you re dead to me. hard words that carried weight like knives. and i didn t know the weight of them. i took her for granted. you regret writing that? oh, yeah. in more ways than one. carmella says there was never a serious argument about heather s hair. i would have never said anything to make her feel bad or think that her hair wasn t looking good. it was just a color preference. i said i liked it better blonde. but it still looks nice. that s literally all that was said. so that s not a fight about her hair? no, there was never a fight about her hair. the main thing with her, if you felt that something was off, you could communicate about it. and i can t tell you how many times we agreed to just disagree. carmella said the investigation ultimately built a wall between her and heather s family. of course i m hurt, and i m like, why would they even suspect me? well, here s why. it was never a question if carmella loved my sister. it
either. that wasn t your t-shirt that heather bogle was found in? no. detective o connell says that when they came to your door and asked whether you knew heather bogle, that you seemed evasive. correct. why would you have been evasive? i was evasive because i was smoking marijuana at the time and i get a knock on my door and i crack the door and the police was at my door. so, if you seemed evasive and closed the door, it s it s because i was smoking actually. o connell s other primary suspect was omar satchel. did you know heather bogle? no. never met her? never met her, never been in the same room with her in my life. i didn t even know what she looked like till somebody showed me on their phone. like keyona bor, omar satchel says o connell s investigation was essentially a frame job. honestly, i just think they were looking for someone to pin it on, and as my lawyer told me at the time, i was the perfect scapegoat. why were you the perfect scapegoat?
was arrested and charged with her murder. kotsopoulos thought myers might have lured heather to his trailer hoping to have sex with her, and attacked her when she refused. you ever hear the name danny myers before? nope. never. she never talked about him? never. myers sat in jail for a year and a half. and then came word of a deal. in exchange for no death penalty, myers, agreed to plead guilty to heather s murder and receive life without parole. at sentencing, d. a. tim braun gave the bogle family a glimpse into heather s last moments. this was her body as it was discovered. as for heather s cut hair? braun said that was not just the final insult in a crime of passion. it was, he said, myers deliberate and futile attempt to remove all traces of his dna from heather s body. heather bogle was the real hero in this case, because she
2018, former detective sean o connell accepted a plea deal of his own, admitting to evidence tampering. other charges including witness coercion and dereliction of duty were dropped. his punishment, two years in prison. i can assure you that at his sentencing, o connell spoke directly to heather s family. again, i apologize to the bogle family. i truly do. i can assure you that i was just doing everything in my power as a police officer to find those persons responsible for heather s death. for all those swept up in this investigation, this was a long journey to justice involving not just a search for heather s killer, but a battle with a sheriff s office run amok, a battle jen bogle was determined to win. this girl was tough. investigating, up all night, working, taking care of kids. her number one priority was still heather. we need to find out who did this. i would think your sister would be proud of you. thank you.
wasn t that. at the center of this human cyclone of distrust is a young mom who worked in that plant. heather bogle worked overnights. one eight-hour shift after another. a single parent with a singular mission. her main focus was always her daughter. heather s younger sister, jen. she wasn t too concerned about getting into a relationship. it was more being responsible and taking care of her kid, making sure she was working enough hours to support them both. you look up to her? yeah, she was more like a parent to me than she was a sister. even though she was only 18 months older? yeah, cause she always looked out for me. at 28, heather bogle was mostly looking out for her 5-year-old daughter, mckenzie. heather had never married mckenzie s father, and sister jen says heather s romantic life had never really worked as well as her professional one. there was definitely a lot of guys who wanted to be her