the church where she and her family celebrated their faith. but when someone so young, so innocent, is suddenly gone, it s hard to say good-bye. and we all walked over to look at her, and we all just kind of locked arms and stood there, and, i mean, we talked to her. we talked to each other. i remember i always used to braid reagan s hair for her because she refused to learn to do it for herself, and i remember i just touched her hair, because how many times have i braided her hair before. it was just that s heartbreaking. it was surreal, yeah. we stood there for a while. that s the one comfort is that we have each other. the journey of healing had just begun, and step one in that long painful process was bringing reagan s killer to justice. that was lieutenant davidson s job. two days after the murder, he had a dna hit from reagan s car and a name. and to the lieutenant s surprise, it was a name he knew. brian lee golsby. he put him behind bars for attempted
california, a gps tracked sex offender pled guilty to multiple sex crimes on a hiking trail. i think the important question is 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 can t even put into words. toby and lisa have teamed up with kristen boggs and other ohio lawmakers to introduce a bill called the reagan tokes act. the law would mandate that
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, in prison? yes. and yet, he still walks out? still, walks out. there s no punishment. 52 infractions and
it s usually collected by private companies that make and sell the devices and then share the data with parole officers. the information, 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 with all the robberies maybe looked at a list of 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 that it s supposed to be a deterrent of some kind? i think drc believed that placing a gps monitor on him would curtail his criminal activity