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In the middle of
rolling farmland and forests,
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a jarring discovery broke the
peace on a March day in 2020.
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Someone found human bones
scattered in the brush,
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next to this oil well site 20
yards off Sandy Avenue, Canton.
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Investigators are hopeful
someone can identify him,
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{\an8}so they can bring
his family answers.
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This is Stark County
coroner's office case 20-147.
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{\an8}We believe him to be a
white, Caucasian male.
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You can see that he has
a fracture that starts
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right behind his eye.
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And that fracture
goes from the left eye socket
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all the way to the back
of the skull there, right?
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Yes.
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Could that
be the cause of death?
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I think it contributed
to the cause of death.
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The hard part is he has so many
other significant injuries
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including rib fractures.
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Could have punctured
his spleen, his liver,
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and he could have bled
from them as well. So
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it's hard to say exactly what
was the actual cause of death.
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This man has
had his life taken from him.
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He was just dumped,
left there for dead.
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No one deserves that.
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It's important that the
family knows what happened
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to their loved one.
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I want to change that folder
that says John Doe to a name.
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I grew up in Stark County,
lived probably only 20 minutes
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from the sheriff's
office my entire life.
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{\an8}It's a quiet place. Murder
here is pretty rare.
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In March 2020
Sergeant Bryan Johnson
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got a call out to a remote oil
well site in north east Ohio,
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5 miles south of Canton,
where a decomposed body
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had just been discovered.
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I was a
very new detective.
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My first call out
was this homicide.
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I remember looking at nothing
but skeletal remains.
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He'd been there
for over two years.
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His leg bone was still
inside of his shoe.
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It was rough.
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I knew going in that for
as long as it's open,
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this case was mine.
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Bryan has spent
the last 4 years trying
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to identify the body.
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{\an8}We put out
a facial reconstruction.
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{\an8}He's a middle aged white man
whose most notable feature
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is that he had
absolutely no teeth.
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We got nothing on that.
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{\an8}We searched the national
databases for missing persons.
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We uploaded DNA from the remains
to the national police database.
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We did not get any hits.
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After exhausting all of
those, we once again hit a,
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a dead end.
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This man was brutally
murdered and dumped
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on the side of the road.
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Who was he and how
did he get there?
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I want answers. I want to
be able to close this case.
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But at this point
we have nothing.
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As a last resort,
Bryan has sent the doe's DNA
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to a pioneering team of
genetic detectives called
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the DNA Doe Project,
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who specialize in
solving cold cases.
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I started doing genetic
genealogy in an effort
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to find my own birth family
and found that very rewarding.
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{\an8}About two years ago, I decided
to utilize that same skillset,
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to help provide leads
to law enforcement.
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Project volunteers
Traci and Eric both live
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near Canton.
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As a police officer I
got to work on a John Doe case
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{\an8}back in 2019, sort of what
got me into genealogy.
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Nobody deserves to die and be
buried as a John or Jane Doe.
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First, the team
uploads the doe's DNA
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to databases used by members
of the public to research
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their family histories.
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These databases contain
millions of DNA profiles.
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We are looking
for the top match,
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sharing the highest
percent of DNA possible.
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This is a big moment for us.
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Out of
thousands of matches,
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two are close enough
to be of real interest.
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The top match is an 81-year-old
man called Dale from Ohio.
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And the second is a
38-year-old women
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called Jessica who
lives in Texas.
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Both share enough DNA with the
doe to be his distant cousins,
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but crucially they are not
related to each other.
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{\an8}Jessica is on the mother's
side of the doe's family
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{\an8}and Dale is on the
father's side.
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We need to find where
these families connect.
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How the maternal side and the
paternal side come together,
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that's called the
union couple.
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{\an8}If they can build
both match's family trees,
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they hope it will lead them
to this 'union couple'
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and ultimately to the
identity of the doe.
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It's exciting. We can
build out these families
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{\an8}and hopefully we
find a connection.
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Back at
the sheriff's office.
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Thank you.
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More evidence
has come to light.
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A new lead
just came in from one
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of the neighbors, near the
remains that we located.
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So this here is
a windbreaker style jacket
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recovered from the scene.
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One thing that's
very important,
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{\an8}that is the identification
on the back of D. Bailey.
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For us that is an
investigative lead.
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That's more than
what we had before.
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Hello. How are ya?
How are you?
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The detectives have
returned to the crime scene
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to meet the couple
who own the land.
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Nice to meet you.
Hi, nice to meet you.
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Nice to meet you.
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And see where
they found the jacket.
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So right in here?
Yeah.
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I actually literally just
kicked it up with my feet.
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Right.
So.
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You've been
walking this property
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for years, have you
ever found clothes?
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I never, never did.
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Cos there's
no trails or anything
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that anybody rides or walks
or anything around here.
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No.
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Just cos it
wasn't found right next
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to where we found him, doesn't
mean it's not a part of that.
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Right, right.
What is this about?
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What would you
say about 80 feet?
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I would
say 75, 80 feet.
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Yeah 70 feet. Yeah.
We drive
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right by this area
several times a day.
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It's just really kind of
sad to, to know that
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there was somebody's loved
one, somebody's brother,
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you know, somebody's
son laying there
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and it just raises
so many questions.
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D. Bailey. We're
going to check all of our
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databases throughout
the United States,
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for missing persons with
the initials D. Bailey.
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{\an8}This could be the break in the
case that we're looking for!
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Eric is searching
for relatives of the top
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match, Dale, in
online records.
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Here's a census record.
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All right, so here we
are the Leach family.
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He's found Dale's
mother, Leona Leach,
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in the 1920 census.
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{\an8}It looks like she
has 3 other siblings.
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{\an8}Clifton, Olive, John.
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Ohio, Ohio, Ohio.
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It's exciting to see that they
are staying somewhat local,
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that we're in the area.
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But Traci
is struggling
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with the second match.
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We're looking
for common locations,
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things that can tie
things together.
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However Jessica's in a
completely different state.
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Jessica lives over a
thousand miles away in Texas.
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Her mother doesn't appear
to be connected to Ohio.
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And Traci can find no
record of her father.
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We've really
hit a roadblock.
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Every new lead
in a case offers hope,
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but often they
end up a dead end.
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Every D. Bailey has renewed
their drivers' license
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since we found the remains.
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And unfortunately
there was no D. Bailey
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that was ever entered
missing throughout
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the entire United States.
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After learning that,
that is not our guy,
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we're back to square one.
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It seems the jacket's
a dead end.
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Maybe our John Doe got
it from a thrift store
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or a homeless shelter.
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My guess is that our John Doe
was living on the streets.
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Both the jacket and the lack
of teeth point to this.
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The doe's
body was found in 2020,
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but forensics suggest he
had been dead for at least
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two years.
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At that time, Ohio had
over 70,000 people
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living on the streets.
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Homelessness here
in Ohio is back on the rise.
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Ohio's homeless problem,
the silent crisis.
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It was a crisis
that was fueled by a lack
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of affordable housing. A
collapse in local industry
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and the rise in
opioid addiction.
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North East
Ohio continues to fight
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the opioid epidemic.
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{\an8}2500 of our state's residents
died of drug overdoses.
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{\an8}This is the worst drug
epidemic I've seen in,
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in my lifetime.
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There's so many
homeless people in our county
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and they kind of bounce
around and come and go.
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So if our guy was
living on the streets,
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that would make sense of why
no one reported him missing,
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why no one is looking for him.
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Hello, is
Jessica there?
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This is she.
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Hi Jessica,
my name's Traci Onders,
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I'm with the DNA doe project.
Okay.
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Your DNA is a
very distant relation
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to a John Doe.
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Oh my goodness.
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It's not standard
practice but as a last resort,
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Traci is contacting the
second match directly,
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to see if she can help
move the case forward.
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We're specifically
looking at a lot of families
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that are based in Ohio.
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I do believe that my
biological father is from Ohio.
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Oh, okay. So what
can you tell me about him?
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Um, my biological
father's name is (beep).
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I didn't grow up with
him, I've never met him,
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so I don't know a whole lot
about his side of the family
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at all.
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Okay, that's
very helpful.
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We really appreciate it.
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You're very welcome.
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Yes! That is exactly
what we're looking for.
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{\an8}Now the team have
a name for Jessica's father,
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{\an8}they can concentrate on
finding a relative of his
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that is linked to Dale's
family, the Leachs.
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That looks like
Jessica's dad's grandparents.
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{\an8}Who were their children
and grandchildren?
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Vita Pace.
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Ohio. Wow.
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Traci's found
someone in Jessica's tree
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{\an8}who lived in Ohio and is
also the right age to be
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{\an8}the doe's mother.
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Wow, this could be it!
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And it doesn't
take long to connect her
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to the Leach family.
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Right, so here we've
got a newspaper article, um,
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from the Daily Times in New
Philadelphia dated, uh,
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October 29th, 1953.
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{\an8}Miss Vita Pace became the bride
of Raymond Wallace Leach.
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This could be what
they were searching for.
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Vita and Raymond could
be "the union couple".
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Hopefully, uh, we'll be
able to find some children,
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from this marriage.
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{\an8}If they had a son, the
right age that, uh,
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very possibly could
be our doe.
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{\an8}Oh, she had
three daughters
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and one son, Michael.
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Only 2 of
the children were born
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from the marriage to Raymond.
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One daughter and one
son, a Michael Leach.
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{\an8}Born in 1957, he's the
right age to be the doe.
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Oh. Claymont
High School.
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M Leach. I wonder
if this is him.
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Wow.
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When we have a potential
name for the doe,
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our next step is to take that
name to the detectives.
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Hey.
Hello.
248
00:15:37,145 --> 00:15:39,312
Come on in.
Okay, thank you.
249
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They conduct the
investigation from there.
250
00:15:44,360 --> 00:15:48,698
This couple, Raymond Wallace
Leach and Vita Joanne Pace
251
00:15:49,282 --> 00:15:51,993
had one daughter and one son.
252
00:15:52,118 --> 00:15:56,372
Their son was born
in October 1957.
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00:15:56,747 --> 00:15:58,541
His name is Michael
Allen Leach.
254
00:15:59,250 --> 00:16:03,045
We believe he could
potentially be our John Doe.
255
00:16:06,841 --> 00:16:07,884
Wow.
256
00:16:09,886 --> 00:16:13,639
This, we believe is
likely a year book photo
257
00:16:13,764 --> 00:16:15,349
of Michael.
258
00:16:16,601 --> 00:16:19,437
This is Uhrichsville
Claymont High School.
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00:16:19,604 --> 00:16:22,523
1975, so he was a
junior in that picture.
260
00:16:23,024 --> 00:16:24,609
I was born and
raised in Uhrichsville.
261
00:16:24,775 --> 00:16:25,943
Really?
I was. Wow.
262
00:16:26,861 --> 00:16:28,486
Dust
off your yearbooks.
263
00:16:28,487 --> 00:16:31,448
Wow! Yeah I,
I lived there 35 years.
264
00:16:31,449 --> 00:16:32,616
What are the odds?
A mile
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00:16:32,617 --> 00:16:33,783
from Claymont high school.
266
00:16:33,784 --> 00:16:37,580
Wow. Wow. There's
the address for Mike.
267
00:16:38,164 --> 00:16:39,331
It's a homeless shelter.
268
00:16:39,332 --> 00:16:41,500
It is.
In new Philadelphia.
269
00:16:42,001 --> 00:16:43,461
Wow.
Michael has the one
270
00:16:43,586 --> 00:16:47,006
full sister and two
half-sisters.
271
00:16:47,632 --> 00:16:48,673
Are
they still with us?
272
00:16:48,674 --> 00:16:51,552
Yeah and they
are all actually local.
273
00:16:53,554 --> 00:16:55,932
That's, that's
remarkable huh! Thank you.
274
00:17:00,937 --> 00:17:02,229
You wanna make phone calls?
275
00:17:02,230 --> 00:17:03,563
Yeah.
276
00:17:03,564 --> 00:17:05,565
And I'll start
looking up all his history.
277
00:17:05,566 --> 00:17:06,651
Yep.
278
00:17:06,776 --> 00:17:08,902
Now, the detectives
need to check if this
279
00:17:08,903 --> 00:17:12,031
Michael Leach was alive
after 2017 or 18,
280
00:17:12,156 --> 00:17:14,742
the time when they
believe the doe died.
281
00:17:15,576 --> 00:17:18,162
If he was, it would
rule him out.
282
00:17:19,288 --> 00:17:20,413
What's up, Bill?
Hi Chas,
283
00:17:20,414 --> 00:17:22,333
how are you?
Good.
284
00:17:22,583 --> 00:17:24,335
Bill's put in a
call to the New Philadelphia
285
00:17:24,460 --> 00:17:25,670
police station.
286
00:17:26,003 --> 00:17:27,630
Just got
some confirmation back,
287
00:17:27,880 --> 00:17:32,050
our potential John Doe is
actually from New Philly.
288
00:17:32,051 --> 00:17:34,053
Well, what's the name?
Michael Leach.
289
00:17:34,220 --> 00:17:36,972
And I got him as the last
address at the homeless
290
00:17:36,973 --> 00:17:38,266
shelter it looks like.
291
00:17:38,516 --> 00:17:40,058
Right. Yep sounds good.
Alright thanks.
292
00:17:40,059 --> 00:17:41,978
Good luck. Bye.
Goodbye.
293
00:17:43,396 --> 00:17:45,982
Bryan's searching
the national police database.
294
00:17:46,774 --> 00:17:48,609
So he did have
a couple of domestics
295
00:17:49,151 --> 00:17:52,572
and I found a booking photo
of him from Tuss County jail.
296
00:17:52,822 --> 00:17:56,534
This looks like he
has no teeth,
297
00:17:56,993 --> 00:17:58,578
even though his
mouth is closed.
298
00:17:58,953 --> 00:18:01,038
So that was in 2012.
299
00:18:01,205 --> 00:18:04,625
That's the most recent photo
I've been able to find of him.
300
00:18:04,875 --> 00:18:07,878
I can't find anything since
his identification card
301
00:18:08,004 --> 00:18:09,212
was issued in 2017. There's.
302
00:18:09,213 --> 00:18:10,338
That's it, that's
the last time anybody
303
00:18:10,339 --> 00:18:11,715
saw him, 2017.
304
00:18:11,716 --> 00:18:14,260
Yeah there is
no history whatsoever since.
305
00:18:14,427 --> 00:18:16,554
2017. Okay.
306
00:18:17,555 --> 00:18:19,557
There may be nothing
in the official records,
307
00:18:20,808 --> 00:18:22,977
but his family might have
seen him more recently.
308
00:18:23,644 --> 00:18:25,062
They check with his sister.
309
00:18:26,981 --> 00:18:28,023
Hello.
310
00:18:28,024 --> 00:18:29,442
Hi, is this
Rae Ann?
311
00:18:29,859 --> 00:18:31,109
It is.
Hi Rae Ann,
312
00:18:31,110 --> 00:18:33,153
Inspector Jones, Stark
County sheriff's office.
313
00:18:33,154 --> 00:18:34,237
How are ya?
314
00:18:34,238 --> 00:18:35,823
I'm doing well today.
315
00:18:36,324 --> 00:18:41,494
So in 2020
we recovered, uh,
316
00:18:41,495 --> 00:18:45,666
some skeletal remains and we
have the name of Michael Leach.
317
00:18:46,584 --> 00:18:47,752
Oh my gosh!
318
00:18:48,044 --> 00:18:50,046
I haven't seen Michael
for over 20 years.
319
00:18:57,345 --> 00:19:00,389
We now need to
visit Mike's sister, Rae Ann.
320
00:19:00,973 --> 00:19:05,685
Hopefully she is willing to
give us some DNA to compare
321
00:19:05,686 --> 00:19:09,564
to Michael Leach to confirm
that he is our John Doe.
322
00:19:09,565 --> 00:19:10,650
Hi.
Hi.
323
00:19:10,775 --> 00:19:12,942
Rae Ann is
willing to talk to you,
324
00:19:12,943 --> 00:19:15,529
she's very polite, she's
acknowledged Mike's her brother.
325
00:19:15,655 --> 00:19:16,739
Sounds good.
326
00:19:19,950 --> 00:19:21,034
Hi.
Hi.
327
00:19:21,035 --> 00:19:22,495
Traci,
that's Rae Ann.
328
00:19:22,620 --> 00:19:23,621
Rae Ann.
329
00:19:23,746 --> 00:19:24,871
And that
is her husband.
330
00:19:24,872 --> 00:19:26,373
That's her husband John.
331
00:19:26,374 --> 00:19:27,540
Hi.
Hi.
332
00:19:27,541 --> 00:19:29,668
It's a pleasure
to finally meet you.
333
00:19:29,669 --> 00:19:33,756
I understand that Michael is
your brother and you haven't
334
00:19:34,256 --> 00:19:36,759
been in contact with him.
335
00:19:36,926 --> 00:19:39,552
We haven't, yeah. This is a
long time we haven't seen him.
336
00:19:39,553 --> 00:19:43,057
We was more involved with
John's family and sisters and,
337
00:19:43,182 --> 00:19:45,976
but not mine. Didn't stay
in a whole lot of contact.
338
00:19:46,102 --> 00:19:49,104
Wasn't Christmassy,
you know, never.
339
00:19:49,105 --> 00:19:50,814
Right. Did,
did Mike ever talk
340
00:19:50,815 --> 00:19:52,816
to your half-sisters?
Yes.
341
00:19:52,817 --> 00:19:54,359
Did he?
Yes.
342
00:19:54,360 --> 00:19:56,903
So whether Mike continued to
stay in contact with them
343
00:19:56,904 --> 00:19:58,571
after mom passed away.
344
00:19:58,572 --> 00:19:59,656
Mm-hmm.
I don't know.
345
00:19:59,657 --> 00:20:03,828
I have no clue. I haven't
spoke to 'em at all.
346
00:20:03,953 --> 00:20:05,870
One thing that
we have to do is we have
347
00:20:05,871 --> 00:20:10,750
to confirm her information.
Okay. The way for us to do
348
00:20:10,751 --> 00:20:13,170
that is to get a DNA
sample from you.
349
00:20:13,796 --> 00:20:15,797
Two cotton swabs
on each side of the cheek
350
00:20:15,798 --> 00:20:16,924
that's it.
351
00:20:17,049 --> 00:20:18,050
And to do that,
I'm just proving
352
00:20:18,175 --> 00:20:19,509
that I'm his real sister.
353
00:20:19,510 --> 00:20:21,511
Correct.
We're proving
354
00:20:21,512 --> 00:20:22,637
his identity.
355
00:20:22,638 --> 00:20:23,764
Got it.
356
00:20:27,935 --> 00:20:29,311
Alright.
357
00:20:30,020 --> 00:20:31,689
We're good?
358
00:20:32,106 --> 00:20:33,190
I'll do each cheek.
359
00:20:33,733 --> 00:20:35,443
And when I swirl
it around there.
360
00:20:38,237 --> 00:20:40,071
Well, this is, didn't
expect to spend a day
361
00:20:40,072 --> 00:20:41,490
like this.
362
00:20:41,615 --> 00:20:43,700
Alrighty.
Thank you.
363
00:20:43,701 --> 00:20:45,077
Thank you.
364
00:21:05,014 --> 00:21:06,640
The worst
part of my job is
365
00:21:06,932 --> 00:21:09,101
telling families tragic news.
366
00:21:10,227 --> 00:21:12,187
Unfortunately, in this case
I'm gonna have to tell
367
00:21:12,188 --> 00:21:14,647
Michael's half-sisters
Melissa and Denise
368
00:21:14,648 --> 00:21:16,066
that their brother's dead.
369
00:21:19,987 --> 00:21:21,989
What's worse than that
is he's murdered.
370
00:21:36,212 --> 00:21:37,337
MELISSA Hi.
371
00:21:37,338 --> 00:21:38,756
Hi, Melissa,
I'm Sergeant Johnson.
372
00:21:38,881 --> 00:21:41,841
We recovered some skeleton
remains and we just found out
373
00:21:41,842 --> 00:21:44,053
those remains belong
to Michael Leach.
374
00:21:44,512 --> 00:21:47,890
Oh my god
Mike's my brother.
375
00:22:00,361 --> 00:22:05,866
My memories of Mike start
when I was 3, 4 years old.
376
00:22:07,159 --> 00:22:09,578
He was a very
protective brother.
377
00:22:14,583 --> 00:22:17,878
Always tried to make
us smile, Denise and I.
378
00:22:19,296 --> 00:22:23,592
{\an8}Mike grew up with Rae Ann
as his older sister, myself,
379
00:22:24,134 --> 00:22:27,054
{\an8}and Denise as the
baby in the family.
380
00:22:27,721 --> 00:22:33,602
{\an8}And in my life, it was with
my dad as his step father
381
00:22:33,769 --> 00:22:35,980
and of course, our mother.
382
00:22:37,606 --> 00:22:40,526
Aww, that's, that's so sweet.
383
00:22:41,277 --> 00:22:43,654
What is he on? What is that?
384
00:22:44,488 --> 00:22:46,156
Like a little trickey
kind thing
385
00:22:46,365 --> 00:22:47,533
Yeah. Like a walker.
386
00:22:47,700 --> 00:22:51,203
Michael was 13
years older than me.
387
00:22:51,537 --> 00:22:56,041
I loved him and I enjoyed being
around him most of the time,
388
00:22:57,167 --> 00:22:59,378
but he had a drinking problem.
389
00:23:00,588 --> 00:23:04,216
I recall that he began
to struggle in his early teens
390
00:23:04,717 --> 00:23:08,304
with, um, alcohol and drugs.
391
00:23:11,223 --> 00:23:14,518
{\an8}I would say after our
mother passed away,
392
00:23:14,810 --> 00:23:17,396
{\an8}our relationship did
change and shift.
393
00:23:19,148 --> 00:23:22,692
It's kind of hard
when someone has an addiction
394
00:23:22,693 --> 00:23:26,488
and you want to help them,
but you can't really do
395
00:23:26,655 --> 00:23:28,991
that unless they wanna
help themselves.
396
00:23:29,575 --> 00:23:31,785
That was um
my college graduation.
397
00:23:32,620 --> 00:23:33,871
I remember he came down.
398
00:23:37,374 --> 00:23:38,500
It's too bad.
399
00:23:39,585 --> 00:23:41,962
We hadn't had contact with
him in such a long time
400
00:23:42,212 --> 00:23:47,760
and we didn't know where he
was and if I'm being honest,
401
00:23:48,385 --> 00:23:52,640
I didn't really think about
it, because there were times
402
00:23:53,182 --> 00:23:57,645
that he would, not be around.
403
00:23:58,312 --> 00:24:01,522
The last time I
personally saw him was
404
00:24:01,523 --> 00:24:06,195
Thanksgiving in 2015.
405
00:24:07,529 --> 00:24:14,328
That's a long time um,
but I always thought, um,
406
00:24:15,371 --> 00:24:17,206
he could take care of himself.
407
00:24:20,751 --> 00:24:22,669
I always had high
hopes that he could turn
408
00:24:22,670 --> 00:24:28,174
his life around and, I just
feel like I let him down
409
00:24:28,175 --> 00:24:29,593
a little bit.
410
00:24:33,389 --> 00:24:40,354
I'm sad and angry and
would like to have justice
411
00:24:40,646 --> 00:24:41,897
for his death.
412
00:24:44,108 --> 00:24:46,526
We have finally
been able to give a name
413
00:24:46,527 --> 00:24:49,445
to the unknown man whose
remains were discovered
414
00:24:49,446 --> 00:24:52,199
in Canton Township in 2020.
415
00:24:52,700 --> 00:24:54,075
The individual has
been identified
416
00:24:54,076 --> 00:24:56,412
as Michael Allen Leach.
417
00:24:57,162 --> 00:25:01,083
To his family, we offer our
condolences for your loss.
418
00:25:01,625 --> 00:25:06,088
We also offer our commitment
to relentlessly pursue
419
00:25:06,463 --> 00:25:09,133
those who may be responsible
for his death.
420
00:25:14,346 --> 00:25:17,516
Now we are able
to do what we like to do,
421
00:25:18,809 --> 00:25:21,645
which is go knock on doors
and figure out what happened.
422
00:25:26,483 --> 00:25:30,194
{\an8}Bryan and Bill start
at a landscaping company,
423
00:25:30,195 --> 00:25:33,364
{\an8}25 miles south of Canton
in New Philadelphia
424
00:25:33,365 --> 00:25:36,076
{\an8}where Michael was working
in the early 2000's.
425
00:25:37,870 --> 00:25:38,995
Do you remember
him working for you?
426
00:25:38,996 --> 00:25:41,581
Yeah. Yeah. He worked,
uh, quite a few years
427
00:25:41,582 --> 00:25:43,666
off and on, he was
a good worker.
428
00:25:43,667 --> 00:25:45,585
He was on our mowing crew.
Okay.
429
00:25:45,586 --> 00:25:48,296
{\an8}So, with, uh,
a couple other guys
430
00:25:48,297 --> 00:25:50,507
{\an8}and I think most of
his friends were us.
431
00:25:51,216 --> 00:25:53,009
Probably
were that crew?
432
00:25:53,010 --> 00:25:55,053
Yeah. I think Chet
was pretty close to him.
433
00:25:55,054 --> 00:25:58,014
Uh, Chet Byers was pretty
close to him. They worked on.
434
00:25:58,015 --> 00:25:59,432
Are those guys
here, are those guys here?
435
00:25:59,433 --> 00:26:00,767
Uh, I think
Chet is here. Yes.
436
00:26:00,768 --> 00:26:02,101
Okay. Can
we talk to them?
437
00:26:02,102 --> 00:26:03,228
Yeah, I can grab him.
438
00:26:06,982 --> 00:26:07,941
How are you buddy?
439
00:26:08,067 --> 00:26:09,193
How you doing?
Good.
440
00:26:10,569 --> 00:26:12,446
Inspector Jones,
Stark County sheriff's office.
441
00:26:12,738 --> 00:26:14,698
Sergeant Johnson
with the sheriff's office.
442
00:26:14,948 --> 00:26:16,532
Yeah I've known
Mike Leach for years.
443
00:26:16,533 --> 00:26:18,242
I haven't seen him in
a long time though.
444
00:26:18,243 --> 00:26:19,285
Tell me about him.
445
00:26:19,286 --> 00:26:20,912
Mike's a really good guy.
Okay.
446
00:26:20,913 --> 00:26:22,622
Not sure if Mike
filled you in before.
447
00:26:22,623 --> 00:26:23,748
He did. He
told me the same thing.
448
00:26:23,749 --> 00:26:24,999
His issue
was always alcohol.
449
00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:26,626
Okay.
Heavy drinker.
450
00:26:26,627 --> 00:26:28,628
He'd get a 30 pack after work.
451
00:26:28,629 --> 00:26:29,962
And go home?
It wasn't a 12 pack,
452
00:26:29,963 --> 00:26:31,714
it wasn't, it was a 30 pack.
453
00:26:31,715 --> 00:26:32,965
Good worker.
Yeah.
454
00:26:32,966 --> 00:26:35,635
Day work's over. He
gets his 30 pack, goes home,
455
00:26:35,636 --> 00:26:37,136
comes back to work
the next day.
456
00:26:37,137 --> 00:26:38,471
Yeah.
457
00:26:38,472 --> 00:26:41,474
Have you seen him
after he stopped working here?
458
00:26:41,475 --> 00:26:43,976
Would you ever have any
contact with him after that?
459
00:26:43,977 --> 00:26:47,814
Uh, not much after
that. I mean, I might've
460
00:26:47,815 --> 00:26:49,607
here and there right
after he left here,
461
00:26:49,608 --> 00:26:51,068
but he kind of
like disappeared.
462
00:26:53,695 --> 00:26:56,198
{\an8}Michael left the
landscapers in 2010 and moved
463
00:26:56,532 --> 00:27:00,202
{\an8}into the New Philadelphia
homeless shelter in 2015.
464
00:27:02,412 --> 00:27:03,664
Hi, how are ya?
465
00:27:04,248 --> 00:27:06,833
His name was Michael
Leach and that's,
466
00:27:06,834 --> 00:27:08,668
that's one of the pictures
we have of him.
467
00:27:08,669 --> 00:27:11,045
Yeah yeah, I, I
remember his face sure.
468
00:27:11,046 --> 00:27:12,214
Yeah.
You do?
469
00:27:12,381 --> 00:27:14,132
{\an8}What I can remember
is, is that he was
470
00:27:14,133 --> 00:27:15,342
{\an8}a very good guest.
471
00:27:15,717 --> 00:27:18,094
Do you have any
idea how long he lived here
472
00:27:18,095 --> 00:27:19,011
or stayed here?
473
00:27:19,012 --> 00:27:21,180
He was here
several months.
474
00:27:21,181 --> 00:27:23,475
Whenever he
leaves here is there
475
00:27:23,600 --> 00:27:25,143
some type of address?
476
00:27:25,310 --> 00:27:27,312
{\an8}Yes, there's
a electronic record.
477
00:27:28,689 --> 00:27:30,815
{\an8}Michael left the
shelter later that year
478
00:27:30,816 --> 00:27:34,987
{\an8}and moved into supported
housing 2 miles away, in Dover.
479
00:27:37,698 --> 00:27:40,032
Using this address, the
detectives have discovered
480
00:27:40,033 --> 00:27:43,453
records of emergency calls
made to the local police.
481
00:27:45,080 --> 00:27:47,416
The first one
that we pulled was filed, uh,
482
00:27:47,583 --> 00:27:52,921
April 22nd of 2017. It was
filed by Michael Leach.
483
00:27:55,340 --> 00:27:57,718
Michael reported that he
was having some problems,
484
00:27:57,926 --> 00:28:00,637
uh some issues with some
people that lived with him,
485
00:28:01,263 --> 00:28:05,475
that stayed with him that maybe
weren't always wanted there.
486
00:28:06,393 --> 00:28:08,896
He claimed that nothing physical
had occurred and Dover police
487
00:28:09,021 --> 00:28:12,481
provided him some information
on how to evict people
488
00:28:12,482 --> 00:28:14,359
and then they cleared
the call.
489
00:28:15,444 --> 00:28:19,405
And then an anonymous female
had contacted Dover police
490
00:28:19,406 --> 00:28:22,742
and requested a welfare check
on an elderly male neighbor
491
00:28:22,743 --> 00:28:24,870
of hers, his first
name was Mike.
492
00:28:26,788 --> 00:28:29,707
She saw him on a daily basis
and then she went 30 days
493
00:28:29,708 --> 00:28:33,086
not seeing him, so there's a
clear problem uh from going
494
00:28:33,962 --> 00:28:37,549
from seeing him every day,
to not seeing him at all.
495
00:28:39,551 --> 00:28:42,720
In August 2017 Dover
police did a welfare check
496
00:28:42,721 --> 00:28:45,974
at Michael's address, but
no one answered the door.
497
00:28:48,518 --> 00:28:51,395
It is possible
that when the neighbor makes
498
00:28:51,396 --> 00:28:54,775
the report on August 4th
of 2017, that Mr. Leach
499
00:28:54,900 --> 00:28:57,027
may have been deceased
at that point already.
500
00:28:57,194 --> 00:29:00,739
Definitely possible he's
deceased by August 4th of 2017.
501
00:29:02,532 --> 00:29:04,326
And that's not all.
502
00:29:05,118 --> 00:29:07,203
Hey, it's Sergeant
Johnson with the Stark County
503
00:29:07,204 --> 00:29:08,288
sheriff's office.
504
00:29:08,705 --> 00:29:10,957
Bryan's recorded
interviews with other neighbors
505
00:29:10,958 --> 00:29:13,293
who lived in the house in 2017.
506
00:29:14,127 --> 00:29:15,963
We have an
investigation going on here
507
00:29:16,129 --> 00:29:19,383
in Stark County. It's about
somebody that lived there.
508
00:29:19,508 --> 00:29:20,759
Is his name, Mike?
509
00:29:20,884 --> 00:29:22,802
Yeah! How
do you know that?
510
00:29:22,803 --> 00:29:24,261
'Cause I had a feeling
this was coming.
511
00:29:24,262 --> 00:29:25,429
No doubt about it.
512
00:29:25,430 --> 00:29:28,600
He had had another guy
that was bullying him
513
00:29:28,850 --> 00:29:32,396
and making Mike let
him stay there.
514
00:29:33,814 --> 00:29:36,149
And I knew this
dude was bad news.
515
00:29:36,608 --> 00:29:39,276
A year went by. I
run into this guy.
516
00:29:39,277 --> 00:29:40,903
Mike was nowhere to be found.
517
00:29:40,904 --> 00:29:42,989
But I knew this dude
did something to Mike.
518
00:29:42,990 --> 00:29:45,283
This dude was real
aggressive towards me.
519
00:29:45,409 --> 00:29:46,492
He was just real (beep).
520
00:29:46,493 --> 00:29:47,911
He had his son staying
there and stuff.
521
00:29:48,036 --> 00:29:49,663
He stole from Mike.
522
00:29:51,206 --> 00:29:53,666
like I said, it's (beep) up
that this comes about now
523
00:29:53,667 --> 00:29:56,044
because I knew this back then
that something happened to him.
524
00:29:57,671 --> 00:30:00,632
That phone call
gives me absolute chills.
525
00:30:01,758 --> 00:30:05,470
He knew that something
was wrong back in 2017.
526
00:30:05,595 --> 00:30:06,763
That's unbelievable.
527
00:30:13,311 --> 00:30:14,438
This is it.
528
00:30:16,273 --> 00:30:19,650
That call
solidifies that this apartment
529
00:30:19,651 --> 00:30:22,446
is the last place
Michael was alive.
530
00:30:24,531 --> 00:30:25,865
Right
here is his door.
531
00:30:25,866 --> 00:30:28,617
We've learned that the people
that Michael was living with,
532
00:30:28,618 --> 00:30:30,787
most of their world
revolved around drugs.
533
00:30:32,247 --> 00:30:34,331
Sounds like there
was a multitude of people here,
534
00:30:34,332 --> 00:30:36,876
people in and out several
times during the day,
535
00:30:36,877 --> 00:30:38,545
several times during
the night.
536
00:30:39,963 --> 00:30:42,131
At this point in the
investigation we have
537
00:30:42,132 --> 00:30:43,508
our suspicions.
538
00:30:44,634 --> 00:30:47,553
In order to proceed further
we're gonna need the forensic
539
00:30:47,554 --> 00:30:49,056
team to come out here.
540
00:30:50,474 --> 00:30:53,226
Unless the forensic
team can find traces of blood
541
00:30:53,935 --> 00:30:56,521
or anything to link Michael's
unwanted roommates to his
542
00:30:56,646 --> 00:31:00,484
{\an8}murder, the detectives will
not be able to make an arrest.
543
00:31:10,452 --> 00:31:14,956
I expected Mike's
life to end due to alcohol,
544
00:31:15,207 --> 00:31:21,379
but I'm shocked that
someone took his life.
545
00:31:23,423 --> 00:31:28,053
I'm still trying to understand
why someone would do that.
546
00:31:36,812 --> 00:31:39,189
I do have some questions.
547
00:31:42,192 --> 00:31:44,236
Hello. You alright?
Yeah.
548
00:31:44,361 --> 00:31:45,445
Yes yeah.
549
00:31:45,570 --> 00:31:48,615
So, will
we ever get justice?
550
00:31:48,865 --> 00:31:51,284
We're working on
that. That's our goal now,
551
00:31:51,535 --> 00:31:53,411
to get that conviction.
552
00:31:53,662 --> 00:31:56,081
We know where
he lived right when he went
553
00:31:56,248 --> 00:31:58,457
missing, we know where
he lived before that.
554
00:31:58,458 --> 00:32:00,544
We have people of interest
that we're looking at.
555
00:32:01,211 --> 00:32:05,132
So what do we do now?
I guess is the question.
556
00:32:05,549 --> 00:32:07,842
Right now all we
have is circumstantial evidence.
557
00:32:07,843 --> 00:32:10,846
Hopefully we have something once
we get the forensic report.
558
00:32:11,179 --> 00:32:12,806
We're not just stopping.
559
00:32:13,181 --> 00:32:14,182
Yeah.
560
00:32:19,020 --> 00:32:21,355
Please call. Please call if
you have any questions.
561
00:32:21,356 --> 00:32:22,565
Anything at all.
562
00:32:22,566 --> 00:32:25,776
The person that
did this has to live,
563
00:32:25,777 --> 00:32:29,447
every day knowing that
they killed someone,
564
00:32:29,739 --> 00:32:32,325
someone that meant something
to a lot of people,
565
00:32:33,201 --> 00:32:34,578
and that was loved.
566
00:32:57,767 --> 00:32:59,769
We may not
have solved the case yet,
567
00:33:00,145 --> 00:33:03,355
but I think to be able to
finally put a name to our
568
00:33:03,356 --> 00:33:09,361
John Doe and to let his
family know what happened,
569
00:33:09,362 --> 00:33:10,614
it, it's amazing.
570
00:33:11,281 --> 00:33:14,701
Now the family can move on and
start their grieving process.
571
00:33:23,126 --> 00:33:25,085
Hello hello!
572
00:33:25,086 --> 00:33:28,714
Denise and I haven't seen
Rae Ann for many years.
573
00:33:28,715 --> 00:33:31,634
Oh my goodness,
you look beautiful.
574
00:33:31,635 --> 00:33:33,260
You look amazing.
It's been so long.
575
00:33:33,261 --> 00:33:36,598
My God. So
great to see you.
576
00:33:37,265 --> 00:33:39,642
If Michael was here today
I think that he would have
577
00:33:39,643 --> 00:33:42,186
a really big smile on his
face and hugs for all
578
00:33:42,187 --> 00:33:45,898
of his sisters. It says, in
life we loved you dearly,
579
00:33:45,899 --> 00:33:47,734
in death we love you still.
580
00:33:47,984 --> 00:33:52,322
In our hearts you hold a place
no one else will ever fill.
581
00:33:55,116 --> 00:33:56,785
Michael was
my little brother.
582
00:33:59,454 --> 00:34:03,792
I've always loved him,
always. Yes.
583
00:34:06,169 --> 00:34:07,420
It does look pretty.
584
00:34:07,545 --> 00:34:10,257
Yeah, just honors him.
585
00:34:10,548 --> 00:34:13,717
I feel real sad that
his life ended this way,
586
00:34:13,718 --> 00:34:16,680
but I have a lot of
happy memories of him.
587
00:34:18,098 --> 00:34:23,478
He was a good
person. And a good brother.
588
00:34:25,563 --> 00:34:30,819
I'll miss
him (teary nod). Yeah.
589
00:34:31,820 --> 00:34:34,197
{\an8}This was an unexpected
tragedy for us to find out
590
00:34:34,364 --> 00:34:36,198
{\an8}you know what
happened to him.
591
00:34:36,199 --> 00:34:38,493
{\an8}Yeah.
But we got to reconnect.
592
00:34:39,452 --> 00:34:43,039
{\an8}It's almost like it was
his last gift to us as sisters.
593
00:34:44,416 --> 00:34:49,629
{\an8}Yeah. It feels
like we're a family again.
594
00:34:51,131 --> 00:34:52,424
{\an8}It's a good feeling.
594
00:34:53,305 --> 00:35:53,822
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