rabbit hold that it's accident okay we got all this information let's go down this rabbit hole that it possibly
was a murder well I thought I think because of the eyewitnesses fleeing and not talking to
them and not talking to the people at the party the invested the investigation just doesn't go anywhere it hits a dead
end so it's uh but it sucks because I I think they left way more questions for the
family than answers exactly that's exactly right and again to point out another problem here in one that's been
corrected the corner is not in a medical examiner in this situation we do know that this coroner has come under Fire
more than once for his findings or lack thereof currently his term is over and he cannot be re-elected and in fact the
laws in Indiana have changed and now require uh that the person in charge to be a
licensed medical examiner if you want to further understand the intricacies of the problems of an elected coroner or an
appointed coroner versus that of somebody with a a degree someone that's a doctor someone that's a licensed
medical examiner I would encourage everyone to check out the cadaver king and the country dentist a true story of
Injustice in the American South that is by Radley Balco and Tucker Carrington they they spent a good deal of time
explaining the problems with that situation in other situations throughout this country and in fact primarily in
the in the South now according to a website that unfortunately does not exist anymore
and I don't understand why it doesn't exist anymore but per the justice for Jason Dale
Bolton website the cause of death at some point was changed from accident to quote unknown or
unknown cause end quote with the investigation listed as ongoing but from what we've been told Captain
even though that has been changed I don't know when that change occurred to me I believe it was around four to six
years after the death so to say investigation ongoing I see here in 2023 and I I don't there
is no investigation that is happening in in Jason's case no and that's where I think to me this
leans more to the idea that law enforcement shows up maybe they buy part of the story they're doing
investigations eventually as more and more of the story comes out more and more rumors from locals come out that
they they do look into it more enough to say well this could this could have went
a different way and this and this might be a situation where it's not an accident but this could be a situation
where it is a murder but we just don't have anywhere else to go and until somebody comes forward and one of these
individuals comes forward and says well actually you know I I didn't pass out on
the road so his story couldn't be true because I wasn't passed down in the middle of the road
well and and to not I don't want to keep comparing this to other cases but a case
that many of our listeners and if you're tuning in for the first time I'm sure you're more aware of this case than you
are of Jason Bolton's case but look what happened in the west Memphis 3 case we know that in that case you had three
boys three victims three eight-year-old boys and even at the time when they are missing and then found dead
several of the parents were not even interviewed by law enforcement right and and I get it they are looking law
enforcement on that day well they were looking at the parents as victims and they chose not to interview some of
those parents right well then that became a big deal in that case many years later when people started to
question the convictions that they got in that case and we learned that somebody like Terry Hobbs wasn't
interviewed formally by police until what was it 2007 and the boys were killed in 1993.
well like you said in this case we have the cause of death it's changed years later
but I don't see evidence of in 92 93 94 I don't see evidence of them working any kind of Investigation right
and that I have a problem with that I don't think you have to get it right right away
and we're all human so we make missteps yep but go back double check your work find these individuals that you weren't
able to talk to and talk to them you know there has to be with with such a small community and so many people
involved because as far as we know other than Jason we believe that there's another
three individuals at that crime scene or accident scene so where's the investigation well and
the thing here too captain and many look many great people over time has said a a
similar quote in different ways but I believe it was John F Kennedy who said that an error only becomes a
mistake once you refuse to correct it and that might be what we have here in the situation they made an error as you
said they're human like the rest of us but going back and refusing to correct it is Injustice and your job is to
uphold the law protect your citizens and when you when you cannot protect them from certain evils get Justice for that
victim and for their families I urge anybody look the the individuals that were at that scene that day they
these were all young men back in 1991 they are still around they are still in the state of Indiana
some of them have been up to no good since 1991. I urge anybody with information to
please reach out understand that regimes change over years reach out to the Fayette County
Sheriff's Office you can call them at 765-825-1110 or you can email Sheriff Jones at Z Jones
at Co Dot fayette.in.us [Music] before thanks for joining us here in the garage each and every week thanks for telling a
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This week we cover the strange death and likely murder of a teenaged boy from a rural community in Indiana. 16 year old Jason Bolton was out with people who he thought were his friends. The group attended a local party. What happened at the party is up for debate. By the early morning hours of the next day Jason will be dead. Supposedly, Jason and another boy both intoxicated decided on their walk home to lay down in the middle of the road and they both fell asleep or passed out. According to the witness (the driver) Jason was run over to avoid running over the other boy. We will tell you the problems with this story, the investigation or lack thereof and why the facts of the narrative just don’t add up.

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Brief Summary

Jason Bolton's 1991 death is ruled an accident, but family believes it was murder; hosts discuss investigation flaws and seek justice.

Key points

The Power of a Letter. A heartfelt letter reveals the tragic story of Jason Dale Bolton's death.
The Mysterious Death of Jason Bolton. Exploring the circumstances surrounding the death of a 16-year-old boy.
The Groin Injury Revelation. The victim's groin injury raises serious questions about the accident's nature.
Eyewitness Accounts in Question. Conflicting statements about the party and the events leading to the accident complicate the investigation.
The Time Factor. Time is a critical factor in this case, affecting evidence and witness statements.
Injustice in Investigation. The investigation into Jason Bolton's death raises serious questions about law enforcement's actions.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

My brother was killed at the age of 16 years old.

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