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[Music] crime [Music] a Borman Ohio in 1970 the suburb of Youngstown had a population of about 30,000 people
and that population would grow to almost 40,000 by 1980 in the early '70s Boardman
experienced what fortunately most cities and towns of its size rarely if ever experience the homicides of three
youths the victimology was similar three boys similar in age ranging from 12 to 15 all from similar neighborhoods and
backgrounds and all three abducted or attacked while walking home as the sun was going down or shortly
after all three cases are still unsolved two cases are considered to be very much cold cases the leads have
seemingly dried up over the decades anything left open-ended it appears those options have only been left that
way because they were looked at explored and examined and there either is likely one
if not two results either no evidence to back the theory or we just can't put someone
where they would need to be to have committed the murder or murders however one of the cases is still very
warm and as we hinted at last week one of the cases may be getting warmer as we speak 15-year-old Thomas bar was the
first of three victims he was attacked on his way home and later succumbed to his injuries in December of
1970 he was found by a police officer having been badly beaten by an unknown as salent Thomas was placed in intensive
care where sadly he passes away days later never regaining Consciousness police were never able to
question him about the attack that led to his death Brad Bolino age 12 was abducted on
the last day of March 1972 And he was killed after leaving his friend's house his body was not found until April
4th when a refuge collector spotted his feet sticking up in the trash in a collection B behind some businesses in a
busy section of Boardman the third Boardman boy victim is 13-year-old David Evans who goes
missing on Friday January 17th 1975 all signs point toward abduction his hat was found trampled in
the snow at an intersection in his neighborhood just blocks from his home his lifeless body was found near an
office building his little body frozen stiff sadly the boy died from his diabetes he was abducted and held
somewhere and denied his much needed insulin shots regardless of how he died or the
coroner's ruling he was murdered he was abducted and then died from disease as his captor denied him treatment and then
his body was dumped a of course the good people of Borman could not help but think that
these three murders may be connected maybe even committed by the same person or persons in fact even now 50 years later
the case that is still showing promise of likely being solved the Brad Bolino case detectives have openly suggested
that a break or an arrest in that case may lead to much needed information and one if not both of the other
homicides in early February of 1975 just a little over a week after the Evans boy's body was
found the Boardman chief of police received a letter mailed from the greater Youngstown
area it was double stamped with the word important on the front of the envelope the single page handwritten
letter reads to whom it may concern please don't let that man out of jail and Struthers as he is the one responsible
for three boys' deaths the one that was found along a street that Bolino boy and Evans
boy that 11-year-old girl would have been dead by now if he had gotten away with
it mister as you know one makes just one wrong move and gets caught these kind of men must be kept out of
circulation now I cannot tell you who I am as I want to keep on living someone would kill
me but if he is found guilty I will talk to someone and tell you how I know it may even come as a shock and I
know you won't want to believe me the letter is signed please help save the children
this is true crime [Music] garage well it's been 50 years captain since the murder of Brad Bolino and we
discussed in the trailer the other homicides that we're going on in bourman Ohio around the same time we have three
homicides Thomas bear Brad Bolino and then David Evans and I know there's some debate out there was the Evans case
truly a homicide I'm giving it the old Colonel opinion here and I know that the captain shares my opinion in this you
abduct a child and you deny him his much needed medicine for his disease and then
later dump the body yeah that's uh looking like a murder to me so regardless of what the coroner's
findings were or how the case would move forward based off of the coroners findings what we do have and we
discussed this last week was the police saying look we have a situation with David Evans where everything points to
an abduction so we have to investigate that abduction we have to investigate the The Dumping of of his corpse and so
there's all kinds of charges that can go along with that and they worked I tell you what Captain I give Big Ups to the
Boardman police department they work worked that David Evans case very very hard they put a lot of effort into that
David Evans case and they worked it for many years after his murder and where we
have seen some departments say well the coroner says this was natural cause death looks like there's nothing for us
to investigate here or we have other cases that we have to move on to Boardman still made David Evans case a
priority even after that Coroner's report now one thing that we do need to discuss here today and one thing that we
said we were going to get to last week and then boom quickly two episodes turn into three and then four because we have
theories to discuss we have suspects to discuss that we weren't able to get to but the first thing we need to discuss
the possibility that all three of these cases are connected there has been a lot
of debate over that over the years and over the decades in Borman Ohio we sit here and we're able to retroactively
look back on these cases and of course we know a lot more today in some of these cases than we knew back in
1975 and so we're able to apply some of that information that had leaked out or made its way to the newspapers over the
years and then apply that to what we knew back then and these cases I'm not going to lie to you Captain it's very
difficult for me to sit here and give a strong opinion on if these cases are in fact connected or not if I had to guess
I would probably say no that we have three separate homicide cases here that somebody else is responsible for each
one of these and we have some information that may back up that opinion well probably the best thing to
do is go through each case one by one yeah so we can compare how they are similar but also maybe the differences
and I think the greatest difference that we see here here is probably the first case compared to the second and third
and that being the case of 15-year-old Thomas beard so with Thomas's case what the police were able to tell us well
after his investigation was hot and heavy but at some point the police start to tell us their Theory based off of
information that they have collected in his case so his case the general story has always been that he was found by
someone or found by a police officer he's kind of slumped over he's been beat badly I mean he's got a lot of head
injuries when he is found and unfortunately he's unconscious right so they have to take him directly to the
hospital where immediately he's put into intensive care he strong kid survives for several days I actually believe it
was like 10 days maybe up to 2 weeks but he survives quite a long time but unfortunately he never regains
Consciousness so the police they put this boy in the hospital in intensive care but they are not able to ask him
any questions about who attacked you what happened to you and so they have to speak with his parents his family his
friends and the general story that comes out at some point with the Thomas beard
case is that he was jumped by a group of teenagers and I'm sure you know captain
and I have spoke to a couple different people on all three of these cases the persons
that I spoke to what I was told Captain and I'll let you chime in and you tell me if you heard any different or any
other variation but the general description that I have put together from several accounts was that there was
some kind of fight that broke out at a local skating rink and Tomas is there 15-year-old boy of course that's where
you're going to be having a good time at the skating ring he's there amongst his
peers and for my understanding there's some kind of fight or argument that breaks out at the skating rink or just
outside of the skating rink to which management or whomever Sho the kids away send them off hey get out of here we
don't want any trouble we're not going to have any trouble you guys in here causing all kinds of mischief and
whatnot get out of here and somewhere along the line when he is walking home it has always been believed that whoever
he had a beef with or whoever didn't like him for whatever reason maybe that person and or a group of people caught
up to Thomas at some point where another fight breaks out and unfortunately this
is the result that we have one of the best things about being part of True Crime garage is when we cover these
cases especially when we're doing a a multi-part series is to be able to be contacted by local people that know more
about the case maybe know more about rumors and I was also lucky enough to talk to multiple local sources and to
talk to I don't want to call him a web sluther because he is local to the area Tom carrian I kind of disagree with you
of where would you be when you're 15 skating rink is you're kind of done with the skating rink by age 15 but the the
local rumor was that there was there wasn't a scuffle between Thomas and and multiple kids but one kid and the Rumor
was always that this kid was about 18 which if 15 is kind of on the older end of somebody that would be
at the skating rink 18 is definitely older so I don't know if that individual worked there or had some connection to
the skating rink but like you said same type of rumor well then Thomas goes walking home and and this individual
tracks him down so it then becomes was it was he beat up by a group of people or was it just one individual yes
exactly and that's exactly very similar to the rumor that I had always heard that it was either one person or some
other people caught up with him based off of whatever went down at the skating rink right uh shortly before that and so
the reports I found was he was found about 1 p.m. so well after dark I don't know what time they were all shoot away
or whatever uh the the skating rink let out that night but um yeah the reports I
have show that he was found about 1 p.m. that night think about that scenario now
going forward we covered the Bolino case and the Evans case really well and pretty thorough as much as you can cover
in about an hour or two for those two cases last week and let's do a little comparison
of what we've just said with the be case and cross check that with Bolino and Evans I think what everybody is going to
immediately notice is a very huge discrepancy between M Mo in the be case compared to Bolino and Evans what I see
with Bolino is a case where he very likely may have willingly got into the wrong person's vehicle or he was
snatched on the side of the road as he's walking home from his best friend Don templeman's house and then you go a few
years later to the David Evans case to me that screams abduction because we have his father we have his coach we
have the teachers at school we have his friends kids that knew him that are saying No this kid would not have gotten
into anyone's car willingly especially a stranger so much so to the point saying
that they would be shocked if he would even be willing to walk up to the driver side window to offer directions or help
or anything like that and then we also have to factor in too he's actually the Evans family was actually from New York
and had moved to Borman Ohio I believe about two years maybe two and a half years before David Evans death and so we
talk about hey can you offer me directions this is a younger kid 13 he probably may not know or be able to give
too much in the way of directions the other thing too that I think we always need to remind our small children of is
that adults do not need help from small children and I know David was a little older he was 13 but again we have a
situation where everybody is telling us everybody says no this kid he was standoffish he was more likely to sit
back and assess the situation he wasn't a go-getter he wasn't a risk taker he would have likely not have gotten into
anyone's vehicle and then compound that with the idea that well his mother at 11:30 p.m. that night remember his
father saw him around 6:30 that night as he was leaving to go to his night class
at Youngstown State we have the mother who is then out on foot searching for her son and after he's reported missing
to the police she then quickly finds his hat that he was wearing trampled in the
snow near the same intersection where his father last seen him so we have a situation here where it looks to me like
David Evans was snatched off of the street and probably fairly quickly after he was last seen by his father talking
to his father that night now again 6:30 January in Ohio it's going to be dark or
getting dark around that time so I see a situation here could they all be connected there's a possibility
right there's always a possibility until they are solved but here we have a situation where it looks like there is a
perpetrator or perpetrators of the bar case I'm sorry of the Beed case and they were probably a person or persons closer
to Thomas's age and it was about something completely different with bolo's case whether he gets into a
vehicle willingly or if he's abducted it doesn't matter we know the way that he's
found in that dumpster with the belt still wrapped around his neck and pulled tightly his I mean his trousers are down
around his ankles when he's found that's a very much different Mo in death and very much committed by a different
person than the be case right and and just looking at the bear case initially he's not found in an area that
somebody was trying to conce seal the body no and and the other two cases were so initially when we looked at this I
went okay it looks like uh Thomas was jumped on the way home probably to do with some kind of altercation at the
skating rink or there was just groups of older kids that would you know drive around and and sometimes have
altercations so it could have everything to do with the confrontation at the skating rink or
could be simply some older kids saw him uh driving home and or walking home and and decided to rough him up and it and
it got out of hand so initially I thought well the Thomas case is separate from the two and it seems like in Brad's
case and in David's case they were both abducted and and and possibly in another location for a time
period before their bodies were dumped yes because it's several days before either boy is recovered either of their
bodies are recovered in that situation and as we said with Barrett he's located there that night and as you pointed out
no one's attempting to conceal his body in fact probably his killer or Killers believe that he would survive that
attack when they left him there that night now let's take this a step further okay so be looks completely different
than the other two bolo's case looks to me like a sadistic child rapist killer kind of
situation for Bolino David Evans is really complicated because while I firmly believe that he was abducted and
it sounds like a lot of the guys work in law enforcement a lot of the men and women working in law enforcement and
Boardman at the time firmly believe that as well his case is very difficult because he's not sexually assaulted like
Bolin was he dies from his diabetes from not getting his insulin shot and it's really difficult to sit here and say
what would have happened had he not had the diabetes right because we can't sit here
and go well it would have been exactly like Brad bolo's case he would have been choked and killed and then dump
somewhere we can't say that we don't know that we there there's a chance that his abductor for whatever reason
abducted him and planned on releasing him at some point never planned or never wanted to kill the kid and so there it
gets very difficult to say if the Bolino in the Evans case is connected or in fact how similar they just may be yeah
my issue with the Bolino case is yeah he's found in this dumpster he definitely was
strangled but there's no other bruising really on his body which is normally if somebody's you know beaten
and tortured and then choked to death you're going to see a lot of bruising right and
I don't think that he was tortured there I mean well let's not get into the debate of what torture is I mean
obviously his and this is hard to say his last minutes on this planet were not good
ones at all um but with David Evans we see he has injury to suggest that there may have been some
kind of scuffle that he was in and I think that maybe that took place trying to get him into a vehicle we have some
other injuries to David Evans but we know that some of those occurred after his actual death and I believe that the
broken wrist and the the hole that was found in his back those were made by happen stance by somebody moving trying
to move and conceal his body after he already had past yeah and so like you're saying with with evans's case look you
have bruising because you AB you abducted the kid there's bruising because there was some kind of fight
there was bruising because there was some kind of abuse and then he dies so it doesn't
matter that he died because he needed his insulin you're the reason he's dead you are now a murderer correct correct
it to me denying somebody there their life saving medicine is the same as denying them air right especially when
we're talking about children here so my opinion is Captain that these three are probably not connected if we do have any
connection it's probably between the Bolino case and the David Evans case now going back to the opinion of the letter
writer that we referenced in this week's trailer the person that says to whom it
may concern please don't let that man out of jail and Struthers as he is the one responsible for three boys deaths
the one that was found along a street that could describe Thomas beard the one that was found along a street right
could describe Thomas beard the unfortunate thing for us reviewing this letter is we're not certain that that's
who the writer was actually talking about or referencing the letter goes on to say the Bolino boy and Evans boy so
that's pretty clear that 11-year-old girl would have been dead by now if he had gotten away with it mister as you
know one makes just one wrong move and gets caught these kind of men must be kept out of circulation now I cannot
tell you who I am as I want to keep on living someone would kill me but if he is found guilty I will talk to someone
and I will tell you how I know it may even come as a shock and I know you won't want to believe me again it's an
anonymous letter signed please help save the children you know I know in the bino
case and in the Evans case there were a lot of people in the community trying to
get involved in these cases and trying to help they were phoning in possible tips anything that they thought was
weird anything they thought they saw may have heard rumors that they had heard a
lot of times they were phoning in hey this dude he's strange why don't you go look at him like with no no other
information other than this guy's a weirdo I would take a look at him based off of this information what we're able
to find here and I'm not going to disclose anybody's name but the 11-year-old girl would have been dead by
now if he had gotten away with it okay so what we know happened here in this case is that the Struthers Police
Department they did have somebody locked up for the what they have listed as the
subject tried to attack an 11-year-old girl in Struthers Ohio and the individual that they locked up was a
Caucasian male from Struthers Ohio age he was like 25 going on 26 at the time driving a white or cream colored 1966
Buick interesting thing here Captain was the damaged trunk of his vehicle the police noted that it will not close and
we'll continue to look into this individual and see what came of the this attack on the 11-year-old but for now I
don't know that this Anonymous letter directly links this guy to one if not any of the murders because again
reviewing this letter that was sent we don't know who sent it what information they were basing their findings off of
and then on top of that if in fact they are referencing the Thomas bar case as one of the three being connected well we
have information that suggests other wise that the bared case isn't connected to the other two whether the other two
are connected or not and so there on its face it doesn't seem to hold a lot of value this letter or this information if
you know that these cases are in fact not connected sounds like to me a local guy that maybe heard some rumors or
maybe is just speculating on his own but again the letter gives no evidence to prove that these three murders were
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deflated uh when told otherwise but last week when we did the Boardman case we didn't know going into it that it would
expand to additional episodes no we got so wrapped up in discussing some of the contradictions and some of the
information and again when you have three cases there's a lot to talk about and so it quickly went from two episodes
to what will three and four one way that I kind of judge on how we did because I
you know I don't have 100 listeners standing there going great job Nick great job Colonel please come back next
week no we don't we don't have that but what we do have is our blog on true Crim
garage.com and usually I feel like we've done a great job when I see boom there's
a bunch of people going to the blog and they're either asking questions or they're putting out some other
information maybe that they have found on these same cases or they're criticizing our pronunciation and my
face yes uh it comes under under question a lot that's I'm wearing a mask today but um so I wanted to take this
opportunity because we don't do a four-part series every week and here we had a lot of good information and even
better questions that were put on the blog and at some point I'm reviewing them and I'm like all right answer this
I'll answer that and then I thought you know I can answer them right here in the
garage because a lot of these require a discussion and not just a one sentence answer so I'm going to read a couple of
our questions from our blog all right let's get into it all right I'm GNA I'm going to leave everybody Anonymous but
if you want to find out who wrote These you can simply go to our website and you'll see the person's name or the name
that they came up with when they typed in that question Captain fluger here's the first one according to the autopsy
Brad's last meal was chicken and pineapple which is what he ate at the templen on Friday at 7:30 p.m. it takes
somewhere between 2 to 4 hours for digestion to empty the stomach that makes me wonder where the Saturday at
900 p.m. time of death came from and then I'm going to take this one step further here Captain before we give an
answer uh and some more information here because another person posted a very similar question
this is exactly what I was thinking he was killed on the night he went missing if he were killed a whole day later then
the autopsy would have difficulty determining his last meal it would be digested I think our narrator made a
mistake okay clearly it couldn't be talking about me making a stake mistake yeah it's probably me did somebody say
steak um no the this is both of these are very good questions and I'm glad that somebody pointed out maybe the
narrator made a mistake sometimes things Gets Lost in Translation right and we find that that happens a lot with with
our shows we're delivering information to you sometimes your brain is not so busy but your hands are busy or you're
doing other things we know a lot of people like to listen at work or on their commute and so you're not able to
really dial in at 100% sometimes it's about 95 996 and our listeners are very smart so let's address this
meal against the idea that he was killed the next day so where this information comes from is actually two different
sources first we have the autopsy report now unfortunately the information I have
the coroners post morom report is only four pages long now depending on jurisdiction depending on what county
you are in I don't know whether to say that that's a short report or a long report because Captain we've been doing
this a long time depending on what county if we can get an autopsy report it's all over the shop sometimes you're
getting a report I've seen them as short as two pages I've seen them as long as 29 or 30 pages and it doesn't always
make any Rhyme or Reason Why some are doing much longer reports than others there's there there's not always it's
not like in one case we only have two pages of information to report and in others we have 29 no it's it's similar
it's just how they conduct their paperwork so this one's only four pages long now there's always been a little
bit of a question of a toxicology report in the Bolino case and Captain you brought up the idea of well Bolino while
appears to be like a sadistic murder where he was choked with this belt and we know he was sexually assaulted he
doesn't really have any other bruising or or much in the way of defensive wounds on his person I bring up the
toxicology report because there has been some question you know maybe he was sedated somehow maybe he he took
something or ingested something that somebody gave him and he wasn't in a state of fighting back also without
going into any detail at all because I'm not going to dance in the sickness too long based off of how he's found you can
also make some assumptions he was not in a position to be defending himself greatly at the time unfortunately now
the information I have is that the time of death was approximately 90000 p.m. Saturday April 1st 1972 so this would be
a full 24 hours after he was last seen by Don templeman when he left Don's house on foot and we can assume that he
was attacked or abducted by 9900 p.m. that Friday night because he never makes it home now the information about the
last meal the meal that was found in him that chicken and pineapple that information actually does not come from
the corner that information was from an interview that one of the detectives did
years later and the detective is referencing that oh we don't believe any of the sightings of Brad the unconfirmed
sightings of Brad on that Saturday because we have information that says that his last meal was the meal that he
consumed that Friday so we have a difference of opinion here between the coroner who's saying in their paperwork
time of death 900 p.m. on Saturday to what the detective is saying later in an interview that the last meal was what he
ate at the templen which probably was not at 7:30 because we know that the mom was out and the dad was sick in bed but
regardless it's interesting we got listeners saying look it would have taken somewhere between 2 to 4 hours for
digestion to empty the stomach makes me question the coroner's finding of the Saturday 9:00 p.m. time of death I agree
with the listeners here it makes me question it too if in fact the chicken and pineapple is true because I don't
have that in in my paperwork I've not seen it in writing anywhere I can also assume one thing though too captain that
there's probably some additional pages of this autopsy report maybe not this exact same report maybe there was the
toxicology later along with some of other information and maybe that information that the detective is
referencing is from that report I've not seen so all I can tell you is what the coroner is saying and then what the
detective is later saying so they are two different sources and they seem to have somewhat of a difference of opinion
now the reason why we made sure to include that is that it was intriguing because there were several people that
said that they saw Brad Bolino on that Saturday yeah and now we look back and we're getting other information that
probably suggests that no they were just trying to be helpful citizens they probably saw a boy that looked similar
to Brad bino they wanted to help they're trying to provide information unfortunately this boy was either being
held captive at that time or as statistics would tell us you might already be dead right especially when we
have a stranger on Stranger abduction and it being a youth that's abducted if he was abducted correct that we have a
situation where he was you know often times the the statistics will say that they're only alive for a short period of
time after the abduction takes place based on the way that he's found again he may have gotten into a
vehicle willingly or he may have been snatched off the street based off of the sexual assault the way that the murder
took place the belt the way that he's dumped at some point whether he gotten that vehicle willingly or not at some
point he's abducted it's one of those cases where both uh both can't scientifically be
true but you also wonder what are the added factors and the added hurdles that come with finding the body not until
April 4th when we know that he was uh last seen on May 31st I think anytime that the body is found a significant
amount of time afterwards it makes the coroner's job more difficult I also think that we should Implement A A
system that I've been trying to get passed through the the house and the and the Senate the I created a
machine to test how FY you're feeling and so is this coroner just making a mistake because again corer is human he
could just be making a mistake maybe he meant Friday at 900 p.m. this one is very human I think he actually got into
some trouble years later I think it was some some minor trouble but uh I don't think he was fully on the up and up 100%
of the time well I qu again I question this report because because of the 900 p.m. because the 900 p.m. death makes
sense on when he left when uh when Bradley left and when he would possibly if he was abducted I I don't even know
if he's abducted we have no eyewitnesses that say he was abducted from some white
van #b thean or that he got into some car the sources that I was talking to in the last week and that's another thing
that I love about doing a a four parter or a multiarterial to as many people as we can we have
double that length a lot of people said in that area in that neighborhood there was a clubhouse SLT Treehouse SL Fort
whatever you want to call it that was known to where kids would go experiment with things sexually possibly smoke some
weed smoke some cigarettes maybe drink some booze and there's a lot of locals that
believe you know based on his injuries and even some you know ex law enforcement that
have said when you consider all the evidence and consider that the location in which he would be walking home would
put him in the vicinity of this Treehouse is it possible that he stopped by there to see what was going on we've
seen this in other cases where older teens or older men will pay for sexual favors and so there's a lot of a lot of
people locally and and like I said ex law enforcement that that lean towards the idea that this was um you know a
sexual act that became an accident accident death now my problem with the way they
worded it to me and the way I heard it was that this was that was consensual and like we said bino is 12 years old
you can't consent to this this was this was a rape and this was a murder but but
I think like I said it possibly was uh accidental murder it's an interesting angle again it's always been reported
that it was a sexual assault which is obviously very different than than that and again the a lot of these are it's
you know speculation it's conjecture it's things that we will not know until the person responsible is found right
well my other problem with the coiner report is we have this strangulation with this belt and then they're claiming
that there's no other bruising on the body we just have to take their word for that to me those rumors and the fact
that there is no bruising on his body other than this strangulation points to that rumor makes
sense to me but again I don't know how accurate that this coordin report is and again I'm going to give him the benefit
of Doubt and because of the time period that elapsed maybe his information is just a little wrong and His science is a
little bit wrong again early 70s well and the the other fact too is we have four pages of a report they're very well
they're not numbered you know this is four of seven or this is four of four we have four pages of a report there may
be additional information that we just are not privy to all right here's another question here Captain great
episode again guys we'd love to hear that I was wondering the same thing as the person above about Brad's time of
death also what was the deal with Brad's brother phoning the templeman after 1 p.m. on Friday this was after Dawn was
in bed and then the templeman's driving Brad's route to try to find him did both
both households just give up and go to bed after that I'm sorry if I missed something please do not apologize we
Mercy for listening as we like to say but um no so this is actually part of the conflict right we have Don templeman
Brad bolo's best friend says I kind of remember it differently right the Bolino family is saying due to circumstances
our busy household mom is out of town working dad's stayed out kind of partying the night before and slept in
late and either dad wakes up according to the according to the Bolino corers report dad wakes up discovers that Brad
is not home it's news to him and then he tries to find and locate his son eventually calling the police and filing
a a missing person's report that taking place on Saturday Don templeman his best
friend in an interview that took place decades after the homicide says no I remember it differently I believe I was
in bed I had already gone to sleep I think I went to bed around 10 p.m. at some point Brad's brother calls and says
hey you know Brad never came home to which I believe it was Don's mom answered the phone for that call
according to Don's story and he says that either him and his father I'm guessing him and his mother because the
father was sick in bed they go out and they drive the route they don't see anything unusual they come back this is
one of those difficult things that it's tough to say I want to believe Don I I believe that Don believes what he is
telling us I don't believe that he's giving us a lie or anything like that I I think that he lost a part of himself
when he lost his best friend all those years ago and it may be a situation where he's
misremembering yeah or both stories are true you could you could have a situation where you know Brad's brother
calls because he's concerned hey you know my parents told me my brother's supposed to be home he's not home I'll
just give a call real quick hey has my brother left oh he already left okay well maybe he'll turn up and because
he's the older brother he just goes about his business doesn't doesn't check in again and it's not until the morning
where the Dad's going wait a second did he just never come home right and it's it's I think the part in the question
that we have to really kind of clarify is it sounds to me though based off of all all the information we've seen here
captain that yes you might be right it could both be true there's there's a chance of that the templeman could have
went out and briefly looked for Brad that night didn't find him return home and go to bed for whatever reason but
it's always been the Bolino family story that they were either not aware that Brad was missing until the following day
or they didn't actively search for him yeah but maybe Brad's brother never told his parents no that's what I'm saying
that that it's we're basing this off of everything that we've seen the BOS are saying we were not aware that our son
was missing until sometime before noon on Saturday right and again you're right the brother could have called but Mom
and Dad didn't know that he was missing until that Saturday that's something again we just will not know we will not
know what is the actual truth and in looking back on it it might not really matter but if you're going to call into
question and be skeptical of the people closest to the victim then it then it probably does matter quite a bit next
question here Captain we have is my parents were good friends of Brad bolo's parents sadly both have passed away
before ever seeing their son's case solved they lost touch during the 80s and didn't see each other as often also
I heard he meaning Brad was on his bike when he went missing I don't recall if it was recovered I was too young to
remember or know very much but the facts I've shared I believe to be true and the
writer goes on to say last Applewood acres is around 2 to three miles from behind Boardman Plaza where Brad was
found the perpetrators would need a vehicle for sure yes so uh we we had said that too
that we believe that there's a vehicle involved in this situation we believe that it would be an ADD crime scene to
what we already discussed because of the distance between of again we don't know
where he was taken from or where he got into a vehicle or where he went uh between leaving Don's and the time that
he is killed but as far as the bicycle goes I had heard that rumor too okay I had heard that rumor too but I had never
seen it in print and why is that important because we have very quickly what we said was a scary fact in the
case that after Brad bolo's body is found his parents come out immediately to the newspapers and to the police and
they're saying you know our son unfortunately had hitchhiked in the past and we warned him about getting into
Vehicles especially with strange people we told him not to hitchhike and then we
have Don templeman his best friend who says yes all of us kids hitchhiked back then he said myself included he said but
Brad seemed to do it more often than other kids our age and so now let's go back and go okay well was there a bike
because that is a key piece of information in my my opinion because if there was a
bike there would a couple things would have to happen one I think he would be less likely to hitchhike right he's got
a bike to deal with right two if he did hitchhike or he was abducted well where's the bike
and we know his parents regardless of what story We Believe maybe they're both true people were out searching for him
before the police were called the police never mention a bike they never mentioned finding a bike not being able
to find a bike his parents never mention a bike and furthermore they also tell the paper not
just was he known to hitchhike but when he arrived at Don templeman's house and this is based off of the templeman's
information and Brad Bal Brad bolo's family's information they say that he arrived at
the templeman house around 12:30 that Friday to hang out with his buddy and they specifically say in that
article that he either walked or hitchhiked to get to the templeman right then we know that they hang out they
play basketball they're up in the attic for a while they're having a good time and at some point Brad Bolino has to go
home and so unless he had a bike there with him previously from another hangout session yeah or or he borrowed Don which
for the last 20 some years Don has never mentioned that his friend borrowed a bike correct so while we've heard that
same rumor and it's an interesting one to ponder and it was one that I really tried to get to the bottom of the best
we can say is that the templeman's and bolos based off of what they said to the papers and to the police at the time
they give all indication that Brad AR at the templeman that day before he went missing later that night on foot and if
anybody wants to go back and reference what we were just talking about with the hitchhiking you can find that
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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. Are these cases connected? Who are the suspects? Find out in the Garage!

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Three unsolved murders of boys in Boardman, Ohio, with connections and differences explored by the hosts.

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True Crime Garage Introduction. Hosts Nick and Captain introduce the episode and the featured beer.
The Mystery of Boardman Murders. Three unsolved homicides in Boardman, Ohio, involving boys aged 12 to 15.
The Bolino Case. Discussion on the Bolino case and its similarities to the Evans case.
Anonymous Letter Warning. An anonymous letter warns about a potential predator linked to multiple deaths.
Conflicting Autopsy Reports. Confusion arises from conflicting reports about the time of death and last meal.

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