18 Wheels and a Highway: The Murder of Myra Danette Stalbosky | Part 2

A lone truck on a crowded interstate. A quick mental calculation that says, stop this one. That’s where our story turns: a roadside decision that opens a far bigger truth about the disappearance of Myra Stoboski and the precision required to find it.

We walk through the stop, the small talk that doesn’t add up, and the careful strategy behind securing consent for a full search. Inside the sleeper berth, the details speak louder than any denial: long blonde hairs with apparent skin matter, a bare stained mattress flipped to hide its story, and the soft drop of a bent angel earring. Those finds point in one direction, but discipline matters. We explain why probable cause isn’t enough, why triability drives decisions.

From there, the work shifts to timelines and corroboration. Subpoenaed phone records and weigh station logs lock movements to minutes, undermining the suspect’s Walmart claim and placing Myra’s final call at a truck stop six miles north. With a likely interstate crime scene, we bring in the FBI, whose resources and experience accelerate the search. An air-to-ground sweep follows the data, scanning I-71 with purpose until a helicopter call changes everything at mile marker 29.5. On the embankment, the visual facts connect back to that tiny earring and a trail of contradictions, turning a gut feeling into a case that can stand in court.

Along the way, we talk about what most true crime shows gloss over: how to protect a search from suppression, why suspects are kept present, and how body language in silence can be its own interview. We share the emotional weight carried by families and investigators who have to wait one more day for the truth to hold. It’s a story about patience, evidence, and the power of small clues to cut through big lies.

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Transcript

The Hunch To Stop The Truck

Sonny Boggs 0:00

And uh when we got up to approximately the 29 and a half mile marker, uh, my boss was in a helicopter with the Jefferson County uh pilot. Uh they radioed uh to me, they said, go ahead and shut everything down. We have a crime scene.

Speaker 0:17

18 Wheels in a highway, the murder of Myra Denet Stoboski only on the Murder Police Podcast. Part two.

David 0:58

When you look through that that viewpoint down on I seventy one and you hear the jake brakes, um, and then for that glimpse of that thing, did that speak again? Did because okay, it's a truck and it's got jake brakes, but did it did something talk to you again?

Sonny Boggs 1:15

I don't know what talked to me. Something talked to me and says, get this truck stopped and take a look at this guy. Yeah, because the get this truck stopped and take a look at this guy. And so I grabbed my radio immediately. We didn't have the mics, we just had radios on our side and pull it out. You weren't fancy. Yeah. Uh stop this truck. I I want to I'd like to talk to this the driver of this truck.

Linking The Driver To Myra

David 1:36

Out of tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of vehicles on that road in a 24-hour period, that's why I'm saying something said, wow.

Sonny Boggs 1:44

You know, uh I I quickly assess uh uh, you know, the information I had. I know that if she had encountered a truck driver on the south on the northbound side of I-71 on the day previous and both of the victim and the driver of that truck was heading north on the day previous, it would be reasonable to believe that that same truck could be coming back through that same area the next day. So that was just a quick assessment. We get down to the scene, he tells me these things, you know.

Wendy 2:22

I don't And dad and son are still in your car.

Sonny Boggs 2:26

The dad and the son are still in my uh police vehicle, yeah. The 924 Crown Vic. Forget it.

Wendy 2:35

Uh but uh Did the dad say, Why are you stopping this guy? What's going on?

Sonny Boggs 2:40

Why are you wanting to Yeah briefly? I I I I remember very little about the conversation going on. The one thing that stands out to me, he says, Oh, yeah, I want to tell you that that I'm a I'm a uh police officer. As a matter of fact, I'm a chief of police for this town in Ohio where I live. And I was like, Okay, okay. And we we go on to the scene, we get down there, and I'm doing this rubber side investigation, and uh this guy's telling me that he lies and cheats on his logbook, and uh then he finally comes clean and says, Yeah, I was through here, Yearsty. I said, Well, I said, when you were through here, Yearsty, did you stop at the rest area on the northbound side of I-71? Yeah, I did. I said, uh, was there a young lady there that you spoke to or encountered at the time uh when you had stopped? And he said, Well, yeah, dad and uh tire changer did. So dad was his father who was also driving for the same company, and tire changer was this other guy's uh uh CB handle and says they had talked to her. In other words, he's trying to insinuate that he hadn't talked to her, is what he was trying to do. He's like, Well, dad and tire changer did. I said, Well, what happened? He says, Well, they told me she's having uh vehicle problems, and they knew I had mechanicin experience is the way I know we'll forget the mechanicin experience, and they asked me to take a look at her truck. I said, Did you take a look at it? He says, I did. I said, What was wrong with her truck? I said, Describe the truck to me. He described the truck that was sitting in front of the parking lot, and uh I said, What was wrong with the truck? He says, I believe that her thermostat was sticking, and he says, I pecked on the outside of where the thermostat was set in the engine, causing it to uh open up. And uh it opened up and and I followed uh up to uh that Lagrange exit and I got off behind her. I said, Okay.

Inconsistencies And Rising Suspicion

David 4:39

Powerful statements, especially going ahead and admitting to contact and then accurately describing the vehicle.

Wendy 4:45

I was still stuck that he initially, and of course it was a ploy, but you don't remember going through there, but now you remember that you were looking at someone's truck.

Sonny Boggs 4:55

All causing my suspicions to heighten. All these things are, you know, if you didn't have nothing to conceal, why would you lie? There we go.

Wendy 5:02

Well, did he tell you when he followed her to the next exit? Was it she's supposed to go her way and I'm going mine? She's going back home now, kind of thing.

Sonny Boggs 5:10

Yeah. I'll I'll I'll get to that part here in just a second. So standing there on the side of the road, I said, uh, I said, I said, Chris, I said, where where where is this girl? What happened? He says, Well, I followed her up to LaGrange 22, got off the exit there, we pulled on that gas station parking lot, said she came to my truck and thanked me and told me she'd never rode in a big truck before. And and uh I told her I'd take her for a ride. I said, Was she in your truck? He said, Yeah, she got in my truck and says I pulled out and uh instead of turning uh, you know, I turned right and went up the hill to uh Walmart parking lot. I pulled up in Walmart parking lot, she got out and walked away, and I never I didn't see her beyond that. He says, She got out and I don't know what happened to her. I don't know where she went.

Wendy 5:52

She's just willing to walk back to her vehicle all that way. Okay.

Consent To Search And Strategy

Sonny Boggs 5:55

Well, it wasn't far. The Walmart was it was very close proximity. To take someone for a ride, maybe 200 yards up the road in a tractor trail would not mean a meaningful ride. Uh so he says he went up there and he pulled on the parking lot. I did not find any evidence where he had ever pulled onto that parking lot. In other words, and I had identified witnesses there on that parking lot that had seen him pull out of the parking lot. Instead of going toward the Walmart, he turned and went toward where he would get back onto the interstate. So uh I said, Chris, would you would you mind if I just take a look in your truck just to satisfy, you know, that I know she's not there? He said, sure. Says, go right ahead. So I go up to the side of the truck and I climb up on the side of the truck. And when I look in the truck, Miss Dalboski, Myra, the victim, uh, was a was a beautiful young lady, uh, had long, pretty blonde hair. And one thing that I noted inside the on the fabric inside that truck was there were several pieces of long blonde hair. Some of these pieces of blong hair, long hair, when I seen them in there, I noticed that they had matter attached to one end of them, which would lead me or any reasonable person to believe that if they had matter like skin matter or something attached, that they were probably removed by force in some way. So, you know, it was right then and there that I knew, you know, there was something greater to this that, you know, it wasn't just a regular missing person case, and this deserved a lot more attention than what I was, what I felt like that I was comfortable with giving it. So I come back and I talk to Chris, uh, the truck driver, the suspect on the side of the road. And I said, Chris, I said, listen, I I I want to take a better look inside your truck. I said, but you know, um, I got a consent to search form. I said, would you agree uh, you know, to let me look in your truck and search it more thoroughly? And he said, yes, uh, said I would. I said, well, let me get this consent to search form out. I went back to my car, I got the consent search form out, I explained it to him in great detail.

Wendy 8:11

What'd the dad say when you came back?

The Interrogation Turns Volatile

Sonny Boggs 8:13

Uh I didn't get into a con I just went back and got a clipboard out of my trunket. I knew I had these consent search forms in. I went back up there and I stood on uh on the county police uh vehicle there and and we filled out the consent search form, explained it to him in great detail, and he consented to it. So after he consented to that search, I knew that we could not conduct a meaningful search there on the side of I-71. And I knew that, or I felt that I had something more than just a run-of-the-mill missing person little girl that's run away from home or something. We had more than that. So this was back during a time uh in 1995 when the cell phones were first coming about, and I had one in my cruiser, but it was mounted and I couldn't take it out and talk in private outside the cruiser. Now keep in mind I still got hurt, the victim's father and the brother in my vehicle. So I have to get in the phone in my cruiser and call my boss and explain to him in code as much as I could without, but the father is he's really smart and he knows what's your chief. He knows what you're saying. He knows what I'm thinking, he knows what's going on, and he's upset. You know, I I've my God, I would be too. Oh, for sure. Absolutely. Uh uh, he knows what I'm thinking, and and I had to call, I end up having to call another unit there to the scene to get them away. But I explained to my chief, I said, listen, uh, we need to tow this vehicle off. We need we need to process it. I said, Listen, this is something more than what I'm accustomed to to do and I just I'm not I'm not experienced at this. He said, Well, we'll send somebody to you. Uh, I'll get you some help. And yes, we'll go ahead and tow the tow the vehicle. So I got back out and I explained to Chris, I said, listen, I said, well, you you don't mind if I tow your vehicle in here, get it searched somewhere else, we'll pay the bill and all that. And and I said, after we search it, you know, if everything's good, you know, we'll just we'll let you know, send you on your way. And he said, Yeah, that's fine. And I said, Well, I said, uh, there's somebody coming out here going to help me. And uh, would you mind to go back to the police station where we can talk in a more comfortable environment? He said, sure, sure. I'll go back and I'll talk with you. And we took him back, and the guy that signed to help me, he was from the Oldham County police. Uh his name is Bill Bosmer. Uh uh really good guy. He's been around for a long time. Old school detective. Remind me a lot of uh Hill Street Blues, NYPD blues, Sipowitz. Yes, yes, yes, yes. Remind me a lot of Sippowitz, you know.

Wendy 10:45

Uh at least you didn't say Barney Five.

Sonny Boggs 10:47

No, no, he was no, he he was uh he probably didn't carry vice grips.

David 10:52

You remember seeing Hill Street Blues where he pinches that guy's nasal with the vice grips? Yeah, probably didn't do that.

Wendy 10:58

That's frowned upon.

Sonny Boggs 10:59

Yeah, yeah, that's very much so. That would result in a federal indictment. But he was he was an old school cop like that, but he was uh uh he was smart and and and and he knew. So we we took uh the suspect back to the police station. I think well I think uh Bosmer transported him back to the police station and I followed him back and I dropped Mr. And and then I went on to the police station. We took him in, sat him down, started talking to him.

Wendy 11:28

Was the dad saying, Look, Sonny, you've got to tell me what's going on because you're doing a lot here.

Sonny Boggs 11:33

Yeah, he was they were upset. Both the father and the brother were upset. I remember very specifically them being very upset. Uh the brother was emotional uh because you know, they they they smelled the same things that I smelled, you know. And you know, that that was his baby sister, and and you know, she uh she was gone and didn't know where he's at, and and this was this was unfolding quickly. So we took him back to the police station, uh, there at the Lagrange Police Department on West Jefferson Street in Lagrange, and we sat him down and we started interviewing. We had we memandized him, and he he waived his rights and uh agreed to speak with us. And uh back during that time, I didn't know much about conducting those type of interviews with people. I wasn't very skilled or experienced at it. And I was in there participating in this interview, and I and I was I was given wherewithal, you know, I was this young, militaristic, very, you know, uh driven. That you know, just and Bosmer, this this old detective there that had been around for a long time and knew what the heck he was doing, was kicking me under the tables. You know, stop, slow down, slow down, stop. So we got to a point in an interview uh where the suspect, Ms. Blue, William Blue, so I remember the question I asked him, I said, can you please tell me where you at? Where were you at at the time the sun went down? He turns real red in the face, he balls his fist, he takes and he slams them against the table and he says, Gee, did it, gee, did it, you think I did it. I didn't do it, I don't know who did it. Well, that was important to us because at that time, when we was interviewing him, the only thing we had was a missing person case. And he used the word did it. Did it. Did you say did did what? We didn't we know I did not say that. You wouldn't do it right then. No, no, we didn't we didn't say that. We just let him talk because he was upset and we had to get him settled down because I had some more things to ask of Mr. Blue.

David 13:32

Was that a real quick switch for him? Like was he pre-paced and and and non-configuration? He was pretty uh he was, and that was quick, just quick.

Building Probable Cause The Right Way

Sonny Boggs 13:40

It's it's like I'd like I'd backed a tiger into a corner and he was gonna fight his way out. So uh that he that response that he gave like that was not thought out. But he made that because you know he wasn't able to think, you know, as clearly and because he was being pushed, pushed, pushed. Not because I was a skilled investigator, hell I didn't know what I was doing. I was young and inexperienced. I'd catch DUIs and do all kinds of stuff like that, but I wasn't a skilled interrogator. I was not, I just did not have the skills. But you know, he said that and I said, we got him settled down. I said, I said, Chris, I said, man, I we're not we're not trying to give you a hard time. We're just trying to figure out where this girl went. I said, What and right now I don't know that you've had anything to do with other than the fact that you tried to help her and and and that's that's thoughtful of you to try to do. I said, but would you agree to give us a blue male uh sexual assault kit? Absolutely. So I'll do it. So I want to go join the U.S. Marshals. I'm gonna come back down here and see your boys trying to relate to us, you know. Sure. Hey, don't look at me, I'm gonna be a U.S. Marshal, you know. I said, Well, Chris, I appreciate that. If you ever make that happen, I said, we'd be glad to have you come back down and see us. So we took him to the hospital there, and we uh got this male sexual assault, Kent. They drew his blood and all the other things that comes along with that. And after we got that done, because I had a consent to search for that truck, I had to have him present in order for that search to be valid because as a part of that consent to search, he had the right to stop us at any time if he wanted to. And if he wasn't present while we were conducting that search, he couldn't stop us, therefore, we could face suppression issues.

Wendy 15:24

But why can he why if he's given consent, why can he stop it? Isn't it like once you give consent?

Sonny Boggs 15:32

Well, once you give the consent, you have a right to just like you have a right, like if you give somebody Miranda, if you have some questions of mine, they refuse to talk to me, they refuse that we're in the middle of that, they can they can stop without any.

Evidence In The Sleeper Berth

David 15:42

That's really a good question, because it a lot of people don't understand that. Is it and if you didn't have him at the scene, you're right. I think that uh some a good defense attorney later would find a lot of jeopardy in the idea that they the idea that you protect the record quite a bit when they're standing there, because then you've got the signed consent form and then you've got a record of them watching the search and never interrupting it. Right. But uh you're right.

Wendy 16:08

So he's standing there and you all are doing your search. Where's dad and son?

Sonny Boggs 16:11

Uh the dad and son is back at a at a they by that time they have they've uh they're back at a hotel there in LaGrange, Kentucky, while we're doing a search. So Detective uh Bosbor and I, and uh along with another police officer and uh Baloo, we all go to where the truck is parked on this impound lot. And I think the name of the place is Sligo, Kentucky. I think it's Barrickman's is the name of the towing company. But we go there and we have Chris, we get him a chair, and he's sitting outside there, and we're searching the other officers sitting with Mr. Balou, the suspect. And when we go into the truck, we start collecting things that we think that might be important for our investigation. And you know, and I talked with Bosmer about these hairs that I found there. We started collecting those things, you know, the the the hair follicles that we had found. And we collected those, we collected some uh wire cutting tools, uh, we collected pieces of wire. We didn't know if it had anything to do with our case or not. We collected those as we uh looked uh as we was in the truck. But in addition to that, in this truck, it was a truck uh tractor trailer, had a sleeper compartment behind the seats. And when we looked in the back of that sleeper compartment, one of the things that we noted was this mat, there was a mattress back there. There was no linen, there was no pillows, nothing. There was just a mattress as a mattress back there. And the the side of the mattress that was up that we could see, it looked dirty, torn, and tattered, like it had been laying on the side that was facing up for a long time. So we went back there. That's odd. We photographed everything as we went, collected, cataloged our evidence, and we went back there. So we decided we wanted to look up on the other side of this mattress. And when we lifted this mattress up, the mattress is laying on this uh wooden um pressed board type material. When we lifted it up, we heard the slightest sound of some type of object that fell out of that mattress that hit the platform where the mattress would lay. And we looked down and we seen an earring. The earring was uh it had an angel earring. Uh it was a post-style earring that would have had some type of attachment on the back of it. Uh, and the post of the earring that we found there in that sleeper was uh the post was bent, and on that earring, uh, there appeared to be blood, blood on it. We didn't know what it meant, but we collected that that item. Uh when we raised that mattress up, we found uh two large splotches of what we believe to be human blood or blood on that mattress, and we collected those items as well.

Identifying The Earring With Family

David 19:11

Real quick on that teeny tiny earring, and this is one of those things that I talked about before about how the stars align. If everybody was talking and stuff like we do at scenes and everything, that can't be that loud. And then again, for the opportunity, kind of like now we're back to the truck again through that narrow view. Somewhere in that, somebody hears that tiniest sound of a small earring dropping. And because if you hadn't, it it could have been brushed up, it could have been stuck to something and stuff. I just think that's fascinating that again, those small details that we take for granted sometimes, that somebody heard the sound of that teeny little earring dropping.

Sonny Boggs 19:49

Yes, and and uh we collected that, and after we were done searching the truck and seizing everything out of the truck that we wanted, we had a whole lot of suspicion that something bad had happened to this young lady.

Wendy 20:03

I do have to ask, I hate to interrupt you. Sure. As you were pulling out that blood soiled mattress, what was Chris's demeanor? Did he just say, you all need to stop, I'm done?

Sonny Boggs 20:15

No, never said a word.

Wendy 20:17

Did he acknowledge, oh yeah, that's dirty because of this?

Sonny Boggs 20:20

He no, he never said never, I never asked him another question, but we just see the And he's just watching you all pull it out.

David 20:28

Another good question, because another reason why it's good to have them there is of course so they can invoke stopping it. But the other thing too is is watching their reaction to how things are happening in real time. Like he could stop it, he could say that's it, I'm done. But then sometimes their body language things they might say. For example, uh, if you found something and they think you found something, a guy like Chris and he didn't do it from what you're telling me, but they might start offering excuses for stuff before you even question them. So having them there is is another non-custodial interview in and of itself. Good question, because that that's exactly what you're watching.

Wendy 21:03

So he didn't get squirrely or didn't start kind of wringing his hands?

Sonny Boggs 21:07

I I don't I don't re I really don't remember watching very close. We were all tied up in the moment of collecting this evidence, packaging it properly, and preserving it for uh, you know, later on. Uh so after that was over, we had a whole lot of suspicion that something bad had happened to the girl, and I believed that something bad had happened to the young lady in that truck. Uh but having that feeling, knowing it and proving it, having a probable cause to charge someone with offense, I think was non-existent at the time. And we had to turn the truck driver and the truck loose after we had collected the evidence. It ain't easy. It was it was we we we in our hearts we knew that we needed more than than we needed.

Timelines, Records, And The FBI

David 21:46

It's it's not easy. And it and again, um, you know, we deal with a lot of victims' families, and um, I think some of these families on the unsolves or whatever, they know it's that close. And they get frustrated. Well, why didn't it happen? But In the system, part of the way the system works is we don't do that until I'm going to argue past probable cause. Would you agree? Probable cause is there, but we want triability. And on our own conscience, we want absolute. I mean, probable cause, we're not going to get into discussion about what it is in today, but um it's important for families to know that the police aren't charging people because they don't care or because they're lazy. It's you get one shot and it's not rolling dice, it's one shot. So I'm glad you you talked about that. And then for the investigators, I've had to do the same thing more than once, Sonny, and you probably did on other things, is watching that person walk away because you're like, okay, um, if I get lab results spike or more physical evidence, then I might have this, then you gotta go find them. And if they've taken off and left, it's a horrible feeling, but it's also what separates this justice system from the crummy ones in the world.

Sonny Boggs 22:54

Absolutely. Absolutely. Do process. Amen. Amen.

Wendy 22:58

So you send him on his way.

Sonny Boggs 22:59

So we sent him on his way.

Wendy 23:01

Not even knowing if you'll ever see him again.

Sonny Boggs 23:03

Hopefully, but Daddy's.

Wendy 23:05

Hopefully, but you don't know.

Air-To-Ground Search Along I-71

Sonny Boggs 23:06

We'll we'll see. Yeah. So after we got through processing the truck, we uh took all the evidence and uh we went back, we secured it in the trunk of my cruiser. Cruiser. And we went back to that hotel, and that earring was of particular interest to us because I wanted to know if that was something that belonged uh to Myra. So by this time, this was probably eight o'clock on Friday, January, or Friday, April the 28th of 1995, probably eight o'clock in the evening. Uh I remember it's just barely getting dark. And uh we went back uh to the hotel where they were staying, and I met with Mr. Solboski and his and his wife, and the grandmother was there and the the the was there by that time uh because they knew that this was an unfolding investigation, and the whole family had converged on LaGrange, Kentucky because they want to know where their girl went, you know. And uh Mr. or Detective Bob Bill Bosmer and I took the earring, we had it in a little tin thing with a piece of uh cotton in there, you know, uh, and we took it and showed it to them and said, Did Myra have something like this? The grandmother uh was there and she teared up and she says, Yeah, that looks like an earring that I uh one of a pair of earrings that I bought her in Christmas of 1994, which would have been uh five months or four or five months earlier. And uh I said, Okay, yes. Well, our our investigation is continuing. So um the timeline on this case was going to mean a whole lot. Uh being able to develop a comprehensive timeline of him his movements and her movements, and I know that the phone records of where she had called him, uh her where Myra had called her father, and I knew that north of where we were located there on I-71 was a wayscale. And I knew that those records that come from that wayscale would identify what time his truck, the suspect's truck, would have cost those wayscales. So that would be important too. Uh on that very evening after I got done with talking to the the Stalbowski family and them doing uh identifying the earring. Um I went to work getting phone records and I wanted way scale records. I remember that I called ATT, corporate security, and it was somewhere in New Jersey, and I explained to them that we were conducting a criminal investigation in regard, a possible criminal investigation in regard to a missing person. And I needed the phone records, and they said, Well, we're going to need a uh a subpoena. Absolutely. So uh I had a good uh relationship with county attorney's officer, you know, where I just pick up the phone and say, Hey, uh uh Mr. Finley, and his name was John Finley, he's deceased now. But I said, We got this going on, and could you please help me get a subpoena for these phone records for this date, between this date and this time? And he did. He got he came in and got the subpoena for me. Couldn't email it or anything like that. Had to fax it back then because there wasn't no email. Uh well, there probably might have been for some people, it wasn't for us, but there was uh we faxed, I faxed that to the ATT corporate security. They give me the phone records and I was able to identify all three phone calls, where they come from and and how long they they lasted. And I got those probably with I probably got those early on Saturday morning. But in addition to that, I caught contacted the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet, and they was able to get me those waste scale records, and I probably got them on a Saturday morning sometime too. So after we put all this together, me and my boss and Detective Bosmer, we sat down and we just had a you know talked about the case. Well, we know that he was trucking north uh up into East Kenton, Ohio is where he was going. And we said, well, you know, if he was going north in East Kenton, Ohio, where he was taking this load of powdered clay, you know, this is a crime that might have crossed state lines. And my boss says, you know, we probably need to ask for some assistance on this. We need to contact the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Uh, and that was on a Saturday morning, and we was able to get in touch with whoever the duty agent was on time at that time that was on duty, and they um they sent an army to us. We told them everything that was going on, and I'm gonna tell you something. Uh, you hear people say a lot this and that about the FBI or whatever. Uh let me tell you something. They showed up and they was ready to be the police.

David 27:58

Oh, that's a skilled organization. I know that you're right. There's a lot of smack out there, but it's can I and one more time back for the listeners and the victims' families. One of the things you'll hear when people get super frustrated with a local police department is why don't they call on the FBI? And you hit it on the head. The FBI can only come in when it's FBI federal stuff.

Sonny Boggs 28:17

So the interstate The Interstate would make it uh an interest in it.

David 28:21

That's it. And so it's very rarely that they're going to swoop in like you see on TV and take a case unless there's something that makes it federally applicable.

Sonny Boggs 28:28

Yes.

David 28:28

But again, it's a I've just known too many fantastic FBI agents and consider them dear friends and uh uh an extremely skilled organization.

Sonny Boggs 28:38

Aaron Powell They have uh uh they had a whole lot more resources than what we had. Oh Lord.

David 28:42

The stuff we probably shouldn't talk about or will disappear.

Discovery At Mile Marker 29.5

Sonny Boggs 28:44

They they showed up out there and we sat down in a conference room and in the greatest amount of detail we I sat there and explained the case to them. He said, We're all in. We're here, we're here to help you. They said, Well, I I remember the the guys uh the special agent in charge of the little division, his name was uh Dave Cole. He says, We need to we probably need to try to do a uh air-to-ground search for the victim because we're probably going to find the victim. That's what he said. I said, Well, he said, Well, we can contact the Jefferson County police, Jefferson County Kentucky police, because they had a helicopter. Uh, we got in touch with them, they agreed to assist us. This was on a Saturday, and they agreed to come out on a Sunday. Um, but they Sunday morning, April the 27th, 28th, 29th, April the 30th, I see, 27th. April the 30th when they came out. Or they was going to come out, the weather was bad. We had a lot of fog and stuff, and they couldn't get up till early or late morning. Uh they showed up and uh they started their air-to-ground search. Uh we started there around the area where we last known that she was seen there at the uh um Super America gas station. We searched the area around Walmart, airground, and then through investigation and looking at these phone records, I knew that the last phone call that she made to her father, the one I spoke of, it lasted for 14.7 seconds, did not come from the Super America. It came from a Davis Brothers 76 truck stop that was at exit 28 in Henry County, Kentucky, which would have been six miles up the road from LeGrange. North of LeGrange. North of Lagrange, yes.

Wendy 30:31

So he had driven her up there.

Sonny Boggs 30:33

Yes. Didn't let her off in a parking lot. Well, as opposed to him alleging that he dropped her off parking lot, we know we can place her there and making those phone calls from that payphone in that 76 truck stop uh there uh in in Henry County. Um so we took our search and we moved forward with the helicopter from exit 22. We moved on up to uh along I-71, searching along the way to see if we could find anything, which you know probably weren't. It's sure last phone call was made from the 28. So we got to the 28 where the Davis Brothers 76 truck stop was located, and the helicopter went around that very you know very carefully, looked for anything and everything we could find on the outskirts. You know, we'd search the dumpsters and all that stuff to see if we could find anything. Nothing was there, and then we went back to I-71 to move north on I-71. So once we get on I-71, uh there was an FBI agent with me, his name is Ed Evans, and uh as we was moving north, I noticed looking up ahead, there was vultures, buzzards, or whatever. And I I really did it really didn't strike much with me at the time because this is one thing I know. One thing I was good at was working deer impact collisions because we had a lot of deer up there, and I was like, well, there's deer land, you know, hit on this road all the time. It could be they're after a deer. But as we moved north on I-71, uh, we got off the 28, and uh when we got up to approximately the 29 and a half mile marker, uh, my boss was in a helicopter with the Jefferson County uh pilot. Uh, they radioed uh to me, they said, go ahead and shut everything down. We have a crime scene. Oh Lord. And uh so uh me and uh uh special age Davids, uh, we got out and we walked alongside the interstate and looked over an embankment at about the 29 and a half mile marker. And laying over the embankment, I I'm I'm estimating 25 feet, 30 feet, as we can see the remains of someone laying over there. I could tell that the remains had blonde hair on it, and you know, that it was the the remains were clothed.

Closing Credits And How To Support

David 32:53

And uh so emotionally when you when you heard the news and then emotionally when you look down that which isn't very far, 25 or 30 feet, no, um what'd that feel like? What was going on in you when when you got that word and then you stood there and saw that this ain't good.

Sonny Boggs 33:13

This is this is this is not good. And uh I knew it I knew I knew that it was washing but um I walked over the embankment, straight line, straight down to the remains. Uh I checked uh for vital signs, and there was no vital signs. Uh and I can't remember which ear was which, but one of the ears had a earring missing out of it, and in the other ear.

Wendy 33:42

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David 33:48

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