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let's talk some true crime [Music] oh [Music] Borman Ohio and 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 board men 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 neighbor 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
Bo 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 be 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 bin behind some businesses in a busy section of 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 of course the good people of Borman could not help but think that
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 in
one if not both of the other homicides in early February of 1975 just a little over a week after the
Evans boy 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 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 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 be and Brad Bolino and coming up 50 years of the David Evans case as well yesterday we
covered the updates in the Brad Bolino 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 store 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 minds 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 go to
The Vindicator or to vindy.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 yast in Township Police
announced during a news conference at the Boardman Township Government Center in the case of Bradley Bolino 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 bolo'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 whittel 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 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 Bolino 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 him 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 that connection would be the
town well of course certainly he becomes a a person of interest and a suspect in
the David Evans case but he was not on that short list for the Bolino 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 leeburg 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 bolo's murder Hill who was 32 in 197 to this article some new information here on
Hill said that he lived at1 Shadyside Drive in Borman but moved to California around 1978 and died in
2019 from natural causes however on Thursday this was this is in June actually but they're referencing the
Thursday those in attendant learned more about an additional case with similar circumstances to Brad Bolino 3 years
after the uction and death of Brad Bolino 13-year-old David Evans also of Borman Ohio was reported missing about a
mile away from bino's residence Evans was reported missing at midnight on January 18th 1975 after his father told
police that he was gone for most of the evening before he was diabetic missing for longer than 6 hours and later found
Frozen lying dead on his back in the backyard of home on Crestline Place in Borman on January 23rd keep in mind some
of this while it's while it's all true 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 and and his wife that reported finding
the body after 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 continued 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 semi fluid were found on his clothing after being reassigned the case Sergeant
Michael Hughes and gentleman who we spoke about yesterday Captain Albert kesich met with current Mahoning County
coroner David Kennedy who reviewed the case and determined Evans cause of death a homicide due to his broken bones and
postmortem 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 uh 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 binki signed off on that ruling after the fact right and to be
clear there's postmortem wounds correct so it's you know this kid goes into a 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
con 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 ality 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 bino'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 Bolino who was
killed three years before David Evans and I tell you look up a picture of these two boys if you want to do some
further investigating some f 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 a child victim there there's no greater loss of life than that no greater loss than
this but Evans was 12 I'm sorry bolina 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 him 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 Bolino 3 years ago go
did he did he did he snatch that kid rip him off of the streets pull him into his
goldcolored Monty Carlo and drive off with him the article goes on and it again they're talking about uh Captain
worth here who commended the Ohio Attorney General David yoast and Ohio BCI forensic
scientist Erica Y menz and Stacy Viola for their continued service and commitment to E 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
yoast 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
Bolino 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 too to The Vindicator who covered these two cases from the very beginning and did Gang
Busters work on their continued coverage throughout the course of what amounted to over 50 years of media coverage in
the homicide cases of Brad Bolino and David Evans well again at the time we didn't know if there was a personal
connection between the Killer and Brad Bolino 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 would kind of hemmed and haed 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 Bolino was picked up or pulled into that
vehicle but 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 nighttime 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 bolo's body was found either I also go I might go a step
further and question what else was done to David Evans we do know that the this coma
diabetic coma seems to have taken place but you know did did Joseph Norman Hill did he learn anything by leaving that
belt with the previous victim did he learn anything about 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 Bolino 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 CL case closed all these years later and
especially my heartbreaks 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 coroner 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 bardman PD
they were treating it as such all of those years but again limited on what resources they could P pull in based off
of the coroner's conclusion and 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 in 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 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 Senor was connected to the murder of Brad Bolino 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
oneoff 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 bourman 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 nor Hill but also they state that he lived at 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 Bolino and who and if did he kill after David Evans and police rightfully so were 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
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air tall cans in the air for the good people of Boardman and all the work that was put into 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 you were talking about given 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 H we think we lost the evidence
in a 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 uh the records right like so you talk to a
school an orphanage a church uh 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 uh 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 bar
case they believe suggested that that bar case is much different than bolo's case and evans's case now 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
Borman when Thomas bar was killed in 1970 it seems like he had a stretch there for about 6 Years or or maybe from
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 a some shout outs here first up a shout out to Carolyn berardino she wrote a
fantastic article on the Boardman murders case for the porch light project years ago and it's up on on porchlight
online.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 Bolino 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 Bolino 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 Bolino case and 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 be 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
kafuffle 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
Poli report that when Thomas bar 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 belt 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 Bolino 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 Barett 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 if they were trying to humiliate him that's one thing I I get it I get that but what I'm saying is
we know that these other two homicides a child homicide in bourman 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 beard on his way home walking by
himself right picks him up or gets him into his vehicle and somehow a a fight breaks out
between the two of them or Thomas bear decides to defend himself and he's larger than Brad Bolino 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 bar 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 bear 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 Bolino case was C 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 be case
and it could be any day that we find out who's responsible for the murder of Thomas beard Joseph Norman Hill or
otherwise well obviously with these developments and 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 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 Yos said the investigation has conclusively linked
both homicides to Joseph Norman Hill in both cases the Mahoning County prosecutor's office determin 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 Yos 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 Bolino 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 his 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 Li 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 Hills life and part of that is any children that he has I know I kept saying that he
has one child he 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 may maybe he moved out to California and started a new 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 occup 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 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 8:00 a.m. and 400 p.m. 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 it time and time 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
Bina 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 he wasn't he is a serial killer exactly yo said it we're saying it and like David yoast and the police chief
for Boardman said we need to to find out more about this guy for the state of Ohio his time in California and all
parts in between it's you it's [Music] you 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 s 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 yeah really good news for
the people of Boardman I know that this has haunted many of them for so many years in the families and unfortunately
the the parents not being around to see the the resolve in both of these cases do we have any recommended reading for
the beautiful listeners this week we do Captain this week we will be recommending a novel this is Nas Fatu by
the great Joe Hill and side note not the Jose of Hill that we've spent the last two hours talking about here in the
garage we have author Joe Hill this is a novel Nas Fatu is a dark fantasy horror
about a woman trying to save her son from a vicious super natural killer his name Charlie Ms III who kidnaps children
across the country in his 1938 rollsroyce 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 Nas Fatu 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
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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

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Brief Summary

Joseph Norman Hill identified as killer of three boys in Boardman, Ohio, with DNA evidence linking him to their murders.

Key points

The Boardman Murders. Three boys were murdered in Boardman, Ohio, during the early 1970s, and the cases remain unsolved.
DNA Evidence Solves Cold Cases. Recent DNA testing has led to a breakthrough in the Boardman murders, linking a suspect to multiple cases.
David Evans's Father's Fight for Justice. David Evans's father tirelessly pursued justice for his son, even opening his own investigation.
Prosecutor's Confidence in Indictment. The Mahoning County prosecutor expressed confidence in securing an indictment against Joseph Norman Hill if he were alive.
Linking the Homicides. Investigators have conclusively linked both David Evans's and Brad Bolino's murders to Joseph Norman Hill.
Book Recommendation: Nas Fatu. A dark fantasy horror novel by Joe Hill about a mother saving her son from a supernatural killer.

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