When the Demons Came Out /// Part 3 /// 461 | Forensic Files

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[Music] foreign [Music] sighting of twelve-year-old Tina Marie Harmon of record was at 6 30 pm on
Thursday October 29 1981. sources have Tina seen walking along Main Street in downtown Creston Ohio five days later
her body was discovered in a remote location in Stark County approximately 45 miles away
this was the first indication to the public that the demons had come out arrests were made and two men were
convicted but mistakes were made and the convictions were overturned the men were
set free and Tina's killer was still hiding in the shadows less than one year later on July 17 1982 on a stormy
Saturday afternoon eleven-year-old Krista Harrison was snatched up from a park across the street from her home
reports state that two juveniles witnessed the abduction just six days later in a decrepit old garage her
remains were spotted by Turtle Trappers as they marched through the fields of Holmes County
significant physical evidence was located at the body disposal site detectives struggled to turn this
evidence into solid leads were the two cases in length then 65 days later just over 100 miles to the South another
child goes missing eight-year-old kellyanne Prosser vanished from the bustling streets of the north side of
the capital city of Columbus she failed to return to her mother after leaving school to walk home that Autumn
afternoon in late September police searched the area high and low but there was no sign of the little girl
no clue as to her whereabouts unfortunately Kelly would soon be found but the outcome was what everyone had
feared her lifeless body was found in a peak height cornfield ten rows back the only obvious conclusion was that the
spot that Kelly was found was far far from where she was picked up the spot seemed terribly random or perhaps as the
detective's question familiar to the Killer but without question kellyanne Prosser's
murder case was hauntingly familiar investigators in multiple counties were searching for a link for a connection
for any clue at all as unsolved child homicide Case Files stacked up on desk none could deal with
the level of this tragedy no one could explain just what was happening the community feared the worst and the
people wanted to know who was killing our girls this is true crime garage [Music]
foreign 1982 kellyanne frauser was eight years old she was a very outgoing happy chatty
little girl who loved to dance with her sister and go to the pool and make arts and crafts she was in third grade at
Indianola Elementary Kelly's mother Linda worked at OSU not far away Linda recently got remarried to a man named
Larry Garner and according to Kelly's teacher Barbara Cleveland Kelly was excited about her new stepfather Kelly's
11 year old brother Keith was in Middle School and her sister Christina was 14 years old on Monday September 20th this
was just about two weeks into a new school year in the previous school years Kelly was accustomed to walking to
school with her brother but now he is in middle school so he's going to a different School eight-year-old Kelly
was insistent that she get to walk to school on her own her school was on East 16th Avenue right on the edge of the OSU
campus in the University District surrounded by sorority houses and Residences this was not an isolated area
that we hear so much about in these types of abduction cases it was a densely populated safe City neighborhood
Kelly and her mom Linda planned out the 15 block route that Kelly would take to and from school yeah for the most part
the OSU campus is a safe place but it's surrounded by areas that are high in crime rate she would walk along High
Street this was a commercial area with store fronts we have OSU students out and about and public businesses on this
Monday in late September Kelly's teacher Mrs Cleveland said that Kelly helped out
by watering the plants in the classroom she seemed totally normal and happy at the end of the school day she set out to
walk home a friend posted on web sluice that she was supposed to walk with Kelly
that day but she got delayed for some reason Linda her mother said that there was no formal arrangement for Kelly to
be accompanied by a friend friends just lived in the same area and sometimes they like to walk together it is
believed that Kelly took her normal route home that day because a shopkeeper near 18th Avenue says that she saw Kelly
looking into her store window this according to the witness was between 3 30 and 4 P.M which is the approximate
time that Kelly would have been walking by if she stuck to her normal route and timeline the shopkeeper later related
seeing a little girl in a blue raincoat and she did ID Kelly's photo for police according to the Columbus Dispatch Kelly
was last seen at 3 30 PM walking westbound on East 16th Avenue near the corner of East 16th Avenue and North
High Street by her third grade classmates Kelly also was seen at the intersection of Lane Avenue and North
High Street walking home that day tough thing about this area is there's so many
residents there and a lot of the students live in in old houses so what do old houses need they need maintenance
so you have maintenance workers going in in and out of this area all day long you
have deliveries being made to all these businesses all day long so there could be anywhere from 50
000 to 100 000 individuals that go into this area and go out of this area daily on this day Kelly's mom Linda happened
to have a dentist appointment after work so Kelly was supposed to walk home and should arrive there around 4 pm her
sister Christina and her new dad Larry would be home at this time now due to some kind of miscommunication Christina
and Larry assumed that Linda the mother was picking up Kelly and taking her with
her to the dentist appointment so Kelly never made it home at 4pm but this didn't raise any red flags
immediately because of this miscommunication right so when Linda gets home after the appointment she's
wondering where Kelly is she thought she was going to be home the people at home thought they would be she
would be at the dentist appointment now we have a problem she never came home that day right so the family jumped in
the car they went to the school and then they drove around following Kelly's Route there was no sign of her Linda
spotted a Columbus PD Patrol wagon and flagged it down and the officers then and there took a report and they started
looking for Kelly the police officers told Linda you should go home and call 9-1-1 to report a missing juvenile so by
602 PM Kelly's description was transmitted over the police wire and it was noted that officers were already
looking for her per Linda talking to the patrol vehicle right Linda called All of
Kelly's school friends her teacher and other family members looking for her daughter but Kelly was nowhere to be
found well not only would Columbus PD be looking for her but I'm sure they would
contact security at Ohio State to let them know what was going on by 9 A.M the next day the local news was covering the
case they reported that the child was last seen leaving school wearing a blue raincoat jeans and a white and pink
flowered blouse police taking this disappearance seriously from the get-go they set up a command post conducted
area searches scoured the river they tracked down and questioned Kelly's biological father they interviewed
neighbors friends classmates and acquaintances but there was no sign of Kelly it was as if she had simply
vanished Into Thin Air once the news broadcast the story of the missing eight-year-old tips began to flood in at
8 30 on Tuesday night the 21st A call came in from Lisa Richmond of Plain City this is a 30-minute drive away from
where Kelly was last seen she said that her father an attorney named Charles Richmond was driving to
pick up the family's housekeeper on A.W Wilson Road this is out in the sticks in
Madison County Charles noted a blue piece of clothing in the road it was still there on his return Journey
with the housekeeper Clara in the vehicle they stopped to pick up the little blue
piece of outerwear after searching this was turned out to be a raincoat after searching the raincoat for
identification they only found a metal bolt in one of the pockets no name or nothing so they put it on the floor of
the vehicle and kind of just forgot about it when Lisa and her mother went to drive
the housekeeper home at the end of the day Lisa saw the raincoat Clara decided to
bring it home with her so that she could give it to maybe a niece or somebody else could use this
they dropped her off with the coat and started on the return journey home now on the way home Captain Mrs Richmond
told Lisa the story that she had heard on the news about the missing little girl from Columbus Ohio Lisa's interest
was peaked and she found a newspaper article about Kelly about the case and there in the description of the little
girl's attire was the blue raincoat Lisa sensed strongly that the little blue raincoat that they found on the country
road may have belonged to the missing child so she called police and the cops followed her and her father to the
housekeeper's house to get the coat and then Charles and Clara showed the investigators where they found the
raincoat a lot of the listeners would be familiar with the case or The Disappearance of Brian Shaffer this is
only probably a mile away from where Brian went missing now per The Columbus Dispatch a Columbus Police Homicide
Sergeant stated that there appeared to be a couple of smears of Blood on the sleeve of the little blue raincoat the
Richmonds did not notice this Blood until it was pointed out by police officers officers dedicated to Kelly's case
brought the raincoat to Linda she identified it as Kelly's and told them that her daughter was wearing it on
the day that she went missing Linda says that this was when she knew her daughter
was not coming home now knowing that the raincoat was a sign that they were close
to Kelly officers started combing the area where the raincoat was found this again is a rural area with A.W Wilson
Road running between cornfields and the crops looming High by the time searches commenced it was dark and police called
it at 2 A.M on the 22nd because it was just too dark it's the middle of the night they resumed the next morning this
with dogs a helicopter and foot patrols running grid searches at 109 PM Ohio State Patrol Trooper
Bryant found a child's body several rows back in a cornfield a budding A.W Wilson
Road according to the dispatch the Madison County Sheriff said that Kelly was fully clothed with her shoes socks
pants and underwear on there were no obvious signs of gunshot wounds or knife wounds and investigators were not sure
how long she had been there there were no notable footprints around the body or in the cornfield the sheriff said that
tire tracks in a neighboring field appear to be related to farmwork not from a potential suspect vehicle
the spot where Kelly was found was very far away from where she was picked up I mean she's eight years old this is
a 30 minute drive or so there's no way for her to get there on her own right this location is also quite a distance
from the closest highway exit so this is a remote Country Road now this road Captain is straight enough
and we've seen this in some other cases this is a straight long road that at night
you could see cars coming for miles from their headlights right someone took the
time to drive all the way out there and hide Kelly in the cornfield 10 rows back
so that she was not visible from the road well a couple things there I would assume that this individual had to know
the area a little bit because then they would know that this Rural Road is going
to give them the opportunity and also because the road gave them the opportunity they were able to go further
back we've seen many cases where they dump the victim right on the side of the road for anybody to see this this
suspect is trying to cover up the body in some manner yeah putting it several rows back from the
street so that it's not easily spotted not spotted right away the killer wanted some time before the killer wanted some
time to expire before the body was found and when police notified Kelly's family
of her death Kelly's Sister Christina had to be restrained as she ran screaming from their home well also this
suspect would have to know a lot about the area in which she was picked up in it's it's actually a very interesting
location because Lane and high if they believe that's where roughly where she got picked up at or I would question
what was her route because if she was staying on on High Street obviously that's heavily populated you could go
down further on Lane and jump on Indianola or Indiana Avenue and that would take you back ways and so
I wonder if she got to one of those back roads but again what's interesting here
is if you head West North or South there's going to be opportunities to hit the freeway and and not that far you're
not miles from hitting the freeway in any direction Kelly's mother and Linda identified the body as that of her
daughter Kelly Ann prossler there was evidence that the victim was sexually assaulted the coroner ruled the cause of
death as lack of oxygen to the brain caused by strangulation marks around Kelly's neck indicated a rope or piece
of fabric was used to strangle her there was some indication that she had been beaten on the head and of course the
case was officially ruled a homicide Columbus PD would remain in charge of the case
Alper and October 13 1982 Columbus Dispatch article Columbus Police announced that the FBI did not find any
fingerprints that would help to identify Kelly's killer as quoted from the article police said clothing from
Kelly's Body and clothing seized from a North Side man suspected in her murder were sent to the FBI crime lab police
were looking for Kelly's fingerprints on the suspect's clothing and the suspect's
fingerprints on Kelly's clothing the FBI used a laser device to try to find fingerprints from both sets of clothes
Columbus Police were told by the FBI that they found no prints on the articles of clothing that were seized
during the investigation the test on Kelly's clothes were inconclusive and the FBI didn't find anything of value
police also said that there there was no evidence indicating whether the killer wore gloves
regardless what we see here is a very important word in that statement suspect they already had a suspect very
early on in their investigation they're looking for his Prince specifically on anything related to Kelly and at the
dump site they're looking for her fingerprints on on his clothing that it was believed that he would have been
wearing the day that she went missing or possibly they have a if they have a potential suspect the suspect has a
vehicle I'm sure they can impound the vehicle and look for fingerprints there as well so if we don't have a situation
we don't have a situation where anybody saw this girl get abducted and that's where we're kind of left with this
mystery we have the last sighting of her okay it's at this location we know that
she probably was picked up or abducted somewhere between that location and her home that's as best as we can come up
with because there's no other witnesses that spotted her at any other point there's nobody come coming forward
saying I saw a little girl screaming as she was pulled into a vehicle right but that's where I was saying her last known
whereabouts were laying in high well that's heavily populated but it's coming towards the end of the Ohio State campus
it's coming towards the end of the the most heavily populated area of her travels so the most sense to me
based off of where she lives is that she'd be heading I believe it'd be heading East on lane and then should go
north on Indianola but once you get to Indianola we're talking about you know one-tenth the people you know maybe one
twentieth of the people I mean they're it's such a less populated Road compared to High Street but if the
Killer's cunning enough it doesn't have to take place where nobody saw or nobody
could see anything right I mean he simply could have asked her to get in his vehicle and she
did well and you also wonder her being an eight-year-old a corner corner of Lane and high at that time would have
been at least a gas station or a convenience store did he have some ruse to get her in the
car at the at the gas station you know I again I would guess that she went to a less heavily populated area
and that's where he made his move foreign [Music] we're back cheers mates cheers to
everybody out there let's talk about this suspect because very early on in this investigation they are already
talking about a suspect why do we have a suspect when we don't have any witnesses
that say that they saw this man with Kelly so this viable suspect was immediately identified and tips were
pouring in about this guy early on in the investigation this was because this suspect had sexually assaulted an 11
year old girl on Sunday September 19th this is one day before Kelly was taken wow so
this assault it's it's been described as a molestation as a sexual assault this was the day before she was taken before
Kelly was taken this took place in the Park of Roses on the north side of Columbus so in the area the immediate
area the victim was in the park on a picnic with the offender and with his grandchildren and consequently there was
a warrant out for the arrest of this is the suspect Walter Mitchell Jr age 63 and the charges were of gross
sexual imposition for this attack so he's a creepy old Dirtbag Walter conveniently left for West Virginia and
the cops were yet to catch up to him so there are even more reasons than just that to think that old Walter might have
killed Kelly other than just proximity and time and location of the two cases in their search in law enforcement
search for the little girl officers took canines out to Canvas Kelly's neighborhood
this obviously before they found her body shortly after she goes missing we want to see if we can retrace her steps
to see where she may have been picked up or Where She Went you're still hoping for the best when she's still missing so
they take the canines out the canvas Kelly's neighborhood and the dogs they went right to Mitchell's home
they're alerting them on Mitchell's home right according to the fifth floor the dogs even tried to get into the back
gate of his house from my understanding Captain this is information that came out years later
the police obviously knew this information but it was nothing that they released to share this with the public
they didn't share it with the public I think in part because one they had a good suspect they
believed and two you don't want somebody in the public doing something to this guy you have to figure out if in fact he
is actually guilty of Kelly's abduction and murder yeah you don't want to have a
scene where they go out into the streets and try to take them down like Frankenstein so but they have this
individual said he's 63 63 years old they have canines hitting on this unit and this is
from her scent this these these aren't cadaver dogs no they're trying to retrace her steps they're trying to
figure out you know she's just missing when they're when they're doing this canine search of her neighborhood so
you're hoping it's a little kid maybe she got lost maybe she crawled into something maybe she got injured and
couldn't finish the walk home you're hoping for all of those kind of things while you're searching for this girl
these dogs they go straight to this dude's home they try to get into his back gate
and at the same time police are very quickly going well uh who lives here oh this guy that we have a warrant out for
his arrest for molesting a girl the day before Kelly went missing yeah we still got to pick up this dude we're still
looking for this creep then a report came in from two police officers that said that they had seen a man matching
the suspect's description Mitchell's description holding hands with a little girl who the officer said look like
Kelly this was near North High Street on Monday night these officers even picked
Mitchell out of a photo lineup and police believe that the girl who was an alleged victim of Walter Mitchell the
day before that she was in fact a friend of Kelly's so everything's getting to be
really tied together right now yeah there's a connection there so this is just too big of a coincidence right a
child molester who lived near Kelly prayed on one of her friends the day before now Kelly vanishes she's found murdered
and the dogs tracked Kelly near this man's home well the connection really is like you said this guy has grandkids so
you're assuming that these grandkids are similar Age and and that's kind of his Gateway in if you're walking and you saw
your your friend's parents or your friends grandparents and they said hey uh let me let me help you get home
you're more inclined to go okay I know who you are you're you're so and so's Grandpa investigators were pretty
confident that Mitchell knew all about what had happened to Kelly Prosser so they go to speak to Mitchell's wife and
what she had to say or didn't have to say convince them even further that this in fact was their guy let's just hold up
a second so this this old Dirtbag creep Deuce pilot he's married that's okay that's all the good ones are right when
they interview his wife this is when they learn that Mitchell apparently left for West Virginia he had
family there and quite suddenly he had to leave for West Virginia all of a sudden because he says to her that there
was an illness in his family but his wife yeah it's called molesting kids she tells police you know I'm not sure who
was sick or even exactly where the husband was you know she's not saying he went to this person's house in this city
in West Virginia she's saying he went to West Virginia and that's about all that
I know so the cops determined that Mitchell was at work on Monday this is the day that Kelly was taken and
Mitchell was there or they could place him at his work at least until 3 25 pm he left work early this is agitated
after getting two phone calls and he did not show up for work the next day so this is really looking like they've
found the right guy here the timeline fits but hold on but barely is what we need to point out here okay so we know
that he goes to work but we know that we know that he sexually assaulted a victim on Sunday so the calls that
he's getting are probably somebody letting him know that he's going to be charged with this
crime is what I'm guessing right or police saying that they wanted to question him I don't know what these
calls were exactly but if you want to lay out a very a brief timeline for this Mitchell
character it's allegedly he assaults this girl in the park on Sunday goes to work on Monday he
receives two calls two phone calls and whatever these calls are they're enough to make him visibly upset to his
co-workers who say hey he left a little early because he was angry about something right he left at 3 25 and then
his wife is saying okay well he uh not only did he leave work a little early that day didn't go into work the next
day he also all of a sudden had to go out to West Virginia because there's an illness in his family right so this
looks really really bad for Mitchell to the cops this guy was Prime Suspect number one
the one thing I do want to point out here though you know we do have some time that goes
by before Kelly's Body is found and so it's not impossible but just for people trying to picture what's going on
Columbus is in the center of Ohio and if he were heading to West Virginia he would actually be heading east and her
body was found west of Columbus opposite direction of where he said he would be going right but we don't have to believe
everything he says Mitchell's daughter told the police that her father had been with her until about 5 30 p.m
on the day that Kelly vanished and again we know that Mitchell left work at 3 25
Kelly was last seen between 3 30 and 4 P.M so he's got an alibi it's just a a pretty weak one if you ask me right
police got a search warrant for Mitchell's home and for his vehicle they found no evidence of Kelly having been
at either the home or in the vehicle at any time Mitchell returned to Columbus this was on Thursday and when he
returned to Columbus he turned himself into police he told police that his wife called him at work on Monday to tell him
that a card was left by police on their door saying they wanted to talk to him about the
complaint from the day before right now we know what at least one of the calls were and it was related to police
activity and to his activity the day before this said that of course they wanted to
speak with him about the girl accusing him of molesting her so in the light of this news Mitchell I guess decides to
leave town he told his wife that due to Prior arrest he could not be caught with
a juvenile so he went to West Virginia and he says he was going to just kind of wait it out
Mitchell told the cops that he never touched the 11 year old girl in the picnic or I'm sorry at the picnic in the
park right and he went on to tell investigators that he had never seen kellyanne Prosser before he didn't know
who she was never knew who she was until she was missing and seeing her picture in the paper and being told
he's a suspect in the case right detectives of course looked hard at Mitchell his attorney William Abram
swore up and down that his client was innocent he told the Columbus citizen Journal that quote I can and I will
verify beyond a shadow of a doubt that my client was nowhere near Columbus when the terrible incident occurred I can say
this is one of the few times in my career that I have a man as a client who is totally innocent end quote well again
you have a eight-year-old girl going missing so the first person that you put on your radar if your police are are
known sex offenders in that area but you you're not saying that he was a known sex offender
but he did have this claim against him the day before correct but we also have the dogs going to his house I mean
there's there's good reason to look at this guy and then he magically decides to go to West Virginia so
he looks guilty yeah as investigators looked into Mitchell more and more though their case against him started to
fall apart while his supervisor confirmed that he left work left his job that day at 3 25 PM his wife said that
she was with him from the time that he returned home from work until he dropped her off at JCPenney catalog Distribution
Center on Scarborough Boulevard and I-70 on the far East side of Columbus so this this makes a little more sense
here because what she is telling police is he came home he came directly home I was with him until I had to go to work
he drove me to my work dropped me off we're assuming I'm assuming that's in his vehicle yeah I I I'm assuming that
they may only have one vehicle between the two of them now he's going to drive east he has to drive her this is far
east from Columbus right to her work so this makes sense that he would drop her off at her work and he's practically on
Interstate 70 at this point he would just continue on keep going east and go straight to West Virginia yeah he's a
good 30 40 minutes into that trip so I mean so now police are looking at it okay we have this guy kind of lines up
that he could be somebody that would be involved we have the dogs going to his house but now we have his wife which she
could be a scumbag too but you got to be whole another level of scumbag to cover
up a child's murder and we have no evidence of her seeing the victim we have no evidence she
doesn't see any child alive or dead and like you said where she's located where the victim's located
is 30 40 minutes from that spot but from where he's taking his wife it's an hour
or so away yeah from the dump site to where her work would be right yeah and so what we have here Captain is you
nailed it because if this dude did this if Mitchell is guilty of the abduction and murder
then it seems like when you put all these pieces together that that means that his wife had to have been involved
in some form or fashion because his window of opportunity or time that he's available to commit any part of this
crime it gets very small and you can really I mean there's no getting around it you
you know what time he left work you have credible Witnesses telling you he left at 325. now you have a whole bunch of
people that JC Penney catalog Distribution Center that's a big place of business back then there had to have
been a ton of employees working you have her arriving at work roughly around 5 30
p.m that night so you got a bunch of credible Witnesses stating that there's no way getting around that that
leaves for a very small window of time now you go okay well what about his whereabouts and is he
accounted for after he drops off his wife because then he has for the entirety of her shift in fact he doesn't
come back to Columbus until Thursday so you have to question his whereabouts then but this is this is why we see the
case against this guy starting to fall apart because the timeline it just doesn't track it doesn't Trace that that
he had a lot of availability to do any of this because Mitchell made a collect call to his wife
who was at home right about 7 41 pm on that night so this is an easily trackable call you can verify if this
call came in or not because it was called collect right you know somebody's got to pay this bill uh so that call
came in from Mineral Wells West Virginia so yeah you know the phone rings ring ring ring ring and you pick up and it
says you have a collect call from the prick sniffer do you accept the click call and then you say yes and then and
that's how we have the evidence that he was or at least somebody from that area called her but they also normally have
you state your name or they used to so you'd say uh you have a collect call from the captain or it would be my voice
saying the captain he also Mitchell said that he also made calls from Charleston
West Virginia later that same evening so police were able to find people who saw
Walter Mitchell in West Virginia on that Monday evening these calls are starting
to make it look like he was where he says he was and we have witnesses saying that they saw him in these locations in
West Virginia as well further Mitchell potential Mitchell siding with Kelly citing by the two police officers
this was proven to be mistaken identity it was learned that the man that police saw was not Mitchell
and the girl that police saw was not Kelly it wasn't Kelly with some other guy it was neither Mitchell nor Kelly
that was seen by the police Witnesses what we have here is a guy came forward and said
I think that police saw me and that makes sense because I was in the area with my daughter at that time right and
then police look at the daughter and this guy and they're like oh yeah that those are the people that we we saw but
two things about this case so far one the pressure you would feel being this guy's an employer right and
so when when the cops come to talk to you it's like you want to help them but obviously you want to tell them the
truth but you're also thinking in the back of your head man if this guy did this this
guy's an animal right and he needs to be locked up but you you don't want to falsify
anything right and then on the on the side of the police you have this girl going missing eight
years she's eight years old not only is her parents probably freaking out but the whole Community
because in that area there's a lot of elementary schools and and a lot of them walk to school and they're walking in
crowds of young adults 18 to 24 years old and so the whole Community then goes well this sucks and there's a whole
community that is fearful now but as the police officers you're going hey we're doing some leg work and every
step of the way we're getting confirmation that we're looking at the right guy well I I think
you are initially but but as your investigation continues on you're getting confirmation that you're not
looking at the right guy no but what I'm saying is the first few steps you go oh
we're on the right track and then once you you know hit that 10th step you're going okay wait a second this is now not
lining up and just to be processing that as a as a law enforcement officer that that would be really frustrating because
you'd go from this high of we're going to catch this bastard to this isn't the right bastard well and what you have too
Captain is this crime is so similar to the other crimes that we've already discussed we have an Abduction of a of a
young girl in this case we're talking eight-year-old kellyanne Prosser the two cases we previously discussed is that of
11 and 12 year old girls now mind you this is a 100 miles to the south of where the first two abductions and
murders took place but you have similar victimology you have similar set of circumstances
where it appears that the child was abducted off the streets the body is not found for a few days
later and the body is found a considerable distance away from where the little girl was last seen yeah so
that's similar in all three of these cases the only thing that's different in this case is that they immediately had a
suspect somebody that they was looking at of course as we discussed the the case against him starts to fall apart
but in review of Mitchell's criminal record he did have some convictions he had a
convict he was convicted of breaking and entering but this was 30 years earlier remember this is a 63 year old man that
we're talking about at the time he did have five intoxication related arrests but
in his defense he had zero violent crimes on his record and as we stated with the searches of his
vehicle and his home and his clothing there was simply no tangible evidence no physical evidence linking Mitchell to
the abduction and murder well no other claims against him as far as child molestation or sexual assault uh
Mitchell was eventually found guilty of the molestation charges and for that he received a sentence of 10 years again
back to being in law enforcement shoes yes this crime is happening a hundred and some miles away but we have an
individual that just fled to another state so that so that gives you more probable cause to go oh we're
looking at the right individual because if these crimes are connected we have a traveler
yeah and like you said a hundred miles that that ain't no joke you know uh I used to have to travel every weekend for
my job I know you've done a lot of traveling for your past jobs a hundred and some miles is is no joke well but
the thing is here we have a situation where in the first two cases we're talking about well heck in the second
case alone 45 to 50 miles between abduction site and the body disposal site yeah so like you pointed out we
have a traveler and there is reason to believe that there's a potential for these cases to be linked one because of
victimology is the same circumstances are very similar and these crimes in themselves are rare crimes yeah and it
just so happens that we have three of them that take place in a short amount of time
in roughly the same area now given that's the state of Ohio the top half of the state of Ohio but
when you compare how rare these crimes are it's not that far-fetched to think that we have a traveler we have a Serial
offender here that's hunting and abducting girls off of the street and killing them yeah and like you said
wherever he picks them up at that you're going to find a distance away it's uh again as far as where where are
the heads of the detectives you're you almost uh hope that they're not connected
you know I mean um because this this individual becomes way more dangerous and maybe harder to
track down well that's true I mean you hope that they're not connected but then at the same time you're left going okay
what's scarier we have a serial child killer or we have hunting the area or we have three
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When the Demons Came Out /// Part 3 /// 461

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This week we pick up where we left off. A young girl goes missing in Columbus, Ohio. A woman escapes from her abductor in Northeast Ohio. Are the cases connected? Join us in the garage as we discuss the crimes of Serial Killer Robert Buell.

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Brief Summary

Three young girls were abducted and murdered in Ohio, with a focus on Kellyanne Prosser's case and the investigation into suspect Walter Mitchell Jr.

Key points

The Disappearance of Kellyanne Prosser. Eight-year-old Kellyanne vanished from a populated area, sparking a massive search effort.
The Search Intensifies. Police and community members search for Kelly as tips flood in after her disappearance.
The Discovery of the Raincoat. A blue raincoat found leads to a chilling realization for Kelly's family.
The Day Before Kelly Was Taken. A molestation incident occurs just before Kelly's disappearance, raising suspicions about Walter Mitchell.
Canine Search Leads to Suspect. Canines alert police to Walter Mitchell's home during the search for Kelly.
Mitchell's Alibi Falls Apart. Despite his claims, evidence suggests Walter Mitchell was involved in Kelly's abduction.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

This was the first indication to the public that the demons had come out.

Introduction to the case of Tina Marie Harmon.

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Tension

75/ 100High tension

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