When the Demons Came Out /// Part 4 /// 462 | Forensic Files

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Monday morning in a residential Community located in Franklin Township a panic crazed young woman clothed only in
an ill-fitting blue bathrobe with her head shaved and handcuffs dangling from her left wrist was pounding on the door
of a home located in Melody village now to be clear Captain this Franklin Township that we are talking about is
located along the Cuyahoga River and North East Ohio the homeowner opened the door trying to comfort the traumatized
woman asking what was wrong to which the woman responded called the police call the police between lapses into
hysterical sobbing that staggered even hard-bitten police officers she said to police that she had been abducted at
gunpoint around 10 15 PM the night before in a Mahoning County filling station while she was working a shift
alone she went on to tell police that she was handcuffed and forced to lay down in a
van and she could not see where her abductor was taking her after traveling what seemed like a good amount of
distance she felt the van turn into a driveway and heard a garage door open she could tell that the van had pulled
into a garage then she heard the door activated once again this time closing behind the van she was now trapped her
abductor ordered her out of the van and threw a door the garage was attached to a home as terrified as she was she could
not help but to notice how normal the place looked in fact the home was extremely neat and tidy once inside the
man quickly started in with the name calling and degrading this woman and threatening her with pain and death she
was maliciously instructed to undress he handcuffed her to a weight bench during the next approximate nine hours
he raped and forced her to perform a series of sex acts during the course of which she was tortured with electrical
shock torture her head was shaved a plastic bag was placed over her head and taped around the neck until she passed
out she was punched in her stomach and chest area and beaten with a belt until she bled then after the hours of Torment
she was handcuffed and tied Face Down on a Bed her captor after threatening his prisoner told her he was leaving for
work and he would return in about three hours within minutes she was able to escape
the home running out the front door into the streets of this quiet neighborhood eventually arriving on the doorstep of a
neighboring house across the street where someone answered the door and the police were called yeah could I imagine
what's going through her head at that time and also couldn't imagine what was going through the neighbor's head when
this lady comes upon your your front door yeah the call came in around 8 30 a.m the distress call and at 11 A.M this
guy Robert Bob Buell returned to his three-bedroom slab house where he was of course greeted by police and quickly
hand they should have just punched him right in the dick and then cuffed him Bob Buell was the home owner and of
course this woman is going to be able to identify him as her abductor attacker torture the list goes on and on this
obviously Captain will be an open and shut case police had the woman's story they had blood and marks to prove it and
police were going through the home when Robert Buell returned home at 11 A.M you
got him they found the weight bench they found ligatures some still tied to bed post they found the man's gun that the
victim said was used in the abduction they also found weapons and torture devices one of which is described as
electrical cord or extension cord basically cut in half with wires fully exposed on one end in the other end
fully intact so you could still plug it into the wall electrical outlet this guy's an animal scumbag
piece of [ __ ] as said this was an open and shut case but based off of the atrocities carried out by Bob Buell
now the question is what is this guy capable of fully capable of and has he done anything more
that we should be aware of so when they're tearing through his house building their case against him for this
woman who thankfully she got out of there she managed to escape this house of horrors
they're starting to find things there at his home that they're going wait a second
this is matching up with some of the physical evidence that we found at the Christa Harmon body disposal site right
remember they had a lot of physical evidence a lot of items that were found near her body they found a cardboard
boxes a plastic for a lack of better word plastic trash bag they found some clothing items and this is very
interesting to them because now they think they know what this monster is capable of but what else has this guy
done yeah I mean the the abduction is sophisticated the the ways in which he tortured this victim
you could say it's sophisticated it's not doesn't seem like this is his first time that's right going off of the
witness statement off of the victim statements it seems like one of two things either this guy's done this
before because he seems very precise and deliberate with his commands and his demands with his victim that either this
guy's done this before or this was incredibly well rehearsed to the point where everything was going according to
his plan so who is this guy Robert Anthony Buell Robert Anthony Buell was born September 10 1940 in Norwood Ohio
he grew up a Skinny kid and his parents called him Butchy at home better than douche he was the first of two children
born to a family that was described as destined to disintegrate he attended Williams Avenue Elementary School in
Norwood this was a working class suburb of Cincinnati his mother was a waitress she would tell her children that their
father was no good that he drank all the family's money away like the colonel so
this soon would lead to the separation of Robert's parents custody of the children was awarded to
the mother shortly after the divorce the children were put into boarding school in 1959 Robert graduated from Norwood
High School in October of 61 he enlisted in the U.S Navy where he became an Electronics technician when he left
Cincinnati Robert seemed to have slammed the door on his past especially on his family in 1962 he gets married and in
1965 he and his wife welcomed into this world Robert's only child this is a daughter that same year he is honorably
discharged from the U.S Navy Robert Bob Buell enrolls at the University of Akron
taking night classes in 1968 Bob moves into the quiet residential community of Melody Village in Summit County Ohio
so this case when our victim breaks free and escapes his home this takes place way back in 1983 right but Robert Buell
had moved into this home in 1968 so like you pointed out you couldn't imagine what's going through her head and and
all the horrible things she's been put through but the neighbors as well because this is a guy that was known in
the community yeah I mean anybody that lives in lived there for 15 years right he's a he's a fixture in that Community
Bob then works as a loan officer for sentrain Bank centran bank in Akron Ohio now in 1975 Bob Ewell takes a job
working as a loan and Grant specialist this is a job change for him but alone and Grant specialists in the Akron
planning Department's rehabilitation program so he takes this job in 1975 captain and he's still working there in
83 when this woman manages to escape from his home that's the job he was going off to and it looks like he was
going to return to his prisoner on his lunch break I'm guessing where he's then greeted by police yeah but so I'm
guessing at this point he's not married yeah they separate him and there's no child living at that location well they
separated and this is it seems to be there there was probably some other things going on but in August of 1978
you think Buell was arrested in Uniontown for public indecency now for this he simply pays a small fine and
less than two years later record of this conviction is expunged in September of a
80 Bob and his wife of 18 years according to what I could find say that they mutually decided to call it quits
and that's when they got their divorce in August of 81 we're going to go through some some things that Bob might
be suspected of things that were going on in the area yeah so in August of 81 a stranger fondles a 13 year old
Doylestown girl in the basement of her home and I have very little details about this alleged crime here
but she would later identify this quote-unquote stranger as Bob Buell she identifies him picks him out of a
photograph I'm I'm uncertain what this stranger was doing at the home I don't know if there was but Bob was doing a
large party going on uh and it happened to be someone she didn't know it it's all a little bit weird without having
the details here in this case but what is interesting is afterward after this poor girl was fondled in the basement
someone starts placing Anonymous phone calls to the home of the 13 year old victim right it's a male caller that's
asking for the little girl by name that's sicko now it's just two months later when Tina Harmon disappeared and
was killed in late March of the following year in 1982 an Akron woman is abducted at knife point from a local
mall she is robbed and sexually assaulted by the attacker she reports the attack to
police but she's unable to identify the assailant less than four months later in
mid-july Krista Harrison who we talked about last week is abducted and killed then September 30th
1982 a 26 year old Barberton woman is abducted at gunpoint outside of a Local Tavern the attacker did little to hide
his identity he forced her to walk with him into a nearby Field this is you know
off into the distance into the darkness where she was beaten and sexually assaulted now just like our Akron victim
she reports the attack to the local authorities and although the assailant did nothing to hide his face she was
only able to provide a description of the unknown man that vague description as Vegas it is will be similar but not
spot on to a suspect composite sketch that we saw stemming from the Krista Harrison murder investigation yeah I
mean if you put Robert up to these these sketches yes they look similar but anybody with like average
length hair with a mustache white and skinny is going to fit that that that sketch yeah so my thoughts on the sketch
here and and this is where my mind jumped to immediately when Bob is picked up for abducting this woman she escapes
from his home when police show up there that one now they know what this guy is up to I mean these are horrible horrible
crimes yeah piece of [ __ ] okay this this is beyond just abduction and rape this
is this is a whole nother horrible level here right and police we said that they
found some items that were seem to be matching up as far as physical evidence goes to the Krista Harrison murder case
but I think and you're right I mean these composite sketches are there they are vague because it's just a very brief
encounter that the witness had with with Krista Harrison's abductor right but I mean he looks it looks to me like
somebody sat down looking at Robert Buell and drew a picture of him that's that's how close I think the uh the
composite sketches are to him now it helps him to go undetected that he lives a distance away from where these other
crimes went down right now just before the spring season of the following year so now we are at uh the first of March
1983. well and hold on there for a second too because I also think his occupation plays into this a little bit
and we kind of talked about this in the previous case of the of the disheveled guys the the farm hands that get accused
of a crime and you go well they kind of fit that profile if he's a loan officer he's shown up every day to work probably
in a suit and tie so that I think along with um his house and the neighborhood in
which he lives and I just got a notification that you sent me a picture um you know his occupation the place
where he lives the neighborhood and then the and the condition of the house in which he kept it we really is All By
Design to throw people off any kind of scent that this guy is an animal well on the first of March in 1983 a
male driver of a dark-colored van approached two young girls ages 13 and 12 and Lodi Ohio some people say Lodi
some people say Lodi he pulls a gun and threatens both of them and attempts to abduct them right then and there the
girls immediately scream at the sight of the gun and they flee the attacker so this guy was unable to control the
situation unable to control his targets and with the risk of being spotted by somebody else the would-be abductor
returns to his van and speeds away into the night now we've talked about this van before you we believe it's uh like a
dark red or a maroon color tendon windows and has the circle windows in the back well we have a few
different descriptions based off of witness statements that they believe either a it's often referred to as a
dark colored van right because what we have here is different Witnesses throw a different color
name you know they might one witness might say purple one might say brown one might say a dark maroon color right but
what is agreed upon is that it was a dark full-size van that that was in question for the Krista Harrison case
well not to step on your toes but does Robert have a van matching this description uh he does and that's where
things get a little wonky that's going to be ultimately his downfall is this van
this van is very much involved in a lot of these cases be it either he uses it to abduct someone or
as we're later going to suspect maybe he's using it to transport a body at some point as well now what's weird
though is with the Krista Harrison case we have a witness who says that they thought they spotted a man
fleeing the area of the dump site that morning and he described a man but the man was driving a car not a van where
we're at in the timeline captain we're at the early part of 1983. before we move on too far I do want to point out
this whole time since August of 1981 remember the Anonymous phone calls the these
continued periodically off and on to the home of that 13 year old Doylestown victim yeah calls from the creepo now on
the 8th of March 1983 one of the phone calls is then traced to the melody Village residence of Bob Buell got him
on May 10 1983 in a back alley in the Tiny Town of jeromesville Ohio this is located in the sticks of Ashland County
a man approached a little girl the encounter starts with a question followed by you know everyday
pleasantries but ends with him attempting to pull her into his vehicle thankfully the girl gets away and after
telling her parents this incident is reported to the authorities where the child
is able to offer a brief description of the vehicle the vehicle is described as a two-door Sub-Compact car which turned
out to be a Ford Pinto now the very astute and aware child was able to provide authorities with a license plate
number for the guy that tried to abduct her authorities find that the vehicle in
question is registered to Bob buell's ex-wife so in the coming weeks detectives will go to the home or I'm
sorry buell's ex-wife's home to ask about the Ford Pinto this is where this guy is kind of getting lucky right I
mean he's smart he's using resources to evade capture and detection really but the police
what do they have to go on they have a license plate well they're going to go and talk to his ex-wife who does not
live with him so that doesn't immediately put Bob Buell on the radar it is a little weird that these
Anonymous one of the Anonymous phone calls is traced back to his home so he should be on someone's radar by
this point right but the other tricky thing where he got lucky as well is remember we talked about the bag the
plastic bag and the cardboard box that was found near Krista Harrison's body they were able to trace that back to to
Sears to the department store and it was used to sell black car seats vehicle seats remember they traced that to about
25-ish people that lived in northeastern Ohio police would do a check on these individuals however none of them owned a
vehicle at the time of Krista Harrison's abduction that matched the vehicle that
was described by the witnesses so Bob has this full-size van but it's it's distinctly different from the one
that it that is believed to have been spotted by these Witnesses so another another case where this guy may have
just got lucky somebody misremembered something or didn't remember something correctly when they gave the information
to the police well and I wonder being a loan officer maybe he does auto loans and maybe he has some contacts with some
local dealers maybe he's using somebody else's vehicle or or dealer's vehicles uh later that same month Captain a 29
year old woman is abducted at gunpoint in East Liverpool Ohio she has held prisoner and tormented for what she says
is three days in a small house that she believes is owned by her abductor on June 25th 1983 Deborah K Smith
vanishes from a downtown Street Carnival in Massillon Ohio and sadly her lifeless body will be found a little
more than a month afterward on Sunday October 16 1983 a 28 year old woman is abducted at a Damascus Ohio gasoline
service station she is the one that was taken to a location that she believes could be the home of her abductor she's
the one that escaped the following morning when her attacker leaves the home now later that day Bob Ewell
returns to his home where he's greeted by local police the man of course is arrested identified as Robert Anthony
Buell the owner of the home and over the course of the coming months Bob Buell wood admit to having committed the May
83 Abduction of the East Liverpool Ohio woman and the October 83 Abduction of the Damascus woman so he's confronted
with this stuff he's arrested for it and through their investigation they're going to get him to admit to abducting
raping and torturing these two women but one thing that's incredibly different from some of these other cases that
they're starting to wonder could he be connected to the one woman escaped The Other Woman
was eventually let go bye by the captor right so on the last day of January 1984
Bob Ewell at this time is 43 years old he's sentenced to 121 to 320 years in prison after pleading no
contest to 16 felonies in connection with the two admitted abductions he would be eligible for parole after
serving at least 58 years so he would have to live to be 101 years old to have his next possible day of freedom
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and cheers to you Colonel cheers to you Captain starting on the day of BOB ewell's arrest in October of 83 local
authorities including the FBI and detectives from several counties immediately began collecting evidence to
build a case against Bob Buell for the abduction that we just talked about now what they're finding they're
starting to link this to Krista Harrison's case with physical evidence and they're starting to build a case
against Bob Buell for the abduction and murder of Krista Harrison but if you're law enforcement you have to be
optimistic because yes you caught him red-handed basically with the one Abduction the other one you didn't catch
them red-handed but he confessed to it so you have to be optimistic that if you have more evidence and you can lean on
him more that he might confess to other crimes well and with these serial offenders with these serial killers and
rapists usually what we end up talking about or the way that we are clued into who the the offender is
is that there's a victim that manages to get away and we've seen that time and time again and in this case she gets
away thankfully they start finding evidence inside his home that links him to the physical evidence found at the
body dump site of Krista Harrison now we got all these different communities and
different law enforcement agencies working together focusing in on Bob Bill and they start noticing that some of the
physical evidence that Krista Harrison's dump site is similar to physical evidence that they found on Tina Harmon
right and at the time this is this is just weird and bizarre but from 1980 to about 1983 there were roughly
about a dozen abduction and murders of child female victims in the state of Ohio
we know that Bob Buell was active for some of that time he had he pled no contest to two abductions rapes and
tortures of these grown women and so now he's kind of linked through the media through some of the investigators and at
least in the eyes of the public he might be responsible could he be responsible for all of these well yeah because one
these are happening the Northeast part of Ohio we know he's from Cincinnati which would
be the South West part so even if he doesn't have a bunch of contacts with his family he still might have friends
in that area well that that gets him traveling through the whole state we know he's a loan officer so he's not
traveling a bunch for his job with those connections he'd be traveling through the whole state of Ohio eventually
investigators would decide that they have enough evidence against Bob Buell to charge him for the murder and
Abduction of Krista Harrison and his trial was scheduled to start March 19 1984 and the trial would take place in
the city of Cleveland it would take some time Captain but he is found to be guilty of Krista Leah Harrison's murder
and for this he is sentenced to die by the state of Ohio time to die Bob you're talking about a guy who's already facing
a minimum of 58 years all the way up to 300 years in prison for previous crimes and now I mean what what are you left to
do with this guy he's already serving basically life in prison and now you've figured out oh he also abducted and
killed a child so of course they sentence him to die Bob Buell would maintain that he was innocent
from the time that they arrested him until the time that they eventually put him to death innocent of he admits yeah
he admits to abducting and and traumatizing adult women but says that he had nothing to do with with Krista
Harrison's case he had nothing to do with any of the child cases is what he claims and I mean
he goes on to say uh look I claims that he's innocent he says there's no eyewitnesses and we'll come back to that
or DNA evidence connecting him to the crime okay you have to keep in mind this is the
early 80s right I don't know that we would expect to see conclusive DNA evidence connecting him to the crime at
the time the no eyewitnesses this is an interesting statement and this is actually a true statement even though
the composite sketch looks like Robert Buell these are the witnesses that saw the
described man at the park right abduct Krista Harrison what we learn is he's able to say this
definitively to to the public and in interviews and not be lying to us because apparently Roy remember he said
goodbye Roy or see you later Roy or something to that effect when he abducted Krista Harrison right Roy
couldn't pick Bob Buell out of a photo lineup that's odd so this is a weird situation it's all it's
the reverse of the Tina Harmon wrongful convictions right the Tina Harmon wrongful convictions we had fake
eyewitnesses so-called eyewitnesses that said that they uh somebody admitted the
crime to them the murder to them and no physical evidence and they got a conviction which were eventually
overturned but here in this case Captain we have a lot of physical evidence connecting Bob
Buell to the murder of Krista Harrison but we can't get an eyewitness even though there were witnesses to the
actual abduction yeah but I think and I'm just going to go out on a limb here you know we have a lot of times that
these killers or these serial killers that we believe are responsible for I mean the age of the victims that he is
admitting to kidnapping and torturing they're a little bit older of victims and so I oh I can confess to those but I
can't confess to this crime against a child because we know that there is prison Justice most of the time for
those individuals well not only that prison Justice or not they're sentencing him to die that's that his sentence is a
death sentence right that's what I'm saying there's all these more motivating reasons uh to to lie about this
but then you but then it makes you wonder and and just go with me on this for a little bit
it makes you wonder if the the science or the studying of these individuals correct
most of them have some kind of type of victim that they're looking for and we have him at least pinpointed on two
victims and they're very similar is it possible that he was connected to any other individual
that he would help uh you know I'll help uh abduct a kid and I'll give the kid to you if you help
abduct you know a teenager and give them to me if that makes any sense an adult yeah yeah you but it would be
um it would make sense on why they can't pick him out of the lineup because whoever uh abducted her might
have not been her killer right I know that's a long shot possibly I mean it's also a good amount of time
has gone by from the the very brief quick abduction that a juvenile Witness their statements and when Bob Buell is
actually arrested what we do have too though Captain is we have an adult surviving victims two that we are 100
aware of and neither of them describe anything other than Bob Buell is the man who abducted and tortured me I know it's
the early 80s but did Bob have a computer in his house I I do not know I couldn't find anything in the the
arrest record or the evidence collection that would tell me that he had a computer or not makes me wonder if he
was a part of some kind of pedophilia ring or some kind of online Network where he'd be exchanging illegal
pornography or child porn and then one piece of [ __ ] leads you to multiple pieces of [ __ ] well and I I get what
people were saying because at the time people were like you know this man's saying that he's innocent yes he's a
horrible horrible person no matter what because of the two crimes we know he did
commit but he's saying he's innocent of the of this child murder I get what people were
thinking at the time that okay that's not his victimology but right we've been doing this for a little bit of time Ted
Bundy had both adult and child female victims Richard Ramirez had both adult and child
victims BTK BTK adult and child victims Joseph kondro adult and child victims I mean the the list goes on and on and on
Joseph kondro told John Douglas in an interview that he decided you know he one he absolutely had to be a pedophile
no doubt about it but he's not willing to admit that to John Douglas in the interviews he simply tells Douglas it
was easier to abduct female children than it was to abduct female adults one with uh Richard Ramirez I mean he had
victims I think as young as six all the way into the eight into their 80s so that's a huge range and sometimes
with these guys I mean he's he's a sexual sadist Robert Buell is and it may simply have been he was out trolling for
a victim and he happened to come across a 12 year old girl before he came across
a 25 year old woman to abduct he saw an opportunity and he took it you know he claims he was innocent but the
prosecutors argued that the evidence against him and Krista Harrison's case was overwhelming I found it to be very
uh substantial the case they were able to build against him they convicted him on fiber evidence this was fibers that
were found in multiple locations at the dump at the body dump site on on some of
the clothing as well of Krista Harrison and they're able to find these same fibers in his vehicle and in his home
they were able to match paint there was different colors of paint that were found on some of the clothing items
that were discarded near the victim as well and they were able to match paint on those clothing items to paint found
inside of his home right so what you're saying is no matter what this this idiot
said he he's guilty of this crime but it's also oddly um it's almost like Richard
Ramirez in Reverse in the sense of Richard had what 16 charges against him sexually assaulting Miners and or or
raping Miners and he let all the children victims go as far as We Know but the other victims he he killed and then it's
almost in Reverse you know we we don't know that he was going to kill the the second adult that he captured he let the
first one go if he would have let the second one go that's it's kind of a weird yeah but
there's the devil's in the details my friend what was one of the details that the surviving victim said he placed a
bag over my head taped it to my neck and left it there until I passed out so the
the two child victims Tina Harmon and Krista Harrison both were described in their autopsies as having been choked
they died due to strangulation right probably due to some choking with a rope type item and with hands now a lot of
times in this I apologize there's no way to deliver this other than than how I'm
about to do it a lot of times these guys they're sexual sadists they they enjoy just like we said in the trailer last
week they enjoy inflicting the pain and seeing the pain in the eyes and on the face of their victim right and if
choking and strangulation is their thing a lot of times they will choke and strangle till the person will pass out
revive them and do it again and do it again and do it again what I'm pointing out here where people say oh he let go
these these women that he tortured well that may be who knows I 100 percent believe and we'll get into to why we
should all agree that Buell killed Krista Harrison and Tina Harmon who knows maybe his intention was to
drive them out in the middle of nowhere and let them go but their children you cannot inflict
the same amount of pain in in other torture right to that of a child that you could a
woman who a full-grown person who knows maybe he intended to let them go and they they died during the torture
process yeah I think um lethal injection not too easy even electric chair too easy I think what they do they put them
on it in a chair they they make him spread eagle and then they take they take hold on they take
I'm trying to keep this sophisticated a little bit but this is sophisticated this is a physics you you use that
extension cord he had and you plug it in and then you take the other hand and you
just jab him right in the balls well the thing is till death if torture was his thing and it it definitely sounds like
it was you can take a little bit of joy in this next statement you know some people find this to be psychological
torture he was strapped up and ready to go back in 1996 they were going to put him to death I mean he was he was
seconds away from being put to death and they they called it off eventually he would be a sentence to death and
executed on uh September of 2002. now he was only ever convicted of killing Krista Harrison he was suspected
of multiple child abduction and murders police always said in those counties said we have some evidence that we
believe links Robert Buell to these cases and their stance always was case closed right this guy's been sentenced
to death You Can't Kill a Man twice and he's been executed that always sucks though for the victim's family of the
other cases because you want to know for for certain correct and the thing is what if you know it might be a very
small percentage chance but what if they're wrong so what ends up happening in Tina
Harmon's case is the family they come forward and they're like well we wanted we want to know for sure we understand
that the the police are saying Robert Buell did this and they're like yeah we believe you but
we want to know for sure well another thing is if if it's not the right guy then you have a equal animal on the
street preying on these victims well the interesting thing with the Tina Harmon case was
they had Bob buell's DNA on file the state of Ohio yeah and they had DNA evidence in Tina Harmon's case and so
the family was petitioning saying hey test this DNA let's make sure that it was Robert Buell and the county
was like well we would but it's awfully expensive so guess who came after the county old
friend of the show James Renner Jimmy he comes after the county and he says well
how much does it cost maybe we can figure out a way to raise the money and we'll get somebody else to pay for it
right if the county can't afford it the county comes back and this is what this is egg on the face
right where they go yeah it's like 400 500 to conduct these tests oh yeah you offer offer that to the family
that's not much sons of [ __ ] offer it to the family hey it's five hundred dollars we we don't want to use taxpayer
money even though we should even though you probably paid more taxes last quarter than what we're gonna what we
need to run these tests offer it to the family you pieces of [ __ ] you know what
I mean so what ends up happening Captain is hold on a little girl died their their little girl died and you're gonna
put a price tag on that you pile of [ __ ] okay sorry well eight years after the
state of Ohio executed Robert Buell they did conduct the DNA testing and confirmed 100 percent that they found
his DNA on our victim Tina Harmon so he has been conclusively linked to two of the three murders that we discussed here
today the three child murders got him the other thing too is a lot of those crimes that we talked about where the
stranger abduction yeah the these crimes that were reported but they didn't have
anybody to link them to after Bob Buell was arrested these victims started coming forward saying that was the guy
that tried to abduct Me right so he's been linked to all of those now per Wikipedia Bob Buell
it was listed on his page on Wikipedia up until December of last year that he was most likely responsible for the
North Columbus murder of eight-year-old Kelly Ann Prosser however we find out that that was not
true because in June of last year Columbus Deputy police chief Greg bodker held a press conference 38 years after
Kelly's murder and thousands of man hours expanded there was a break in the case Columbus Cold Case detectives
received permission to utilize two new new investigative tools to solve Kelly's case
one was something we referenced earlier called the fifth floor which is a podcast that is put out from time to
time from Columbus PD they discussed her Cold Case on their show the fifth floor
the other technology was a process that we've discussed multiple times on this show and have already here today it was
the technology being used around the country to locate violent offenders who are not trackable using traditional
detective work we're talking about genetic genealogy investigations right so in early 2020 the Cold Case unit
hired Advanced DNA to test samples taken from Kelly's Body Advanced DNA was able
to match the DNA in the sample to a third cousin of a family which came primarily from West Virginia and was
Caucasian the family was associated with two surnames and one of these one of the
these surnames was Jarrell the genetic evidence pointed to a Harold Warren Jarrell as
that of being the killer of Kelly Anne Prosser so after 38 years Captain the Columbus PD were finally able to close
Kelly's case and they identified Harold Warren Jarrell as her killer now the detective the Cold Case detective said
quote he was not anywhere near the top of our list in fact he had never been mentioned in the original case File well
we see that from time to time it's rare but we do see it and this was a case of stranger
it's a stranger child abduction which is so rare and his name also the reason why
it's so hard to solve his name didn't appear in the case File because he had nothing he was nowhere near the the
circles the Social Circles of this little girl or her family he must have just spotted her alone
and either tricked her to getting into his car or he abducted her yeah they they
weren't able to make a rest on on Herald but he died in Nevada in 1996 and he was
67. yes Robert Buell seems like a perfect the age of victims the manner in which he does it and seems
brazing as far as being able to abduct people in broad daylight obviously the the picture doesn't match up and
obviously he would have been in jail at the time of Amy mihalovic's abduction but that's why I question yes I know
it's early 80s but sometimes these sick individuals have communications with each other
whether it's online or through mail and I just I really just think um maybe it's
a long shot of a lead but he could have been connected to somebody because it's very similar to
the crimes that he committed well that's one thing that we discussed at length with James Renner in regards to this
case we call him a nephew but he's not technically a nephew of Robert Buell who has been suspected in some other crime
some people think that maybe the nephew is responsible for Amy mihalovic's murder personally I feel like the nephew
just happens to be Robert buell's nephew right and that that they didn't really do anything in cahoots together I think
that Robert Buell is guilty of the crimes we suspect him of and like I said up until December that's
probably a Prosser case probably more yeah probably some more but this kellyanne Prosser case was solved in the
middle of last year and it in his Wikipedia page still had him as the prime suspect in her case six months
after it was solved right so I've I'm glad to see that that has been updated and changed and it's just really a
unique look at this monster that was living in Northeast Ohio and because of what we know the crimes
we know he committed he's been suspected in so many other crimes that were left unsolved at the time after his execution
date we have one cold case that solved eight years after he's executed and then kellyanne Prosser's case it
solved 38 years after her murder and it turned out to be somebody completely different yeah and I I know I don't say
this enough and I don't want to get too sappy on you Colonel but the amount of knowledge that you're
putting out in these episodes especially like a four-parter it says heads and tails above
so many other hosts and look other True Crime hosts are great storytellers but is it too early to start calling you the
goat the goat of True Crime I mean this is a lot of knowledge that you're passing on
and you and Renner and I know not everybody's a fan of the king of Cleveland hey not everybody's a fan of
the colonel either that's true but I'm seeing these other shows get Awards I just don't think you're getting the
credit and I'm gonna say it and maybe some people are gonna get mad guess what be mad
he might be the goat maybe next the goat maybe the colonel maybe the crispy Colonel is the crispy goat
but on a serious note let's okay let's get serious the thing that I'm really proud of you and and ren are doing is
the porch light project anybody can donate look we just got done explaining that they didn't want to spend 500 bucks
to give answers to the victim's family Katina Harmon's family yeah the porch light project is taking on cases and
helping but it's not cheap and they need your help so if you could take you know
five bucks 10 bucks whatever instead of going to Starbucks tomorrow donate to the porch light project and you can do
so at porchlightonline.org hit the support us button and you can donate there well and
I really like the work that porchlight is doing I'm very proud of the work that we've done there I'm going to Pat myself
on the back for something else though right here Captain as long as you don't stroke yourself I like getting things
right I like things being correct and that's why we we present the information we have in a certain way here in the
garage because we want the record to be correct I don't know that I was the person that that is singly responsible
for this but I can say this I emailed Wikipedia over and over and over last year
until they removed that sentence from Robert buell's Page saying that he was the prime suspect in Kelly and Prosser's
murder because we knew starting in June of last year that he was not responsible
right for that murder in fact in a June 2020 news conference announcing that they solved Kelly's case Kelly's family
thanked law enforcement for their dedication to their case over nearly four decades via a letter that was read
aloud and it a portion of it was this quote when kellyanne left for school the morning of September 20 1982 we did not
expect our time with her would abruptly end or that our future would change in every way imaginable one moment we had
this dazzling mischievous eight-year-old little girl then suddenly all we had left were memories photographs that will
never age a calendar marking a dreadful new holiday a grave and pieces of Kelly's life stored in a box so they now
have their answers but sadly that's all they have I want to thank everybody so much for
joining us here in the garage cheers to all you True Crime addicts Colonel do we
have any recommended reading this is exciting this fantastic book came out just yesterday we were able to get an
advanced copy so we could review and we are very happy to recommend to you the Low Country murder of Gwendolyn Elaine
Fogle a cold case solved this is by special agent Lieutenant Rita Schuler who worked on the case shortly after she
joined the South Carolina law enforcement Division and she couldn't let this case go not even after her
retirement in 2001. you know I love these old cold cases Captain this is about the 1978 murder of Gwendolyn Fogle
it was the Walterboro police Department's top Cold Case for 37 years check out the Low Country murder of
Gwendolyn Elaine Fogle available now on Kindle and paperback and if you are busy
don't worry about writing that title down now we have that listed for you along with a bunch of other great true
crime books on our recommended page at True Crime garage.com and until next week be good be kind and don't matter
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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

Robert Buell abducted and tortured women in Ohio, linked to multiple murders, ultimately executed for Krista Harrison's murder.

Key points

A Terrifying Escape. A young woman escapes her abductor after a night of horror.
Unraveling the Past. Robert Buell's troubled childhood and early life hint at a darker future.
The Community's Shock. The abductor was a known figure in the neighborhood, raising questions about his past.
Bob Buell's Arrest. Bob Buell is arrested for the abduction of two women, leading to a deeper investigation.
Trial and Sentencing. Buell is found guilty of Krista Harrison's murder and sentenced to death.
DNA Evidence Links Buell. DNA testing confirms Buell's connection to Tina Harmon's murder, linking him to multiple cases.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

What is this guy capable of?

Questioning the abductor's potential for further crimes.

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Tension

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