Escalating Violence: The Murder of Reagan Tokes

0:06 Welcome to Unspeakable, a true crime podcast where I tell stories of real crimes with real victims, whose cases are so shocking that many are left wondering how is this even real? I use my experiences in law enforcement corrections, and combined with my years as a criminal justice educator, dig deep into complex cases of evil acts, some so evil many feel they are unspeakable. Warning.

0:51 Unspeakable as intended for mature audiences. If you are easily offended, then I'm not your girl. Listening discretion is advised. Hey, y'all, kJ back here for another episode of Unspeakable? What's going on? This is gonna be episode twelve and season four. Before I get started, though, I've got some shout outs that I have to say hey to some people. But look, I want to make sure everybody knows this. I don't record every day, so if you join, you may not hear your name called out the very next next episode, but that's okay. But I just want to let some people know because I think there's a little bit of confusion on that. So you can always message me if you don't hear your voice hear your name get called out. But I just want you to know I'm not slack a lacking. I just don't record every single day, So if you add one day, I may not say it the very next episode you hear. But that's okay because I got you. All you gotta do is just give me a little bit of time. But today I have a couple I want to say hey too. I've got missus Julie Gifford, she joined. Hey, Julie, thank you so very much for joining. And then I've got Kay Did. Now I know Kay did. She may or may not have dated my brother in high school. Hey girl, how are you doing? Thank you so much for joining. That means so much, especially in people you know join your podcast right. And then, last, but not least, I've got Jade, just Jade. There was no last name, so Jade, this is for you, girl, or all the other Jades could claim that it was them, but there wasn't a last name added. So thank you so much Jade for joining. Kay and Julie, I really really appreciate

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3:14 So go check that out. It's on the website and I hope you like it. But today I'm going to take y'all to Grove City, Ohio, and I've never been there before. Shout out to my Ohio listeners. But from what I've researched about this location, it's a suburb of Ohio's capital city of Columbus, and I kind of wanted to know what was the area like because of the things that are about to come and quality of life. According to the reports, there was described as exceptional in terms of things like tourism. It's said online that Grove City has all of the conveniences of a metropolitan area coupled with the comforts of like a unique small town feel. And there's about forty dollars forty one thousand population there. What I'm getting at is that this was a night place to live. And one family that would initially agree with this is the Tokes family. Now Mom her name is Lisa. She was described and I would have to agree because I looked her up as a well put together woman. When I saw her first, I thought, Wow, what a classy lady. And she kind of reminded me of the mom that you would see in a Hallmark movie for the Holidays. She's fierce and she's lovely, and she's everything I think that a girl would want and a mom based on what I've read and seen. Dad his name is Toby.

4:30 He worked in the high impact window field, so basically he sold Hurricane force windows so that you know you're in Florida. Hurricanes everywhere. Louisiana too. We know how to party with our hurricanes too, but they need some strong windows. And so that was what he sold for a living. And he is the quintessential dad in my eyes. The pictures that I saw of him, he had salt and pepper hair with a little balding on top. No disrespect, it's just what I was. And I looked him up and then it looks like he eventually shaved his head. But typical dad. He loves football, and man did he love his girls. He had two girls.

5:11 Their names were Reagan and Mackenzie, and this daddy loved his little girls. Now, Mackenzie was the youngest of the two, and she was a cute girl. She had long brown hair, and she very much resembles her older sister. And at the time that this case takes place, Mackenzie was a senior in high school and although her older sister, Reagan was away at college, they were still very close and they had a sisterly love that went unrivaled by any other relationship. And it kind of made me think of like Elsa and Anna in Frozen, right, those sisters loved one another. You knew it, They knew it, everybody knew it. Something interesting I found out just recently, too, is that Mackenzie attended Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School.

5:54 If that rings a bell, aka where Alex Schachter was murdered by a killer during the school shooting. Older sister, Reagan Tolks, was born on March thirteenth, nineteen ninety five, and March thirteenth is my own sister's birthday, except that year might might be a little bit older. But I'm not gonna tell. But Reagan, I'm telling you she is stunningly beautiful. She has huge brown eyes, really long brown hair, she's tan, she's fit, and she just struck me as just a lovely college aged girl. And she was in her prime attending Ohio State University, the Ohio State University as football players would say. And her family, all of these people I've mentioned were very tight knit and were always known as the family with an open door.

6:47 Friends were always in their house, and the parents really wanted their girls to thrive in every sense of the word, whether it was family, friends, community, sports, or schooling. Now, Reagan also played tennis and if that doesn't tell you so much about her, because to me, tennis is such a classy sport. Tennis is like, you know, golf. You know, there's supposed to be an air of sophistication about it, preppy if you will. And I almost see Reagan like tennis or golf. She was all of those things. When I say that this girl was lovely, I'm talking about she looked like a sorority girl you would see today at a football game, well put together, well groomed. She looks like she always smelled good, her hairs combed, and just so wonderful. She was originally gonna do pre med but she would eventually switch to psychology and her dreams were to use that degree to help people. As far as her character goes, I want you to know it, this girl loved her some football, and she loved her somehi Ohio State football, just like her daddy. Matter of fact, I read that her very first game was when her dad I took her and she was about four or five years old, and from that day forward, her daddy says, she was sold. She was filled with the love of the game. And I feel that, man, I love me some football. I grew up with my grandma's cheering and betting. My grandpa was a football coach, an award winning football coach at that, you know,

8:18 and sports have always been a part of our family too. So I just really I really felt that when they were explaining her character and something else was she really loved to go on missions with her church. Her friends said that if they had to describe her, the words would have been compassionate, helpful, and loving. And I really identified with this description of her, specifically that I'm about to tell you, and it's that they said she was always singing songs about what she was doing. Her little sister Mackenzie even said that if she was making a bagel, for example, she would be singing a song about it. And I do that, do y'all do that? I do that too. Like when I give my dog's food or I give them their medicine, I sing it. I don't know why. I'm like, come and get your medicine, Come and get your medicine. Like I'm always singing what I'm doing. When I go feed my squirrel Joe outside, I go Joe Joe the gradest squirrel, Joe Joe the best boy in the world.

9:16 I mean, I sing everything. I even do this in class. I want to. I gotta. I gotta give a shout out to some of my students because if they listen, they'll know exactly what I'm talking about. It I uh, okay. There was this teacher that was in a local area near us, and it was just released in the news that she had a baby with her student who was like, I don't know, thirteen years old. I know, freaking gross. And for some reason, I was trying to tell them, like, please, don't date your teacher. You know that's just wrong. And so I started going, don't date your teacher, don't date true teacher, don't date your teacher, cause it will turn out badly. And so now they just randomly will sing that, and when we have guest speakers, they'll sing it randomly and people think I'm crazy, but whatever, we have a good time. But I think it's funny.

10:01 I get her, I get her essence, I feel her spirit whenever I'm explaining that. And Reagan's parents are very involved in their daughter's lives. But Dad Toby found himself in a new job opportunity that he couldn't pass up. There was just one thing about it. The family would have to move to Florida, and this is what would end up happening. It wasn't in the cards for Reagan to move, though, because she was a Buckeye through and through and she wasn't leaving her beloved Ohio State. She wanted that degree and she had a clear set idea about how she was going to obtain that, and she wanted life, y'all. She had a plan, and she didn't want to miss those Big Ten conference games. She wanted to watch her football and still be part of that culture. So as such, she would stay behind as her family would make that crew that move across the country.

10:50 But Reagan and her sister were really close, right, so they would have this visit together which would end up being their one last visit together before the family would move. And little sister Mackenzie got to stay with Reagan in her apartment their last time together. And Reagan was a good sister. She kept a really close eye on her little sister and she was not going to let anything happen to her. Matter of fact, Reagan went to go take a shower during this sleepover and when she came out, Mackenzie was gone, Reagan began to panic and started frantically calling people looking for her, but she was beyond relieved when her roommate answered the phone and explained, Oh, Mackenzie's with me. We just want to go to a drive there because she said that she was hungry, and Reagan was relieved and was able to calm down, but there was no doubt that she was about to go find her little sister if she was missing, the next day, she and her sister would go tailgating together. And this was Reagan's senior year, and so it would prove a very emotional game for her as it was going to be her last game that she got to go to the Ohio state football game as a student.

12:03 And her parents were so proud of their girls. They had a lovely, loving, happy home together, and everything was just going great. All right. So I'm going to tell you this real quick. But I saw two conflicting stories, and considering I wasn't there, I don't know which one is correct for one hundred percent certain. One thing I read said that she had graduated. Reagan graduated and received her psychology degree and that led her to her first big girl job. But something else I read said that she actually did not. She was in the last parts of her senior year but didn't technically graduate. I don't think it's a big deal. I just wasn't able to confirm which one was actually correct. But either way, she loved helping people.

12:48 It was her drive. And during that time she spoke a lot to her parents because again they were in different states, and her mother, Lisa, spoke to her on the phone during the day and it was one conversation she said that would really make her laugh because her and Reagan were always talking and laughing. And she was shopping in a store and talking to Reagan and was not paying attention to what she was doing, and the mom ran into a rack of bananas and the entire display toppled over, and she made a huge scene, and her and her daughter just cracked of laughing because good lord, right, but they were just they just love to speak to one another. Something that her parents weren't too fond of, though, was that she was working late evenings at her job and in order to combat the risks of you know, being alone being a pretty girl at night, which by the way, is odd to say, like why should you have to defend yourself from just being you know what I mean. But the sad reality is that being a woman at night and walking alone is a scary thing. You're looked at as an easy target. But anyway, her dad would always talk to her throughout the day and would check in with her in the evenings, and basically he did what you would expect for a dad to do, right, I mean, daddy loved his girl and he was going to do what he had to do to ensure that she was safe. So it's February ninth, twenty seventeen, and it's a cold, snowy day, which I will be honest, I know nothing about because I've only seen real snow fall twice in

14:20 my life in South Louisiana and we thought it was a miracle. But anyway, it was a cold day and Reagan was working her normal shift and her dad noticed that it was getting late and he hadn't heard from her, which was really worrisome to him because she was gonna, you know, she was a girl of her word. She was going to call her daddy. But no worries. You know, maybe her phone died, Maybe she had forgotten her charger, maybe she forgot her phone at work. Something's up, but she's gonna call the issue with these self. Soothing thoughts, though, is that her phone was going straight to voicemail and that never changed even as the hours continue to tick by. But surely there was a good explanation for this, right, That's what we would all think to ourselves. There's got to be an answer for this. Reagan had a caring family and they would never let something happen to her. They had all the precautions in place. They were calling her. All she had to do was answer the phone. But by the next morning, she still was not answering the phone. There still wasn't a text, there was nothing, And I imagine that feeling must have been similar to something like I remember one time my daughter was supposed to come home. She had been playing in the neighborhood, and I texted her friend's mom and said, hey, can you send her home? And her friend's mom messaged back, she isn't here and hasn't been here all day. And

15:50 I remember my heart literally dropping straight into my butthole, like, what what do you mean she's not there? This whole time, I thought my baby, you know, was playing with her friend. I'm dead serious. My legs went weak. I began to panic. Obviously, my brain goes straight to she must be in a van tied up down by the river, being murdered. But it just turns out that she was down a few houses at another friend's house, but she just didn't tell me. I had precautions in place, but they failed. And obviously I'm not states away when this happened, but as a parent, I'm just trying to say, I know that sick feeling, that sick, helpless feeling, and I can imagine how their minds must have been running wild with emotion, considering twenty four hours had gone by. So by the next morning, her parents were in a controlled panic, is what I'll call it. You know what do I mean by that?

16:41 Well, they were freaking the hell out, but they were not wanting to upset her little sister by just overreacting. And you know, they're more like, this can't be happening, but it is happening. So Reagan's parents, trying to be calm, told Mackenzie that, hey, if you hear from Reagan, call us immediately, call us asap. We need to know if you hear from her. And obviously this was out of the norm, and Mackenzie wasn't stupid. You know, this is bad. My sister hasn't been calling and hasn't answered her phone in too much time. Now. Her parents also called her work and said, you know, where's my daughter? She did? She come to work? What's going on? And they heard the words that they didn't want to hear. They heard, she's not here and the last time we saw her was when she left last night. Now, something that confused me a bit about this story was that her own parents, according to their reports, were not able to make a missing person report because and this is a quote, they weren't the last people to see her.

17:45 And I don't know who told them that, but that's what they were told. I mean, they're the parents. What do you mean your parents can't report you missing the people that you speak to every day. There's a pattern here, and that pattern is broken. The trend of what's normal is not and she's gone. Even though adults have the right to go missing, this wasn't like her. She did not have high risk behaviors. So regardless of whatever that's about, her work ended up making the call to police and reporting her missing. So I'm going to go ahead and insert that call right now so that you can hear them call in. So we've had a employee leave word clients rate, she has not been home, her phone is off, nobody can find her. She hasn't been home at all either. Her mom has been calling looking for we can't find her car around work. So that nine when one call really gets it rolling right. And around nine thirty seven am, Mackenzie took to social media and she tweeted, look, my sister is missing, and unexpectedly her post went viral pretty quickly. I personally think it had something to do with the fact that she was beautiful. We tend to really emphasize, you know, beautiful people when they go missing, because it's like, oh my god, they're so pretty. This this is not good. And even though local news media picked it up and it was you know, they were pretty interested in this situation. And I'm going to post the actual tweet that her sister sent out on my Patreon page with some mother photos for y'all to look at as well and adding to her parents.

19:15 Fear was that her roommate called and said, look, her bed was not slept in last night. And this is where a person's tendencies are going to matter. Like I said, she always called her dad, she didn't this time. Her roommate knew what her bed looked like and then confirmed that it hadn't been slept in the night before. Nothing had been moved, nothing had changed, and this was not like her and her parents were so afraid that they were going to miss her call. They even stayed off of their phones and wouldn't talk to people on their phones in hopes that her call would come straight through. But that call would never come. One call that would be made, though, was a nine to one one call that came into the local nine one one center from a scared and shocked caller. Listen for yourself to the call that came in. Hello on that one. Yeah, I think there's a body out here at Nyoda Grove Metro Park. Case. I don't know this as a faker or what. I can't get close to send somebody hurry, I said, don't get there. It's bunny. You've got the arm over space. I can't come near it. I can't sell off it's fake or what, man? Can you tell it's male or female or anytime like that. It's like, I don't think this person's alive. So you can tell just by the caller's voice that they're they're pretty disturbed by what they're seeing. And he even says that quote, I'm scared to get near it, And it really stood out to me. It's as if this was so not right. He didn't even want to say her, You know what I mean, I don't want to get I don't want to get near it.

20:45 He wasn't even sure if it was real or not. And he thinks it's a female when he does look. But you know, whoever this was was in dire condition and it was distressing even just for the caller to look at her or it. So Detective Rick Forney from the Grove City PD would respond to the scene and when he arrived, he would locate a body of a female lying, he says, about fifty feet from the road, and the area that the body was found in was a park and it had like a field area next to it. And upon further inspection, he also noted that there was no purse there, there was no id, there was no cell phone, there was nothing with the body. Now, at first, you know, the course of action for police was we need to compare this girl to any missing person's reports that may have been made. People don't get bloodied in the way that this girl was bloodied by themselves either, so someone else had to be involved. Based on the viciousness of this crime, police at first were kind of like, God, this must have been someone who freaking hated her. How could you do this to someone else? And also there's got to be someone looking for her that loves her. So while a search of missing person reports was being conducted, police began to canvass the area to see if anyone had heard or seen anything, and literally no leads or any information was gained. All the police had was this body. But about

22:18 that same time, another call would come into nine to one one and it was one of Reagan's friends who was frantic that she was missing, which happened to be great timing in that they now had this description of this body that was found, and that call happened to come in. So police went to the friend and they brought some jewelry from the body to see if it looked familiar, and they also noted that the body had a tattoo, which is always going to be a really good identifying feature. The police would show both that necklace and that picture of the tattoo, and by the look on the friend's face, it became quickly obvious to police this was their friend. The item identification may have been, you know, one hundred percent, but the body identification wasn't one hundred percent. So police needed to be sure because look, coincidences can happen. People can have the same tattoo and similar jewelry.

23:15 So police would take Reagan's uncle, that would be her mom's brother, and he would be the one to make the identification. He would go in and he would review and look at the body, and there he would confirm it was Reagan's battered and bloody body that had been dumped like trash on the side of the road. And now here's the hard part for police. They had to go tell this family. And this isn't easy, y'all. It's not fun and it surely doesn't ever get easier to do, and it shouldn't be easy. I mean, this is life altering information that you have to go give people who are preying on their knees with all of their heart won't come.

23:56 And what was even sadder was that because they were in different states this time, the notification had to be given by phone. It wasn't even in person, so mom Lisa's phone rang, and with hope and dread, she answered it. Hello. The voice on the other line said, and are you alone? And that bit itself was sickening for her to hear. And the officer continues with the worst message possible. You know that we found the body and unfortunately it is Reagan. Reagan has been murdered. Her mom would later tell reporters that nothing can prepare you, and you feel like this has got to be a mistake. But they weren't, and a parent's worst fears were realized in that moment. You know their baby girl was dead. And now it switches to someone else has been responsible for taking the life from your baby. I don't care that she's in high school. I mean in college.

25:00 I don't care if she's in high school. Care you're fifty years old. That's your baby and someone took it upon themselves to end her life. And for what? Why? And what adds to the utter kick in the stomach that she had been murdered was the condition in which her body was found, because, according to Jennifer Roush, who was the assisting prosecuting attorney for Franklin County. She wasn't just found, y'all on the side of the road. She was found naked, and she was only wearing her necklace. And after review, she was suffering from a gunshot wound to the back of the head. And back of the head tells me one thing. It's an execution.

25:47 Naked tells me one thing, and that there was rape or sexual desires of some sort, or humiliation. I cannot think of another reason why you would she a naked person in the back of the head without even knowing what happened. At this point, you have to be imagining that she was forced to strip naked and either raped from behind and then shot in the back of the head, or was walking to her death and then shot from behind. Either way, the scene screams, a coward is responsible for this, But who is that coward? And in the meantime, the news was all over this case, and they obviously get the ratings by instilling fear in people, and it worked because people were terrified, Oh my god, there's a killer on the loose. And the day that her body was identified, only the family knew. The media didn't actually find out until the next day. And this is a good thing because people need to be notified of a loved one's death in a formal way. In my personal opinion, they don't need to hear it from a news reporter. They need to hear it and it be from a position of professionalism and of compassion and privacy. You know, this isn't a game. This is someone's life. And when the family was told, the pain wasn't just emotional. It was a physical and visceral reaction.

27:18 I think a lot of these parents because while they're dying, they also knew that they could not lose all composure, because in their minds, they had to get to little sister Mackenzie as soon as possible to make sure that they were the ones to break the news and not somebody else. I mean, imagine being in their shoes, the shock and pain of losing your daughter, but immediately turning your worries to the remaining child's emotions and needs. I mean, the love of a parent, y'all is unmatched. I know. My own brother in law was killed in a boding accident when he was a young adult, and this is before I ever knew my husband and my mother in law, for all accounts, wasn't the same after that. And I asked her once, I said, you know, and this was after I had my own kids, how did you survive that? And you know, I don't think I could. I don't I don't know what I would do.

28:11 And her response has always stayed with me. She said to me, and this is a quote, she said, well, Kelly, it wasn't an option for me to die. I wanted to, but it wasn't an option. You know. I had to live for my remaining child. And I'm so grateful for the love that she raised my husband in because she molded the man that I would later marry. And I'm eternally grateful that she didn't give up because he still needed a mama even though she had just lost a child. So I guess I draw from that experience to put myself how these parents must have been feeling so younger. Sister Mackenzie was the one that had treated out her original notice of being missing, and they flew to her work to tell her before people began responding to those tweets with any bad news. And I can just see them racing in their car trying to get to her and hope, and she doesn't look at her phone. According to Mackenzie, she saw one look on her parents' faces and she instantly knew that her sister was dead. She said, no words were necessary. I knew, and I did a little more digging around, and I actually found a blog that Mackenzie wrote years later. But I thought it's something I'd like to share it in her own words. Instead of me putting what I think her emotion was, I'd rather just tell you in her own words. So here's a part of it. Imagine you're seventeen years old and wanted to show your big sister your prom dress. You get in a fight, and this will be the last conversation you two will ever have on Earth. Of course, if you knew

29:45 this, it wouldn't have ended that way. That Wednesday night, when you lay down for bed, nothing seems out of the ordinary to your child's self, But little do you know when you wake the next morning, hell will soon engulf your life. You had to school normal, but start receiving messages from your parents to try to get in contact with your older sister. You brush it off and say she's probably sleeping still or in class. Your mom calls the university. She hasn't attended her classes today. Mom files a missing person's report through the campus police. Once you are leaving school, you realize the enormity of the situation your family is facing. No one has seen or heard from her since early in the night before. According to a roommate you spoke with, she never made it home to her bed that previous night.

30:32 You drive back to school to take a picture of for an award you're receiving. You run into the school, choking on tears, after your mom has said no one has seen her since her workshift last night. Everyone in school tells you she's an adult. Don't worry, they'll find her. But you're wise enough to know when a girl goes missing in Ohio, you typically don't find them alive. You pray that she's gotten into a car accident. Yes, that's why your sister is missing. You think to yourself. All the hospitals are phoned and no one has admitted your sins. They call the airports, they even call the local jails. You never think of how much I wish to hear that she had been arrested for some dumb reason. News comes back that yet again, she hasn't been seen. It's been over twenty four hours since she's been gone, and now an official missing person case has been taken by the county. Little do you know that the body of a young girl had been taken as a Jane Doe around one pm today in a different county area. It's her, but you won't know that until late this evening.

31:30 You get into your car from school an attempt to drive home. You call a close by friend in the neighborhood and ask them to come over and you'll explain. When you get there. You pull up in its raining. You're shaking and getting wet, but it doesn't matter. Your friend recommends tweeting a picture of her. Within minutes, thousands have retreated this image. Shit, I probably should have picked a better one. I don't think she'll like this being posted all over once we find her. You think, at this point, I told myself she had fallen asleep somewhere while studying and just didn't have her phone charged up to call you back. Then you think maybe she had a mental breakdown and ran away, and that's why the car is gone. You immediately call her old high school boyfriend, even though they haven't talked in a year. When he answers, he's surprised to hear from you and concerned about the news that you just shared. Damn, you really thought he knew where she could be. That tweet has been shared more times than you can count. She really won't like this when she wakes up, but in reality, she's watching down on your family frantically looking for her when she's really a nameless body in the Franklin County Coroner's office. Your mom calls and says you need to get home and find out her license plate number. It's now being reported as a stolen vehicle. You try to remember the stickers she proudly put on the windows to help with further identification. Miami Dolphins and the Buckeyes.

32:47 Of course, you bring your friend with you as you've become increasingly unstable over the last half hour. On your short drive home, you get a call from your uncle. Now it's serious, the whole family is searching. He tells you to call if you have heard any further news, and he doesn't want to block your mom's line as she's in contact with the police, who are who are only one thousand miles away. At home, you rip through the drawers of the office and find the car file and immediately call your mom. She asks for your license plate too, just as a precaution for the future. She asked if I still had to work that night, and I was one of two employees. Of course I'm working. I can't cancel this ladive notice. We're going to find her, and it still hasn't sunk in the extreme urgency of our situation. After hanging up the phone, however, you call your best friend in Ohio and sob to her. As you try to relay the message that Reagan has been missing for a day and no one has heard from her. She bursts into tears at Kroger and a couple say they will help my family in their prayers. You know, those are really personal feelings and experiences are a lot for a young girl to share.

33:57 But I appreciate her candidness. I mean, it really puts an perspective what she was feeling and going through those motions while she's dying inside, you know, and Reagan's death is a totality of experiences. Families are victims too. Reagan's dead and gone, yet there are people that will suffer her death for the rest of their lifetime. You know, it doesn't end with her death. There's no when people say, oh she you know when someone dies and time will make it better. No, all time does is wound all heels. In my opinion, people say time heals all wounds. No time wounds all heels, because just as soon as you think you get through something bammed, something else happens that brings it back up, rips open that wound, you know. So while this turmoil is happening, the Medical Examiner's office is doing a thorough review of the body of Reagan looking for any clues to how this could have occurred. And what they would need to determine is number one, could this have been a suicide or could this have possibly been a domestic violence situation that escal or is this straight up a random murder? Well, suicide is immediately ruled out because upon further inspection, it was noted that she suffered not one, but two gunshot wounds to her head. If you shoot yourself and the first of all the back of the head isn't common, as well as you don't shoot yourself twice in the brain, because it's not possible, you know, the first one would have incapacitated her. This was a

35:29 murder. That second shot was a was a shot to ensure that she did not wake up or survive. This was a murder. And DNA was collected, and it was noted that the way she was dumped, they felt, was to also demean her, you know, leaving her undressed and on display for the world to see. There was no care or concern for her, just used and then abandoned. And we all know this. The first twenty four to forty eight hours of an investigation's crucial, and the police were quick to jump on it and to trace her last steps. The timeline of her last night alive would begin on Wednesday, February eighth, around nine to forty five pm. Reagan would go to a local bar called the Bodego Bar, and she would stay for a while, and then she was seen on camera saying goodbye to the bartender, and then she leaves. She walks to her car, which is a silver four door Sedan, And I have video of this, so I'm going to post this on my Patreon too, so y'all can see the video of the progression. This very car of hers had also been reported stolen immediately when she was identified as missing, right, And this would prove valuable because when three days later after her murder, a trash truck with a license plate reader got a hit on the plate. And by the way, that seemed really odd to me. I was like, did I read that right? A trash can scanned it? So I took the time to look that up, just to explain it to you, because I'm sure some other people may wonder too. But it's become more common to strap license

37:01 plate readers to the front of garbage trucks and this allows them to scan plates of every car along their route, and then that data can be fed to the police department, prompting an officer to respond to stolen vehicles or cars that may be involved in serious crimes. And this car was found parked on the side of town that Reagan would not have usually frequented, and once inside the car, the police noted that it smelled like cigarette smoke, and this matter because y'all, Reagan didn't smoke. They also found cigarettes inside the vehicle, and another thing in the report was that a gas can was in the trunk, which she would have never done. Her mom even said she would have never done that she's not even that stupid who puts gas in a closed trunk to Shay Mom, right, She's not dumb who does do that. So something else police found was they found burn marks on the seats of the car and the car was doused in gas, but it didn't actually light on fire.

38:09 And then right outside of the car they found smoked cigarette butts and I have a photo of that as well that I'll post so that y'all y'all can check that out. By this time, y'all, police hadn't slept in twenty four hours. They were exhausted, and so they were sent home by a supervisor to get some rest. But as luck would have it, immediately as that was happening, the crime lab called back with a hit for a DNA match, and the hit was of a person Reagan's family had never heard of, and they were kind of taken by surprise. The hit was on a guy named Brian Goldsby who was a twenty nine year old blackmail from that area, and he and Reagan had nuh thing in common. They didn't follow the same schedules in any way, shape or form, and y'all, they certainly weren't friends. These were not two people that were hanging out together. But hey, someone could have stolen the car and he took it. He could have carjacked her and taken the car, or he could have just hot wired.

39:12 I mean, there's a million reason how he ended up with the car. So when the police look, when the police heard his name, all they could do was shake their heads in disgust. Why because he was well known to the police. Shocker right. Not only was he known to the police, though, he was well known to the Ohio prison system as well. Remember I always say, it's the same twenty percent of the population that are committing one hundred percent of the crimes. It doesn't matter where you live, it's the same shit. It's the same people. Okay, This wasn't some contributing member of society in any way. And when I tell you the next part of this, if it doesn't make you angry, I swear or you're not paying attention. Do you want to know what he went to prison for? I bet you do. I bet you can guess by the tone in my voice. In November of twenty sixteen, he committed a sexual assault of a woman. Now, by the way the media calls it a sexual assault. I'm gonna call it what it is. He fucking raped somebody.

40:22 He held her at knife point, and he raped her in front of her child. It drives me absolutely insane when people try to church up something and call it a sexual assault. That sounds like she was smacked on the ass, you know, where someone grabbed her boob. No, this woman, which, by the way, neither of those are right either. But this woman, it was further than that. She was forced to strip and was vaginally penetrated by a naked stranger in front of her child. That's right, y'all. He had already done this to another woman now looking her, she lived and she was able to report it to the police. Now, what's absolutely infuriating is that it was thought appropriate to give this man a plea deal.

41:15 And what did that plea deal do for him? Gave him reduced sentencing time. So why would they do that? Why would they do that? Well, let me explain this, explain something to you real quick. There are two sides to every issue, and I am not dogging prosecutors. I appreciate the fact that we have prosecutors out there wanting to hold people accountable, But plea deals aggravate me in situations like this, because the reason a plea deal is offered and taken is because it's a guaranteed conviction for the prosecution and then the prosecutor's office, right, they're gonna get reelected on how successful they are, so it's in their benefit to offer the plea deal because there's no long trial and it's a guaranteed quote unquote When on the other side, and this is kind of where my frustration is coming from, is I feel like it cheapens the victim's experience. The plea deal shouldn't be we'll give you a reduced time and a slap on the wrist. It should be, hey, fool, we won't kill you if you take the plea deal. We just won't kill you. That to me, is the deal we're getting here.

42:21 You didn't kill her, we won't kill you. That's your deal. You can just go to prison for life because you're obviously a predator, but we won't kill you. That sounds like a good deal to me, not that you'll be out in time. In this case. You know how much time he got for it for raping a woman in front of her child. Six years what happened to protecting society, not just getting the win, you know what I mean? Like, this is a predator. So in essence, if we look back on it, the plea deal here basically negotiated Reagan's life for his freedom. If I were her mother, I would be losing like ever life loving mind because you had that piece of shit in cuffs and you had him locked up, and because of whatever reason you want to choose, his ass was back out on the streets. Well you think this was an accident. He didn't trip and fall. He took a weapon, He put it to a woman's throat and raped her in front of a child. But we're going to give you a deal. What deal did the woman get?

43:25 It's sick. This guy was behind bars where he belonged. And because the justice system needed to clear a case, and the prosecutors, I guess, wanted their easy conviction, and the victims were either afraid to demand more or were so unaware of their value as a human being and what real justice looks like, he was allowed to walk the streets again, a hungry predator that just needed time and opportunity. And from what it looks like to me, he was afforded all of those things. He was a tear three sex offender, and he wasn't even out long enough for the mandatory sex offender registration to be published and distributed before he acted again. That should make anybody on this planet absolutely infuriated. So where was this animal post release before he came in contact with Reagan? I wanted to know what was he doing. Well, here's the answer. He was living in a halfway house, which isn't even quite true because the whole truth was that he was the highest tier sexual predator and deemed so high risk a danger. No listen to me, No halfway house wanted to take him because the liability was too high. Like think that through, you know. So when he was released from prison homeless just three

44:58 months before for Reagan's death in November of twenty sixteen, no halfway house would initially accept him, according to his parole records. So at the request of the State Alvis which is this monitoring company in Columbus, they agreed to place a GPS ankle monitor on Golsby. Now, probation and parole officers can monitor offenders in the community using this electronic monitoring, and they usually use two types of systems. There's more, but they do radio frequency or they can do global positioning systems GPS monitoring, something along those lines. This means his every single step should have been one he was held accountable for. Obviously, he can't self regulate and he can't account for himself. Thus the state was going to be his daddy and do it for him. That was until they just didn't get this. Goldsby was not being monitored. There were no geo fences set up, no inclusion or exclusion zones on his anklet to say you can't go here, you have to stay here. None of that was even done to Goldsby a failure on the part of the state and it's parole officers, which by the way, also violated a twenty sixteen state corrections policy. Because I look that policy up. Y'all know I'm pro policing. Okay, do not get it twisted. I appreciate law enforcement, I appreciate corrections, but

46:32 this is a pro appropriate policing and monitoring. I expect predators to be on a leash, and a tight one at that, maybe even a fucking choke caller if necessary. And don't come at me about my verbiage choice when the outcome is a dead girl. I really don't care now if you couldn't be any more disgusted than I am right now. Process this Goldsby had already been in rubble for failing to charge the battery on the device, the very device put on him to monitor him, and he was caught being a wall from the community residential housing facility that had reluctantly accepted to take him. So what was his punishment for that? I would think his ass would be straight back behind bars, right, but he wasn't. He was reprimanded. He basically was fussed at, Like, what in the holy shit? If you can't monitor a dangerous offender is going on here? How are you contracted with a state agency to do one job one and fail and it results in the death of another human being. The thing is when you look back at all of this and you want to blame the quote unquote state, that's just a figment of speech. This is where it's frustrating to me. The state is an idea, It's a pie in the sky thought. You know what I mean.

48:07 You can't blame or hold a quote unquote state fully accountable. How would you do that who is penalized. The answer is no one. A report is written and maybe someone fired, but that doesn't undo the damage that is done. And if you don't believe me, call up Reagan Reagan's mom and dad. Police also found data from Goldsby's GPS ankle monitor that placed him at multiple robbery locations in the German Village neighborhood in the weeks that led up like led up to and the days before Reagan's disappearance. I mean, what do you need? What more do you need to say? Rot Row? We got a problem here, bad guy on the loose, no shocker here.

48:53 But it also showed him at the Metro Park where Reagan's body was found on February ninth, twenty seventeen. So with all of that happening or not happening, he was arrested on Saturday, February eleventh, after a warrant was cut for his arrest, and when he was brought to the PD, there's video of him sitting in the police car and he's feigning surprise and asking what's this all about? And when it's all said and done, the interview with police would get a confession. But there's a whole bunch of lies within that confession that have to be considered as well. So at first he said things like, y'all are just trying to get me to confess to something I didn't do, obviously, playing the poor me being bombarded by the evil brutal police, right, But eventually he would admit to kidnapping Reagan, making her drive around to multiple ATMs for money, and during a smoke break later on during his interview, he would admit just a little while later that he did rape her as well, but he would be adamant that he didn't shoot her. I know, right what Supposedly he was willing to kidnap her at gunpoint, rob her, rape her, but murder. Oh my god, no way, that would be horrible, the inhumanity. I'm not gonna do that. And then there's this accomplice all of a sudden that shows up and his name is

50:29 TJ. And it was TJ that shot her. Yeah, that was it. He wasn't he wasn't expecting that to happen either. When TJ shot her, Man, he was shook. He just couldn't believe it. How could you shoot this girl that I just robbed and raped and kidnapped? How could you shoot her? I mean, it's so ridiculous. So I mean obvious gaps are here too, right, I mean, like, was TJ in the trunk of the car during those stops at the ATMs whenever you can see her trying to get money for him? Was TJ? What was he underneath holding on? I mean, where was he then? And was he just like chilling when you forced her to undress and raped her? What was TJ doing then? Was he watching a movie in the car like and then like a gentleman, you were gonna let her go? Then? Is that really what we're gonna believe here? You're just a gentleman, You're gonna let her go? And then TJ just decided to wile out and shoot her. Come on, dude, here's his admission, though. I'm gonna put it in in his own voice so that you can hear it. Jesus, walk until I tell you to stop. She walks, She's naked. She walks.

51:37 He tells he stopped. He gets behind her. At first, I heard it click click, nothing happen something like that, And he gave me his fakes. She falls, she's playing on the ground. I'm looking on her car. He's been down, so there it is. In his own voice. He sounds real concerned, I guess. And then after a while he gets tired. You know, it's hard lying for a couple hours. So finally he tells police he's going to lead them to the gun if they will do him one solid first. I couldn't make this up if I tried, he says, I will tell you where the gun is if you will get me a couple hamburgers. We are talking about a girl murdered, laying in a field, raped, and you want some hamburgers. I would not be able to eat or live with myself. But I mean, the ridiculousness of it all just says everything just ridiculous. And although he was in custody, now the question really became, why did you do this? And here's what is believed to have happened to Reagan. When it's all said and done, Goldsby took a Neil Avenue codea bus from the halfway house that he was in

53:07 and he came upon the Bodega Cafe on North High Street, where Tolkes was leaving her server shift. His immediate goal was robbery, but for two hours, two hours, Reagan would comply with his every demand and with the hopes that it would just save her life. For two hours, this guy terrorized her and she drove around and she was unable to get any money from the ATMs. She's seen on multiple ATM cameras pulling up and attempting to take out cash. And obviously she's under the threat of a gun and he was with her the whole time. I'm gonna put some more videos up to on Patreon if her doing everything he tells her to do, so you can kind of see this happening, you know, from a real point of view. And finally they would turn and go back to a Chase bank where she would finally be able to withdraw sixty dollars. Then they drove to a gas station and they got gas. At this point is when he changes course and he heads to the park, and when they got there, he forced her to undress, removing her clothes, her brawl her panties while he watched her enjoying it at gunpoint, and he then rapes her. According to his own admission,

54:39 she was then marched out into the field naked, and her final words were and this is a direct quote I just want to live. He then put a gun to the back of her head and he pulled the trigger. Her body fell to the ground, and then for good measure, he placed the muzzle of the gun to the side of her head and he pulled the trigger again. I can literally feel the fear and then hear that loud boom boom, and then the eerie silence as he just walks away back to the car.

55:20 I mean, I can I can feel it. He then drove away, leaving her battered, naked body by the road, and he left driving around town pulling drags from his cigarette, and then dropped the car where it was ultimately found near his home when it was scanned by the garbage truck. I mean, just snuffed a life out for selfish gain, A contributing, good member of society who wanted to help people. And it would be an additional year before they would go to trial for this and facing the death penalty for his chosen actions, but ultimately the jury would take some pity on him and he would be spared the death penalty. He would be convicted of the murder, aggravated robbery and rape of Reagan Toakes and was sentenced to one hundred and five years without the benefit of probation, parole, or suspension of sentence.

56:30 He also, by the way, was convicted of multiple robberies during that time. I think it was seven. Don't quote me on that, but I just want you to know it's cases like this that make me want to scream from the rooftops that we have to stop giving these predators the benefit of the doubt. And to put it bluntly, I don't know how else to say it, Reagan's life to him was worth sixty dollars an orgasm. That is what Brian Goldsby chalked her life up to. When everyone when actually, will everyone realize that violent predators they don't think like you, they don't act like you. Therefore their hearts cannot be measured against the hearts of normal people.

57:24 Trying to understand and rehabilitate someone like the likes of Brian Goldsby makes about as much sense as trying to pick up a turd by the clean end.