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[Music] crime oh it's you oh it's you w it's you [Music] 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 Mahoning Borman
Ohio Borman is a suburb directly south of Youngstown in the early 70s life in Boardman 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 akan
Beacon Journal the headline nothing was normal the weekend of slanging 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 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 blazoned 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 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 bino didn't report their son missing until Saturday afternoon
apparently due to a misunderstanding about whether he would stay overnight Friday with the templ MS 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 from Boardman that's right three murders three kids all 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 unsolved Boorman Ohio
[Music] murders it's you it's [Music] you it's you that was one of the trailers that we
we had for our four-part series titled the Boardman murders that we released last year starting with Part One
released in the last days of March 2022 that series episodes 567 to episode number 570 on your true crime garage
radio dial if you want to go back and listen to those now if you have not been paying attention to the Boardman murders
case out of bardman Ohio located in Northeast oh Ohio there have been significant updates in this case we are
talking Long Island serial killer sized updates in the Boardman cases when we featured the True Crime Story We honed
in on three unsolved homicides in bourman Ohio from the early 1970s the three we focused in on were
the murders of Thomas be he was 15 years old who was attacked when walking home on the E evening of December 4th
1970 he was found either slumped over or lying on the ground with severe head injuries he would later die from those
injuries the next unsolved homicide that we covered was that of 12-year-old Brad
bolina Brad was last seen walking home from his friend's home on the night of March 31st
1972 Brad bolo's lifeless body was discovered found in a dump 5 days later on the morning of April 4th
1972 we discussed the Youngstown Vindicator newspaper article the infamous article that everyone in
Boardman thinks of when they hear the name Brad Bolino and how could anyone forget the headline read refu man makes
Grim Discovery and right there on the front page of the newspaper for everyone to see including kids that happen to
look at their parents reading the paper or the newspaper sitting on the kitchen table a large black and white photo
positioned above the fold on the front page the picture showing two Boardman police officers both obviously quite
cold standing outside standing next to a small dumpster now that boy's body is in
that dumpster the killer had placed him there the dumpster was partially filled and Brad's body was covered over with
cardboard boxes and waste eventually Brad's case just like Thomas be's case went cold the third case that we
featured in the four-part series was that of David Evans he was another Boardman boy age 13 David went missing
on Friday January 17th 1975 David like Brad was a little smaller for his age but David was a
mighty little man now oddly enough and this is just one of those haunting parts of a story that just sticks with you
little David was actually last seen by his own father so David was seen at approximately 6:00 p.m. by his father in
the neighborhood where the Evans family lived father sees son and talks to son David at the intersection of Stillson
place and withers's drive this is just about two dozen houses away from the evans's home David told his dad that he
had checked out the ice on Boorman Lake to see if it was thick enough to skate on but found that it was not so he was
on his way home David never made it home isn't David diabetic David is diabetic and required an insulin shot every 12 or
so hours with the paper stating that he would been due for his next insulin shot
the next morning at 7:30 a.m. before breakfast at 11:30 p.m. on the night that he was last seen David's redk knit
hat was found at Stillson place in Withers Drive intersection so this is very near where his father last saw the
boy snow was trampled in about a 3-ft circle around this hat this winter hat and let's remember David was shy and
reserved especially with strangers and his parents didn't think he would willingly go off with the stranger so he
is not the type to Hitch rides we talked about in our original coverage that Brad
Bolino was quite the opposite very going very adventurous and was known to hitchhike for 6 days Volunteers in law
enforcement searched for David Evans on the ground and even in the air with a helicopter from the National Guard sadly
the search ended in a bad way on Thursday January 23rd David's frozen body was found in the bushes of a
parking lot at the northeast corner of Market Street in Borman Poland Road routes 7 and 225 four respectively the
location is approximately about a half mile or so from where Brad bolo's body was found in the dumpster now the
question 50 or so years ago when the homicides took place in Borman was could these three homicides be related all
connected to one another or committed by the same per or perpetrators well with one murder it shocks the community when
you have another body it starts shocking that whole region and so then law enforcement and armchair detectives are
going to start looking into the similarities of these crimes and the differences of these crimes to see if
they're connected and these cases really became especially that of Brad Bolino really
came became almost something of urban legend there in Northeast Ohio and it makes sense I mean these this is how
horror movies start off a child on the streets disappears and then days later is found dead now there were
similarities in these cases but there were also some differences as well and the similarities would be that you have
three youngsters all males walking home in the evening or nighttime and then they are found two of
them found dead one of them found severely attacked so Thomas be lost consciousness
he was found unconscious beaten about the head and when they recovered him they took him to the hospital the story
of his attack seems to be quite different than the what could have happened to David Evans and what could
have happened to Brad Bolino with Evans and Bolino there weren't any real theories
at the time here you have a missing kid goes missing for several days and then is found
placed almost somewhat concealed in both situations where where with Thomas bar he's kind of lying out in the open and
he's found and the story that went along with Thomas Bear's case was that he had
been jumped by some older boys or boys his age and again the similarities here would be the ages Brad Bolino David
Evans 13 and 12 years old Thomas Barett 15 years old and one thing that's that's
very strange about this case here Captain is child victims but they're different there is a significant
difference in the victimology in my opinion here you have Bolino who's 12 Evans who is 13 both of these boys you
would say that 15 is not too far of a stretch from 12 to 13 and then Thomas Barrett who's 15 however what we
actually have here is Bolino and David Evans were quite small for their age these boys they could have Bolino could
have passed for eight Evans could have passed for 10 and Thomas bar very much 15 years old going
on 16 so somewhat of a different victimology there but you can't get over the fact that all three of these boys
are walking home at night by themselves and it's very rare for a community of this size to experence ER the homicide
of three children three male boys within the course of less than a 5year span well like you
said you have two of the victims that were concealed and then one that was not that raises the question is that a a
difference in these cases or did the perpetrator does not get a chance to conceal the other body exactly and
here's the thing too Captain what we have here is what our findings were when we looked into this case and this was
one of those cases where we had the opportunity the rare opportunity to spend more than 10 days or two weeks on
the case we did this in a four-part series span over two weeks so that allowed us to one dive into this case
and be very thorough with it well in advance leading up to that two weeks but also gave us an addition
7 to 10 days to review everything that we had so we were really able to focus in on this case the other thing too we
were able to get a hold of the police file for the David Evans case well like you said some of these cases became
Larger than Life they became folklore so when you normally have cases like that let's take a missing person case like
Mara Murray or you take the Amy mahalic case a lot of information starts coming out about the victims their families and
possible suspects well and when you have multiple victims multiple crime scenes there's a lot to explore there and then
on top of that you also want to try to figure out a are they connected or and B why 50 years why do we have a child
homicide that that goes unsolved goes cold for this many decades and then oh by the way we got two more that happened
in the same area around the same time and so that is something that really needs to be explored now what our some
of our findings were was there there's some weird portions to this story first Thomas be
homicide they said that from from day one now mind you he did live for several days in the hospital before passing away
but Brad Bolino very obvious homicide the poor boy was found with a belt wrapped around his neck discarded
in a dumpster and very obvious signs of homicide and the injuries and so on and so forth clear now with the David Evans
portion not so clear his diabetes and the required insulin shots made this a rather tricky case
and this was for the experts not just us here sitting in the garage the coroner had decided that he
died of natural causes basically he dies due to his diabetes and not getting the
necessary insulin shots right and the police department Boardman PD God bless them look nobody's perfect people make
mistakes we're fallible we're human beings I get it coroner sees something makes a scientific
assessment and comes up with the conclusion that oh he died due to the diabetes Boardman police department they
go back to the corner and say not so fast we see a lot of reasons why we think this is a homicide we we want you
to change your ruling from natural causes to homicide why because that gives them
that provides them different resources to investigate this as a homicide now ultimately they do not get
that reversal on that decision what happens is Boardman PD they decide we see reasons why this is a
homicide let's go back to the the scene of where David Evans is last seen by his
father we talked about this when we covered it when you find that winter cap on the ground in the middle of the
intersection snow around it trampled over and you have a boy that the parents and the teachers and everybody are
saying no no no this kid would not have just got into a vehicle with somebody you find that cap in the
streets because somebody snatched that kid off of the street so you have signs of an
abduction you have him missing for days before his body's found and then on top of that he has some significant injuries
to him there was some kind of hole or puncture Mark in the in in the small of his back there was also he had a broken
wrist now what they were able to determine is that the broken bones occurred after he was dead and so what
the police are are saying is look this kid didn't die of these natural causes and then break break his own arm trying
to hide his own body this body was concealed he didn't crawl into the bushes to try to stay warm he
was 20 houses from his house walking home he would have just went home and this is not a kid that ran the
streets so the police are saying we have reason to believe that this is a homicide and God bless them they kept it
marked as that labeled entitled as that for their efforts going forward regardless of what the coroner said now
we agreed with law enforcement here and went against the coroner and said yeah we see every reason why this is a
homicide now had the person that taken this boy not intended to kill him one could make that argument we
don't want to make that argument but we could we could see how one could make that argument but at the end of the day
when you abduct somebody hold them captive and then deny them the necessary medicine that they require to
live that's a homicide and that's what bourman PD was [Music] saying this show is sponsored by better
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wafting in the wind [Laughter] stinks there were significant updates in this case as we said now typically for
longtime listeners you know that we would put these updates on our other show off the Record now the reason that
we did not include these updates on off the Record quite simply was when the update in the Brad Bolino case
occurred we were on Hiatus that was when we were on a bit of a break we were transitioning from the stitcher Premium
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device if you haven't already go check out our other show off the record I'm telling you you're going to love it you
can check it out for free there is a free trial period that you can do if you just want to have a little taste yeah so
back to our findings and and a lot of people had this theory that the bino case and that the David Evans case was
connected that's right but we we highlighted it circled it in red and underlined it
about 10 times because we reviewed the information and we couldn't everything leaned toward they should be connected
that they were very likely connected now we get this huge update we're talking about the Bolino case we covered and our
four-part series came out roughly on the 50 year anniversary the 50-year marker of Brad bolo's case being cold and we
called it cold because that's that's just the common terminology to use but really truly and we had not confirmation
of this but some suspicions of this that this case bino's case was being worked pretty good pretty
regularly behind the scenes in in a kind of a quiet closed door Manor that Boardman PD never really gave up on the
Brad Bolino case so this update comes out January of this year late January when
WKBN first news27 reported the update in the Boardman murders cases and they State here
Boardman Township Police announced Tuesday they believe they know who is responsible for the 1972 murder of a
12-year-old boy in a press conference Chief Todd w said they believe Joseph Norman Hill a
former Township resident who died in 2019 in the state of California is responsible for the April 1972
strangulation death of 12-year-old Brad Lee Bolino worth credited former Chief Jeffrey Patterson who reopened the case
in 2001 and sent clothing of Brad's to the state Bureau of Criminal Identification and investig
that had DNA on them that did not belong to the boy after a series of tests that
took years through several private firms and Ohio BCI investigators were able to
link Joseph Hill to the crime worth said BCI says there is 98.2% probability that Joseph Hill's DNA
is the DNA that was found on Brad got him I'm going to step outside of the this article just for a second to
clarify why it's not a more significant match okay 98.2% very close to being 100% right
close enough for me keep in mind Joseph Hill had already passed away by the time
the DNA had led them to his family tree right and Joseph Hill lived in California in 2019 when he died and he
was cremated so they were not able to exume Joseph Hill and collect his DNA what they were able to do is trace this
DNA through family trees which led them to Joseph Hill being a 98.2% probability that the DNA found on
our murder victim belonged to Joseph Hill so how significant is this to this case well it's extremely significant
because ultimately they're going to close the case based off of this now now the as to the significance of the
probability 98.2% I don't have any quotes from the scientists to to tell us how many you
know out of how many millions or billions or trillions of people that means that we can Whittle it down to
Joseph Norman Hill but what we do have is the law enforcement experts so we have a quote from the police chief that
says we believe there is sufficient evidence that if he were still alive we would present
this case to a grand jury and then we also have the Mahoning County prosecutor who said that her office
reviewed the file and also believes that the case would be taken to a grand jury
and the prosecutor praised the work of the investigators saying that they never abandoned the case and stuck with it
over the years as DNA technology advanced and she's exactly right and and I believe the the chief is right too you
here you have the police chief and the prosecutor saying if this dude were still alive
we'd take this DNA evidence along with everything we have in the file and we would take it to a grand jury let the
grand jury decide if we are charging this guy with murder and taking his ass to court she goes on to commend the police
and their work that they did saying over 50 years had gone and they did not let it go they didn't stop one of the
reasons worth said that he went public was because police want to know if any other people in the township ever
had any contact with Joseph Hill he said law enforcement in California were also
looking into other cases to see if there is any link to homicides that they have
after Joseph Hill moved from Ohio to California yeah that's interesting and then we have another officer his last
name is cesic he said at this presser that Joseph Hill's name never came up in the
investigation and in fact he was never he wasn't just never considered a suspect his name did not appear in their
case File and so they're announcing to the public back in January not only are we
finally able to close the Brad Bolino case but on top of that we are asking anyone who may have in information about
Joseph Hill please call our detectives the Boardman detectives at 33726 4144 and we've seen law enforcement do
this quite a bit in other cases they go on to discuss the crime a little bit here in this article saying the boy's
body was found at about 8:00 a.m. Tuesday April 4th 1972 in a trash container behind I Ley on Boardman
Canfield Road a tan belt was wrapped around his neck and his clothing was in disarray investigators said he was
sexually assaulted before he was killed this is really this this little part of the case has always intrigued me yeah me
too when we covered it Captain we spent a good deal of time 20 or 30 minutes or so of of that garage episode pouring
through the inconsistencies in the story about Brad Bolino being missing and also
the inconsistencies involving the evidence surounding this homicide one of those inconsistencies that we discussed
was this belt so they find him with this tan belt wrapped around his neck it it was the
belt that was used to kill the boy and it was reported that this was a child-size belt and we where we had the
the discrepancy was with the items that was found with the boy and there were two
versions of that story one version is that he was found without a belt so leading to the possibility that the the
murder weapon actually belonged to the boy that it was taken off of his person and then used to kill him the other
version of that story was Brad bolina was found with a belt on and also this belt was found on him wrapped around his
neck right meaning that it wasn't his belt correct and so they did a lot of investigating on this belt which which
leads me to believe that probably the ladder is true that he was probably found wearing a belt or at the very
least police take the belt to bolo's family and parents and say was this the belt that your son was wearing and they
say either he didn't wear belts or no that was not his belt and it was definitely a child-sized
belt but if he in fact was wearing a belt or if Brad if this was not his belt then you have to wonder did this
killer was he driving around looking for a victim with his preferred murder weapon that he came prepared to do what
he did to that kid and we know that they spent a significant time investigating the belt
because there were there was a there's a mall in the area back then and they went
to that mall looking and trying to find if they could find any anything that stood out to anybody like did you see a
grown man in here buying a child's belt and he's he's without a child when he's buying the belt no I get that but as a
parent you buy a lot of things for your kids without them being in the store with you did anybody did did somebody
write a check for a belt something that we can trace back to the purchaser and ask that person questions so they
investigated the belt it's still kind of an outstanding part of this case there they've not really clued Us in on
exactly what is the truth here but most of the indicators are that it was not Brad bolo's belt they go on to
say in the article the Mahoning County coroner at the time Dr David binki said in news reports the boy's death was
quote the act of a degenerate end quote Boardman police said they had some leads
immediately after Brad bolo's body was found but they also stated what they termed quote phony
information you know we talked about the inconsistencies in the stories and this
is what they're addressing here at the presser which they said was hampering their investigation there was some
thought remember we discussed this well Captain there was some thought that Brad's death could be connected to the
1970 beating death of 15-year-old Thomas be of Aton Avenue who was found December
3rd 1970 on Lake Park Road badly beaten he died of his injuries 10 days later worth said police will reexamine the be
case as well as the case of David Evans 13 whose body was found in a parking lot
near us 224 and Market Street in January 1975 a few days after he was reported missing
worth said an autopsy showed that David Evans died of natural causes and be death was also different than Brad's but
police will check the cases again to make sure there is no connection with Joseph Norman Hill two days after Brad
was found Township police chief David Hartsock told reporters detectives had quote two good leads to pursue the belt
used to strangle Brad was also sent to the state Bureau of criminal investigation for analysis a neighbor
told a newspaper reporter that Brad was a gentle boy with a sunny disposition Brad had been at a friend's house on
that Friday that he was killed in investigators estimated that he had been dead for about 48 to 72 hours before he
was found police said Brad was last seen April 1st hitchhiking but the mother of
the boy Brad was visiting said that that had to be a mistake she told a reporter
Brad had been at her Applewood Acres Home on March 31st and was allowed to stay until 9:00 p.m. but about 7:30 p.m.
that evening he called for a ride when his father didn't answer the mother of Brad's friend said he then left this was
one of those parts of the story that that we had to examine as well because there were several
people not just this one person that said hey the following day after this kid was already missing I saw him trying
to hitch a ride there were a couple reports that had said that they had seen him playing basketball or out riding his
bike and so there was a lot of speculation and controversy a little bit going on at the time there in Boardman
of people not agreeing on exactly when Brad was was killed well one I think because you
have a younger victim it's a shock to the community and then the manner in which
he is found is a double shock so law enforcement has to do like a double due diligence because of the like you said
this becomes like folklore instantly well in the article gives us further insight into that of the Killer and
continuing on the police chief said that Joseph Hill was a truck driver who drove
for a local water Bottling Company he was 32 years old when Brad was killed and then moved to California in 1978 so
keep it mind Brad was killed in 1972 Joseph Hill the killer moves from Borman Ohio to California in
1978 roughly six years later right Joseph Hill again he died in July of 2019 in a nursing home in California and
as we already said his body was cremated the police chief worth and Captain Al K the police chief worth and Captain Al
kesich chief of detectives both said at the pressor investigators were able to get DNA samples from hills family
members some voluntarily and some through quote other means they go on to state that there was
never a link between Hill or Bolino that investigators could find Brad was found
about a mile away from where he was last seen C basic said the autopsy of Brad found that he had an undigested meal in
his system which means he died quickly so those rumors and those statements of people saying hey I saw this kid after
you're saying he was last scene and prior to you finding him deceased in the dumpster those were either just flat out
false or as we suspected when we went through the information that it was probably people that were
really trying to help and if you see a kid I mean this is a neighborhood this is a town a city that is filled with
kids and boys Brad bolo's age these are people that probably just really wanted to help and there's that other human
side too when the when it's reported hey we're looking for this kid we don't know
how or where or when exactly that he went missing we need the The public's help there's that that natural human
side of us that want to go well you know what that kid he's probably out running
the streets we don't want to think that evil snatched up this kid and did something horrible well the chief is
going to give us some insight because based on the autopsy they believe that he died within 2 to four hours from
leaving his home yeah two to four hours from leaving his friend's home and then on top of that they were able to use
some of the items were found in the dumpster to really narrow that down as well so we have the mother saying that
Brad Bolino left the friend's home at approximately 7:30 right and what we will have from police and this is stuff
that we did not learn until 50 years later but what they were telling us Captain is that based on the items that
they found that had been thrown away and this this was not trash and waste found
on top of the boy that the killer had thrown in there to try to conceal the body from what police could see it
looked like the boy was killed very likely in the in the Killer's car or at least elsewhere and then driven to this
dumpster placed inside and then just left and then the people th this is a busy area this is almost the center of
town but this is not that far from where Hill worked right this is not terribly far from where Hill lived or where
Bolino lived or or where uh the friend lived I mean we're we're talking about everything here is
within less with a one and a half mile radius really if you if you want to get down to it and so they're what they're
saying is that we found trash items that were discarded by the businesses that were closed by midnight that night and
and not just closed doors locked and everything cleaned up thrown away and then employees gone byby for the day and
they're saying that trash that they found on top of the boy unfortunately was trash that would have been discarded
that night before anybody would have left those businesses so they were able to base it off of that and then take it
a step further with the autopsy with the science and say this undigested meal in
his system means that he died relatively quickly after leaving his friend's home
because he ate that meal at the friend's house right so they are saying chief of
detectives cesic telling us two to four hours those other sightings of Brad Bolino just they were not correct uh
they go on to tell us in the in the article police interviewed several people over the years and used search
warrants to get DNA eliminating people one by one now some notes from that news conference
again the the information that is new here the digested meal in his system wasn't such new news to us that was
something that we talked about when we covered it that was something that had been fairly well reported over the years
the news there was was the trash and how they went through all the items in that
dumpster to try to come to a conclusion of When Brad would have been placed in that big
receptacle so 2 to four hours after leaving the residence of his friend when he was last
seen 7:30 p.m is placed in the dumpster absolutely before midnight that's new information because based off of what we
were told before he could have been killed and kept elsewhere before being placed in that
dumpster but it sounds like no that's not the case right makes a lot of sense the other interesting thing too the take
away from that press conference that news conference is no connection to the Bolino family and after the news
conference the chief of detectives cesic and chief worth they stayed and they answered any questions that the public
or media might have regarding this case and the the big break and finally closing this case and one of those was
time and time again again but I think three or four times they were asked to clarify that there's no connection
between murderer and the victim yeah to me it and correct me if I'm wrong here but to me the connection is the area yes
and so it's like especially during that time uh during that age period that bino
was in you'd walk around town you'd ride your bike around town there was a lot of
things and and parents didn't keep a super tight eye on on on everything that the kids
were doing I'm a child from the late 80s early 90s and there was less supervision
then I can only imagine in the early 7s and and and personality Brad Bolino was known to run with his friends to ride
his bike everywhere he was known to hitchhike rides now at the time and the Bolino family
really shut down right where you have other cases where you see parents stay in the media and stay at the Forefront
of the investigation and be the face of their child victim for for the investigation that was not so much the
case with the Bolos and I think a large part of that was I think they took on a lot of criticism local and even beyond
the city limits of Boardman of maybe they weren't great parents maybe they weren't supervising
their son enough and this is what happens when you don't look after your kids I can understand people we've
talked about this dozens of times here right when somebody kills a kid it's a crime against that victim it's a crime
against that family it's a crime against other children and ultimately it's a crime against the community and the
community wants its pound of Flesh if they cannot find the perpetrator they want somebody to point to and say this
is wrong and this is what happens when people don't do things the right way and I get it yeah it's they want to hold
somebody accountable and so since we don't have uh a solid suspect you know they start pointing the finger at the
parents I mean you see this in in a lot of cases I get it these cases are supposed to make you angry if they don't
make you angry You Ain't Human you don't share the same heart that the rest of us
have you don't have the same soul that the rest of us have so I get it but at the end of the day the only person here
to blame is Joseph Norman Hill that piece of [ __ ] he's the killer he took a little boy off the streets and he killed
him and he discarded him in a dumpster like trash he's the only person to blame we got nobody else to point to right
Brad Bolino had gone to his friend's house dozens of times and come home perfectly happy and healthy dozens of
times and regardless let's not victim blame either who knows did did Brad Bolino stick his
thumb up in the air that night to get a ride who knows and who cares because this guy went out that
night looking for a victim in my opinion if he's driving around with that belt the belt that we knew we now know killed
Brad Bolino and belonged to Joseph Hill he went out looking for a victim that night and
unfortunately whether Brad was snatched off the streets or stuck his thumb in the air and hopped into Hill's car we
now know not only the result but who is responsible right now some other things in that presser in that news conference
that were follow-up questions that didn't make it to this article right again they are
saying no connection to Brad Bolino and this is something that I'm underlining for a reason here because I want people
that haven't followed this case to understand the level of Praise that Boardman PD deserve in the Brad Bolino
case 50 years they never gave up on this case 50 years they never gave up on this
kid and we know that in 200 one they started doing their DNA and physical evidence work and in
fact I can tell you behind the scenes the porch light project reached out to Boardman PD years ago and said we want
to help you with this case we want to fund DNA genealogy work on this case because we
think that it's going to lead you to the guy that committed the crime right and Boardman PD said thank you
you guys are awesome but no thanks why we we are already doing what it is that you are offering to do well it's also
rumored that they're not huge fans of James rener so they go on to tell us that they thoroughly investigated if
there would be any kind of connection not just from Brad from victim to perpetrator right but Brad's
family and they said there's no connection to they you know Joseph Norman Hill had a had a son and his son
didn't go to the same school as Brad they didn't know each other the families didn't attend the
same church there is they didn't live on the same street or same neighborhood there was Zero connection from this
monster to the Bolino family and the reason why I'm underlining that is be is to remind everybody that this case
didn't take 50 years to solve due to a lack of effort we've seen it time and time again
when you have a stranger on Stranger crime there is virtually nothing to link the perpetrator to the
victim other than this scientific evidence that we had to wait on technology to catch up to this physical
evidence and so goodbye the uh Boardman PD for sticking with this case for so long and they also tell us too captain
again remember they're asking the public for help for information about Joseph Norman hill now that we know that he
killed a kid in 1972 that he raped and killed a child in 1972 we need more information on this
guy because what else could he have done so they tell us he owned a gold Monte Carlo at the time and while there were
many reports into the police in that file from 1972 none of the vehicle descriptions
match that of Joseph Norman Hills vehicle at the time now keep in mind they are not just asking people in
Boardman Ohio for information about Joseph Norman Hill they're asking people everywhere he moved to California in
1978 they're asking people in San Bernardino California for information about this guy as well because he lived
there for 40 years before he passes away and they go on to tell us that he lived
in 14 different residents and after moving to California they do state that we have very little information on
Joseph Norman Hill uh one partly because he moved out to California and according
to bardman PD they were saying that they believe he moved out there for work reasons but the
reason why that they have very little information about Hill here in Ohio and in California was that he had very
little family history we know he was married we know he had at least one kid but it seems to be a very small family
and and maybe he came from a very small family and his wife came from a small family so there's not a whole lot of
people to fill us in on the blanks in this guy's life his wife passes away in 1993
and interestingly enough one thing we discussed in our coverage last year was the the rumor mill it had all always
been rumored that the police were pretty certain they knew who killed the first victim or had or had a decent idea of
who may have been involved right in the Thomas bear homicide they kind of confirmed that at
afterwards when they're doing some follow-up questions this was really interesting to me because this is
something we were not clear on when we did our coverage so somebody directly asked them at the conference any chance
Joseph Hill killed Thomas beard and police say right there the chief and the chief of detectives tell the persons in
the audience the facts of that case do not match up with the facts of the Brad Bolino case and we believe this is their
words and I'm I'm kind of uh summarizing what they said paraphrasing paraphrasing thank you
welcome the the facts of the two cases don't don't match up there's there's not very many simul similarities in the case
but then on top of that that we believe we kind of know what happened to Thomas beard based off of the police file and
based off of the evidence and information that police were able to collect at the time of the of Beard's
homicide right but but the one part that is key here is they were saying that while bar was in bad shape from this
attack a lot of health problems with this this attack and unfortunately we know that he he would later die in the
hospital that he was at one point in the hospital able to communicate with police
now this might not be verbal he may not have been verbal and able to tell them who his attacker was or attackers were
but they said that he was able to communicate with them maybe he was able to write it blink sometimes they do that
you know answer the questions blink once for yes twice for no he was able to communicate to them that he knew his his
attacker or attackers um and that I'm guessing captain that that probably carries a lot
of weight with the investigators based off of information that they've already collected leading them to believe that
these two homicides are probably not connected now they did say too you want to talk of the effort not just the years
spent trying to solve the Brad Bolino murder case but the resources too the time and the man power woman power
people power on this case and the money that I had read somewhere that they had spent 29 or over
$29,000 to solve this case this is just for money used for test testing physical
evidence and Outsourcing that to the private sector but what they had said in the after this
presser was that the $29,000 in cost or or more than $29,000 in cost to solve the case it sounds like that was the
cost over the course of just a handful of years I had always believed that that was the money spent on this case for
test starting back in 2001 when we know that they were Outsourcing testing this physical evidence right but it sounds
like this is the money that was spent just in a handful years and that this case really started heating up behind
the scenes in the last few years and that some of this information it sounds like they
knew they knew that Joseph Norman Hill deceased was 98.2% the depositor of that physical
evidence that was found on our victim that they knew that for probably several months but we don't get this
announcement until they are able to thoroughly vet this guy or at least attempt to vet this guy and make sure
that what the science is telling them is correct well just again you know not to
harp on that idea but just because the families aren't connected that you know we don't know exactly what hell was
doing in that town and as long as you're in that town you would have been connected you would have seen these
children these were crimes of opportunity that's exactly right but you know what fascinates me and and also
what really Echoes a belief that we have said here on this show a dozen times unfortunately if you fall victim or fall
prey to somebody one of these monsters your case or your loved ones case is only as good as the the police
department investigating it only as good as the detect itive who catches your case only as good as the
detectives sitting at the desk where the case File Falls and here is a prime example of a
good Police Department great detectives great police chief a great force in general working together working very
hard on an investigation and what's so great here is that th this is why you don't give up here's that's what
infuriates me with a lot of these cold cases because you have I could name for you a dozen police departments and if I
can name a dozen that means that there's probably hundreds of them out there that
they have cases that they can tell us yeah we're we're pretty sure we know who did this the perpetrator we believe uh
that did this is has been dead for some time and so we we got other cases we we can't devote the resources and the time
and the money and I get that you have other cases but when you solve a case like this when Boardman PD stands in
front of cameras in an audience 50 over 50 years later in the Brad Bolino case and closes it out and tells us who did
it and he died years ago what that says to people in that community and everywhere watching and listening that
you cannot come into our city and kill someone and get away with it we will work this thing until it's
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Brief Summary

The episode discusses the unsolved murders of three boys in Boardman, Ohio, focusing on Bradley Bolino's case and recent DNA evidence linking a suspect.

Key points

The Abduction of Bradley Bolino. In 1972, 12-year-old Bradley Bolino was abducted and murdered, leaving a community in shock.
Unsolved Murders in Boardman. Three child murders within five years haunted the town of Boardman, Ohio.
David Evans' Mysterious Death. David Evans, a 13-year-old boy, went missing and was later found dead, raising questions about his death.
Significant Update in Bolino Case. Police believe they know who is responsible for the 1972 murder of Brad Bolino.
DNA Evidence Links Suspect. DNA tests show a 98.2% probability that Joseph Hill's DNA was found on the victim.
Community Shocked by Murder. The murder of young Brad Bolino shocked the community, leading to extensive investigations.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

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

Coroner's statement on the investigation into Bradley Bolino's murder.

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