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Capital punishment, the death penalty, and judicial homicide is the state-sanctioned killing of a person as punishment.

It's a death sentence for breaking the law, and in many cases, it's the penalty for committing several criminal acts, mostly murder.

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One man that is currently housed at Ross Correctional is James Dean Worley.

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On a warm, sunny Tuesday in July 2016, it was time for Sierra Joggin to leave leave the home of her boyfriend.

Her boyfriend's name is Josh.

They are in a place called Metamora, Ohio, which is located in Fulton County.

This is the tippy top of Ohio, very north, just shy of the Michigan, Ohio state line.

Yeah, this is the same county that we were talking about last week.

Correct.

She had ridden her purple bike to his house on that evening, and she was going to leave but Josh wanted to ride partway home with her so he gets on his motorcycle and they set out they're riding side by side she's pedaling fast and he's kind of puttering along on the motorcycle around

about a quarter till seven

they separated this is near evergreen high school so each start heading their separate ways back to their homes.

Sierra at the time is living with her grandparents.

Keep in mind, this is the summertime.

She's a college student and she's living with her grandparents for the summer between college sessions.

Well, and like you said, Josh was meeting her or riding her back halfway on his motorcycle, but he snapped a picture of her through, I believe, his Snapchat account.

Yeah, and in the picture, you can see her on her bike.

She's smiling.

It's a beautiful evening out.

He really rides with her to about a mile from where she's living.

So very close to her home.

So they part ways.

And now Sierra is biking home the rest of the way by herself, but she never makes it home.

So we have Sierra's mother.

Her name is Sheila.

She says that that night she happened to drive by her parents' home where Sierra was staying.

This is after dark.

She thought that it was strange that her daughter's room, the light was not on in the window.

She couldn't couldn't see the light on, which she would say typically, if she drove by her parents' home at night, Sierra was often home and the light would be on.

But she didn't think too much of it, right?

Not until she receives a phone call later that night from Josh.

So he tells Sheila, Sierra's mom, that he had been texting Sierra for several hours by this point.

receiving no response.

He gets worried.

He starts to panic and he thinks, I better call her folks and ask what's going on.

Well, she was out riding her bike, I believe, for exercise and then

went to his house.

So as her boyfriend, and I believe they were high school sweethearts, so they've been dating for quite a while.

And anybody that's dated somebody for a long time, your family start

intermingling and intertwining.

And so, Okay,

she had a mile to get back to her grandparents' house.

Maybe she took a nap.

Maybe she's taking a shower.

There could be a million reasons why she's not responding to me, but after a couple of hours, you go, this is strange, because it wasn't like they had an argument or there was no reason for her not to respond to her longtime boyfriend.

Yeah.

And like you said, it's a long-term relationship, even for how young they are.

From my understanding, they knew each other and were close even.

back in middle school.

So he knows the family well.

The family knows him well.

And he's letting the mom know, hey, I'm worried.

I've been trying to reach Sierra and it's crickets.

I'm not hearing anything.

And the two of them quickly figure out that nobody else has heard from Sierra since Josh last saw her either.

And

this is a young lady who is dependable and predictable.

And so this is totally out of character.

Both of them understandably concerned.

So Sierra's mother says that she knew something was wrong as soon as she gets this phone call from Josh.

She wants to double check everything.

She quickly confirms that Sierra's purple bike is also missing from the barn where it's normally kept.

So she's not home.

The bike never returned.

From there, she and some of the family took to going to a nearby carryout.

asking if anybody there had seen Sierra at any point that evening.

With the answer being no, Sheila said that from there, it was just a downward spiral after that.

Where she was riding

was just fields, cornfields.

This is a country road.

There's no

bike path or sidewalk.

Sheila tried and tried to call Sierra's phone, but by this point, Captain, it's going straight to voicemail.

So this is 10.50 p.m.

on a Tuesday night.

Not good.

And after this, mom is frantic.

She calls the police.

She reports her daughter missing.

The cool thing here, this is not one of those scenarios where the police are like, oh, 20-year-old college student, of course you can't get in contact with them.

Of course, you can't find them.

They're probably out having fun, out running the streets.

No,

this took very little convincing.

Mom is explaining to the sheriff's department, this is what kind of kid my daughter is.

And they're like, okay, we're going to jump into action immediately and try to figure out what's going on here.

Yeah, or what's the other story we hear all the time?

Law enforcement going, well, of course, you can't get a hold of her because she decided to start a new life somewhere else.

We're going to pause here and give a quick shout out to the Toledo Blade, a fantastic news publication, which covered this case way more thoroughly than any other publication that I could find.

So you're going to hear us quote in sight from the Blade often during these episodes, but we wanted to highlight what a great job, gangbusters' job they did on their coverage of this horrific story.

So Sheila told the blade, quote, I was just trying to frantically get through

to the Fulton County deputy that this isn't some kid who's run off for the night.

There is something seriously wrong.

This is not right, end quote.

And as said, they very quickly recognized that this situation was dire.

So Sheila called all of her and Sierra's relatives in the area, and everyone started looking for Sierra.

Everyone started posting on Facebook about the situation, and word spread very quickly.

And several people came forward promptly and said that they had seen her.

So, a jogger says that they saw Sierra on her bike.

Police questioned this jogger.

He really had no more information other than to say, yeah, I was, she was on her bike.

I was jogging, and I saw her.

Did this eyewitness also see the boyfriend riding beside her?

That I don't know.

They also pulled in a van operator, a person driving a van who also said that they had seen Sierra that night, but this was the same deal.

No more information other than I had seen her.

And

we do know that

based off of eyewitness statements, two independent eyewitness statements that we just reviewed, that the one thing they did both agree on was sierra was biking and she was biking in the direction toward her home other than that no one knew where she was or where she had gone then after midnight on the 20th so this is the next day searchers found a purple bicycle off of county road six near the intersection with county road t Anybody that lives out in the country, you understand right away when you hear the words County Road 6 and County Road T what kind of country roads we're talking about here.

This is cornfields and homes that are spread out.

This purple bicycle, which matches the description of Sierra's bike, is found half a mile from Sierra's parents' home.

Deputies used a tracking dog starting from the point where Josh reported that the two had parted ways.

The bike was thrown or shoved into a cornfield.

And it's laying in this cornfield, Captain, about four rows deep.

And this is tall corn.

It's going to be a disturbing scene because, like you said, they find the bike, but they also find signs of struggle.

Yes, let's use the words of Roy Miller.

He's the Fulton County sheriff.

He said, quote, there was a disturbance near the bike.

There was some corn knocked down and such, end quote.

And it's signs of a struggle, I think, is kind of downplaying it a little bit.

Once you figure out everything that

they find at this spot, it's going to be just overwhelmingly alarming.

So ABC's 2020 reported, quote, investigators combed the area and found more clues tucked into the cornfield, a screwdriver.

men's sunglasses, a sock, a set of fuse boxes, motorcycle tracks, and evidence of a struggle indicated by broken corn stalks and corn stalks with streaks of blood on them.

And we have FBI agent Megan Roberts who says, it made the hair on the back of my neck stand up.

You just had this eerie feeling that you knew that this was the site of an abduction.

Yeah, and this is also tough for law enforcement because, like you said, this story quickly, we're only a day after she went missing, but because of social media, this is blowing up.

And the picture that Josh took of her

on her way back home on her bike, that's basically going viral at this point, especially in that Fulton County area.

But what do we know if we're law enforcement?

Who was accompanying her on this ride home?

Her longtime boyfriend.

Statistically, you're more likely to be murdered by somebody you know or somebody that you're in a romantic relationship with.

And now we have this,

again, maybe not phrasing it correctly, but this disturbing crime scene.

And what do we have?

Motorcycle tracks.

And I think if you're law enforcement, you start going, well, is this boyfriend telling us the truth?

Yeah, we know the boyfriend has a motorcycle.

This is going to set up a domino effect right away with the highway patrol blocking off roads and setting up roadblocks, really igniting a massive search for Sierra, which would include 660 firefighters, the use of search canine dogs that were brought in from the capital city, Columbus, and a helicopter that was equipped with infrared vision, which you will see

anybody that watches true crime shows and documentaries, you'll see that these infrared vision helicopters are often used, especially in these rural areas when we're talking about somebody searching overhead for wooded areas in cornfields, they will typically use this.

However, all of this effort,

they don't find her on that day.

And then the next day,

the search expands

to over 100 volunteers searching a four-mile radius around where the bike was located.

Well, this is a great move by law enforcement because even though they don't find her, at least we're searching that area for also any other clues that could have been left behind.

But obviously they don't find a bunch because we do have an abduction site.

So that's where we're going to find the majority of our evidence.

Yeah, they also recognize that the times, right?

And that's one thing that we've talked about a bunch here in the garage.

wonderful technology is and how important it is and how helpful it has been to law enforcement when it comes to finding somebody or locating a perpetrator or figuring out what happened to somebody.

So they make a public plea to anyone with home security cameras or ring cameras or simply safe cameras to review their footage along the route that Sierra would have been taking that night to see if

anybody spotted her or had any idea what could have happened to her.

Well, think about this.

One of the simplest things that we talk about over and over, and you just said, what, five minutes back, mom, boyfriend, trying to get a hold of her,

and then now they're calling and her phone goes to voicemail.

So that doesn't tell us all the information, but at that point we can say, well, she's not on her phone.

She's not charging her phone.

That gives us a frame of reference.

Does that make any sense?

Well, yeah, the phone, that would be an indicator that the phone is either off, broken, and busted, or dead.

And

what scares me about that is

those are all kind of actionable, right?

If the phone was shut off, I'm worried that it wasn't her that shut it off.

And I'm hoping that

I think when you set out looking for her, there's always the chance that maybe

she was in some kind of bike accident.

And if that's the situation, then

maybe the phone broke.

It wouldn't be the first phone that broke in a bike accident.

But after finding this scene, and I don't know what was communicated from law enforcement to the family when they found this bicycle and found that scene, they're already saying to themselves, we just knew that this was the site of an abduction.

I don't know if that was communicated to the family or not.

But

if I'm the detective, I'm going, okay, the boyfriend is riding her home.

So we have

a point where he leaves her.

So we have that point.

Now we have this abduction site, obviously, but we also have this information about when her phone starts going to voicemail.

So now we got a rough timeline.

And I think that helps investigators.

Yeah.

And the Fulton County authorities very smartly, quickly called in the assistance of FBI's Toledo office.

Again, this is from ABC's 2020.

They say, quote, Megan Roberts, who we've already introduced to everyone, a special agent with the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation and Identification,

got a call around 1 a.m.

in the morning.

This is after the abduction, asking her to assist in processing this crime scene.

And Ms.

Roberts, who we quoted earlier, was brought to the abduction site, which she found very alarming, all signs pointing to this being a forceful abduction case, and the federal agency's help was imperative, right?

You know, this is an abduction, so call in the FBI.

The investigators noted that in Josh's photo of Sierra, the one that you had referenced there, Captain, taken literally within an hour of her abduction, she's Sierra's wearing a Fitbit.

Again, here's some more technology.

They set to work tracking that device.

And NBC reported that one of the pings from Sierra's cell phone was near the Michigan border, several miles from where her bike was found.

So they commenced searches in that area as well.

Well, I think you can even narrow the timeline down even more because you said, like, well, within an hour, but we know

whether she's less than a mile away or a little over a mile away.

from her destination, going at average speed, she should hit home within 10 minutes.

So basically, within 10 minutes of him leaving his girlfriend, Josh leaving his girlfriend, this abduction takes place.

And then we have a post.

This went to Josh's aunt or uncle.

Somebody in Josh's family posted the following online.

This is on the 20th.

So this is very quick here, shortly after Sierra is discovered missing.

Says, she went missing at County Road 6 and 120 in Fulton County, Ohio.

They took her right off her bike.

Her bike was found lying by the side of the road, along with her sunglasses.

This was not a hit and run.

They have ruled that out.

They pinged her cell phone.

The phone was either destroyed or turned off as it is not pinging anymore.

On July 21st, a private donor offered up $25,000 for as a reward for information about the disappearance, and others quickly piled on, bringing the amount to $100,000.

Someone started a Facebook group, Bring Sierra Home, and it was soon joined by thousands of people.

Meanwhile, investigators asked for the public's help in looking for someone who was riding a motorcycle with an open-faced black helmet at the area of County Road 6, somewhere between Roads S and T, as in sam and as in tom where sierra was last seen this was because one motorbike tracks had been found at the abduction scene two a farmer had come forward and delivered a bloody motorcycle helmet that he found by the side of the road before the bike was even located Police suspected immediately that it was related to what had happened to Sierra because the blood was determined to be human.

They knew they were looking for a motorcycle riding suspect.

Josh was the first man to come to mind since he had such a bike and was, of course, connected to Sierra.

But per 2020, they say Josh cooperated with authorities.

He drew a map for them of where Joggins' route showing where the couple departed and consented to searches of his residence, motorcycle, and truck, according to the investigators.

And eventually, Josh was cleared because he had gone home.

And we have people putting him there at the home.

And two, witnesses saw Sierra riding alone after the two parted ways.

And the other thing, too, is very quickly, you know, you got to move quick.

As an investigator, you got to move quick.

And I'm not saying move quick to clear people and move quick to move on to people.

Your number one job at this moment in your your investigation is to find Sierra.

Find Sierra.

I need breadcrumbs.

I need breadcrumbs here to find this young lady.

So the first thing you're going to do is simply, hey, where's your motorcycle helmet?

And if he could produce a helmet, then you're starting to go, all right, this is starting to look like there's something else going on.

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Cheers to you, Captain.

Cheers to all the people in the back.

Look,

a lot of the cases that we talk about, there are some horrific details and some things that are just downright difficult to discuss.

In this case, this case is no exception.

It was an excruciating couple of days looking for Sierra, but finally, this would be on that Saturday, there was news and it wasn't the good kind.

Around 6 p.m.

on Friday, the 22nd, the body of a young woman was found buried not very deep near a rural road in Fulton County.

The victim was gagged, hog-tied, with black duct tape and rope and handcuffed.

She was wearing some clothing, a white bra, socks, and an adult diaper.

She had hay in her hair.

Fulton County Sheriff Roy Miller held a press conference stating, quote, at this time, we strongly believe that this is Sierra, end quote.

And sadly, soon after, fingerprints would confirm the identification.

In a strange, you know, each one of these cases cases are unique for different reasons, but a strange turn of events here, Captain.

They had actually arrested someone on Friday morning on abduction charges.

Yeah.

So the fact is that by the time Sierra is found, the authorities pretty much would believe that she was already dead.

They had this arrest of this guy.

His name is James Dean Worley.

He's 57 years old at this time in our timeline.

He had a significant criminal history.

And he lawyers up immediately following his arrest.

He's a big

dude.

He's a big, ugly, sloppy-looking dude.

And as said, he's got a rap sheet, a lengthy rap sheet, and he's got a history of violence on that rap sheet.

So let's go back in time.

On July 4th, 1990, we have a 26-year-old woman named Robin Gardner.

She is biking alone on Obie Road.

This is near White House, Ohio.

So we're going to name a lot of these smaller towns, but this is all in the same general area.

A lot of the locations we're going to be talking about for persons that don't live in Northwest Ohio, this is all pretty much Fulton County, Lucas County area.

So the Toledo Blade covered this Robin Gardner case as well.

This is James Worley's, I was going to say first abduction, but who knows?

But the testimony that she gave, according to the Blade, at the trial, was,

quote, it was all cornfields, she said.

It was July 4th and the corn was high.

There was nobody around.

Ms.

Gardner was riding her bike when she noticed a flatbed truck pass her in the opposite direction.

A few moments later, the same truck struck her from behind, causing her to fall from her bike and tumble into a small ditch on the side of the road.

Ms.

Gardner told jurors she stood up and she let her guard down when the first words out of the driver's mouth were, oh my God, are you all right?

Then soon relief turned to panic, she said, when he,

the Good Samaritan.

or pretending to be good Samaritan, struck her hard on the head with an unknown instrument and then put her in a stranglehold and held a flathead screwdriver to her throat.

And the man says, get in the truck or I'm going to kill you.

This man would later be identified as James Dean Worley.

Ms.

Gardner did not know who he was at the time.

He's telling her to stop screaming.

He makes her get into the truck.

Once inside, he got a handcuff around her right wrist.

And Robin Gardner testified, I didn't want him to get both hands behind my back, so I held onto the steering wheel with my left hand.

And she said, we fought and fought.

Robin somehow manages to wiggle out of the driver's side door as Worley was struggling to cuff her left wrist.

A motorcycle just happened to be passing by.

She runs up to the driver.

She's still got a handcuff dangling from her right arm.

She says to, to the guy on the motorcycle, please help me.

He's going to kill me.

And she says that she showed, she pointed to the her bike, which was in the ditch, and she's holding up her, you know, the handcuffs to show the motorcyclist.

Right.

Well, Worley, James Worley tells the motorcyclist, don't listen to her.

She's crazy.

Don't listen to anything she says.

The guy on the motorcycle puts Robin on his bike and he drives her to her home where her mother calls 911.

These handcuffs, too, were law enforcement keys, which most handcuffs all take pretty much the same key or a very similar key, but not these ones.

And so they had to remove them, physically remove them with bolt cutters.

Robin's hospitalized with a skull fracture and a concussion.

She has a large laceration on her knee that was consistent with being inflicted by a flathead screwdriver.

But whether you're a detective, a chief of police, highway patrol, pretty much anybody that is in this area.

And I know that the story is, or this abduction attempt was 26 years prior, you're going to remember it.

If you're a deputy and you run into this guy, this scary monster looking dude, James Worley, you're going to go,

You know, James Worley?

Oh, yeah, did you hear what happened 26 years ago?

That story had to get around.

So when you come up in 2016 to this abduction site and you see this screwdriver, don't you think some of law enforcement that would have been around that area for, you know, working in that area for a long time might have known this story and sees that screwdriver and starts putting two and two together?

Well, and James Worley, even beyond this attack

of Ms.

Gardner, he's no stranger to the authorities.

They're well aware of this guy for a multitude of reasons, and we'll get into a lot of that.

But thankfully, I say this a lot because unfortunately the killers, the criminals, they often get lucky and that aggravates me to no end here, Captain.

I also am very thankful that most criminals are lazy or stupid or both.

And Worley, I think, probably fits into both categories.

He stayed at the scene of this air quotes accident.

This is from the defense psychologist.

His name is Dr.

Fabian.

This is from Dr.

Fabian's report.

It says a park ranger was the first person to talk to Mr.

Worley after the accident occurred.

She stated, Mr.

Worley came from the end of the truck to the park ranger.

Worley reported to the ranger that he had really messed up and could be in a lot of trouble.

He was highly excited and seemed very upset.

He was asked to wait by his vehicle.

Then he came back and wanted to tell his side of the story.

He later admitted to the Waterville Police Department that he had put handcuffs on Robin because he was frightened and he didn't want her to run away.

He claimed that it was her fault.

that the whole accident was the woman's fault because she cut in front of him and he put the handcuffs on her because he thought she was going to leave the scene of the accident.

And he was just trying to stop her from that.

So, I, you know, a citizen's arrest, I guess, is his claim here because you could, one could say, this is a he said, she said, they're out in the middle of nowhere.

It's her word against his, but her word is like gold when you see that she's handcuffed.

Yeah, the handcuffs are

what gave it away, yeah.

And of course, no one's going to buy this guy's story.

He gets charged.

He ends up pleading guilty.

And she also has a skull fracture.

Yeah.

He pleads guilty to abduction and was sentenced to four to 10 years in prison.

He started serving his sentence in November of 1990 and was paroled in December of 1993.

So garage math here, that is almost a whole year less than the minimum sentence that he was given.

This is a incredibly violent offender, and he received what I would refer to as a slap on the wrist for this.

What could have resulted in abduction, rape, and murder, but she just was able to fight him off.

I think he should have been charged with attempted abduction, attempted murder.

I mean, the skull fracture.

There's your evidence.

There's your argument in court.

Well, yeah, he pled guilty to abduction in that case.

And this would not be his only conviction.

So after he's released in December of 93, and now he's a felon, and he's not allowed to own a gun.

He violated that law and also decided to undertake a large marijuana grow operation.

He was raided and arrested and pled guilty to both those offenses.

This is in 2000, and he gets two years for that and serves time in Ohio prisons from October 2000 to September of 2002.

It looks like he stayed out of trouble trouble up until this abduction of Sierra Joggin.

Look, once this abduction, this failed abduction takes place in what, 1990, and you stay in that community, you stay in that county area, you're going to be on law enforcement's radar for quite a long time.

Absolutely.

Absolutely, Captain.

An autopsy was conducted in the Sierra Joggin case.

This took place at the Lucas County Coroner's Office.

She was found bound and partially dressed in undergarments and socks.

Her wrists were handcuffed together.

Again, use of handcuffs.

Handcuffed together behind her back.

Again, with cuffs that law enforcement could not open.

So this is almost mirroring.

Robin's case.

Like I said before, the screwdriver.

They would find, eventually they're going to find keys that

fit these handcuffs.

Unfortunately, the victim's wrists were also tied to her ankles with rope.

Her ankles were bound together with thick tape.

She had head injuries and some kind of wound to her left leg.

The official cause of death was asphyxiation from a large yellow plastic gag that was found in her mouth.

This was like a cone-shaped

type gag.

I think they believe it was like a dog chew toy.

Yeah, it's it's just a horrific scene.

And again, found buried not very deep out off of a country road.

What the public, I mean, outside of people that knew Sierra, there was a lot of information about her in her obituary.

She was born in 96 in Sylvania, Ohio.

She grew up in Fulton County, graduated from Evergreen High School.

The high school that we mentioned that she was riding past on her bike that night.

Her Her family described her as someone who was full of life and had a great sense of humor.

She loved to travel.

She spent time exploring Italy.

She loved horses.

She had a tight bond with her family.

And she was close to her.

She was a good long-term relationship with her boyfriend.

Correct.

She was between her sophomore and junior year at the University of Toledo.

She was studying human resource management.

She was a member of a business fraternity.

She played volleyball.

That summer, she had an internship at her Uncle Howard's ice company, where I guess it was the intention was she was going to go work for him after she graduated from college.

Like we said earlier, she knew Josh.

They were going strong after dating since middle school.

or early into high school.

They were in it for the long haul.

There was,

there's talk that they were talking about getting married, but Sierra

they had agreed that they would wait until after college.

Yeah, anybody that dated somebody in high school and then starts continues on dating that person in college.

There might not be a lot of talks or serious talks, detailed talks about getting married, but it kind of becomes implied.

Outside of James Dean Wardley's history of abduction, he had

plenty of other law enforcement interactions, let's say.

Police had been called to his property.

So he lived with his brother and his mother.

And

his timeline is a little tricky for me.

I couldn't pin down

exactly when this took place, but his mother moved to a nursing home.

I wanted to figure out if this was before he was arrested for Sierra's abduction and murder or after.

And I couldn't quite pin that down.

But in regard to his interactions with law enforcement,

a lot of these reports is he's the one that called law enforcement to his property.

So

here's a report: James Worley called deputies about 15 times with reports for his home or neighborhood.

Most complaints show a persistent fear of people trespassing on his property or stealing from him.

One such call from May of 2011 detailed newspaper deliveries left on the driveway.

So, you know how some people have those boxes attached to their mailbox that is designated for the newspaper?

He calls the sheriff's department because he's like, hey, the newspaper person, the delivery person is putting the newspaper in my driveway and not in this enclosed, not enclosing it in this box.

And he's saying, if people, if the wrong person sees the, the paper or multiple papers in my driveway, then they're going to know that I'm not home and somebody's going to come out here and break into my house.

His home, his property is not, you can't view it very easily from the road.

And so it's secluded.

I don't know if this is the marijuana paranoia or he's got stuff on the, on this, let's call it a farm, on this farm that he doesn't want discovered, or if he's just a weirdo.

I mean,

it could be all three.

That's a combo meal.

Yeah, I think we're going to get to that because he spent most of his time in a barn on the property.

Yeah, so he has all these interactions with police or the sheriff's deputies about people worried about people that

may go up to his property or stealing from him.

And in some of these situations, he's chasing chasing people that are, you know, in one situation, he chased two boys that are on bikes.

He's very anti-bicyclist.

Very anti-bicyclist.

And

a search of this property, I think, is going to tell us a lot because

it's going to show us that this guy probably just isn't paranoid.

He's probably got a lot to hide.

So let's...

go to Thursday, right?

We're going to jump back in time a little bit.

This is the Thursday after Sierra went missing, July 21st.

Sheriff's deputies, they're canvassing the area.

They stop at James Worley's home.

This is

10627 County Road 6.

Now, they're going to interview him.

They're going to question him.

But really, truly, Captain, this is just like everybody else in the area.

They're just looking for people that have possibly seen Sierra, seen her on her bike or biking that evening.

He lives about seven miles approximately from the abduction site, but he's on the same road.

Now, this is important to note that the investigators did not know that the persons that are talking to Worley on July 21st, 2016, they don't know about his history of abduction, his history of violence in this moment.

But these

canvassers, we'll call them,

said he immediately started acting suspicious.

in their report they say mr worley makes a statement about how he was riding his motorcycle and his bike

meaning his motorcycle is having issues he says it sputtered out he went into a cornfield and then again thankfully he's dumb he says

i lost my helmet fuses a screwdriver and my sunglasses and of course the The law enforcement officers are

they're shocked.

This information's not been released to the public yet.

This is information that only the killer would know.

We found a screwdriver at the abduction site.

We found these glasses.

But the damning piece of evidence is that we found this motorcycle helmet that has blood on it that we know is human blood.

Mr.

James Dean Worley dumbass puts himself squarely at the scene.

So the investigators know those items were found.

They know motorcycle tracks were found, right?

Recovered right where Sierra's bike was located.

And then he starts saying other odd statements like, I don't, I don't steal from chicks.

And, oh, I, I don't steal people.

He says, I don't steal people.

Not a normal thing to say.

No.

And these canvassers.

I don't steal people, just to let you know.

Never have, never will.

I've stolen some gum every now and then, but I don't steal people.

The canvassers observed what appeared to be fresh marks on the arms of Mr.

Worley and what appeared to be bruising on his lower legs.

And so, this behavior, along with what they witnessed, their observations,

this is going to lead to a search warrant.

They're going to go and get a search warrant for two cell phones, one of which is Sierra Joggins and the other belonging to James Dean Worley.

What they learn here, Captain, is

this is from the cell phone records, James Worley spent almost two hours in the area of that abduction scene.

And in regard to his activity that night, they're asking him, did you see Sierra at any point?

Have you seen this young lady?

This is from the Toledo Blade where it says, Worley initially told investigators that his motorcycle broke down and he alternated pushing and riding at home where he remained for the night.

He later said he left again that night in his truck to look for his lost helmet, sunglasses, and screwdriver after investigators told him he was captured on surveillance video from Evergreen High School.

Okay, this portion, he's not just offering up.

This is after they tell him, well, we've seen you on camera

in this area as well.

So now he has to explain why he's seen on camera on his motorcycle, and then later a truck is seen matching the description of his truck.

He repeatedly denies any involvement in Joggins' disappearance.

He did ask investigators at one point, how do you kidnap or take somebody on a motorcycle?

He offered up no explanation for the blood that was found on his motorcycle or the helmet that was retrieved, which investigators told him the blood was determined to be from a female.

I did have questions about this myself here, Captain, when even before finding his statement about how do you kidnap or take somebody on a motorcycle, I wondered the same thing.

I wondered the same thing.

I mean, it could, it could be done, and unfortunately it has been done, but it would be difficult.

But it looks to me trying to parse this together from the evidence, it might mean that he would, he's at this scene.

They put his cell phone at this abduction scene or near the abduction scene for approximately a two-hour time period.

And him leaving on the motorcycle makes sense and then coming back in his truck.

He may have come back in the truck to transport her away from where he attacked her.

Well, like you said,

he's roughly, what, seven miles from the abduction site.

So it's not.

a far trip or a lengthy trip.

James Worley triggered massive alarm bells in the law enforcement canvassers' minds.

As soon as they left, of course, the first thing they did was run his record.

And when they did, they learned about Robin Gardner's case.

It wasn't a giant leap to figure out that he had done something to Sierra.

Police now had grounds to obtain a search warrant for James Worley's property.

A lot more to get to in this horrific case.

Join us back here in the garage.

Same bat time, same bat channel.

Until then, be good, be kind, and don't be fear.