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[Music] oh [Music] thank you Boardman 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 experienced
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 fifteen-year-old Thomas Baird 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 assailant Thomas was placed in intensive care
where sadly he passes away Days Later never regaining consciousness [Music] police were never able to question him
about the attack that led to his death Brad bellino age 12 was abducted on the last day of March 1972.
and he was killed after leaving his friend's house [Music] his body was not found until April 4th
when a refuse collector spotted his feet sticking up in the trash in a collection
bin behind some businesses in a busy section of Boardman the third Boardman boy victim his 13
year old David Evans who goes missing on Friday January 17 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 of course the good people of Boardman
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 bellino 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 bellino boy and Evan's 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 garage [Music]
last year in a four-part series we covered the Boardman murders still unsolved at that time over 50 years
later in the cases of Thomas Baird and Brad bellino and coming up on 50 years of the David
Evans case as well yesterday we covered the updates in the Brad bellino case and
thankfully here today we have updates in the David Evans case as well well for our update we're going to go to The
Vindicator and the David Evans case they have been on this case since the beginning they were the ones that
actually printed the famous pictures of the dumpster behind the stores that's correct and we know how important it is
in these cases for media coverage to get the answers and to find the persons responsible to
keep these stories in the spotlight and keep them on the mines and in the hearts
of the public who might be able to help law enforcement ultimately solve these cases and give these families some form
of closure so we go to The Vindicator or to vindi.com if anybody wants to look this
up and the headline of this article is cold cases cracked in Boardman killer of two boys
and the article reads the previously unsolved murders of two young boys from the Boardman area in the early 1970s
have been solved Ohio attorney general Dave Yost and Township Police announced during a news conference
at the Boardman Township Government Center in the case of Bradley bellino who was 12 at the time of his death
Boardman officials announced that he was murdered after extensive DNA analysis over the course of 50 years in 2001
Bellino's clothes were sent to the Ohio Bureau of Criminal investigations forensic laboratory for testing a DNA
profile was obtained from the evidence left on the victim and over the years that DNA profile was Advanced for
checking against several suspects at the time all of which came back negative this is something that we talked about
Captain when we did our coverage in 2022 we knew that in the Bolino case that they had a list of I believe 15 suspects
right they have to make a short list of suspects I think they whittled it down to about 15 and of that 15 I believe
they had tested nine DNA comparison over the course of the years between 2001 and
then and leading up to actually solving the Bolino case in January of this year and a reminder police saying that no
connection from the killer to Brad bellino so Joseph Norman Hill the perpetrator in that homicide was not
one of those 15 suspects that they were looking to comparison test DNA against if I'm law enforcement I'm putting them
on the list because again it's not the connection as far as like a friend or family connection the
connection would be the community the connection would be the town well of course certainly he becomes a
person of interest and a suspect in the David Evans case but he was not on that short list for the bellino case until
the DNA evidence confirmed and led them to him earlier this year right the laboratory developed several different
investigative Avenues including parabon Labs which we've discussed here on the show several times according to Boardman
police chief Todd worth and with the assistance from the Lee County Sheriff's Department in Leesburg Georgia they were
heavily involved in the scientific and forensic physical evidence angle of this investigation of
recent the BCI laboratory of Ohio identified a DNA match that enabled the police department to recognize Joseph
Norman Hill Senior as a person responsible for Brad Bellino's murder Hill who was 32 in 1972
this article some new information here on Hill said that he lived it 151 Shadyside Drive in Boardman but moved to
California around 1978 and died in 2019 for natural causes however on Thursday this was this is in June
actually but they're referencing the Thursday those in attendance learn more about an additional case with similar
circumstances to Brad bellinos three years after the abduction and death of Brad bellino 13 year old David Evans
also of Boardman Ohio was reported missing about a mile away from Bellino's residence Evans was reported missing at
midnight on January 18 1975 after his father told police that he was gone for most of the evening before he was
diabetic missing for longer than six hours and later found Frozen lying dead on his back in the backyard of a home on
Crestline Place in Boardman on January 23rd keep in mind some of this while it's while it's all
true it may just be a different description of what we had previously the description we gave last year which
seems to be accurate in my opinion was that he was found behind some bushes near a business because we know that it
was a realtor in in his wife that reported finding the body after leaving their place of business on January the
23rd that makes sense one day after his body was found former Mahoning County deputy coroner Dr William Johnson ruled
that the investigation quote held no element of criminality and the immediate cause of death was due
to diabetic coma according to the chief worth at the time several police officers from around the area felt that
evans's death was a homicide and we went into those reasons why yesterday and in
our original coverage last year and continue to pursue this investigation this death investigation
as a homicide the autopsy also found that Evans showed fractures to his left radius and a puncture wound in
his lower back that were suffered after he died the report also mentioned multiple
abrasions on his face and upper part of his back but no blood or seminal fluid were found on his clothing
after being reassigned the case Sergeant Michael Hughes and a gentleman who we spoke about yesterday
Captain Albert Kasich met with current Mahoning County coroner David Kennedy who reviewed the case and determined
Evan's cause of death a homicide due to his broken bones and post-mortem puncture wounds so this is our current
day police in Boardman the current day detectives who then went to the current coroner all of these years later and
said hey would you please review this file would you please review the report taken of where and how the body was
discovered would you please review the report by the original coroner in the coroner's office so to be clear
what we had we had referenced Dr David Blinky yesterday and in our original coverage and here this report States
County deputy coroner Dr William Johnson ruled that the investigation quote held
no element of criminality and the immediate cause of death was due to diabetic coma yes that's absolutely true
but Dr David Blinky signed off on that ruling after the fact writing to be clear there's postmortem wounds
correct so it's you know this kid goes into a coma right he didn't he didn't yeah he didn't go into
a coma and die and continue to injure himself after after death and very rightfully so back then in 1975 again
the police are telling the coroner no this is signs of a homicide this is signs that this kid died while being
held captive by somebody after he was abducted and all of these injuries postmortem
are due to somebody trying to cover up that crime trying to cover up can and conceal this body and get rid of his
body after the fact right now current day after several DNA tests conducted by BCI on the clothing still
in the police department's possession again kudos to Boardman for not giving up on this case this would have been a
case easy to give up on when two coroners sign off on well he died of natural causes there's no element of
criminality here in this case Boardman said nope and they never gave up on David evans's case just like they never
gave up on Brad Bellino's case the clothing is still in the police department's possession they get it
tested by BCI a profile contained in evans's underwear matched the DNA of Joseph Norman Hill Senior surprise
surprise and confirmed his connection to the additional murder so regardless of how
David Evans passed away to find this man's DNA in this kid's underwear to find this man's DNA on the
person of Brad bellino who was killed three years before David Evans and I'll tell you
look up a picture of these two boys if you want to do some further investigating some some further
sleuthing these two boys you want to talk about a victim type yeah it's dark at night yeah they might
have been wearing hats and but these two boys look like they could be cousins and another thing that's incredibly
scary about this is look it's scary anytime somebody is is picking a child victim
there's no greater loss of life than that no greater loss than this but Evans was 12.
I'm sorry Ballina was 12 and Evans was 13 and again these two boys were small for their age and they looked much
younger in my opinion than their than their age would indicate again crime of opportunity
if you know you're going to try to abduct the child the smaller the child the easier it is probably to abduct them
yeah and to look at where they believe that David Evans was last seen and his his hat his his
winter hat being found there lying on the ground trampled in the snow that to me indicates that this kid was
snatched somebody ripped this kid off the streets and put them in their vehicle and so you compare that we now
know that the same guy did this murder as well you have to wonder did he do the same thing to Brad bellino three years
ago did he did he did he snatch that kid rip him off of the streets pull him into
his gold-colored Monte Carlo and drive off with him the article goes on and it again they're
talking about the captain worth here who commended the Ohio Attorney General David Yost and
Ohio BCI forensic scientist Erica Jimenez and Stacy Viola for their continued service and commitment to each
of these cases the Bolino case and the Evans case quote a lot of different efforts went into that case not only the
Boardman police department but a lot of different agencies that have supported us in that one end quote
attorney general Dave Yost also praised the families of the victims and the team that worked on the second
murder saying superheroes don't always wear capes sometimes they wear lab coats our
role at the Attorney General's office is not to be in law enforcement it's to provide support Logistics expertise and
forensics and so forth to help them do their jobs losing a loved one is tremendously difficult especially when a
family has to wait over 50 years to actually get the answers that they always knew existed
this is a quote from Mahoning County prosecutor and saying that David was the victim of
homicide at the hands of Joseph Norman Hill Senior this is the same man who took the life of Bradley bellino many
years ago investigating these cases is not easy and it actually was impossible until certain techniques related to DNA
were developed and refined several years ago end quote so as the captain said when we let in
here a bit of a side note kudos to to The Vindicator who covered these two cases
from the very beginning and did gangbusters work on their continued coverage throughout the course of what
amounted to over 50 years of media coverage in the homicide cases of Brad bellino and David Evans again at the
time we didn't know if there was a personal connection between the Killer and Brad bellino
but there was still some speculation that these crimes were connected yeah and that was certainly our belief as
well and I was very happy that we were able to put our stamp on that because that that's something that
people are kind of hemmed and hauled and limped in about giving their opinion on
are any of these cases connected and it I thought when we reviewed them and looked at them very closely that the
Bolino case and the Evans case looked very similar to me well the victimology seemed very similar
exactly victim type they're both walking home they were both in neighborhoods you
know we don't know exactly where unlike David Evans we don't know exactly where Bradley Ballina was picked up
or pulled into that vehicle well what we do know is he was leaving Applewood acres and he was heading back to his
neighborhood so they very likely could have been abducted in similar settings right at night time walking home a lot
of similarities and then discarded of the even even the getting rid of the bodies very similar one in the dumpster
one behind the bushes in in this area Town not far away from where Brad Bellino's body was found either
I also go I might go a step further in question what else was done to David Evans we do
know that this coma diabetic coma seems to have taken place but you know did Joseph Norman Hill did he learn anything
by leaving that belt with the previous victim did he learn anything about what not to
leave with the his next victim could that belt have made him nervous when he knew that the investigators were really
honing in on that piece of evidence that key piece of evidence in the Brad bellino case
the other thing when we're handing out Kudos here captain that gets lost in the sauce on this story
is David evans's father unfortunately in the Bolino case the parents were not still alive to see
their son's homicide solved and closed after all of those years and unfortunately in David evans's case
we have the same thing while siblings are still alive we don't have the parents of David Evans
to have seen this case closed all these years later and especially my heart breaks for his father so his father
was one of the first to stand up with police and and maybe even encourage police to stand up
at the beginning of the case and tell the corner no this there's something terribly wrong
here this is a homicide we need to be looking at it as such investigating it as such and
David evans's father never stopped fighting for his son he attempted to rally the troops time
and time again he opened up his own investigation that lasted years he wrote letters to the mayor to the governor to
the president of the United States on behalf of his son and his son's case trying to get this case
right the ship and get it to be investigated as a homicide and we know that Boardman PD they were treating it
as such all of those years but again limited on what resources they could pull in based off of the coroners
conclusion and ruling and so David evans's father was even communicating writing letters to inmates
looking for an informant looking for information about his son's murder meeting with with violent people and
career criminals behind prison bars and in in rooms interviewing them conducting
his own investigation this great man never gave up on his son and I would want nothing more than for
his for him to have seen this to to witness that yes we we not only have changed our ruling
all these years later but we also found the guy that was responsible and then you raised all these other questions
right this just we had these questions when Joseph Norman Hill Senior was connected to the
murder of Brad bellino but now you have to double down on all those questions he killed so he killed
another boy the Bolino case wasn't just a one-off it was one of two it was one of how many
you have to wonder at this point so he kills Bolino in 72 kills Evans in 75 and then in 1978 he moves from
Boardman Ohio out to California and I don't have a list of everywhere that he lived during that time San Bernardino is
definitely referenced by police in their information about Joseph Norman Hill but also they state that he lived in at
least 14 different residences that they can find in the state of California and so you have to wonder
who or if did he kill anybody before Brad bellino and who and if did he kill after David
Evans and police were rightfully so we're now saying at this second news conference where they give us the
information about David evans's death and their investigation into that homicide
that we're not only looking for information on Joseph Norman Hill here in Ohio we're not only looking for
information about him in California we are looking for information about him in All Parts in between
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air tall cans in the air for the good people of Boardman and all the work that was put in to these two cases over the
course of over 50 years to finally get them solved and get some answers and now left here with some answers but more
questions you were talking about giving some kudos these are cases that are almost 50 years
old for them to still have the evidence I mean how many cases are only 20 30 years old and they go well we think we
lost the evidence in them in a move or there was a fire there's they come up with a lot of excuses why they don't
have the evidence anymore yeah it's it's like that old story that you hear with the the records right like so you talk
to a school an orphanage a church really any building and you always hear that story of well
we kept the records in the basement and in 1997 there was a flood and we lost all the records
um so it it happens in in all forms of of business and all forms of uh municipalities
so yeah you're right kudos to them for still having the evidence in these cases but then
we talked about how police stated that the facts of the Thomas Baird case they believe suggested that that beared
case is much different than Bellino's case and evans's case now a couple things that we do know while we don't
know a lot about Joseph Norman hill we do know that he was living in Boardman when Thomas Baird was killed in 1970. it
seems like he had a stretch there for about six years or maybe what I can tell he may have grown up in the area
um again they're still trying to piece together the timeline the Joseph Norman Hill timeline and put put him in
different places and then examine any kind of cases that he could be connected to now we will hear from the experts we
will hear from law enforcement that will say we're pretty confident that he's not
responsible for any other murders in this area uh before leaving for California what
they're not confident in is in is once he left Ohio but I want to throw this out there
because I had I was able to team up with a couple of people and I want to give some shout outs here first up a shout
out to Carolyn Bernardino she wrote a fantastic article on the Boardman murders case for the porchlight
project years ago and it's up on porchlightonline.org if you want to go there and read her article I highly
recommend it it's one of the best articles about the Boardman cases and also she's a local so she discusses what
a lot of the suspicions were at the time even the local rumors at the time who could be responsible for the murders of
these three kids so I spent a lot of time speaking with Carolyn and also a lot of time speaking
with my friend Brian Smith the reason being is Carolyn was able to provide True Crime garage with the David Evans
case File police case File and she provided that to us and I mean that that's big for us to be
able to get a hold of a case File it happens maybe a dozen times or so to get a complete case File like that the David
Evans case same as the Brad bellino case it didn't go unsolved for a lack of effort it didn't go
unsolved for 50 years due to a lack of effort right it's just a lack of technology and I can tell you that
having reviewed that file so I called upon Carolyn and and Brian to help me review this file
and track down any possible leads in it when this case was still unsolved because that case File 400 Pages
approximately filled a lot of them with vehicle descriptions possible suspects and things of that
nature and some of those suspects looked really good and now we sit here and we know that Joseph Norman Hill was
ultimately responsible for not only the David Evans case but the Brad bellino case
so I don't know that I'm so quick to say hey we're confident that he wasn't responsible for anything else and I also
want to throw this tidbit out there when we were reviewing that file and when we were reaching out to other
people involving the bellino case and mind you we're reviewing this file before any of these cases were closed
reaching out to other people about the Bolino case and even the beard case because the beard case while we had
always heard this story that police think it was he was jumped by a group of kids from from another high school on
his way home that there was some kind of kerfuffle that broke out at the skating
rink and then he's on his way home and they must have attacked him one piece of information that we came
across that makes you really wonder what happened is we found in the police report that
when Thomas Baird was found having been beaten severely that his his pants were either off or
down around his ankles right was it clear whether or not he had a belt or not that's a good question
um I we might have to save that for off the Record because when I'm driving to the garage this morning that's what
popped in my mind I'm like what can I find you know I wish I had brought that report with me to review
for you because I can't remember if they they mention a bell or not but what stood out was
the pants down around the ankles or or completely removed or in the process of being removed because we know that the
Abduction of David Evans the murder of Brad bellino were sexually motivated homicides by Joseph Norman Hill Senior
I'm not saying that a group of kids or older boys didn't attack Thomas Baird I'm not saying that what I'm saying is
it's confusing for me and it's difficult for me to wrap my head around the idea that they beat this kid up and then
pulled down his pants well I agree and but I also disagree because if these kids were trying to
they were trying to humiliate him that's one thing right I get it I get that but
what I'm saying is we know that these other two homicides a child homicide in Boardman Ohio in the
70s extremely rare extremely rare and we now know that two of the three cases are
100 connected the same perpetrator involved sexually motivated homicides of a child
I just I'm not trying to sell it to anybody but I'm saying until the evidence tells us otherwise we should
not completely disregard the idea that maybe Joseph Norman Hill came across Thomas Baird on his way home walking by
himself picks him up or gets him into his vehicle and somehow a fight breaks out between
the two of them or Thomas Baird decides to defend himself and he's larger than Brad bellino larger than David Evans
older maybe puts up a a better fight if you will and that this is the end result
I don't think we can just disregard that and to say to that we have the information now that we know that Baird
was able to communicate with the investigators not verbally but communicated that yes
he knew his attackers or knew his attacker you talked about it the connection before we knew from science and from DNA
that it's the same perpetrator is the area could Joseph Norman Hill have known Thomas Baird did Thomas bear get into
his vehicle because he knew Joseph Norman Hill so I wouldn't I wouldn't go be so fast
to disregard that what's very interesting to me though Captain is as soon as the bellino case was cold it was
closed with this evidence they immediately jumped back on the horse and went after the David Evans
case right so you have to wonder if they have DNA in the beard case you know what they're doing right now
they're working that beard case and it could be any day that we find out who's responsible for the murder of
Thomas Baird Joseph Norman Hill or otherwise well obviously with these developments in
these cases we're going to have statements from law enforcement yes both the the current uh prosecutor and the
Ohio attorney general had very interesting comments about closing out the David Evans case and some of this
will Echo statements that were given in the Bolino case here we have the Mahoning County prosecutor stating quote
I was comfortable we would end up getting an indictment if Mr Hill was still alive this in regard to the David
Evans case so two cases where she is confident that they would get an indictment from a grand jury and then we
have Boardman police Sergeant Mike Hughes who's talking more about 1975 and the community at the time he's
saying we had two young boys dead Hugh said that in the case File on David Evans it indicated a large
amount of panic at the time in the township and after having reviewed that file I can say 100
yes that file had portions of it a decent percentage of that file was filled with letters that were to either
to the newspaper or to the police pointing the finger at other people or saying look what what what do we have
here what's going on in our community it's not safe for my children to play outside anymore the prosecutor goes on
to say quote Mr Hill ruined So Many Lives I only wish that he had lived long enough to have been brought to Justice
and then David Yost said the investigation has conclusively linked both homicides to Joseph Norman Hill in
both cases the Mahoning County prosecutor's office determined that the forensic evidence would be sufficient to
present the cases to a grand jury for indictment if Joseph Hill had remained alive quote while Hill cannot fully be
held accountable for these horrendous crimes our hope is that after almost 50 years knowing who is responsible for
Bradley and David's deaths can bring some sense of closure to the families and friends
yoast called Joseph Hill a serial killer and said that other victims are being sought
well this can take some time because again he moved to different locations and you're going to have to go through a
pretty large part of his life I I don't believe he just started killing people at the age of 30. yeah he would have
been 32 when bellino was killed and one thing that the the data tells us and this is this is not the biggest of
sample sizes I think this is across maybe 90 serial killers or so and of course throughout history in the United
States there's been unfortunately more than 90 serial killers but the data in that sample size tells us that the
average age that a serial killer starts killing is in their late 20s and that the
average age of an active serial killer before being caught or killed or before they stop the few that do stop
would be their late 20s so we're talking 25 to 29 or 30. is that prime meridian age that we're
looking at and so this could be two years four years seven years before we know that Joseph Norman Hill
Senior killed anybody and the thing is too that I wouldn't just because we have two boys
here given their young age and and their very young appearance I wouldn't limit my investigation to
just males I think you have to look at any potential young girl victims too and unfortunately we sit here we're a
month away from them closing David evans's case scratch that a month and a half almost two months away
and we still know very little about Joseph Norman Hill's life and part of that is
any children that he has I know I kept saying that he has one child I believe it's you know it's been reported that he
has one child and that seems to be very accurate from everything I can find but that relationship was estranged for for
many many years on top of that the person that likely knew him the best who may have been fooled by him just
like the rest of us would be his wife and his wife unfortunately passed away in 1993. so any suspicions she had or
any blanks that she could fill in for us we don't have that resource to go to right I sit here and I don't think that
this guy does two of these and maybe maybe he moved out to California and started Anew maybe he said I'm going to
walk away from this life and I'm never going to do this again but he wasn't able to stop himself on that night in
1972 and he wasn't able to stop himself again three years later in 1975. so when did he start when did he stop
and then the other troubling thing is his occupation we don't get a lot of information about this occupation I've
done some digging on this and the information is just not there that he drove a truck for a bottling company for
a bottled water company further digging actually says that he he may have been delivering produce at the same time or
delivering produce uh at other times in his life so he had a job that put him out on the road what
were those routes how far did those routes go were they limited to Boardman or Youngstown or that general
area or did they go outside of those areas and when was he not prowling for a victim you don't just shut this thing
off you don't just say you know what I stay pretty busy between 8 AM and 4pm I don't abduct kids during those times
you don't just shut these things off and the scary thing is we've you know this Captain we've seen at
times this guy looks like a normal dude he looks like a normal guy that you would see out washing his car in the
driveway in your neighborhood and would probably say hi to him and probably say hi back he looks like a normal friendly
guy and if Brad bellino was hitching a ride that's probably why he got in the car with this dude because he looked
like a normal regular guy but it wasn't he's a serial killer exactly yo said it we're saying it and like David Yost and
the police chief for Boardman said we need to find out more about this guy for the state of Ohio his time in
California and all parts in between who holds you love you [Music] well it's such a privilege that you join
us here each and every week and it's a privilege that we're able to have some positive updates on these
cases yeah it's so rewarding and I hope it's equally rewarding for the listeners
because you're a part of all of this when we can review a case and then later it gets solved yeah it's
I mean there is a weird sense of satisfaction for us here in the garage and I hope that you
all feel it too and while we don't sit here and pretend that we had anything to do with the solving of either of these
cases we cover these stories our job is to stir the pot keep them in the spotlight
and we wouldn't be able to do that without the audience and so just it's another good day here in the garage so
many of the cases that we've covered have ended up being solved and even solved relatively quickly after our
coverage so really good news for the people of Boardman I know that this has haunted many of them for so many years
and the families and unfortunately the the parents not being around to see the the resolve
in both of these cases so we have any recommended reading for the beautiful listeners this week we do Captain this
week we will be recommending a novel this is Nosferatu by the great Joe Hill and side note not the Joseph Hill that
we've spent the last two hours talking about here in the garage we have author Joe Hill this is a novel
Nosferatu is a dark fantasy horror about a woman trying to save her son from a vicious Supernatural killer his name
Charlie manx the third who kidnaps children across the country in his 1938 Rolls-Royce Wraith normally Captain when
we recommend something other than True Crime it is for those looking for a little escape from the heaviness
and the Heartbreak of true crime stories but this one reads very much like a supernatural crime and murder fiction so
this recommendation is more for those looking for a dark Journey with hints of True Crime so check out Nosferatu that's
Nas the number four the letter A the number two by Joe Hill you don't have to write that great title down right now no
because we will have it listed on our recommended page on True Crime garage go there and find a lot of other wonderful
recommendations as well and until next week be good be kind and don't litter [Music]
thank you [Music]

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Last year we covered the unsolved murders of three boys. The murders all occurred in Boardman, Ohio in the early 1970’s. Those episodes are #567 to #570 on your Garage Radio Dial. In 2023 these three cases that remained unsolved for over fifty years, detectives made big breaks in two of the cases. Please join us this week for a couple of happier days in the Garage and we discuss the big breaks, the updates and finally getting the answers for the families and this wonderful community that has been haunted for decades by the killings of three of there own. If you have any further information regarding this case please reach out to the good detectives of the Boardman PD @ 1-330-726-4144

Beer of the Week - Nosferatu Red IPA by The Great Lakes Brewing Company

Garage Grade - 4 out of 5 bottle caps

Brief Summary

DNA evidence links Joseph Norman Hill to the murders of three boys in Boardman, Ohio, providing updates on long-unsolved cases.

Key points

The Boardman Murders. Three unsolved murders of boys in Boardman, Ohio, from the 1970s have haunted the community.
DNA Breakthrough in Cold Cases. Recent DNA analysis has led to a breakthrough in the Boardman murders, connecting a suspect to two of the cases.
David Evans's Father's Fight. David Evans's father tirelessly pursued justice for his son, even conducting his own investigation.
Prosecutor's Strong Words. The prosecutor expressed regret that Joseph Norman Hill was never brought to justice.
Unsolved Murders Linked. New evidence links Joseph Norman Hill to multiple child homicides, raising urgent questions.
Nosferatu Recommendation. A dark fantasy horror novel by Joe Hill about a mother saving her son from a supernatural killer.

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