She Was Almost Home (Rebroadcast)

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Speaker 3 2020 starts right now.

Speaker 4 Going skydiving. All right.

Speaker 5 Yeah. Let's do it.

Speaker 6 Special reason for that?

Speaker 5 Let the money look.

Speaker 8 Just into our newsroom, the Fulton County Sheriff's Office is asking for your help to find a missing woman.

Speaker 9 Take me back to that day.

Speaker 5 I'm going on a bike ride.

Speaker 11 I remember exactly what I said. I kissed her.
I told her I loved her and to text me when she got home.

Speaker 12 Instantly, I knew something was wrong.

Speaker 5 Right away.

Speaker 12 Right away.

Speaker 13 They said, hey, there's something going on. We can't find Sierra.
She's missing.

Speaker 16 So you were thinking at this point, maybe she was in an accident.

Speaker 17 Tell me about the search.

Speaker 15 What was going on?

Speaker 18 I just remember thinking the whole time, like, oh my god, what if we find something?

Speaker 20 What if we find something?

Speaker 21 Time is of the essence, and

Speaker 21 it's not good.

Speaker 22 You can see the red and blue lights flickering.

Speaker 23 It made the hair on the back of my neck stand up. It just, you just had this eerie feeling that you knew that this wasn't an abduction site.

Speaker 24 I'm with Fulton County Sheriff's Office, Flampa County, Ohio. We've got a missing person.

Speaker 25 At any point, you can encounter evil.

Speaker 25 Small town America, in the middle of nowhere, it could happen to anybody.

Speaker 25 You had a young lady, 20 years old,

Speaker 25 just riding a bike out in the country.

Speaker 5 What's the girl's name?

Speaker 25 Sierra.

Speaker 26 There are evil people out there, and they can live right down the road.

Speaker 24 They've got concerns of life-threatening circumstances.

Speaker 28 They live amongst us. A lot of times, they go on for years without getting caught.

Speaker 30 She left her boyfriend's house at seven to ride her bike home.

Speaker 31 Your mind just starts racing.

Speaker 31 Where's Sierra?

Speaker 32 This story begins with a simple bike ride on a beautiful summer day in 2016 on this country road surrounded by cornfields in the tiny town of Metamora, Ohio.

Speaker 3 Metamora, Ohio is this very sweet, very rural community.

Speaker 26 It's about 40, 45 minutes outside of Toledo.

Speaker 35 It's just kind of what you think Midwest Farm USA looks like.

Speaker 3 There's probably more corn and cows than people.

Speaker 21 Very tight-knit. Everybody knows everyone.
Just this small town.

Speaker 27 Simple life.

Speaker 21 Very simple.

Speaker 30 You know everyone's parents. You know where everyone lives.

Speaker 18 We always joke about where we grew up in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by corn.

Speaker 11 Anybody you talked to prior to all of this would say the same thing that this would never happen here.

Speaker 33 But here I am.

Speaker 11 And it did happen.

Speaker 11 Lots of times I'd say, you know, why me? And why her?

Speaker 17 Josh Kolosinski and Sierra Jogin were a well-known Metamora couple.

Speaker 11 She was an extremely outgoing person. There really wasn't anybody that wasn't her friend.

Speaker 37 Sierra's mom, Sheila Vakovic, says that Sierra had that exuberant personality from the very beginning. Sierra was your firstborn?

Speaker 12 My firstborn, yes.

Speaker 34 You had a nickname for her?

Speaker 38 C.

Speaker 20 Cece.

Speaker 30 Is it fun, Cece?

Speaker 5 Oh, it does.

Speaker 39 What was she like as a little girl?

Speaker 12 Very energetic. She liked to help.

Speaker 26 She loved animals.

Speaker 12 She was so content.

Speaker 37 You've described her as a perfect child.

Speaker 5 I did.

Speaker 12 She was just so easy.

Speaker 12 It's almost as tall as you are.

Speaker 34 How would you describe your niece, Sierra?

Speaker 21 Vivacious.

Speaker 21 She was born when I was 16, so she was like my real live baby doll.

Speaker 21 And as I got older, I just loved her. I couldn't get enough of her.

Speaker 5 She was a ball of energy.

Speaker 42 My name's Siara.

Speaker 31 You just couldn't stop laughing

Speaker 31 and having fun with her.

Speaker 20 She was a singer.

Speaker 18 We loved a good karaoke.

Speaker 37 Here's her spirited take on the Barbie girl song.

Speaker 43 Feels so weird being back here.

Speaker 30 I know. know.

Speaker 12 Junior year hallway.

Speaker 42 Here we are.

Speaker 22 And Sierra was across.

Speaker 30 We both went to high school with her here.

Speaker 44 Right here.

Speaker 27 Yes.

Speaker 45 She was

Speaker 30 the life of the party. She always had those evergreen-colored cheerleading skirts.

Speaker 38 She wasn't a cheerleader, but she just loved to dress up as a cheerleader.

Speaker 12 I always said I wish that I could bottle her confidence because so many girls do go through, I'm too short, I'm too fat, I'm too this, I'm too that. And she was just very comfortable in her own skin.

Speaker 36 It strikes me that you were more than aunt and niece, that you're more like companions.

Speaker 44 Yeah. Close friends.

Speaker 8 She was my niece.

Speaker 21 She was my sister, my best friend, my daughter.

Speaker 8 She was everything.

Speaker 29 She just became part of our family and we took her on vacation and part of Christmas and she was our daughter.

Speaker 5 Are you serious?

Speaker 5 Oh my god.

Speaker 5 Not all.

Speaker 46 Take care of it.

Speaker 47 Done deal.

Speaker 35 It's in your name, so it's your car.

Speaker 16 She went to college at the University of Toledo.

Speaker 44 How was that going for her?

Speaker 30 Really, really good. She was in the College of Business.

Speaker 36 What were her dreams?

Speaker 30 She wanted to be big.

Speaker 30 She wanted to change the world.

Speaker 33 The The summer of 2016, before her junior year in college, Sierra moves from Toledo back to Metamora into her grandparents' house.

Speaker 16 Why did she live with her grandparents and not at your house?

Speaker 22 Just for room's sake.

Speaker 12 It was going to be short term.

Speaker 12 So this is Sierra's room.

Speaker 12 She loved to do crafts, so actually this painting here she did.

Speaker 9 And that's Josh up there.

Speaker 30 That is Josh.

Speaker 36 She liked her little world here?

Speaker 12 She did. She felt comfortable here.
So when she moved back home for the summer, I was ecstatic. I'm like, yes, she's back home, safe environment.

Speaker 9 Take me back to that day, July 19th, 2016.

Speaker 12 I got home from work. It was probably going on five o'clock in the evening.
She said she was getting ready to go for a bike ride. She was going to ride over to Josh's.

Speaker 39 The bike was purple?

Speaker 12 Bike was purple, which is one of her favorite colors.

Speaker 41 And how long would it have been, that bike ride, to Josh's house?

Speaker 12 About six miles.

Speaker 33 Her route was on County Road 6.

Speaker 37 Can you describe that road?

Speaker 5 Very rural.

Speaker 12 Not a ton of people, but,

Speaker 26 you know, you have a couple houses that she'd be passing.

Speaker 44 And you must have thought nothing of it.

Speaker 5 No, mm-mm. Not at all.

Speaker 12 And she took off on her bike and headed towards Josh's.

Speaker 39 Beautiful cornfields, ucolic.

Speaker 27 What would be better than taking a little bike ride? You would never imagine.

Speaker 5 Never imagine. Not out there.

Speaker 49 Sierra's bike ride will soon turn into a nightmare.

Speaker 38 My heart dropped. I said, this doesn't sound right.

Speaker 30 Like something's not right.

Speaker 48 Where's she at?

Speaker 5 Where is she?

Speaker 4 What's going on right now? Going skydiving.

Speaker 6 And there ain't

Speaker 6 special reason for that?

Speaker 50 No. No.

Speaker 5 Living life.

Speaker 11 I'm a firm believer that you should be best friends before you enter a more personal relationship with somebody, and that's exactly what we were. She was my best friend.
We went skydiving together.

Speaker 4 That was awesome.

Speaker 11 Or get with it, guys.

Speaker 47 Well, you can go down and give that guy a big hug.

Speaker 17 Josh Kolosinski and Sierra Joggins' relationship dated back years.

Speaker 11 me and Sierra were six years old when we first met. She was a family friend.

Speaker 21 They grew up young knowing each other.

Speaker 11 By the time high school came around, it was me and her.

Speaker 11 We were always together. She was stubborn, she was hard-headed,

Speaker 11 and she had a very strong personality. Couldn't win too many fights.

Speaker 11 We liked to go to get-togethers and parties,

Speaker 11 but we didn't need parties and all that stuff.

Speaker 11 At home with nothing to do, that was some of the best times that we had.

Speaker 11 Being together for six years, getting married was definitely a big talk.

Speaker 11 Really, the summer that this happened was when conversations were about to take place for

Speaker 11 asking her to marry me.

Speaker 11 That day she rode her bike from her house to my house.

Speaker 30 It's a hefty bike ride.

Speaker 11 And I remember she showed up and she's just sweating and regretting her decision of riding her bike that far.

Speaker 11 She didn't stay too long. She decided to leave.
I'm fairly old school, so I was going to follow her.

Speaker 11 I had a motorcycle. I hopped on that and just started riding beside her.

Speaker 11 When we were just pulled out of my house, I did take two snapshot videos.

Speaker 11 For anybody that knows us, it was a running joke that I'm on the motorcycle and she's on a bicycle.

Speaker 10 I'm going on a bike ride.

Speaker 11 Sierra Sierra being the strong person that she is, right about a mile in, she's like, okay, that's enough, you can go home now. You don't have to follow me the whole way.

Speaker 11 Another mile of hearing that, I decided to stop and turn around.

Speaker 49 It's 6.43 p.m.

Speaker 37 when Josh takes those Snapchats.

Speaker 49 It's 10 minutes later when he and Sierra separate.

Speaker 11 I remember exactly what I said.

Speaker 53 I kissed her.

Speaker 11 I told her I loved loved her, and to text me when she got home.

Speaker 46 Around 9 p.m., Sierra's mother is driving past her parents' house and looks up at Sierra's window.

Speaker 12 I noticed that her bedroom light wasn't on, which really did strike me as odd.

Speaker 12 But in my head, I was thinking, you know, well, maybe she was tired. I wasn't concerned enough to run up there and see if she was in her bedroom.

Speaker 11 Around nine o'clock-ish. I remember looking at my phone, and she never texted me, and I was kind of, you know, okay, that's weird.
Sierra, she was really good about saying, hey, I'm here.

Speaker 11 Shooting me a text and just, hey, made it.

Speaker 12 I was in bed. when Josh called and he was asking if I had talked to Sierra.
He goes, I'm trying to call her. It's going right to voicemail.
I can't get a hold of her.

Speaker 12 And instantly, I knew something was wrong.

Speaker 5 Right away. Right away.

Speaker 12 She never doesn't respond. So I hung up and I called my parents and I said, can you check on Sierra?

Speaker 46 Your daughter Sheila called you and asked you if Sierra had come home.

Speaker 31 I knew she wasn't in her bedroom and I said, let me go out and see if her bike's here.

Speaker 31 So I went out to the barn.

Speaker 17 The bike would have been in here, right?

Speaker 54 It would have been in here.

Speaker 31 And her bike was not here.

Speaker 12 And then that just, that started everything.

Speaker 11 We all knew something was very wrong.

Speaker 34 It's now dark out and nobody knows where Sierra might be.

Speaker 32 Her room light is off.

Speaker 34 Her bike is not in the barn and she's not answering her phone.

Speaker 17 Concerns are mounting and the search for Sierra is about to begin.

Speaker 12 Josh said he was going to retrace the way Sierra came home.

Speaker 11 I was thinking maybe

Speaker 11 she got hurt, maybe she's unconscious in a ditch somewhere.

Speaker 12 I chose to take 120 and head into Lions, which is a town next to Matamora. A lot of times there is a sheriff that will sit in the Lions Fire Department.
It was about 10.30 when I left my driveway.

Speaker 16 So you were thinking at this point, maybe she was in an accident, right?

Speaker 5 Right, yes.

Speaker 15 She's by the side of the road

Speaker 19 in a gully,

Speaker 16 in a ditch.

Speaker 12 As soon as I hit the fire station, there was a deputy parked there.

Speaker 22 So I literally pulled up right beside her.

Speaker 32 So you walk up here and the squad car is here.

Speaker 12 Yes, the deputy is parked right here. I go up to her and I proceed to tell her that my daughter went for a bike ride and on her way home, she didn't make it.
Then her bike was missing.

Speaker 5 And she calls 911, right?

Speaker 12 and then she, yes, she does put that through.

Speaker 5 Sheriff Miller's office.

Speaker 55 Hold on a second, she just pulled up next to me.

Speaker 5 Gotcha.

Speaker 12 So then she asked for the information, you know, her name, her birth date.

Speaker 5 What's the girl's name? What's her name? Sarah? Jacket.

Speaker 30 She left her boyfriend's house at seven to ride her bike home.

Speaker 56 Does Sierra have any like medical issues?

Speaker 12 Any medical issues or anything?

Speaker 12 No.

Speaker 5 All right.

Speaker 56 let me see what I can do here.

Speaker 5 Okay.

Speaker 17 You're getting agitated.

Speaker 5 I am.

Speaker 12 I'm frustrated. Just kept trying to emphasize that, you know, time is of the essence.

Speaker 38 Like, this is serious.

Speaker 21 Immediately, you know, something's not right. I did what I could here, which was posting on Facebook, contacting every one of our friends.

Speaker 30 I had that feeling that I had never felt and I felt something was very wrong.

Speaker 5 Sick to our stomach immediately.

Speaker 9 Well, like an intuition thing.

Speaker 12 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 11 I got a phone call from somebody. They said, Hey, there's a bunch of police officers on County Road 6.

Speaker 22 You can see the red and blue lights flickering right down County Road 6.

Speaker 12 This was all barricaded,

Speaker 8 and I felt like they must have found something.

Speaker 57 I'm Major Matt Smithmeyer with the Fulton County Sheriff's Office.

Speaker 52 I've been working here for 29 years.

Speaker 57 I'm friends with Sierra's family, and Sierra graduated with my daughter.

Speaker 52 On July 19th, 2016, I was home asleep when I found out that there was a problem.

Speaker 13 Friends of the family had stopped at my house.

Speaker 52 It was 11.30 at night, midnight.

Speaker 34 They came and and knocked on your door? Yes.

Speaker 14 They said, Hey, there's something going on.

Speaker 13 We can't find Sierra. She's missing.

Speaker 14 At that point, I had called our office and asked what was going on.

Speaker 37 It's around midnight, and this road right by where Sierra lives has been shut down by law enforcement.

Speaker 10 Her family can't get through.

Speaker 32 So they're left to wondering why are the police here and what have they found?

Speaker 12 It was blocked. It was barricaded.

Speaker 44 I was sorry when you ran up to them.

Speaker 12 them they said we're not letting anybody down there all they could say was is that they were investigating you must have wanted to break through oh my gosh it was horrible it was absolutely horrible

Speaker 10 this is police dash cam video of sierra's grandparents pacing at the scene

Speaker 25 how difficult was it it was horrible because you want answers why can't you tell me anything it turns out a police deputy jeremy simon has just made an alarming discovery the deputy was traveling southbound on county road six he noted that he saw what he thought to be matted down corn stocks he put a spotlight on it confirmed that there was definitely something out of the ordinary there

Speaker 25 got out of the vehicle he walked over to the cornfield

Speaker 25 happened to shine his light up and at some point somehow his light hit one of the reflectors of the bike

Speaker 49 it was sierra joggins bike hidden in a cornfield just a half a mile from her home

Speaker 25 it's at that time that he made phone calls to to his command staff and they shut down the area just so you know all units are headed up towards 6 and 7 reference that missing person jeremy may have found something up there

Speaker 61 Called BCI to come out and start processing the scene that night.

Speaker 32 Megan Roberts is a special agent with Ohio's BCI, the Bureau of Criminal Investigation, part of their crime scene unit.

Speaker 23 I was home sleeping and I got called out around one in the morning.

Speaker 16 What does the phone call say?

Speaker 23 They said that they potentially may have found an abduction site.

Speaker 23 They were asking if I could come out and assist examining the crime scene.

Speaker 23 When I arrived, the corn stalks were over my head. It was very dark, and you couldn't see anything out here.
There's no street lights.

Speaker 23 Her bike was over here in the cornfield.

Speaker 32 By this blue marker?

Speaker 23 It was. That's kind of how I remember where it was found.

Speaker 5 The bike was immediately sent out for forensic analysis.

Speaker 17 So this was Sierra's bicycle.

Speaker 10 Yes, it was.

Speaker 2 And it was sitting just like we see it here today.

Speaker 52 Standing up?

Speaker 62 Standing up, kickstand down,

Speaker 13 just three or four rows into the cornfield.

Speaker 37 How was it identified?

Speaker 6 Family, it gave us a description of the bicycle. I'm going on a bike ride, Brooklyn, and the boyfriend.

Speaker 53 And plus we had video from his cell phone that evening when he was riding alongside her.

Speaker 15 And it turns out there was blood on the handlebars and on the seat.

Speaker 13 There was spots that were tested and they sent to

Speaker 13 the lab right away.

Speaker 15 The bike itself had not been damaged.

Speaker 6 There's no damage to the bike.

Speaker 53 It's the same condition as it was when she was riding it.

Speaker 37 And that's even her water bottle.

Speaker 14 Correct.

Speaker 23 It made the hair on the back of my neck stand up.

Speaker 23 You just had this eerie feeling that you knew that this was an abduction site.

Speaker 16 The bike was here and she was not. Right.

Speaker 23 We just kept walking the field until we found more evidence.

Speaker 23 We found a screwdriver, screwdriver, we found men's style sunglasses, we found a sock,

Speaker 23 we found a set of fuse boxes.

Speaker 13 There were tire tracks of a motorcycle tucked into the cornfield

Speaker 33 and there were streaks of blood on the corn stalks.

Speaker 23 It wasn't a massive amount of blood. I knew somebody was injured, but they probably weren't injured so badly that they died.
You could tell a struggle had definitely occurred.

Speaker 23 I could look down the row of corn and see the broken stalks all the way down the corner.

Speaker 37 While law enforcement is investigating, they keep a tight lid on what they found.

Speaker 23 We didn't want anything to get out to the media. We didn't want the items of evidence that we were finding to get back to the suspect.
So we kind of kept everything

Speaker 23 to ourselves until we could figure out what was going on.

Speaker 44 When did you finally find out that they had found Sierra's bicycle in that cornfield?

Speaker 12 Um, it wasn't until the morning. They had actually assigned an FBI agent to us,

Speaker 12 and actually, they were the ones that kind of told us, you know, okay, we found you know the bike,

Speaker 11 and that kind of sealed the deal that something was really wrong.

Speaker 21 That's

Speaker 21 when you knew

Speaker 21 that it was not not good.

Speaker 21 Time is of the essence and

Speaker 21 it's not good.

Speaker 21 I'm going on a bike ride.

Speaker 26 Until we roll people out, everybody's a suspect. Josh was the last person to see Sierra alive.
He was the last one to have any interaction with her.

Speaker 3 Is her boyfriend being honest with us or has something else happened?

Speaker 11 I remember two gentlemen walked up and said we need to talk to you.

Speaker 64 I put on the record there you make me nervous. You should.

Speaker 11 He looked at me and he said where's she at?

Speaker 7 We're following a story just into our newsroom.

Speaker 8 The Fulton County Sheriff's Office is asking for your help to find a missing woman.

Speaker 55 We had a call into the newsroom telling us that there was a young girl that was missing. So as all newsrooms are, we started to scramble.

Speaker 7 Her name is Sierra Jogen. She's 20 years old.

Speaker 8 She was last seen last night in the Evergreen School District and she was riding a purple bicycle.

Speaker 35 That morning, I will never forget we pulled up to Evergreen High School. They're the FBI, they're detectives, they're U.S.
Marshals. And I called my boss and I said, there's a problem out here.

Speaker 66 This is bad.

Speaker 35 There are investigators everywhere in this high school parking parking lot. Something's gone on.

Speaker 8 Deputies say she's about 5'5 ⁇ , weighs about 130.

Speaker 7 She has brown hair and brown eyes. If you know where she is, you're asked to call the Fulton County Sheriff's Office.

Speaker 17 Tell me about the search.

Speaker 23 What was going on? Everybody wanted to be a part of it.

Speaker 23 We didn't have to ask for volunteers. They were just coming.

Speaker 55 They formed search teams. They were handing out flyers.
It was basically the entire community that was looking for her.

Speaker 23 They were basically walking each cornfield just in case Sarah was injured and on the move and maybe disoriented and she couldn't find, you know, her home.

Speaker 25 I remember walking through those cornfields watching the men and women that were out there assisting us with the search coming out yellow. from the pollen of the corn.

Speaker 12 And as a kid, we always loved hiding in the corn. You know, now it's like you look at it a little bit differently.

Speaker 12 The corn can hide a lot. You know, it's thick, it's dense.

Speaker 36 You helped in the search?

Speaker 7 It was hard.

Speaker 5 We just walked like, you know, a foot, two feet apart and just scanned the field.

Speaker 18 I just remember thinking the whole time, like, oh my god, what if we find something?

Speaker 20 What if we find something?

Speaker 32 Meanwhile, as family and friends have been frantically searching, The police have been handed an important clue.

Speaker 23 A farmer found a helmet on the side of the road the night before. The farmer took the helmet.
He thought it would be a good fit for his son.

Speaker 23 When he woke up the next morning and saw the media coverage about Sierra missing from that location, he brought the helmet over to us.

Speaker 13 And then when he brought it back to the scene, when we started to look at it, it was covered in what we believed was blood.

Speaker 17 These were bloodstains.

Speaker 13 Yes, you could see all the fainted bloodstains all over the side of the helmet.

Speaker 3 There was a lot of information pointing us in the direction that someone who was riding a motorcycle was involved in Sierra's disappearance.

Speaker 26 We knew at this point that Sierra's boyfriend had a motorcycle and he was the last person to see Sierra alive. So we had to look at Josh.

Speaker 11 I remember two gentlemen walked up and said, we need to talk to you. And I said, yeah, let's do it.
We went over to Evergreen High School. I saw their whole mobile

Speaker 11 command center.

Speaker 64 Do you go by Josh or Joshua? Just Josh. Josh.
And how long have you known Sierra?

Speaker 64 Since we were

Speaker 43 five?

Speaker 64 Five or six.

Speaker 64 So you followed her about

Speaker 5 a mile?

Speaker 58 Two, three miles?

Speaker 64 Three miles.

Speaker 64 Okay.

Speaker 11 I gave every single bit of information that my brain could possibly I drew a map.

Speaker 64 The intersection.

Speaker 64 and I can draw I can draw the route that she took

Speaker 11 I remember saying this is the route she took if it ain't this route it's this route

Speaker 11 and

Speaker 11 I will never forget this he asked me if I wanted a drink is there like a pop machine or something around you need something drink no I'm good and then they both leave and I'm like in this room by myself they both came back in and the dynamic changed very quick.

Speaker 11 They came in and he looked at me and he said, where's she at?

Speaker 64 Do you know what happened to her?

Speaker 48 I have no idea.

Speaker 64 I swear I wish I did.

Speaker 11 I immediately got scared.

Speaker 64 The two of you didn't have any argument, physical or otherwise.

Speaker 39 No. Nothing.
No.

Speaker 64 Okay.

Speaker 64 You don't have

Speaker 64 any ideas as to her whereabouts or anything.

Speaker 11 I was like, oh, you might think it's me.

Speaker 64 Can I put it on the record that you're making me nervous?

Speaker 11 They

Speaker 11 were like, yeah, you should be scared.

Speaker 64 You should.

Speaker 64 Honestly, I understand that. Okay.

Speaker 64 I understand that.

Speaker 25 Josh was... very forthcoming with information.
Josh was very helpful.

Speaker 25 So we got consent to search his residence. We went through his residence top to bottom.

Speaker 3 Josh let me go through his bedroom.

Speaker 19 We looked for blood spatter evidence on the clothing.

Speaker 25 We searched his motorcycle. We went through his truck.

Speaker 3 And at one point we found a pair of coveralls with blood on it. She says, look, that's old.

Speaker 3 It's from a deer hunting trip.

Speaker 49 Please take it, test it.

Speaker 3 And we were able to determine that it was animal blood.

Speaker 11 It's a very invasive process, but

Speaker 11 there was anything to hide.

Speaker 64 I take care of Sierra. I do.
You can ask anybody. I do.

Speaker 64 Take care of your character.

Speaker 44 What about Jonas? Did you have any suspicions?

Speaker 12 Oh, absolutely not.

Speaker 5 No. Never.

Speaker 12 He really treated Sierra well. So no, never, never, ever did I think that he would have anything to do with that.

Speaker 48 Go ahead and question him. Do your job, but

Speaker 21 let's move on because it's not no question.

Speaker 25 We weren't able to find anything that put us in the direction that Josh had any involvement in disappearance of Sierra.

Speaker 3 Everything, in fact, was pointing that he didn't have a role in this, that something had happened in that last half mile.

Speaker 25 So now we're looking more towards stranger abduction, chance encounter.

Speaker 35 So this starts to feel like a totally random crime. This feels like a guy that maybe just out of nowhere targets this woman riding her bike.
And that's really scary to people.

Speaker 26 There's so many possibilities that could happen.

Speaker 25 We would get a little bit of sleep and then we're back up just chasing leads. What's next? Who's next?

Speaker 26 Has she been taken somewhere? Is she being held captive?

Speaker 46 Police make the rounds in a desperate search to find Sierra.

Speaker 62 Not out there stealing chicks, robbing chicks, stealing people.

Speaker 36 How are you coping with the unknown that nobody knows where she is?

Speaker 19 It's hard on everybody.

Speaker 29 I mean, I feel like a protector of the family, you know, yeah.

Speaker 36 Did she have any enemies?

Speaker 7 No.

Speaker 38 To know her was to love her.

Speaker 43 There's still a lot of unanswered questions surrounding the disappearance of 20-year-old Sierra Joggin.

Speaker 43 The FBI, Bureau of Criminal Investigation, and Michigan State Police are assisting in the search.

Speaker 26 Everybody was out knocking on doors.

Speaker 13 We just start going house to houses all around to see if anyone saw anything.

Speaker 72 Do you see any suspicious vehicles, persons?

Speaker 30 We were driving away and

Speaker 30 Matt Smithmeyer mentioned he wanted to make a stop.

Speaker 30 He said there's a guy that lives out here and it was actually on County Road 6, the same county road that Sierra lived on. He apologized because he said James Worley is his name.

Speaker 30 He likes to talk a lot.

Speaker 10 Who is James Worley?

Speaker 72 At the time, he was in his early 50s. He was a caretaker.

Speaker 13 He was taking care of his mom and his brother that lived on the property.

Speaker 14 He did some small engine repair.

Speaker 58 I grew up a quarter mile down the road from his house.

Speaker 72 He was an individual that call in complaints, would see suspicious vehicles.

Speaker 28 We knocked on the door. It was a moderately kept rural home and

Speaker 28 Orley answered the door in boxers and a shirt.

Speaker 30 Immediately was kind of, why are you here? What are you doing?

Speaker 30 So we explained a young lady had gone missing.

Speaker 30 He says, yeah, I was out riding my motorcycle. I went up and around Lyons, Ohio, down on County Road 6.

Speaker 55 We're like, okay.

Speaker 30 So he brings us in.

Speaker 30 We walk in the house, we go into the living room.

Speaker 28 But I remember him saying, hey, have a seat.

Speaker 13 We're all like, no, no, we're fine.

Speaker 28 He goes, no, you're going to sit down.

Speaker 30 Mr. Worley makes a statement about how he was riding his motorcycle and his bike is having issues.
It sputters out.

Speaker 30 He goes into a cornfield.

Speaker 28 I thought this guy knows something. It was at that point where I thought, well, I need to be recording this.

Speaker 30 And Dan motioned at his phone that he was going to start recording. Mr.
Worley was not aware that he was being recorded.

Speaker 28 And he was quick to say, what are you doing on your phone?

Speaker 74 You got an issue with the phone?

Speaker 70 I'm texting my boss.

Speaker 74 Well,

Speaker 70 why don't you just let him go?

Speaker 30 He just was very astute. If we were doing something, he wanted to know what we were up to.

Speaker 70 I pushed my bike into the cornfield because the end rows are open. It's 500 pounds.

Speaker 28 I was in my head thinking, I'm going to ditch this thing, but there's these bikes here. And these are pedal bikes, right? Yeah.

Speaker 30 You see just two bikes sitting in the wheat field. He says there's a gray one and a bluish, and we knew Sierra's bike was purple.

Speaker 57 Did you see anybody around the bike?

Speaker 11 The bicycles?

Speaker 70 The only people I saw were cars driving by.

Speaker 30 Mr. Worley continued to talk about his motorcycle.

Speaker 15 I thought, man, I'm gonna stick my bike in here and I'm gonna walk home.

Speaker 5 Yeah.

Speaker 74 Now don't go ramping this up in your heads like, oh, he parked the bike and attacked the chick. That ain't no.

Speaker 62 No.

Speaker 70 I got it back out and I commenced to pushing.

Speaker 62 I restarted, I rode a ways, quit on me.

Speaker 13 Restarted, rode aways, and quit on me.

Speaker 57 And then I made it home here about 10 o'clock.

Speaker 70 I'm not out there killing chicks, dude. I've had a number of girlfriends.
I'm trying to get one started online a little bit right now.

Speaker 70 And she's been out here.

Speaker 53 And guess what?

Speaker 74 She went home alive.

Speaker 13 Why would you say I didn't kill someone?

Speaker 14 That's not something that would come up in normal conversation.

Speaker 34 He seemed like he was making this almost a joke.

Speaker 72 It was almost a joke, but what you just explained

Speaker 13 matches up with what we found at the scene.

Speaker 28 And the interesting thing, he was more intrigued in asking us questions as opposed to we were asking him.

Speaker 70 So are you really hitting every house up and down?

Speaker 74 Yep.

Speaker 70 Or did you

Speaker 70 go? Did you find my fingerprints on a bike or something?

Speaker 30 And that's when he said, well, I did pick up one of the bikes. I was going to ride it home.

Speaker 67 So you picked it up, picked one up?

Speaker 70 I stood one of them up and laid it back down. Are my fingerprints on these bikes?

Speaker 74 I'm asking you a direct question.

Speaker 70 I want a direct.

Speaker 63 It's a little too quickly.

Speaker 22 Stuff doesn't happen like CSI.

Speaker 30 Mr. Worlake suspected we were lying to him, that we were not going to every house.
He kept asking us, why are you really here?

Speaker 70 You know, I know you got an ongoing problem, but don't try to beat me into the position of being part of it because I'm not. And how are you going to kidnap somebody or take them on a motorcycle?

Speaker 30 And we just try to calm his fears and make him understand: no, no, no, you're not, you're not a suspect. We just want information at this point.

Speaker 70 What's her name, by the way? It's said it on the paper, but Sierra. Sierra.
Sierra.

Speaker 70 And what do I say? It's the world we live in.

Speaker 70 And it isn't me.

Speaker 14 It's just a weird, a weird kind of response.

Speaker 54 What was going through your mind when you were talking to him?

Speaker 52 Like, I can't believe what we just did.

Speaker 35 We didn't have a lead

Speaker 61 up to that point.

Speaker 70 I know we just kind of showed up, so well, yeah, you kind of showed up, but it's a bad reason that you're here, obviously.

Speaker 74 Yeah.

Speaker 28 We got up to leave, and he wouldn't quit talking.

Speaker 70 I do the best I can each day. with what I got, which ain't much.

Speaker 62 But I'm not out there stealing chicks, robbing chicks, stealing people

Speaker 36 I'm not out there stealing chicks robbing chicks stealing people

Speaker 16 what was your reaction that's just something that stuck stuck in our

Speaker 72 in our heads like why why these responses and as you're listening to all this how suspicious are you becoming very suspicious at that point we knew that we needed to leave there to get a search warrant for the property.

Speaker 26 When they enter the barn, it's extremely concerning.

Speaker 54 So, behind the bales of hay, you find this.

Speaker 3 There were so many things there that were just really wrong.

Speaker 30 I kind of had to stop my jaw from falling.

Speaker 26 It is like a barn of horrors.

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Speaker 57 In my 29 years in law enforcement, this has been the most disturbing set of evidence that I've ever seen.

Speaker 21 The fear, the heartache of knowing she's out there and is she scared? Is she

Speaker 21 hurt?

Speaker 23 You just had this eerie feeling that you knew that this wasn't an abduction site.

Speaker 16 Mike was here and she was not. Right.

Speaker 33 There were a lot of discoveries on this property.

Speaker 15 There was.

Speaker 25 You just got an eerie feeling about what was in there.

Speaker 33 What did the rake marks tell you?

Speaker 23 Someone's cleaning up. Someone's trying to hide something.

Speaker 3 Everything about that barn screamed to me.

Speaker 49 Kidnapping.

Speaker 30 Who keeps lingerie in a barn?

Speaker 38 And I remember thinking to myself, this guy is going to kill me and he's going to put me in the field.

Speaker 30 He's going to do this again.

Speaker 26 Our alarms just went berserk.

Speaker 3 Almost beg him, is Sierra alive? Where is she?

Speaker 35 Young woman riding her bike on a summer night.

Speaker 28 and she gets abducted.

Speaker 35 This kind of stuff does not happen around here.

Speaker 43 This is a picture of Sierra Joggin. She was last seen Tuesday night leaving her boyfriend's house on her bike, but Sierra never made it home.

Speaker 48 Your hope is

Speaker 21 starting to waver.

Speaker 21 Just keep thinking, where is she?

Speaker 23 This was the original abduction site where Sierra was taken from.

Speaker 23 Her bike was over here in the cornfield.

Speaker 36 So where are we here?

Speaker 23 So this is James Worley's residence.

Speaker 37 What led investigators to this property?

Speaker 23 Major Smith Meyer knew this guy.

Speaker 23 I remember him saying that this guy was just odd. He was an odd resident, so they sent a team down here to speak with Worley.

Speaker 33 Investigators were very suspicious after talking to James Worley.

Speaker 30 Mr. Worley makes a statement about how he was riding his motorcycle and his bike is having issues.
It sputters out.

Speaker 30 He goes into a cornfield and he mentions that he lost his helmet, his fuses, his screwdriver, and his sunglasses.

Speaker 30 I kind of had to stop my jaw from falling. None of that had been released to the media yet.

Speaker 26 Our alarms just went berserk.

Speaker 26 He's placing himself at the scene.

Speaker 54 So now investigators want to search his property and they visit him a second time.

Speaker 68 Walked up and knocked on the door. He answered the door and he appeared to just have gotten out of the shower.

Speaker 28 This time he was a little more agitated and nervous.

Speaker 62 Okay, so you guys got some suspicions for something here.

Speaker 40 Let's uh well I talked to him about the helmet.

Speaker 57 What about the helmet?

Speaker 57 You found a helmet? Yes.

Speaker 40 Well, bring it on here because I want my helmet back.

Speaker 5 Well, that's why we're here mostly is because the helmet looks like it might have some blood on it.

Speaker 58 Ah, no.

Speaker 78 We spoke a little bit at the door and then he agreed to accompany us through the house to make sure that Sierra wasn't on the ground somewhere.

Speaker 30 So we looked through the residence, didn't see anything. So we proceeded outside and searched the rest of the property.

Speaker 25 James Worley's property had a main house which sat to the left.

Speaker 25 To the right side was a barn.

Speaker 23 And once they got to the barn, Worley didn't want to cooperate anymore. His demeanor changed.

Speaker 28 I'm watching Jim become very nervous, very agitated, and concerned that we were even in the room.

Speaker 28 He was trying his darnest to get us to move on.

Speaker 62 Let's get out of here. It's like ⁇

Speaker 5 come around back.

Speaker 25 You just got an eerie feeling about what was in there. The floor had been raked.

Speaker 33 What did the rake marks tell you?

Speaker 23 Someone's cleaning up. Someone's trying to hide something.
You could smell bleach.

Speaker 2 This was the entry door to the north part of the barn.

Speaker 13 The reason we took this for evidence is you could see that the window was spray painted black.

Speaker 67 You couldn't see no one could see into the

Speaker 5 area.

Speaker 3 Someone had really taken the time to conceal whatever was going on in that portion of the barn.

Speaker 23 This barn was located the furthest away from the house. It was almost secluded in a way that the people in the home probably couldn't hear much of what was going on in the barn.

Speaker 17 While scouring the property, investigators continue to question James Worley about what he did the night Sierra vanished.

Speaker 19 There's no sense in trying to

Speaker 54 and you know we're here for a reason.

Speaker 51 Oh, and then here comes the girl on the bike and I attacked her, huh? Is that what you're thinking?

Speaker 11 No, that's not what happened.

Speaker 58 I'm not involved in it.

Speaker 57 I want to find her alive.

Speaker 62 Dude, I don't have, I do not have her stashed, hidden, buried, whatever it is you're thinking.

Speaker 40 I haven't done it.

Speaker 30 So we finally realized they've got the search warrant. We're like, thank goodness.

Speaker 65 We broke that property apart.

Speaker 25 One of the primary areas that we wanted to search was that north area of the barn. It had the floor that was recently raked.

Speaker 25 Our initial view in were hay bales. And as we were removed to hay bale, we were looking.

Speaker 25 Most astonishingly, we found this green crate.

Speaker 54 So behind the bales of hay, you find this.

Speaker 2 Yes, this is the green crate.

Speaker 26 When they opened that crate, they found numerous labeled bags, like Ziploc bags containing items. Things that were labeled were like stockings, tube tops, Daisy Duke shorts, panties.

Speaker 26 There was duct tape.

Speaker 30 Who keeps lingerie in a barn?

Speaker 23 You just knew that this wasn't right.

Speaker 28 His reasoning for having female undergarments in a barn was he gives them out as gifts to girlfriends.

Speaker 27 Didn't fly well with us.

Speaker 62 What's wrong with getting stuff to treat girls? They like that.

Speaker 57 And you know what?

Speaker 62 If I was going to go out and rape and kill whatever, a chick or whatever, how in the hell would I use that much lingerie?

Speaker 28 I buy stuff that I think girls would like to have. I mean, I've had a pretty good sex life my whole life, and all the girls are still alive, Dan, by the way.

Speaker 10 He was just full of it.

Speaker 39 What do you think he really was using it for?

Speaker 53 I think he was wanting a victim that he would abduct to wear some of those clothing for his

Speaker 53 fantasy.

Speaker 52 There was a freshly made sandwich sitting in that crate.

Speaker 36 A freshly made sandwich.

Speaker 53 Sandwich.

Speaker 52 It led us to believe that someone was being held in that area of the barn because why else would you have a sandwich there?

Speaker 3 Everything about that barn screamed to me kidnapping and sexual assault.

Speaker 30 We were slowly getting more information and at one point they had found that Evergreen High School had video showing what looked to be Mr. Worley's truck driving on the road that evening.

Speaker 68 Look their school video that have you and my truck going by.

Speaker 57 I drove down the road and back looking for the helmet.

Speaker 28 That was me driving the truck.

Speaker 25 So now he puts himself there leaving and coming back. But this time when he went back, he did not take the motorcycle.
He had taken one of his vehicles.

Speaker 72 We were thinking this is the vehicle he went and picked her back up

Speaker 29 from that area.

Speaker 30 During the interview with Mr. Worley, somebody pulled me aside and said, hey, come here and take a look at this.

Speaker 3 Every bale of hay was moved out of that barn. When we get down to that dirt floor, we find a piece of plywood with holes in it.

Speaker 35 They look like breathing holes to me.

Speaker 25 You're thinking, this could be a hiding spot. Tense anticipation starts to rise.

Speaker 25 Is this where we're gonna find her?

Speaker 25 Two rings surrounded by a steel cage.

Speaker 25 You wanna play games?

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Speaker 38 I think birds are the most amazing creature on this planet.

Speaker 48 That's a blue jay.

Speaker 38 They're resilient and they can survive horrible circumstances.

Speaker 5 I'm Robin Gardner.

Speaker 38 I've been a birder since I was 12.

Speaker 38 I heard about Sierra when she was missing from a neighbor and he said, I am so sorry if this upsets you, but there's a girl that's missing and they have checked on Worley's house.

Speaker 43 We've seen at least six Fulton County deputies here along with the Ohio State Highway Patrol.

Speaker 38 I was shocked, cried a lot. It was a very difficult process for me to go through.

Speaker 26 A couple days after Sierra had gone missing, we started looking into Mr. Worley's past and saw that he had a very similar occurrence 26 years earlier.

Speaker 26 He tried to abduct a young lady riding her bicycle.

Speaker 25 This was almost, if not identical, to what happened Sierra.

Speaker 37 It was the summer of 1990.

Speaker 32 Robin Gardner was 26 years old and living with her mom in White House, Ohio, just 20 minutes from where Sierra lived.

Speaker 38 On July 4th, my mom was making potato salad and getting ready for the neighborhood picnic that we all did every year.

Speaker 38 It was noon, and I got bored easily, so I said, I'm just going to go for a bike ride. And I got on my bike and took off.

Speaker 38 That's me when I first got the bike.

Speaker 38 And I got maybe a mile from the house. There were no cars, no houses, and a truck came by me, passed me.

Speaker 38 So I thought, I'm going to turn around and go back home. And as soon as I was ready to turn around, I heard a car coming.
That is the truck, and that's the one that hit me. So I flew into a ditch.

Speaker 55 This person got out the car to check on her, and he was asking her if she was okay.

Speaker 38 So I got up from the ditch. He came up, and I wasn't looking at what he was doing, and he hit me over the head with a hammer on the left side of my head and I was terrified instantly.

Speaker 38 He just looked like a normal guy

Speaker 38 and I almost blacked out. I had like black curtains closing in on me.
I kind of stood back up again, didn't know what to do. I'm not trained to fight people.
He was six foot one, I'm five foot one.

Speaker 38 And he got me in a stranglehold and put a screwdriver in my throat and said, get into the truck and stop screaming. I thought there's nothing else I can do but scream because I can't fight.

Speaker 38 And on both sides, it's corn. So I was screaming into corn.
And I remember thinking to myself, this guy is going to kill me, and he's going to put me in the field.

Speaker 55 Then, all of a sudden, he grabbed her and was dragging her and got her into the truck.

Speaker 38 And the next thing I know, he opened the glove box and got handcuffs out. I just looked at them, and I just instantly thought I was dead.
So he got them attached to the right wrist.

Speaker 38 I quickly grabbed the steering wheel with my left wrist and I just fought as hard as I could so he couldn't get both hands behind me.

Speaker 26 She caused such a commotion that a motorcycle that was approaching on that county road stopped.

Speaker 25 She then runs, jumps onto the back of a motorcycle and takes off.

Speaker 38 If that motorcyclist didn't come, I wouldn't be here.

Speaker 5 There's absolutely no doubt.

Speaker 38 I call her my guardian angel.

Speaker 38 When I got home, the police came, the ambulance came, and they said we found him. He's still at the scene of the crime.
They found out his name is James Worley.

Speaker 5 I never knew him.

Speaker 38 No connection at all.

Speaker 38 So this is another photo that we took a few days after the attack, just showing all the bruises on my arm.

Speaker 32 James Worley was 31 years old at the time.

Speaker 10 He ended up taking a plea to an abduction charge and served three years.

Speaker 38 And I knew after my attack, he was just not going to be a normal person in society. He's going to do this again.

Speaker 38 I moved back to California where I felt safe because ever since my attack, I can't be alone. I cannot be where someone can't hear me screaming.
I can't go bird watching.

Speaker 25 It was eerily similar in both attempted abduction of Rod McGardner and the actual abduction of Sierra.

Speaker 38 Sierra and I were two strong, independent women, and we just thought we'll be fine. We'll just ride home and we just unfortunately crossed paths with the monster.

Speaker 32 Knowing that James Worley attempted to abduct another young woman on a bike, investigators are frantically searching his barn for Sierra and they make a chilling discovery.

Speaker 23 We removed the bales of hay from the barn. And then at the back, at the rear side, there is a piece of plywood over the floor.

Speaker 3 And so we removed that piece of board and then we found what was a chest freezer.

Speaker 14 This was buried in the floor in the barn.

Speaker 37 A freezer.

Speaker 2 A freezer.

Speaker 17 And when you opened this freezer, were you concerned that Sierra might be inside of here?

Speaker 13 It was one of our biggest fears.

Speaker 3 You know, there was that moment of everyone holding their breath and we raised that freezer lid up.

Speaker 23 Our hearts just sunk.

Speaker 25 There was nothing in there. It was an empty thing.

Speaker 23 We thought we had her and then we didn't.

Speaker 3 And it was filled with a brown carpet that was saturated with some blood.

Speaker 2 It's troubling when you see a freezer, lightning carpet, to soundproof the freezer more.

Speaker 36 Was it big enough for a body to be put in there?

Speaker 53 Someone could fit in there, yes.

Speaker 57 That was one of our concerns that someone was kept in this freezer.

Speaker 33 Was it wet?

Speaker 67 Wet from bleach type of item.

Speaker 23 We assumed she was probably in this freezer at some point. We were just trying to find her.

Speaker 13 In my 29 years in law enforcement, this has been the most disturbing.

Speaker 52 set of evidence that I've ever seen.

Speaker 25 Mr. Worley has now become our primary subject.
We have to make sure that we do everything to locate Sierra.

Speaker 30 We went back and spoke to Mr. Worley and kind of brought up: hey, why in the world do you have a freezer buried in your bar?

Speaker 69 There's a freezer buried in that one back room that you were concerned about where you raked?

Speaker 62 Dude, that's my dope stash spot.

Speaker 69 I grow weed, I smoke weed, and that's it.

Speaker 62 I don't buy the

Speaker 72 there's no weed in it.

Speaker 28 Jim Whorley had an answer for everything.

Speaker 69 Is she on this property? No, she's not. Was she on this property? No, she was not.
Was any part of her body on this property? Not that I know of. No, that's a different answer.

Speaker 69 Yeah, that's not the answer.

Speaker 3 It was so very difficult to look at James Worley and really to just almost beg him.

Speaker 3 You know, is Sierra alive? Where is she?

Speaker 49 While there's no sign of Sierra, detectives find some alarming clues.

Speaker 72 We found what I called were kidnap kits, zip ties that were pre-started. Who does that?

Speaker 66 Authorities, including the FBI, say Sierra Jargan was last seen Tuesday night, the latest on today's search in day three.

Speaker 39 So the hours are going by. They turn into days.

Speaker 41 How are you feeling then?

Speaker 12 I'm feeling frustrated. I'm feeling defeated.

Speaker 12 You know, because the more time that goes by,

Speaker 12 the more that I fear that the end will not be what we hope for.

Speaker 27 This is weighing on you.

Speaker 39 Still hoping to find her alive.

Speaker 17 That was our goal.

Speaker 61 We wanted to find her.

Speaker 43 There is a heavy police presence surrounding the home you see behind me here. There is a barn that we have seen officers go in and out of.

Speaker 32 At the same time, the community searches for Sierra, investigators continue to pour over James Worley's property.

Speaker 23 After we found the deep freezer, the lingerie, all his items being found at the abduction site, they finally had enough that the prosecutor said, okay, go ahead and let's arrest him.

Speaker 29 Early that morning, he said, you know something?

Speaker 19 I think I'm going to go to bed. And I said, no, you're under arrest.
You're not going anywhere now.

Speaker 27 He just turned around and gave up his wrists.

Speaker 68 He knew at that point Jake was out.

Speaker 49 On what grounds did you make the arrest?

Speaker 36 You didn't have Sierra or her.

Speaker 13 We didn't have Sierra, but we made an arrest for an abduction charge.

Speaker 58 We were confident we had enough problem caused.

Speaker 51 I really could eat your big night and clean

Speaker 69 and it'd be nice just to be locked up in like my own little room is that movable.

Speaker 23 After Worley is taken into custody we're hoping that he's going to at least tell us where Sierra is.

Speaker 23 We're hoping she's still alive at this point and that he's going to review our location because we have no clue where she's at still.

Speaker 49 You wrote in a search warrant, Worley could potentially have additional victims.

Speaker 13 Correct. And during the process of the search warrants, we found what I called were kidnap kits.

Speaker 72 Zip ties that were pre-started, pieces of rope that were taped together in short lengths, handcuffs. Who does that?

Speaker 59 Police know about the Robert Gardner case 26 years earlier, but could James Worley have also been involved in a third abduction involving a woman named Claudia Tinsley?

Speaker 30 Mr. Worley, during the first interview, brought up Claudia Tinsley, who

Speaker 11 none of us were familiar with at the time.

Speaker 30 And he brought her up as, oh, the police think she's one of my victims.

Speaker 29 Where's she from, Claudia? Toledo. Toledo.
She's from Toledo.

Speaker 81 People in her family called her Sissy. That's what she went by.
She was a mother, and she was a prostitute.

Speaker 82 Sissy, she was beautiful. She had blonde hair.

Speaker 83 She was kind of like a model.

Speaker 83 Tall and skinny and real pretty.

Speaker 82 I mean, all the boys liked her. She was a sweetheart, funny.
But she got into some things that she normally wouldn't do if she was sober or not in need of money or things like that.

Speaker 81 I had spoken with Claudia's mother, and she told me that on the day that Claudia disappeared,

Speaker 81 She was leaving the house.

Speaker 81 And Claudia's mother asked, well, you know, where are you going? Who are you going with? And she pointed to a car that was down the street.

Speaker 81 And the car was the car that James Worley was driving at the time. And she felt uneasy about him.

Speaker 82 Sissy got in the car in front of Baker Street and rode away and never came back.

Speaker 82 James Worley was brought in for questioning like a week after she came missing.

Speaker 81 James Worley was the last person that was seen with Claudia Tinsley. He admitted to being with Claudia.

Speaker 81 He stated that he was with her for a period of time, that they drove around for maybe 45 minutes.

Speaker 25 He then dropped her off at an unknown location and then he claimed that that was the last time he had any interaction with her.

Speaker 13 To this day she has never been found and no one has ever been charged with her disappearance.

Speaker 25 We had nothing.

Speaker 81 We had no proof. Couldn't disprove what he was saying as far as him dropping her off.
Absent a confession, there was just nothing to go on.

Speaker 10 To this day, James Worley denies playing any role in Claudia's disappearance and has never been charged with any crime related to the case.

Speaker 80 Law enforcement continues to need any information that's available that would lead to the safe return of Sierra.

Speaker 81 I remember when the Sierra Joggins case started and he became a suspect. It was very,

Speaker 81 very

Speaker 81 gut-wrenching. It was very

Speaker 5 tough.

Speaker 26 Word had spread throughout the community that we were still looking for her and a farmer called in indicating that he had a disturbance on his property.

Speaker 25 It definitely looked like somebody had dug up part of his property.

Speaker 26 We immediately got investigators out there.

Speaker 21 The fear, the heartache of knowing she's out there and is she scared?

Speaker 48 Is she um

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Speaker 32 It started with a phone call in the early hours of the morning.

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Speaker 32 A terrified woman tells the operator she's been kidnapped, assaulted, assaulted, and that she's trapped in a room with her attacker.

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Speaker 9 This 911 call began an investigation that would turn the town of Ashland into a crime scene.

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Speaker 43 Based off records that we obtained, the property and barn that officials are searching is owned by 57-year-old James Worley. Now, he was arrested this morning and is charged with abduction.

Speaker 43 Now, whether Worley's arrest is related to the disappearance of Sierra Jogin, officials are not saying.

Speaker 49 Had you heard the name James Worley before?

Speaker 12 I had never heard the name James Worley before.

Speaker 5 No.

Speaker 17 Or any connection to Sierra?

Speaker 12 No, absolutely not.

Speaker 33 They have a guy, but Sierra, you still know him.

Speaker 68 But they felt like they had the right person.

Speaker 36 It must have felt like a race against time.

Speaker 5 Yeah.

Speaker 27 Every day that went by is...

Speaker 46 you're losing that race.

Speaker 41 And you're going crazy.

Speaker 17 Right.

Speaker 39 So what do you do?

Speaker 5 We waited.

Speaker 41 It's July 22nd, three days after your daughter has gone missing, and police are searching the fields for her still.

Speaker 12 Not knowing is the absolute worst.

Speaker 12 And my heart breaks for any mother that does not know where their children are.

Speaker 26 So we needed to look as quickly as we could, and we had numerous people involved in the search. And a farmer called in, indicating that he had a disturbance on his property.

Speaker 13 Then it happened to be a gentleman driving down the road and saw a broken corn stalk two miles from the suspect's house.

Speaker 33 And the community had been told, look for something, anything suspicious.

Speaker 13 Just to stop and look at a broken corn stalk, you'd see that all the time.

Speaker 59 But everybody was

Speaker 46 trying.

Speaker 13 He stops, gets out, and he found a spot where it was freshly dug in the ground.

Speaker 37 That would be strange to see that.

Speaker 72 Yes.

Speaker 25 So we sent agents, deputies, available people to go over to that location and they started to exhume that ground.

Speaker 26 They quickly discovered that that it didn't go too deep, so they knew they didn't have anything there.

Speaker 25 They started investigating the surrounding area. Upon going to the other side of the road, they again started noticing some push-down corn stalks.

Speaker 23 Myself and a team of agents, we start digging and we immediately can smell like an odor of decomposition.

Speaker 26 And tragically, they found Sierra.

Speaker 23 Everything has to slow down. You have to rake the area, make a level surface.
We have to grid the area. And then we're digging on hands and knees with basically hand shovels.

Speaker 23 So this process normally takes a very long time. You have to go layer by layer.
It was 95 degrees out and it took us almost five hours to remove Sierra from the grave.

Speaker 23 It actually went quicker than normal I think and that's only because nobody wanted to take a break.

Speaker 3 It was so difficult to be in that hole with Sierra.

Speaker 23 We were heartbroken, and we just wanted her out of that ground as quick as possible.

Speaker 33 What was the state of Sierra's body when you found her?

Speaker 52 She was tied up, bound,

Speaker 34 gagged, and handcuffed.

Speaker 65 And handcuffed.

Speaker 59 With her hands behind her.

Speaker 49 Behind her back.

Speaker 33 What kind of person would do this sort of thing?

Speaker 2 Evil person.

Speaker 57 It's terrible to find someone like that.

Speaker 63 Now fall in it, see?

Speaker 63 Fall in it.

Speaker 41 And then you get the phone call.

Speaker 19 She's been found.

Speaker 49 I can't imagine the grief that you and your family were feeling at that point.

Speaker 5 It was horrible.

Speaker 12 Everybody was sobbing and crying and falling to their knees.

Speaker 5 It was painful

Speaker 12 and

Speaker 30 it just literally sucks the life right out of you.

Speaker 21 I had to do a lot of therapy to get that sound out of my head.

Speaker 33 The

Speaker 27 crying, the

Speaker 38 despair.

Speaker 38 And it was,

Speaker 5 we were all out in my mom's front yard and just,

Speaker 30 I mean, every,

Speaker 5 everyone

Speaker 5 was just broken.

Speaker 5 It was

Speaker 48 just,

Speaker 48 you can't even explain it.

Speaker 5 It was heartbreaking.

Speaker 38 Your mind just goes to, did she know how much we loved her?

Speaker 26 Did she know?

Speaker 55 You know, I know she did.

Speaker 57 It was just one of the worst pains you can ever have.

Speaker 27 Thinking about

Speaker 11 what the rest of, you know, my life looks like, because

Speaker 11 every single plan and every single goal is immediately gone.

Speaker 32 Based on the forensic evidence collected at the crime scene and James Worley's barn, investigators have meticulously pieced together what they believe happened to Sierra.

Speaker 23 James Worley sees Sierra. She's on her purple bicycle.
He was on his motorcycle. So he passed her on his motorcycle, got to County Road 6.
He waited for Sierra to pass his location.

Speaker 37 This was believed to have been used as the weapon.

Speaker 72 Yes.

Speaker 10 What did he do with it?

Speaker 13 We believe that when Sierra was coming up riding by in her bicycle, that he came out of the cornfield and struck her in the head with this helmet.

Speaker 26 He then abducted her and took her to the barn located on his farm, where he proceeded to keep her until she asphyxiated and he disposed of her body.

Speaker 26 From my understanding, there was no evidence of a sexual assault.

Speaker 44 Had he known her before this?

Speaker 37 Did he know who she was?

Speaker 13 I think it was Opportunity.

Speaker 19 Random.

Speaker 6 Yeah.

Speaker 9 As the frantic search comes to a heartbreaking end, the quest for justice begins.

Speaker 17 But it'll take two long years before Sierra Joggett's family

Speaker 10 faces her accused killer in court.

Speaker 31 This is where they found Sierra's bike about three rows in.

Speaker 10 What does that say?

Speaker 38 It says, you left us beautiful memories.

Speaker 31 Your love is still our guide.

Speaker 31 Although we cannot see you, you're always

Speaker 31 at our side.

Speaker 37 Give me a sense of how close the bike was to your parents' house.

Speaker 63 It was.

Speaker 21 I can't even say it was half a mile, probably.

Speaker 5 It was so close. Yeah.

Speaker 5 Yep.

Speaker 27 That gets to you.

Speaker 5 Yeah, it does.

Speaker 9 Because

Speaker 46 she's almost home.

Speaker 5 I mean,

Speaker 5 she

Speaker 38 was almost home.

Speaker 10 Almost two years after Sierra's death, James Worley's trial begins.

Speaker 77 Today, jurors started hearing testimony in James Worley's capital murder trial.

Speaker 62 In opening statements, prosecutors said today that Sierra's DNA was found on rope, duct tape, and paper towels inside a barn at Worley's home.

Speaker 39 You went to James Worley's trial.

Speaker 39 What was that like?

Speaker 22 It was hard to

Speaker 21 be that close.

Speaker 21 And then the anger inside that you were the last

Speaker 21 person

Speaker 21 to see her.

Speaker 12 The very first time that I seen him walk into the courtroom

Speaker 12 he came in like he was this broken, disheveled,

Speaker 12 you know, poor me, I don't even know why I'm here, shuffling in with his orange jumpsuit and his

Speaker 12 cuffs on.

Speaker 47 I am not the person that I can pay me to be, and I am not guilty of Sierra's death.

Speaker 17 He pretended to be the victim.

Speaker 42 Yeah.

Speaker 41 Did he make eye contact with you?

Speaker 55 Yeah.

Speaker 17 Wow. What did you see in those eyes?

Speaker 5 Black,

Speaker 21 empty, death. Nothing.

Speaker 11 The court case was a month and a half long of reliving in extreme detail the worst three days of my life.

Speaker 84 Blood found in the fields also matches Joggins and Worley's DNA can be found on her bicycle.

Speaker 45 Bloody motorcycle helmet appears to have led police closer to Worley.

Speaker 25 As we were going through the trial, we quickly realized that we had significant,

Speaker 25 overwhelming amount of evidence.

Speaker 23 We had men's style sunglasses that came back to James Worley. Those were found at the abduction site.
We had a screwdriver found at the abduction site that came back to James Worley.

Speaker 23 There was a pair of pink underwear found at the barn that had Sierra's DNA on it. Every scene that we went to was linked back to the both of them.

Speaker 55 The coroner testified that there was DNA evidence found under Sierra Joggins' nails, but that DNA evidence did not belong to James Worley. So the question became: who did it belong to?

Speaker 32 During his testimony, the prosecution's forensic expert explained that the DNA found under Sierra's fingernails could have easily been deposited there in a manner completely unconnected to any criminal activity.

Speaker 46 And in the trial, how crucial was all this evidence?

Speaker 6 It's amazing.

Speaker 13 I mean, a lot of people would wish for this amount of evidence in a case, and we were fortunate enough to be able to put it all together into one strong case.

Speaker 27 Robin Gardner also testified in court.

Speaker 12 Yes, she did.

Speaker 38 And I was the last one on the witness stand, and that was terrifying. And he was in the room.

Speaker 12 I was grateful that she had the courage to get up and face him and retell her story.

Speaker 38 And so I just told my story and left the courtroom and just fell apart crying. But I felt very strongly I had to be her voice.
I knew the fear. She wasn't there.
I had to speak for her.

Speaker 59 When it came time for Worley's defense, his lawyers implored the jurors, as they said, to use common sense.

Speaker 49 They claimed that the lack of Worley's DNA on some of the evidence meant there was reasonable doubt in the case.

Speaker 85 We feel that after reviewing all of the exhibits, after hearing the testimony that's put before you, that you can come to but one conclusion.

Speaker 85 And that is that the state of Ohio has not proven each and every essential element beyond a reasonable doubt.

Speaker 55 Once the verdict came down, we all went into the courtroom and you could hear a pin drop.

Speaker 45 Breaking news out of Fulton County, the jury has reached a verdict in the murder case of Sierra Joggins.

Speaker 80 We find the defendant guilty of the offense of murder.

Speaker 45 James Worley has been found guilty on all the counts against him. That includes abduction, kidnapping, felonious assault, murder, and aggravated murder.

Speaker 9 I want to express to you how pleased we are that justice has been served today and this murderer was found guilty on all counts.

Speaker 10 The verdict comes down, guilty.

Speaker 10 Your reaction?

Speaker 50 I mean,

Speaker 48 it feels good to know he was guilty on all charges, but

Speaker 5 it didn't.

Speaker 21 Didn't bring her back. It wasn't anything to celebrate.

Speaker 84 Worley is literally fighting for his life. He faces the death penalty.

Speaker 11 The judge sentenced him.

Speaker 80 We, the jury, unanimously agreed the aggravating circumstances committed by the defendant outweigh the mitigating factors beyond a reasonable doubt, and hereby unanimously find the defendant should be sentenced to death.

Speaker 11 We said, well, what now?

Speaker 11 And the attorney looked at both of us and he said, you need to move on with your lives now.

Speaker 11 It's hard.

Speaker 49 What have you been doing in the aftermath of Sierra's murder?

Speaker 12 Yeah, no, right here's Rocket Hall.

Speaker 22 We're here because in 2016 Sierra Jogin was a student here at the University of Toledo.

Speaker 22 On July 22nd, her dreams were cut short.

Speaker 22 This is really to ensure that the spirit and determination of Sierra would continue to live on.

Speaker 8 Sierra loved a theme, she loved a party, and she loved fun races.

Speaker 22 So being able to celebrate her life and her legacy here with a color run, it's just a really great time.

Speaker 37 What has life been like for this family without Sierra?

Speaker 21 It was such an emptiness not having her that I needed to fill it. For me, I needed to have something concrete.
Yes, to focus on. We started slow with Justice for Sierra.

Speaker 33 Justice for Sierra is a foundation Tara started with two missions.

Speaker 10 The first, empowering kids to protect themselves.

Speaker 12 My sister is trying to instill a curriculum which helps teach in the schools self-defense techniques for safety and awareness to our kids.

Speaker 32 They've also worked to pass Sierra's law, which created a violent offender database.

Speaker 77 And today, Ohio Governor John Kasich signed off on Sierra's Law.

Speaker 63 It creates a statewide violent offenders registry that would be accessible to the public and police.

Speaker 31 It's just amazing

Speaker 31 that she is continuing

Speaker 81 to

Speaker 47 make

Speaker 31 changes in this

Speaker 31 world.

Speaker 31 Happy birthday, dear Sierra.

Speaker 31 Happy birthday to

Speaker 31 you.

Speaker 12 I get invited to her friends'

Speaker 7 weddings or baby showers, and it's hard.

Speaker 12 You know, it's hard to go and see her friends

Speaker 12 growing up and living.

Speaker 55 And I'm thinking, you know, she should be here.

Speaker 12 Or this could be her.

Speaker 30 I do have a wife now.

Speaker 5 You don't have a kid now.

Speaker 11 You have to be okay with

Speaker 11 the path that

Speaker 11 you've taken.

Speaker 11 Whether it's your choice or not, it's what led you to where you are now.

Speaker 11 And

Speaker 11 luckily I found someone to help me

Speaker 11 weave the path there.

Speaker 21 Her favorite saying was, live, love, laugh.

Speaker 30 We want people to be able to do that.

Speaker 21 We want people to be able to live in their life and love and laugh.

Speaker 12 Life is so short, you just never know, but it can be taken away. And so we should live fearlessly and you know, don't put off tomorrow what you can do today.

Speaker 4 I love you.

Speaker 5 All right. Yeah.
Let's do it.

Speaker 5 That was awesome.

Speaker 79 A mother remembers with such haunting words, David. The Ohio Supreme Court has upheld James Worthy's murder conviction, although he can still appeal the case federally.

Speaker 78 And from death row, he sent 2020 a letter more than 100 pages long claiming his innocence. That's our program for tonight.
Thanks for watching.

Speaker 54 I'm David Muir.

Speaker 79 And I'm Deborah Roberts from all of us here at 2020 and ABC News.

Speaker 26 Good night.

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