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talk some true crime [Music] oh it's you oh it's [Music] you it's you you the great state of Ohio has 88 counties
for this week's True Crime Story we head to Mahoning County and to one of 14 townships in Mahoney Borman Ohio Borman
is a suburb directly south of Youngtown in the early 70s life in Boorman was changing changing how its 30,000 or so
citizens felt about their Town Borman was a safe town and a great place to raise a family but was that still true
who could be sure and with the story we are presenting this week you'll see why parents started implementing stronger
curfews demanding to know their children's whereabouts and telling them to not walk alone and even in a group
always to be looking over your shoulder 50 years ago this week a 12-year-old Boardman boy Bradley Bolino was abducted
in murder his case remains open and not for a lack of effort the Boardman Police Department did
everything in their power over the course of five decades to find Justice for Brad and the Bolino family they have
tried everything every resource even calling on other law enforcement agencies for help and yet the person or
persons responsible remain a mystery the following is from The acran Beacon Journal the headline nothing was
normal the weekend of slang and the article reads normally when he left his best friend's house after an afternoon
of playing basketball Bradley Bolino went directly home normally Don templeman's parents drove Bradley the
several miles to his home normally Bradley 12 would be talking to Don on the phone the next day setting up
another rendevu for basketball talking or walking but Easter weekend wasn't normal sometime after he left the
templeman house house at 7:30 p.m. Friday Bradley was sexually molested strangled to death and stuffed into a
trash bin where his body was discovered that Tuesday Morning his body still bore
the red white and blue jeans and the T-shirt with the devil made me do it and blazed across it that he was wearing
when he left the templ MS quote if Brad left here after dark we would drive him home said Mrs templeman but Friday I I
was shopping and my husband was sick so Brad left on his own Dawn didn't hear from him
again Bradley's parents Mr and Mrs Joseph Bolino didn't report their son missing until Saturday afternoon
apparently due to a misunderstanding about whether he would stay overnight Friday with the templ mins the coroner
investigator stated quote we hope to be able to pinpoint the time of death more accurately when our lab tests are
complete the headline was right nothing was normal that weekend not for anyone in Boardman and it would be a long time
before things would start to feel normal again because unfortunately this was not
the first of its kind for Boardman and sadly it would not be the last Bradley's murder was sandwiched right between the
murders of two other boys from Boardman that's right three murders three kids all in in the span of less than 5 years
as one writer from Boardman put it there was a dread a pale that hung over the community for some time that period of
time for the community was one of distress and horror evoking the words of Buffalo Springfield he wrote There's
Something Happening Here what it is ain't exactly clear this is true crime garage and this is the true crime story
of the still UNS D Boorman Ohio [Music] murders it's you oh it's [Music] you oh it's you oh it's
[Music] you it was 50 years ago this week that a boy walking alone was abducted and his body
was found just days later it was Easter break with no school on Friday March 31st
1972 adults were stuck in their normal routines but for kids time off from school meant extra time with friends
12-year-old Brad Bolino was well well liked and had plenty of friends but he had only one best friend one that stood
out and well above others on the old friendship ranking scale this was Don templeman to say that the two were close
would be an understatement they were classmates together sixth grade at Boardman Center Middle School they both
played baseball and were teammates three years running if they weren't at school
or playing baseball they were together with sleep sleepovers nearly every weekend this Easter weekend was supposed
to be a lot of the same but remember nothing seemed normal that weekend now leading up to Brad's
disappearance he and Dawn spent most of Wednesday evening together then again Thursday evening there was no school on
Friday on Friday March 31st around 12:30 p.m. in the afternoon Brad left home home to go to Don's house Brad was told
to be back to his house at 8:00 p.m. here's where things start to get bad so we have Brad's mother she's at work that
evening Brad's dad he's out with friends Don's mother was at the grocery and Don's father was sick in bed so Brad has
to get home so he was going to have to go at a loone and on on foot so he left the templeman's house they lived in
Applewood Acres which was known at the time as a nice upper middle class development he leaves there at
approximately 7:30 p.m. Brad lived on McClurg Road this is a little more than 3 miles away that time of year in
Northeast Ohio the sun sets before 8:00 p.m. Brad will lose a little more of the
light with each step he took toward his home Brad sadly never made it home that night what happened after he left what
unspeakable horror was waiting for him and where well maybe a few blocks to go between houses of you and your friend
but three miles that's a long distance for a sixth grader that it is Captain and it seems like this wouldn't have
been terribly uncommon or at least not the first time that he had made the walk either from his house to Dawn's or the
reverse that he's done this before this might be one of the later times at night
because I think the way that the story has always kind of been told was that the
Bolos they were busy right his father's out with friends his mom is at work and she works kind of out of town so the way
that I've always heard this story Captain was that his mom because she works out of town sometimes would have
to stay overnight and then return on the weekends so the situation is this that I
believe the balenos just thought that the templeman's would drive him home which they had done dozens of times I
mean these boys were were very close and I I think all of us can reminisce and think back to our childhoods when you
have that one super tight friend that you're always just kind of with whether it's for a summer or for a whole school
year but these guys were like this for a couple of years and they would routinely
stay the night at each other's houses on the weekends why Brad didn't stay the night
on this Friday at the templeman is a little unclear and we'll get into some of the
discrepancies regarding his disappearance and in that time frame as we go through it here but it's my belief
that the Bolos thought that the templeman would drive him home and as circumstance would have it with Dawn
mother being busy out shopping and the father sick in bed that this was just kind of a miscommunication and the boy
ends up walking home to get home to be home at the time that his father had instructed him to be there well it could
be as simple as two sixth graders making that decision Hey My My Dad's sick mom's
not here well I I'll just walk home no big deal the missing boy story Brad's story was well covered by the Youngstown
area news media one newspaper listed Brad Bolino to be 12 years of age 4' 8 in tall weighing
about 80 PBS so he's small for his age he has blonde hair it's cut below the ears blue eyes he was wearing blue jeans
a blue ski jacket and white tennis shoes with black stripes now Brad's body was found several days later but before we
get to that there is that little bit of confusion that I talked about there's actually quite a
bit of confusion as to what exactly takes place and when this is all during the time frame of when he is missing so
after he leaves his best friend DA's home and when his body is discovered several days later so Brad was not an
only child he had siblings and from what I could find and what I've been told Brad was 12 at the time and he was the
youngest of the Bolino kids so there are older children in the bino home Brad's father was out until about 2 am. that
night and when he comes home he just makes the assumption that Brad was home and so he goes straight to bed and he
sleeps in the next morning Brad's mother as we said was out of town with work so
his father does not notice that Brad is not home until the middle of the day on Saturday the next day
now I want to get into some shout outs here real quick Captain I believe they are in order there's a a gentleman named
Rich comto of 51 weeks.com he wrote the story there's something happening here which we
referenced at the start of the show in this week's trailer his is a slightly fictionalized onp purpose but still a
very good version of the Boardman murder story I recommend that everyone check that out because it's very well done
there is a ton of Truth in his story and he grew up in the area around that time
so you'll get a firsthand sense of the dread that hung over the community and be able to really feel the fear that
crept in and sort of overshadows the young lives of these younger Boardman kids the second shout out is to Carolyn
bardino she is a friend of the porch light project car wrote a piece that is featured on porch's website porchlight
online.org which is titled an exclusive porchlight project investigation the unsolved murder of Brad Bolino so I
encourage everyone to check that out as well and while you're there take a minute or two to learn more about the
porch light project a nonprofit that helps victims and helps to heat up and even solve some Ohio cold cases
porchlight online.org so this next batch captain of information in the Brad case
a lot of it is taken directly from that article carollyn got a lot of other parts and angles to the case that you'll
want to check out but this part was necessary to take from there let's not glaze over the fact that seems like his
dad went out with friends which is no big deal probably went out drinking there's no problem with that but to come
home and not check that your kids are in their bed and everybody's safe and sound
and lock the doors and all that stuff don't really care too much for that seems a little IR responsible and
then not even knowing that he's gone until midday the next day that makes things a little more difficult as far as
the investigation is concerned yeah it certainly doesn't help matters at all so let's get into those conflicting reports
so as Carolyn writes there are conflicting reports from different sources about what exactly happened next
what what is known for sure is that Brad was reported missing the next day at 3:20 p.m. so just a reminder this is
Saturday April 1st 1972 police family and friends spent the rest of the holiday weekend searching
for him later in the article Carolyn writes as often happens with cases that have gone unsolved for decades there are
some conflicting reports in the details because the investigation is still open case files are closed making it
difficult to reconcile some of the facts the first questions that remain are who
reported Brad missing and under what circumstances did he decide to leave and walk home from the templeman's house
local newspapers have published that it was Brad's Mom who reported Brad missing
when she came home from work on Saturday article State Brad was to stay at Dawn's
until 9:00 p.m. p.m. and it is unknown why he left early at 7:30 p.m. other news articles state that it was Brad's
sister Debbie who called police that Saturday afternoon now to complicate matters even
further we have Brad's best friend Don who remembers that over that Easter weekend he and Brad had been alternating
spending the night at each other's houses on the Friday Night Before Easter Brad called home this is according to
Don Temple Brad called home and told his brother he'd be sleeping over at Don's house
that night Don says about 20 minutes later Brad's father called and told Brad no he needed to come home instead so
following his dad's instructions Brad leaves Dawn's home at 7:30 p.m. without a ride makes some sense on why you
wouldn't stay because it is a holiday you know maybe you were staying back and forth when it wasn't a holiday but to
stay to Easter to Easter Sunday might be an inconvenience to your friend's family
well and Brad has always been described as one of these kids that was adventurous you know so he he could take
things on by himself and and go out exploring or maybe maybe stray off the path a little bit but everybody has
consistently said that even though he was adventurous if he was told to do something by his parents he did and and
he he followed through with it so he minded his parents so he's going off of if we're to go off of Dawn's story The
Father instructed him to be home at some point that night not to stay the night and so Brad chooses to leave at 7:30
without a ride right Don then says that he went to bed sometime after Brad left this would be around 10 p.m. this is
where the story gets a little difficult and we'll try to sort this out Don says that Brad's brother called that same
night and asked Mrs templeman if Brad had left because he had not made it home so Mrs templeman tells Brad's brother
yes he has left and he left hours ago so immediately concerned Don's mother wakes
him up and Don says that him and his family drove the route that Brad would have walked back to his house but could
not find him it is unclear at this time what impact these discrepancies have had
on the case but the confusion surrounding the answers may help to explain why it took so long for the
police to be called again Brad was the youngest of four children in the Bolino family and the natural chaos of a
household of six people all on different schedules likely contributed to the delay in reporting him missing now
secondly we have another remaining question with conflicting answers is when was Brad last seen so early
newspaper Reports say that he was seen Saturday afternoon in multiple locations playing basketball on Matthews Road near
dawn templeman's house they also say that he was seen at the Southern Park Mall and at the Dairy Queen near North
Lima later Reports say that the sightings were unconfirmed and that Witnesses may have actually seen Brad at
those locations on Friday and that these Witnesses may have gotten confused because there was no school for the
holiday on that Friday confusing Saturday for Friday well we see that in a lot of cases where it's a holiday
weekend and so everybody's memory everybody's memories seem to be a little confused because of that extra time
period I want to throw this out there too in regard to these these sightings of Brad on Saturday if you'll allow a
captain sure we've reviewed unfortunately this is not our first child abduction and murder case that
we've reviewed here in the garage we've reviewed dozens of these and it's not uncommon for us to come across these
sightings of a missing child at a location hanging out playing video games often getting ice cream you know doing
childlike things or hanging around other kids a day or two after it's believed that they had gone missing right and I
think a lot of that is just the way that we are kind of structured as humans as adults and even as parents where I think
these sightings are just coming about by way of people that really want to try to
help that really want to try to do some good and phone into the police hey a lot
of the way that a lot of these go down is these people were saying you know I saw a boy matching his description over
at the skating rink or I saw a boy that looked like the Bolino kid uh he was playing
basketball and so it's not anybody saying I spoke to to him and it was Brad it's people that are saying you know I
saw a kid that matches his description you might want to look into it well on back in the day when it was nice weather
out or even decent weather out You' see a lot of kids playing every couple blocks you'd see kids on their bike or
kids walking or kids playing out in their front yard or the backyard maybe shooting some hoops this was very common
you know less common today about now because of computers and the amount of interesting things for kids to do inside
and the default setting for as long as I could remember hey stop bothering me why
don't you get on your iPad or jump on your computer or go play video games the default setting used to be hey you're
bothering me go outside and play right and they're being asked this after the fact as we will see because we know that
he wasn't reported missing until 3:20 p.m. on Saturday so by the time that the police are out like canvasing the area
knocking on doors asking adults and other children if they had seen Brad this isn't taking place until Saturday
night Sunday and Monday right and so I believe again these are people that are just trying to help and let's face it a
lot of kids look the same especially when you're given a vague description like did you see a kid that's four and a
half feet tall blonde hair wearing blue jeans yeah yeah I did I've seen several of those uh in the past few days so I
think that helps to explain some of that and and Don's statement here will kind of echo what we were saying earlier
Captain about Brad so don templeman his best friend says this is him saying this
as an adult years years later after he was interviewed as an adult he says the reports that Brad being seen on Saturday
cannot be accurate in his mind he says quote that's impossible he was going home if he had other intentions in mind
like I said we we spent almost every day together for 3 years if he had an ulterior motive he would have told me he
wouldn't have said I'm going home that's just crazy he just wasn't that way if his dad told him to come home he'd go
home and quote totally believe what he's saying I mean obv obviously this was his
best friend they were BFFs right and right but if there was some kids playing outside on his path home
it's not impossible to think a kid might not stop for a minute and shoot some hoops hey I'm on my way home right uh
here's my other buddy let me say hello shoot some hoops and then I'll be on my way but I I think the other thing too
here is yeah I I agree totally with you kids get sidetracked hell I get sidetracked
all the time but squirrel now we have to take it a step further and go that was Friday night did did Brad get
sidetracked enough that he was still not at home by Saturday afternoon you know that's a that's a long time away and I
think what Don is is saying if you read between the lines but he's not he's not clearly saying it outright is that if
Brad was playing basketball on Saturday I would have been playing basketball with him if he was at the Dairy Queen he
would have went there with me you know what I mean he's he's letting you know like yeah he said he was going home if
he was doing a bunch of stuff on Saturday by himself I would have been involved because we hung out all the
time so I think let's I want to address the conflicting stories of you know it was noticed that Brad was missing late
Friday night the templ men go out looking for him according to Dawn that's what he remembers versus what has been
reported in the papers that Brad's father woke up a little before noon Brad's father says he went out looking
for his son son and then when he couldn't find him he called the police so again what we do know the fact is
this Brad was reported missing to police at 3:20 p.m on Saturday that is from the
report taken by the Boardman Police Department so that is fact now the information Don is
relaying again keeping in mind he is being asked this question over four decades later so he remembers one way
it's always been reported a different way Don could be simply misremembering or he could be right in that that
information never made it to the papers for some reason regardless we do know by
all accounts that Brad left Don's house at 7:30 p.m. Friday night and at some point it is noticed by the Bolino family
his own family that he is missing a search ensues and he is reported missing less than 24 hours later at 3:20 p.m. on
Saturday Easter Sunday he does not come home and then his body is located on April 4th so he's missing for a few days
here captain and unfortunately his body is located on April 4th the short of it is he's found in a dumpster then comes
the Youngstown Vindicator article I'm guessing this was an evening newspaper back then the headline line reads refu
man makes Grim Discovery and the article itself reads as follows the body of Bradley Bolino 12 of
61 McClurg Road missing since last Friday night was found stuffed in a large Refuge container behind a store at
Borman Plaza about 8 A.M today Boardman police chief David Hartsock confirmed the identity after he was called to the
rear of the Isley Dairy Store at 263 Boardman Canfield Road quote we do not know whether there are any wounds in the
body because we will not remove it until the coroner's investigator arrives end quote it is the Bolino boy he said when
asked for confirmation we have the coroner's investigator said it appear feed that the body and the boy had been
strangled with a belt that was still around his neck when he was found he ordered the body to the Southside
Hospital for an autopsy according to Chief Hartsock he said Paul Smith an employee of the
sanitation service went to pick up the Refuge container and spotted the body in the debris at about 8:00 a.m. he called
the Boardman police police Smith said that the boy's feet were showing and he touched them to see if it might be a
manin but found it was the boy's body and then it goes on to say it appears that the body was fully clothed the
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the air this is a case Captain that's not well known it it was it was covered well in the local newspapers at the time
Brad's homicide and abduction and it's not one that is really well known on a national level and you can find this you
can look up the Boardman murders it's called a bunch of different things the Boardman boys a lot of times they people
were only covering Brad's case but it's one that that's covered covered a little
bit but not well known in the True Crime Arena so I'm happy that we are covering
this one here today this was one that I had always wanted to cover but as everybody will see it's quite the
complicated story and I'd always shied away from doing it but with with the anniversary with the 50-year anniversary
of Brad's unsolved homicide coming up this week I felt you know there was no better time to to cover it and if we
were going to cover it we we better do it now and so I had to track down a lot of different information get a lot of
different people involved to provide information because there's just not a bunch of it out there easy case to
relate to cuz how many times did you spend hanging out with your best friend and and then having to leave their house
and to go home whether it's on bike or foot or or their parents take you home or your parents pick you up it's just
it's um it's an easy case to resonate in inside oneself yeah and I rode my bike as I remember you doing as well we rode
our bikes damn near everywhere when we were Brad's a age and but I will say this even though I walked a lot of
places I don't remember ever walking anything like like this distance I think one time I missed the bus and rather
than telling my parents I decided I would just walk so I wouldn't get in trouble which was kind of dumb because I
show up like an hour and a half late right home so it's obvious what happened so I think that's the only time I
actually walked that distance the rest of the time would be on a bike and I couldn't
imagine you know being 12 you know just how dark it may have been at some point during the course of his walk the other
thing too is we don't know how far he made it into that walk all we know is he didn't come home but we have to remember
that Brad is only 12 and so he could have maybe made that uh Trek multiple times on a bike and
this was the first time that he decided he was going to walk it and sometimes you start thinking well it was it's fast
to get there on my bike and then when you start walking Jud yeah and you go oh well this is a lot further than I
thought so you can tell by the Vindicator article that we read just before the break that this is obviously
a homicide Brad's body was discovered he's discovered about two miles down the road from Don templeman's house in a
dumpster behind a Dairy Store in bourman Plaza the dumpster was partially filled
and Brad's body was covered over with card board boxes and other waist Brad sneakers were sticking up at an
angle and his striped pants were undone According to some reports and pulled down below the hips his head was in a
downward position and a belt was tightly fastened around his neck we are going to
have an autopsy conducted Brad's body was brought to the Southside Hospital in Youngstown and a postmortem exam was
conducted by Dr David Blinky the cause of death was strangulation and he had been sexually assaulted now I'll read
some from that report that gives a description of the events as they were reported or understood by the coroner so
unfortunately the youth was admitted Dead on Arrival to the hospital at 9:25 a.m. on April 4th it was stated by Paul
Smith remember he's the sanitation worker that while preparing to empty the trash container at 7:55 a.m. into the
trash truck he discovered the body of the deceased in the trash container this container was behind the Isley Dairy
Store which was located at 263 Borman Canfield Road Borman Ohio it was stated by the manager of the Dairy Store that
that container had been emptied on Friday March 31st the body of that was of Bradley Bolino lying in a partially
filled trash container then covered over with cardboard boxes and waste from the
Isley store and possibly from the attacker the body laid in the container with his head in a downward position and
a belt this is 1 in 1 and 1/8 in wide and the belt size is listed in the corners
report as size 22 to 24 listed as fastened tightly around his neck the trousers were pulled down below
the buttock present at the scene were the Boardman police department and the corners photographer and the Boardman
Police Department photographer all necessary photos were taken and the body was then removed to the
hospital this is going to add a little bit to the confusion but I think this to me clarifies a lot lot of stuff that we
were questioning earlier and I I like that this was included in the coroner's report it says
Joseph Bolino so he's the father he's Brad's father stated he last saw his son on Thursday afternoon at 1M so this
would be March 30th when the deceased left for the Southern Park Mall the deceased had also asked permission to
stay overnight at a friend's house W Donald Templeton there must be a typo here because they spelled his last name
wrong so this would be a Donald templeman the deceased was told by his father that he was to return home by 400
p.m. on that day the deceased then called his father and asked if he could stay longer Mr Bolino agreed that his
son should return home at 9 p.m. on Friday March 31st Mr Bolin went out the evening of the 31st not realizing his
son was not home he had returned home and went to bed about 2: a.m. he awakened at noon and and then discovered
that his son was not home he then became concerned and called the templeman's home when he discovered that the
deceased had left the night before he began a search he then called the Boardman Police Department to report his
son missing it was stated by Donald templeman that the deceased had left his home Friday night at about 7:30 p.m.
Donald hadn't seen him since at this time the attacker is still at large one very key piece of information here
Captain besides the belt information that we went through is the coroner was able to determine an approximate time of
death and on the autopsy he writes that the approximate time of death was 900 p.m. April 1st 1972 so basically the
evidence that we have so far is that we believe that Bradley was 2 miles from where he left Don's house and and that
he was murdered on that Friday no they're putting the time of death the next day
the next night in fact so the time of death is as we know is always very important to know and again it's it's
incredibly good for the investigation regardless of the confusing Parts before that they were able to narrow this down
to approximately 9 p.m. on Saturday so he leaves Don's house at 7:30 p.m. on Friday now later years later retired
Boardman police chief Jack Nichols said it's unlikely Brad was seen Saturday remember those supposed unconfirmed
sightings of Brad on Saturday right I would I would assume that if he was captured by whoever murdered him would
have done so like you said on his way home Friday night and then you just wouldn't see him uh body being placed
there sometime Saturday and the police chief is adding add additional information to what we already covered
in the autopsy that supports this theory that Brad wouldn't have been seen because the chief goes on to say that
the meal that was found in his stomach at the autopsy was chicken and pineapple this is confirmed by all to be the
dinner that Brad ate at the templeman's residence on Friday evening so it seems likely that Dawn his best friend was in
fact the last person besides the killer or Killers to see Brad alive right but if the coroner's report is
accurate where the hell was he from 7:30 p.m. Friday until his death on Saturday
at approximately 900 p.m. that leaves like 25 and a half 26 hours unaccounted for which leaves the possibility of an
unknown location where Brad would have been held for a period of time and essentially the time period could be
longer than that because unless they're giving us information that they believe he was murdered where he was dumped
right and it doesn't sound to be that way I mean the kid's found upside down in the dumpster with the murder weapon
wrapped around his neck he would have had to have been killed right before being tossed in or killed in the
dumpster if he was killed on site so we've discussed this many many times here in the garage and in these types of
homicides it is very very to have up to three maybe all the way up to five or so
crime scenes the problem is not understanding that the problem is locating the crime scenes for the
collection of evidence so because the coroner is saying that there is this lengthy amount of time from the
abduction to the murder time we have a lot of time to account for so it is very probable that he was held elsewhere
overnight well we have the location of the abduction right we we know that somewhere
between Dawn's house and Brad's house he was basically a three three mile radius
yeah so somewhere in that three mile radius we have crime scene number one the location of the abduction then we
also have the location of where Brad was held that's another crime scene and then
the body recovery site the dumpster behind the Dairy Store that's another crime scene but to get Brad from
crime scene one to another location to where the B's recovered from that's going to recover some that's going to
require some form of transportation so was Brad transported to and from and how was he transported to and from was it
via vehicle well then we are now at four crime scenes or possibly five crime scenes if a different vehicle was used
to move him after he was held just to be clear you're saying one vehicle to abduct
Bradley and another vehicle that would have taken him to the dumpster possibly up to that number so that puts us at a
minimum of five crime scenes if that were the case uh if the same vehicle were used we're talking four crime
scenes here now something that I found fascinating Captain comes from the Ohio Mysteries podcast so we have host Steve
and Paula they interviewed a man from bardman Mark Baker Mark grew up in Borman around the time of Brad's murder
and during the course of that interview Mark gave his insights regarding Brad's walk home that night so he says and I'm
going to summarize it here he says that Dawn's area is a really nice area back then it's a neighborhood type setting
Brad's home would have been out in the country so he's walking Country Roads in the Twilight or in the
dark out this is after walking out of that Applewood Acres area where Dawn lives yeah that's that's if we believe
he got that far correct now Mark says if he were to make it you know as far as possible on that trip that for about two
miles of that walk Brad would have been walking along lonely a lonely Highway before arriving to his own neighborhood
and then we have to we have this report from Brad's family that is just I mean it I think it
kind of paints a better picture or gives us an idea as to the possibilities of what may have happened that night after
he left his best friend's house the report from Brad's family that hit the papers after he was found killed says
that Brad would sometimes hitchhike now we know that in the early 70s this was something that was much more common
people don't do that these days and Dawn his best friend says a lot of kids even
little kids their age 12 would hitchhike back then Don says he himself hitched rides on occasion but he said he knew
that Brad hitch rides more often than he and likely more often than most kids his
age so and Don Don points out something that's kind of unique and I think this is something that a lot of us have
experienced when we are when we were smaller kids that he says look Don's my family and my best friend Brad his
family both they were quite different from one another you know Don is one of the older kids in his family and Brad
was the youngest of four and he's 12 and I don't know if anybody else out there has experienced this but when you're
kind of when you're the oldest and you have a friend that is the youngest you see a big difference in the way that
that you're kind of treated by your parents what they expect from you your responsibilities what they think you're
capable of and their fears about their own kids and often my experience has been this I'm not saying all the time
it's this way but often my experience has been this when I've been good friends with with kids that are the
youngest in their family especially when some of them have older siblings that are almost adults or are adults by that
time that the youngest kid is usually like a little more grownup themselves right because they they've done and
experienced things with their older siblings and for longer periods of time than what the oldest out of young
younger kids may have experience so I kind of feel like this is a situation where yeah Brad was hitching rides more
often than his friends would but maybe it didn't seem so strange to Brad and I think the thing that makes this even
more scary is that we talk about well he was going to sit out and make this long
walk by himself well we don't know his mindset maybe his intention was yeah sure I'll just I'll at some point I'll
be in a car and hitch a ride I'll start off walking uh but somebody will pick me
up and and drop me off closer to my house and so I just fear here with Brad's case it seems likely to me one of
two possibilities happen either he was looking to hitch a ride and he got in the wrong car or he was out walking by
himself and a predator crossed his path and saw him by himself and saw an opportunity yeah offered him a ride Don
says that of course he attended his best friend's funeral Brad's funeral he said
that uh he saw that's where he would see Brad's father for the last time he he did say that you know our families even
though the two of us were close our families weren't close and he with him all the siblings being older and his
siblings being younger they never really crossed paths after that uh about the funeral he says it was crowded standing
room only as all of the kids from their school all of the parents and all of the
teachers were in attendance and a lot of people in town that didn't even know Brad Bolino or know the Bolino family
attended because it just I mean it just hit this community very very hard now some evidence that you say he he was is
strangulation homicide by strangulation we believe that you know based on on the
autopsy the eyewitness report there was a belt found around his neck yes that is fact there was there
was a belt found wrapped around his neck so we know that we have the victim uh and we have him found with the murder
weapon now is that murder weapon his own belt I I hate to chuckle there because there's no reason to do so other than I
already know that that's a very difficult question to answer so from my notes I'm going to try to
give you as much information on this belt as possible because we're often reviewing these cases where there's no
murder weapon recovered so you have a whole mystery there here we have a situation where we know what the murder
weapon was we recovered it when we recovered the victim but there's still some mystery around the murder weapon
itself so the coroner's report indicates that the belt around his neck was size 22 to 24 and was 1 and 1/8 inch wide and
I hope I'm saying that right so so it's a it's an inch and an eighth wide now this is a small belt it's a child's siiz
belt I'm not going to pretend to be some kind of fashion guy and understand exactly what size 22 to 24 means but
I've looked it up and I've confirmed it is a child's belt and I also know that it would not fit me of course the origin
of the belt could be significant and police had hoped that it would lead to a suspect
and this is where you're going to see some differing opinions here police believe that the belt was purchased at
JC Penney's department store but could never pinpoint an actual location which JC penni's there are conflicting reports
about whether the belt did in fact belong to Brad the Bolino family says that they could not confirm whether it
was his they showed the belt and they said you know it looks like a belt that he may have had we cannot say 100%
certain that it was his some news reports say that it did belong to him and I think the reason why some
of the news reports say that it did belong to him is because Dawn says that after his buddy was found he's brought
in and asked a whole bunch of questions and he's trying to help police as much as he can he says he too was shown the
belt and Don says yes this belt belonged to my best friend Brad now here's gets confusing we have the friend saying that
the belt belongs to Brad we have the Bolino family saying we don't know for certain but we have the cops right we
have the cops out searching for where it was purchased from now that indicates to
me that they seem to have reason to believe that it that it did not belong to Brad right like it was a newer
purchase right or or or maybe the purchase whenever it took place could lead back to the Killer
you know maybe they wrote a check for it or or paid with credit card or something
of of that nature but again they're able to they're able to figure out that it came from a JC Penney's department store
which I don't think those exist anymore but um they're able to determine what what brand or franchise of store that it
come from but not the exact location of which store now to confuse matters even more there
are some reports that say that Brad was found with a belt with this belt around his neck but also he was still wearing
his own belt so it's really difficult to believe here there are some reports that
indicate that the color of the belt was tan so the best info I can give you I think it's I think personally if if I
had to decide which which is difficult to do not given enough information here if I
had to decide I would think that this belt may fit Brad and so it seems likely to me that the Killer is an adult and
may not own a belt this size and simply took it off of his victim I mean much like if you were to attack somebody in
their home and you grab a kitchen knife out of their kitchen Block in their kitchen and use it at the scene so it
seems to me that it might be like more likely that it did belong to Brad and we do have Don saying that he believed that
it was Brad's belt but again it looks like there was a an effort there to find out otherwise so maybe police have some
information that they've just not released and maybe they know better on this belt now unfortunately
Captain as we've had to say Brad was not the first Boardman boy to be murdered nor the last in this week's story the
first was 15-year-old Thomas Bard the Boardman youth was found having been spotted by a police cruiser late at
night he was found slumped over on the ground with severe head injuries inflicted police believe this was
inflicted by a blunt object due to the severity of his injuries police were unable to question him Thomas Bard was
found December 4th 197 and when he was found he was in serious condition and placed in intensive care
at the hospital where he died some days later never regaining Consciousness want to thank you all for
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Boardman, Ohio is a great place to live and raise a family. Located in Northeast Ohio close to the Pennsylvania border directly south of Youngstown. Back in the 70’s Boardman was growing but some of the citizens were growing concerned that something strange and terrifying had come to town. Three boys were killed in the span of just five years. This week we take a look at these three still unsolved cases. One of the cases is far from cold the other two well that’s up for debate. The other debate that has always been a hot one, are three cases connected in anyway? Find out this week on True Crime Garage.

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Brief Summary

The episode discusses the unsolved murder of 12-year-old Bradley Bolino in 1972 and its impact on the Boardman community.

Key points

The Abduction of Bradley Bolino. In 1972, 12-year-old Bradley Bolino was abducted and murdered, leaving a community in shock.
A Pattern of Tragedy. Brad's murder was part of a disturbing trend in Boardman, with three boys killed in five years.
Confusion Surrounds Disappearance. Conflicting reports about Brad's last seen moments complicate the investigation.
Brad's Disappearance Timeline. Brad was reported missing at 3:20 p.m. on Saturday after leaving a friend's house.
Tragic Discovery. Brad's body was found in a dumpster, leading to a homicide investigation.
Conflicting Accounts. Confusion arises over the timeline of Brad's disappearance and sightings.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

We hope to be able to pinpoint the time of death more accurately.

Coroner's statement regarding the investigation.

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Tension

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