in prison? yes. and yet, he still walks out? still, walks out. there s no punishment. 52 infractions, and no consequences. golsby, a registered-sex offender, was assigned a parole officer. and what the tokes family learned next made them sick to their core. at the time of reagan s murder, golsby was wearing an ankle monitor. when i hear someone has an ankle monitor, i always thought it meant, like, if they went outside of their zone. or past their curfew, that an alarm would go off somewhere. and the police would show up, immediately. right. and arrest them. and most people do. and that is what s even more disturbing about it is most people think that. was anyone watching him? no. the tokes family was surprised to learn that police don t have direct access to the gps data from ankle monitors. it s usually collected by private companies that make and sell the devices, and then share the data with parole officers. the information,
in houston, where a parolee, with a monitor, murdered his mother. and, in california, a gps tracked sex offender pled guilty to multiple sex crimes on a hiking trail. i think whether this type of technological solution makes us safer. and in my experience and based on my study, i don t see that it does. ohio s drc declined our request for an interview, citing pending litigation. the tokes family sued for wrongful death but the case was dismissed. they had this monster in their grasp and their control, and they let him slip through. to know that this continues to go on, and will continue to go on until they change, the way the system currently is. it s maddening. and you can t put a price tag on innocent, human life. you just can t. this pain is something i
unanimous verdict? in march, 2018, brian golsby went on trial and was convicted for reagan s murder. we, the jury, find the defendant guilty, beyond a reasonable doubt. he was sentenced to life in prison, without parole. the first thing that went through my head is, this monster will never be able to harm another person, again, ever. but for the tokes family, justice in the courtroom was not enough. the more i started to hear and understand about who, how, why, i came to the realization that, this never should ve happened. this never should have happened. they first learned that golsby had been out of prison for just a few months. and in prison, he had a history of bad behavior. still, by ohio law, there was no way to extend his sentence. this man had 52 violations,
generally, isn t monitored by law enforcement, in real time. and sure enough, a look back at golsby s gps trail revealed he was the masked assailant who, for weeks, had been terrorizing columbus. every time that there was a robbery, there is brian golsby. so, this is a man out on parole, with an ankle monitor. and he is out committing heinous crimes. absolutely. and getting away, scot-free. yes. i was outraged. i m mad. all the signs were there. what more do you want? somebody should ve put two and two together. did the system fail reagan tokes? did it fail all of the victims? it failed all the victims, and everything went unchecked. i have never seen a community so outraged. state of ohio representative, kristen boggs, lives two blocks from where golsby kidnapped reagan. could an astute detective maybe looked at a
list at the parolees in the area, and connected the dots? well, had that information been available to our law enforcement, yeah, i think that, that could that could have happened. after reagan s murder, boggs decided to investigate and, possibly, legislate. she discovered that gps monitors can be and sometimes are, set up to send alerts if an offender violates a curfew or moves into a restricted area. but in golsby s case, boggs says ohio s department of rehabilitation and correction, or drc, told her this. they put a gps monitor on him, but they didn t have any exclusionary zones affiliated with that monitor, they didn t have any curfews affiliated with that monitor. so, no geographic restrictions and no curfew programmed into it. what is the point of it? exactly. is part of it supposed to be