The evidence that they had was the word of a fraud. They said james daily had said, she wouldnt die, she wouldnt die, she wouldnt shut up. Do we believe that . Attorneys say hes on death row because of this man, an infamous jailhouse snitch who claimed james daily confessed to him. Not only are they taking the word of a con man youre taking the word of a child molester and yet you put him on the stand. Were you scared of him . Very. I was terrified. Hold on. Let me put you on speaker. He says youre the reason hes on death row. He says the reason hes on death row is because you lied. Ive never been here because im so scared of it. It was over here . This is where she went to heaven. And the reason i came down is because i feel like everybodys sitting in purgatory, waiting for this to get justice. I believe that. And thats why i brought holy water down to put in the water. Are you guys going to be offended if i goat on my knees . Not at all. Okay, because this is how i feel about it. I hope she feels free now. How could somebody kill a little girl and just leave them in the water . What drives somebody to do that . The devil. An evil, evil person. She put up a fight to end all fights. Fighting them off her as hard as she could. She had over 30 stab wounds. Many, many defensive wounds. Her hands were up like this, probably saying stop, stop, stop. Hes coming in with the knife, and it goes right through. It was just her. And she fought back. Thats why she was stabbed so many times. She was trying to live. And you just think about that girl all alone. I think about this a lot. What was she feeling . How scared was she . She was screaming. She was probably wanting her dad. She was probably wanting to go home. She was probably thinking, this cannot be happening to me. They didnt stop until it was over. They didnt stop. They didnt care. She was dragged into the water, and she was held down until she drowned. She was in the water all night long. By herself. Dead. Indian rocks beach, its a very small, little community, right on the intercoastal waterways, not heavily populated. Sleepy town. Lovely area, i might say. Lovely area. It was everything that you would think florida should be. We had the palm trees. We had the sun. Beautiful weather all year round, and the beaches were phenomenal. White, sandy beaches. A lot of tourists. And a lot of transplants. People just looking for a change in life. Running away from something or running to something. I mean, thats florida. Well, a bridge tender actually discovered the body in the water. Theres a bridgetender house on the bridge. And theres a bridge tender that sits up there all the time to open the drawbridge when boats want to pass through the intercostal waterway. So what happened was the bridge tender reported to duty, and he got up to the top of the bridge. He looked over the side of the bridge and saw something in the water. Down by the shoreline. But he wasnt quite sure what it was. And went down and investigated, and sure enough, it was a body. He was so upset because it was a young body. She was found floating naked. This is a secluded area, a beachy area where i guess people go parking and that kind of thing. You know, like a lovers lane kind of thing. Its right near the bridge and theres nothing else there. And thats how it was discovered. And he called the police. The police department, they have no idea. Young girl, brutally murdered. Ive covered a lot of murder. And generally, police and prosecutors are really happy to talk about the cases theyve solved. But not this one. But one of the few people who is willing to talk with us about this case is a former prosecutor named Robert Heyman. This murder happens. How big of a deal was it here in Pinellas County . You know in my career, i handled dozens of firstdegree murders. This was probably really without a doubt the most brutal one that i had seen and handled personally. A murder these days is kind of commonplace. I mean, it doesnt get a lot of attention. But back then, murders werent all that common in Pinellas County. It received a lot of publicity and a lot of interest. Both from the press and the public. That type of viciousness, that type of brutality would keep any detective, any Police Prosecutor up at night. She had no i. D. So they didnt know who this girl was. Here are some of the newspaper clippings. It says, police are still seeking identity of murdered woman. Another one from the Tampa Bay Times the murdered woman floating nude in the intercostal waterway monday morning still has not been identified. She was in her late teens or early 20s. 57, weighed about 120 pounds, and had 00 brown hair and green eyes. She was wearing a small silver ring. A small silver ring with a turquoise stone. Turquoise stone in the shape of an eagle. In the shape of an eagle. This case begins with a mystery who is this young woman in the water . 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Early that morning. It takes nearly 48 hours but the victim is eventually identified. The naked girl stabbed, strangled and drowned in the intercoastal waterway finally has a name. Her name is Shelly Boggio. Shes just 14 years old. She was identified by a turquoise ring and a scar on her belly. And i just remember thinking, this is, like, the last ring that she will have. She will never have that special ring from a boyfriend or, you know, a wedding band. And my mother called me and said that i had to get home right away, that thered been a murder in the family. And i just remember shaking. Thats it. Shaking. The boggio family is your average midwestern family. Frank boggio and sherry boggio, they were both beauticians in battle creek. And they divorced. The husband brings the three daughters down to florida. Frank moved the three girls and himself to Pinellas County, ironically for, quote unquote, a better life. Shelly was very kind, very sweet. She was actually very soft spoken. Shelly could also make everybody in a room laugh, and that was a problem in school sometimes. Shelly was a 14yearold clearly going on 30 in many ways. Now, this is the most beautiful time of year in florida, and as sunday turns to night on may 5, 1985, Shelly Boggio has no way of knowing that this is going to be her last florida sunset. Shes about to come across two men, jack pearcy and his friend, who youre about to meet. His name is james dailey, and back then he was known as jim or jimmy d. Let me fix your shot here. Okay. Roll any way. Thanks for coming to see me. Yeah, sure. Its a long walk down that hallway, huh . About a quarter of a mile. I meet james dailey 35 years later on floridas death row. Hes there for the murder of Shelly Boggio. Do you get many visitors . Mary kay, my exwife. She tries to make it up every week. Dailey is in pretty good shape for his age. He turned 74 in 2020, and if he is executed, he would be the oldest man the state of florida has ever executed. When i first met james dailey, he was remorseful about sort of the way he was living his life back then. The way he explained to me was maybe i shouldnt have ever been hanging around guys like jack pearcy, maybe i shouldnt have ever have been in florida, but i didnt kill that girl. Any day now, floridas governor, ron desantis could sign james dailys death warrant. Now, after about 35 years behind bars hes had a lot of time to consider where his life went wrong, because once upon a time things were looking pretty good for james dailey. Before death row, before winding up in florida in 1985, james dailey was a family man, married with two children. Jim and i met in manhattan, kansas, in 1962. It was the summer before our junior year in high school. We dated for four years before we got married. And then james dailey goes to war. He went to vietnam three times. Oh, it was horrible. I got there right after tet started in 1968. After every rocket attack, id have to go out and look for body parts, and i just wasnt made for that. It affected me horribly. I could tell when hed come back from vietnam, that he was changing. The daileys divorce. And at this point james dailey is 38 years old. Hes down, hes out, he does not have a job, but he is drinking and drinking a lot. In 1985, mr. Dailey is what i call a drifter. And he met jack pearcy randomly, i believe at a bar, and the two of them just kind of hit it off. So you were drinking buddies. Yeah, and we got to know each other pretty well, i thought. Boy, was i mistaken. And we ended up, in the end, coming to florida. Pearcy and dailey are now living in a twobedroom rented house in st. Petersburg, florida along with pearcys pregnant girlfriend, whose name is gayle bailey, and a friend from back in kansas, his name is oza dwain shaw. Hes crashing on the couch. Its now sunday, may 5, 1985, jack pearcy, james dailey, and jacks friend oza shaw are driving around st. Petersburg, florida, drinking and partying, when they run into stacy and Shelly Boggio. Jack saw shelly and her sister, stacy, and this other girl on the side of the road. And they picked them up. This wasnt just a random pickup. The boggio twins knew james dailey and jack pearcy, and even though the girls were only 14 years old, they had hung out and partied with these guys before. They were not strangers. And we drove back to our place and smoked some dope and drank some beer. This interview is with respect to case number 8544387, which is a homicide case. In our reporting, weve come across some of the recordings and interviews that the police, in their initial investigation of the crime, did with some of the last people who saw Shelly Boggio alive that night. One of these Police Interviews is jack pearcys then girlfriend, pregnant girlfriend, gayle bailey. They finally came home. They brought with them shelly, her sister, and another blonde. They got drunk, they smoked marijuana, they spent time together. They were 14. They wanted to be grownups. Now, heres a detail you just cant make up. One of those girls tells detectives they were watching an Alfred Hitchcock murder mystery on tv that night. And then they decide to go back out. Me and shelly and the girls and jack and jim, we dropped the sister and the other blonde off at some apartment. 14yearold Shelly Boggio, shes just in 7th grade, is on her own with the grownups. The party moves to a nightclub, jerrys rocknroll. Jerries wow, spring break is here again. Our favorite time of year at jerrys. The four of us went to jerrys, and we were sitting there and we all had three drinks a piece. This night is not going to end well. What are you thinking . I could see this is going to go downhill really, really fast, and something bad is going to happen. She yeah. Petey ah there he is everything you need, when you need it most. 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Well, id seen this and this did upset me. Then we all went back home. This was about midnight. Now remember, the medical examiner would later determine that shelly was murdered sometime between 1 30 and 3 30 a. M. , so whats important to keep track of here is, who is with shelly as the night unfolds . Its just after midnight, and the group goes back to the house. And heres whos there its shelly, james dailey, jack pearcy, jack pearcys girlfriend, whos pregnant, gayle. And right around this time, jack pearcy says hes going to take shelly home. Gayle went into the bathroom, and jack and shelly were leaving. Theres another guest at this party and hes an important player. His name is oza dwain shaw. Hes jack pearcys buddy from back in kansas. And when jack says hes leaving to take shelly home, oza shaw asks them for a ride to the pay phone. I asked him to give me a ride to the phone, because i need to call my girlfriend. No one knows this yet, but shelly has just hours left to live, and shes just gotten into the car with jack pearcy and oza dwain shaw. This is critical. Dailey says he and gayle stayed back in the house. Dailey says, and this is really important, when jack and shelly left with shaw, he went to his bedroom. Dailey insists he did not go with them. I went in my bedroom and went to sleep. So sure enough, jack pearcy and shelly have now stopped at that pay phone so oza can