out at 6:17 a. m., wearing a whirlpool t-shirt. we don t know for sure what happened next. we do know she didn t pick up mckenzie later that day. at first, jen thought maybe heather had overslept. i call, and her phone went straight to voicemail, over and over and over, and i which was unusual. very unusual. the hours passed, and no one had seen heather. the family called police and were told to give it some time. that didn t work for jen, who along with a couple of heather s friends, made these flyers and started putting them everywhere. sort of with every passing minute you re getting a little bit more frantic. definitely. i just kept trying to tell myself that she s okay. we re gonna find her. there s gotta be some reasonable explanation. except there wasn t. so the family filed a missing persons report with the sandusky county sheriff s office. and that put them in touch with detective sean o connell. soon, o connell
heather s brother josh feasel. they were fighting a lot. oh, yeah. according to jen, josh sent heather an ugly text message just hours before heather went missing, berating her for failing a nursing exam. too stupid to pass the lpn battery exam. low expectations of yourself. typical trash like your mom and dad. he knew what to say that would get under her skin. it was fair to assume that heather and didn t always see eye to eye. o connell said josh was less than cooperative when approached by investigators. josh would have his good days on wanting to talk to us, and would have his bad days of not wanting to talk to us. at one point o connell said he asked for josh s dnajust to rule him out. he wouldn t give it to us initially. that s got to make you sit up a little straighter. it did.
jen and pat thought there was someone else who should be looked at with suspicion. someone much closer to heather. her ex-girlfriend carmella. you guys go back and forth between carmella and josh being involved? i did. they were the only two that made sense in my mind. jen said it was common knowledge that carmella and heather fought. and they d fight about what usually? it was mostly jealousy stuff. something else that implicated carmella, said jen, was the way heather s killer cut her hair. heather dyed her hair a lot and it was kind of fried, and she didn t think carmella liked her hair. i just instantly was like, her hair s cut off. what do you mean? who would who would touch her hair? you know, nobody made sense except for carmella. jen and pat shared their feelings with detective o connell. to an investigator, when you have somebody s hair cut, they re doing it as a means of
what he thought were three, possibly four, good suspects in heather bogle s murder. the way he saw it, she had been the victim of a drug deal that had turned violent. but heather s sister jen and her cousin pat thought o connell was way off base. was heather involved in drugs? no. she smoked pot but she never did any kind of other drugs. less than a spoonful. [laughs] it was to help her anxiety. your family and the sheriff s department were very much not on the same page. that came pretty quickly. very quickly. i d say about a month into it. jen and pat thought o connell should be looking closer to home a lot closer. and at someone with whom heather had a volatile relationship. that person was
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