# The Boy Who Pretended to Sleep

An episode of [Skinwalker: Horror Stories](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/6785756522), 18 Jul 2026, 22 min.

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The Boy Who Pretended to Sleep A two-and-a-half-year-old girl pointed to a man and gave police a name, sending an innocent man to jail for her mother's murder. But the DNA on the weapon told a different story, revealing a killer no one was looking for. What did this toddler see that day in Pataskala, Ohio? In this episode, we delve into the chilling details of a murder case where a child's testimony led to a wrongful arrest. We explore the initial investigation, the critical piece of evidence that was overlooked, and the shocking truth behind Rhonda Bogs' death. Victim: Rhonda Bogs, 38 Location: Pataskala, Ohio Date: April 28, 2002 Weapon: Steak knife from the victim's kitchen Initial Suspect: Richard Nicholas Robinson - A two-and-a-half-year-old girl was found alone with her mother's body. - The murder weapon was a steak knife from the victim's own kitchen block. - The initial suspect, Richard Nicholas Robinson, was identified by the toddler as "Uncle Nick." - Police found a dark spot on Robinson's cap and reddish-brown smears in his vehicle. - Robinson failed a lie detector test and confessed to the murder after nearly six hours of interrogation. To listen ad-free and access premium episodes, start your 30-day free trial at obomedia.com. OBOMEDIA presents real horror stories a scary story podcast for the late night hours. Every episode is horror narration done right: true scary stories and horror stories based on true events, told from the first chilling minute. Expect disturbing true stories, disturbing horror stories and dark true horror stories drawn from real testimonies. Some nights bring camping horror stories, forest horror stories and road horror stories; others bring home alone horror stories, haunted stories, eerie stories, strange stories and unsettling tales true creepy stories and creepy encounters that never made the news. Press play on our late night horror stories and late night scary stories, from storytime horror to a full horror stories compilation or scary stories compilation real scary stories, scary stories based on true events, and dark stories to keep the lights on. © 2026 Created with OBOMEDIA technology. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text and related materials) are the property of their respective creator and are distributed under the OBOMEDIA name on platforms such as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and Pocket Casts. Reproduction, distribution, editing or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission is prohibited. For permissions, licensing and business inquiries: business@obomedia

## Transcript

[0:03] Speaker 1: A two and a half year old girl stood at
[0:05] Speaker 1: the window of a white house in patascal, Ohio. She
[0:09] Speaker 1: had been alone with her mother's body since some time
[0:12] Speaker 1: the night before. When the police arrived on April twenty ninth,
[0:17] Speaker 1: two thousand two, she did one thing that would send
[0:20] Speaker 1: an innocent man to jail and almost let the real
[0:23] Speaker 1: killer walk free. She pointed, and she gave them a name.
[0:28] Speaker 1: The case looked solved within twenty four hours, the chief
[0:31] Speaker 1: said so himself. But the DNA on the murder weapon
[0:35] Speaker 1: belonged to some one. No one in that investigation was
[0:37] Speaker 1: looking for. There is something in this case. I kept
[0:41] Speaker 1: coming back to the detail about the knife. It didn't
[0:45] Speaker 1: come from outside. It came from Ronda's own kitchen. Whoever
[0:50] Speaker 1: killed her didn't bring a weapon. They used what was
[0:53] Speaker 1: already there. Ronda Boggs was thirty eight years old in
[0:57] Speaker 1: the spring of two thousand two, an office assistant at
[1:00] Speaker 1: Hamilton Home Products in Patascala, Ohio. She had been married
[1:04] Speaker 1: to Dave Bobb's for nearly four years. Their daughter, Amanda,
[1:09] Speaker 1: was two and a half. The house was a white,
[1:11] Speaker 1: one story with panel siding, the kind of house that
[1:15] Speaker 1: looks like every other house on a quiet street, the
[1:18] Speaker 1: kind where nothing was supposed to happen. The evening of
[1:21] Speaker 1: April twenty eighth started without any sign of what was coming.
[1:25] Speaker 1: Ronda had been at her mother in law's house and
[1:28] Speaker 1: received a call from Dave, who was sitting in county jail.
[1:32] Speaker 1: She drove home. She put a casserole in the oven.
[1:35] Speaker 1: She walked outside to try to mow the lawn, realized
[1:38] Speaker 1: the mower wasn't working and declined a neighbor's offer to
[1:42] Speaker 1: borrow working one. Before going back inside, she made a
[1:46] Speaker 1: mental note to call some one about it. A man
[1:49] Speaker 1: her husband trusted with repairs around the house, Richard Nicholas Robinson,
[1:54] Speaker 1: a maintenance man every one in the family called Uncle Nick.
[1:58] Speaker 1: That small decision to make a note to call someone
[2:03] Speaker 1: to handle it tomorrow is the last ordinary thing Ronda
[2:07] Speaker 1: Bob's is known to have done. A Tascala sits in
[2:11] Speaker 1: Licking County, east of Columbus, the kind of mid Ohio
[2:14] Speaker 1: town where neighbors notice when your car isn't in the
[2:17] Speaker 1: driveway on a weekday morning. Gary Pilowski, a co worker,
[2:21] Speaker 1: noticed exactly that. On April twenty ninth, Ronda hadn't shown
[2:26] Speaker 1: up to work. She hadn't called. He drove to her house.
[2:32] Speaker 1: He found Amanda at the window. The little girl was
[2:35] Speaker 1: pressing her face against the glass in the way small
[2:38] Speaker 1: children do when they want someone to see them. Pilowski
[2:42] Speaker 1: called the police. When officers entered the house, they found
[2:46] Speaker 1: Ronda in the kitchen, more than twelve stab wounds. The
[2:50] Speaker 1: murder weapon, a steak knife from her own kitchen block,
[2:54] Speaker 1: was underneath her body. The jewelry box in the bedroom
[2:57] Speaker 1: was empty. Dresser drawers had been pulled over, her purse
[3:01] Speaker 1: had been overturned in the dining room. Every sign pointed
[3:05] Speaker 1: to a robbery gone violent. But there was one detail.
[3:11] Speaker 1: The ransacked rooms couldn't explain. No forced entry, every door,
[3:16] Speaker 1: every window undisturbed. Whoever had been inside that house, Ronda
[3:22] Speaker 1: had let them in. Amanda was taken in for an
[3:25] Speaker 1: interview that same day. A social worker sat with her
[3:29] Speaker 1: the way you do with the child that age, gently
[3:32] Speaker 1: carefully watching her, more than listening. At one point, Amanda
[3:37] Speaker 1: made a stabbing motion with her hand. Then she said
[3:40] Speaker 1: a name, Uncle Nick. The investigation moved fast after that.
[3:45] Speaker 1: Dave Boggs, released early from jail, identified Uncle Nick as
[3:50] Speaker 1: Richard Nicholas Robinson. His second cousin, a man who had
[3:54] Speaker 1: been doing repairs around the house. Someone Rondon knew well
[3:58] Speaker 1: enough to open the door for. Police stopped Robinson's SUV
[4:02] Speaker 1: that afternoon. There was a dark spot on his cap.
[4:05] Speaker 1: There was a piece of cardboard in the vehicle with
[4:08] Speaker 1: reddish brown smears. Before the officers had said anything about
[4:12] Speaker 1: why they'd pulled him over, Nick Robinson asked them a question.
[4:16] Speaker 1: He asked if it was about Ronda. Police Chief Chris
[4:20] Speaker 1: Forcey later said his team had solved the case in
[4:23] Speaker 1: under twenty four hours. He praised the officers publicly. Nick
[4:28] Speaker 1: Robinson was booked at Licking County Jail and the community exhaled.
[4:33] Speaker 1: The right man was in custody. The little girl had
[4:36] Speaker 1: pointed and they had listened. But two weeks later, a
[4:41] Speaker 1: man named Bob Ciscoe called Detective Bruce Brooks with a
[4:45] Speaker 1: different name entirely, a name that at the time didn't
[4:49] Speaker 1: seem urgent enough to chase hard. That name was Chris Williams,
[4:55] Speaker 1: and the reason Ciscoe called what Williams had done and
[4:58] Speaker 1: said the knight Ronda is the detail that changes everything
[5:02] Speaker 1: about what the police thought they already knew. Nick Robinson
[5:06] Speaker 1: had been helping Ronda with small repairs around the house
[5:09] Speaker 1: for weeks. He was Dave's second cousin, someone the family trusted.
[5:15] Speaker 1: When police stopped his suv the afternoon of April twenty ninth,
[5:19] Speaker 1: they found a dark spot on his cap and reddish
[5:23] Speaker 1: brown smears on a piece of cardboard in the vehicle.
[5:26] Speaker 1: Before any officer said a word about why they were there,
[5:30] Speaker 1: Nick asked one question. He asked if it was about Ronda.
[5:35] Speaker 1: That question became the gravitational center of the entire investigation.
[5:40] Speaker 1: Police took it as confirmation. Detectives brought Nick in and
[5:46] Speaker 1: Detective Bruce Brooks began an interrogation that would last nearly
[5:51] Speaker 1: six hours. Nick maintained he had an alibi. He said
[5:57] Speaker 1: he had been at the Marrying Melody bar that evening
[6:00] Speaker 1: and had left around ten fifteen or ten thirty at night.
[6:03] Speaker 1: He was calm at first. Then came the lie detector test,
[6:07] Speaker 1: and Nick failed it. Around five in the morning on
[6:11] Speaker 1: April thirtieth, Nick broke. He told detective Brooks that he
[6:15] Speaker 1: had gone to Ronda's house that night, that he had
[6:18] Speaker 1: tried to kiss her, that she had grabbed a knife,
[6:21] Speaker 1: and that things had gone wrong. He described it as
[6:24] Speaker 1: an accident, Brooks had his confession, she foresee had his
[6:29] Speaker 1: solved case, and a two and a half year old
[6:31] Speaker 1: girl had apparently pointed the investigation in exactly the right direction,
[6:36] Speaker 1: except nothing about it held together. The first problem was
[6:41] Speaker 1: the time line. Nick said he had driven from the
[6:44] Speaker 1: Merry Melody Bar to Ronda's house and committed the murder
[6:48] Speaker 1: before arriving at the Fairview Inn, where he was also
[6:51] Speaker 1: confirmed to have been seen that night. Private investigator Matt Sower,
[6:55] Speaker 1: hired months later by Nick's defense, timed that drive himself
[7:00] Speaker 1: Mary Melody to Fairview in took forty five minutes under
[7:03] Speaker 1: normal conditions. The window Nick had available, based on confirmed
[7:08] Speaker 1: witness sightings at both locations, was not large enough to
[7:12] Speaker 1: contain a drive, a confrontation, a killing, and a drive back.
[7:17] Speaker 1: The math didn't work. It simply didn't. The second problem
[7:21] Speaker 1: arrived in January of two thousand three, eight months after
[7:24] Speaker 1: the murder. DNA results came back from the steak knife
[7:29] Speaker 1: found under Ronda's body, the knife from her own kitchen,
[7:33] Speaker 1: the one the killer had used and left at the scene.
[7:36] Speaker 1: The DNA was human, it was not Ronda's, and it
[7:40] Speaker 1: was not Nick Robinson's. Someone else's genetic material was on
[7:44] Speaker 1: that knife, someone who had never been part of the investigation,
[7:49] Speaker 1: someone whose name had not appeared in any police report.
[7:52] Speaker 1: Brooks received the results, the question of what to do
[7:56] Speaker 1: with them hung in the air. The head fake had
[7:59] Speaker 1: been running since the first hours of the investigation, and
[8:02] Speaker 1: almost no one had seen it. Amanda Boggs was two
[8:06] Speaker 1: and a half years old. She was the only person
[8:09] Speaker 1: who had been in that house with her mother when
[8:10] Speaker 1: Rohnda died. When the social worker interviewed her the morning
[8:14] Speaker 1: of April twenty ninth. When the social worker interviewed her
[8:19] Speaker 1: the morning of April twenty ninth, Amanda had mimicked a
[8:23] Speaker 1: stabbing motion and named Uncle Nick. That moment had shaped everything.
[8:27] Speaker 1: The stop of Nick's vehicle, the six hour interrogation, the
[8:32] Speaker 1: failed polygraph, the exhausted confession in the early morning hours.
[8:37] Speaker 1: The entire machinery of the case had pivoted on what
[8:40] Speaker 1: a toddler said in a room with a social worker.
[8:43] Speaker 1: Then came the second interview, conducted roughly two weeks after
[8:47] Speaker 1: the murder. Detectives asked Amanda again. She did not say
[8:52] Speaker 1: Uncle Nick. She said Bob, not Nick. Bob. The investigators
[8:57] Speaker 1: had built a case on one word from a child,
[9:00] Speaker 1: and the child had given them a different word. The
[9:03] Speaker 1: rational scaffolding of the investigation, the spontaneous question at the
[9:07] Speaker 1: vehicle stop, the failed polygraph, the confession suddenly had to
[9:12] Speaker 1: carry the entire weight of the prosecution alone, and that
[9:16] Speaker 1: weight was already cracking under the DNA results. Around the
[9:21] Speaker 1: same time, Amanda said Bob. In that second interview, a
[9:25] Speaker 1: man named Bob Cisco called Detective Brooks. Cisco had a story,
[9:31] Speaker 1: He said, Chris Williams had been acting strange the night
[9:34] Speaker 1: Ronda was killed. Williams was nervous, something was wrong with him.
[9:40] Speaker 1: Cisco knew Williams from the local music scene. Williams had
[9:44] Speaker 1: been a bandmate of Dave Boggs before Dave went to jail.
[9:47] Speaker 1: Someone who knew the house, someone who knew the family,
[9:52] Speaker 1: someone who would not need to force a door to
[9:53] Speaker 1: get inside. Brooks logged the tip. He did not pursue
[9:58] Speaker 1: it aggressively. That decision would cost Nick Robinson more than
[10:02] Speaker 1: two years of his life. Matt Sower kept working. He
[10:07] Speaker 1: traced a stolen Cadillac that had changed hands in the
[10:10] Speaker 1: months after the murder. The car had been sold by
[10:13] Speaker 1: Chris Williams. Inside it, investigators found Ronde Bogg's identification her
[10:19] Speaker 1: ID in a car Williams had sold after the murder,
[10:24] Speaker 1: with no explanation for how it got there. The pieces
[10:27] Speaker 1: were not subtle, They were direct, physical, and damning. But
[10:33] Speaker 1: they arrived after a confession was already on record, after
[10:37] Speaker 1: Chief Forese had already stood before cameras and praised his
[10:41] Speaker 1: department for solving the case in under twenty four hours,
[10:44] Speaker 1: and after Nick Robinson had already spent months in custody
[10:48] Speaker 1: for a crime the DNA evidence said he did not commit.
[10:52] Speaker 1: There is a version of this story where everything breaks
[10:54] Speaker 1: the right way, where the DNA results in January trigger
[10:58] Speaker 1: an immediate re examineation, where the second Amanda interview prompts
[11:03] Speaker 1: a deeper look at who Bob might be, Where Bob
[11:05] Speaker 1: Cisco's tip about Chris Williams gets followed within days instead
[11:09] Speaker 1: of months. That version of the story exists. It just
[11:13] Speaker 1: isn't what happened. What happened instead points to something more
[11:17] Speaker 1: uncomfortable than a single mistake. Confirmation bias is the tendency
[11:23] Speaker 1: of a mind, any mind trained or untrained, to absorb
[11:29] Speaker 1: information that confirms what it already believes and to root
[11:33] Speaker 1: a round information that contradicts it. G Forcey believed the
[11:36] Speaker 1: case was solved. On April thirtieth, Detective Brooks had a confession.
[11:42] Speaker 1: The department had been praised publicly, and into that sealed narrative.
[11:46] Speaker 1: DNA results in a toddler's second answer and a nervous
[11:49] Speaker 1: bandmate's behavior. All arrived as inconveniences rather than evidence. Chris
[11:55] Speaker 1: Williams had been high on crack cocaine the night of
[11:58] Speaker 1: April twenty eighth into April time twenty ninth. He knew
[12:01] Speaker 1: the Bog's house. He had a connection to Dave through
[12:04] Speaker 1: the band. He needed money. He went to a house
[12:08] Speaker 1: he had been to before, a house with no dead
[12:11] Speaker 1: bolt that would stop someone who knew it, ransacked it
[12:15] Speaker 1: for anything of value, and confronted Ronda in the kitchen.
[12:19] Speaker 1: The knife came from her own block. He left it
[12:22] Speaker 1: under her body and walked out. Amanda was in the
[12:25] Speaker 1: house the entire time he left her unharmed. The question
[12:30] Speaker 1: that cannot be answered cleanly is what Amanda actually saw
[12:35] Speaker 1: or heard or understood in the hours between her mother's
[12:38] Speaker 1: death and Gary Pulowski's arrival The next morning. She was
[12:43] Speaker 1: two and a half. She had been in that house
[12:46] Speaker 1: with the body overnight. When she named uncle Nick, she
[12:49] Speaker 1: may have been trying to communicate something that her vocabulary
[12:52] Speaker 1: could not yet hold. When she named Bob, she may
[12:56] Speaker 1: have been doing the same thing, Bob Sisko, Bob as
[12:59] Speaker 1: a friendgment of something she witnessed or heard, the syllables
[13:03] Speaker 1: of a name belonging to someone who had stood in
[13:05] Speaker 1: her kitchen. On March twenty eighth, two thousand and five,
[13:09] Speaker 1: Chris Williams was found guilty on all counts. He was
[13:12] Speaker 1: sentenced to twenty years to life for the murder, with
[13:16] Speaker 1: a total of twenty eight years, including aggravated robbery, burglary,
[13:21] Speaker 1: and escaping from a halfway house. Nick Robinson's charges were dropped.
[13:27] Speaker 1: He sued the city of Patascola for three million dollars.
[13:32] Speaker 1: He stopped drinking. He went back to work. The knife
[13:36] Speaker 1: was found under Ronda's body. The DNA on it pointed
[13:40] Speaker 1: to someone the investigation had not initially considered, and a
[13:43] Speaker 1: child who had been in that house the whole time
[13:46] Speaker 1: had said a name that the adults around her had
[13:48] Speaker 1: decided they already understood. They already understood. Some things don't
[13:55] Speaker 1: need an explanation to be real, but some things need one,
[13:59] Speaker 1: and the people who owed Ronda Boggs that explanation took
[14:02] Speaker 1: two years and eight months to get there. On March
[14:05] Speaker 1: twenty eighth, two thousand five, a Licking County jury deliberated
[14:10] Speaker 1: and came back with a verdict that took less time
[14:12] Speaker 1: than Nick Robinson had spent in a single interrogation session.
[14:16] Speaker 1: Guilty on all counts. Chris Williams, former bandmate of Dave Boggs,
[14:22] Speaker 1: the man who had known the house, known the family,
[14:25] Speaker 1: known exactly how to walk through a door without forcing it,
[14:28] Speaker 1: was convicted of Ronda's murder, aggravated robbery if you are burglary,
[14:34] Speaker 1: and escaping from a half way house. The total sentence
[14:37] Speaker 1: came to twenty eight years twenty years to life for
[14:41] Speaker 1: the murder alone. The charges against Nick Robinson were dropped
[14:45] Speaker 1: the moment Williams was charged, the moment Williams was charged,
[14:51] Speaker 1: not reduced, dropped entirely, Every count, every accusation, every document
[14:58] Speaker 1: that had his name above the word murderer gone. He
[15:05] Speaker 1: had confessed to a crime he did not commit under
[15:08] Speaker 1: six hours of interrogation without sleep, and the system had
[15:12] Speaker 1: nearly accepted that confession at the end of the story.
[15:16] Speaker 1: It wasn't the end, It was the part the system
[15:20] Speaker 1: preferred not to examine too closely. Nick sued the city
[15:25] Speaker 1: of Patascala for three million dollars in damages. What happened
[15:30] Speaker 1: after that filing is not something the public record answers cleanly.
[15:34] Speaker 1: What the record does show is this, Nick Robinson stopped drinking.
[15:40] Speaker 1: He returned to work. He rebuilt something quietly in the
[15:44] Speaker 1: way people rebuild after a collapse that no one fully witnesses.
[15:49] Speaker 1: There is a detail worth sitting with here, not as commentary,
[15:53] Speaker 1: but as fact. The DNA on that knife, Ronda's kitchen
[15:57] Speaker 1: knife found under her body. It was never formally matched
[16:01] Speaker 1: to Chris Williams. In the transcripts of this investigation, the
[16:05] Speaker 1: knife carried the genetic material of someone other than Ronda,
[16:10] Speaker 1: someone other than Nick. That confirmation came back in January
[16:14] Speaker 1: of two thousand three, nearly eight months after the murder,
[16:18] Speaker 1: and for a stretch of time that DNA result existed
[16:20] Speaker 1: in the record, pointing at no one the police were
[16:24] Speaker 1: actively pursuing. The case moved forward anyway. Williams was convicted,
[16:30] Speaker 1: but the formal chain connecting his DNA to that specific
[16:33] Speaker 1: blade is a gap the official record leaves open. Chief
[16:37] Speaker 1: Chris Forcey had declared the case solved within twenty four
[16:41] Speaker 1: hours of finding Rohnda's body. He praised his officers publicly.
[16:46] Speaker 1: The confession was in hand. Amanda had said Uncle Nick
[16:50] Speaker 1: to a social worker the same afternoon, whom mother's body
[16:53] Speaker 1: was found. From the outside, it looked like efficient police work.
[16:57] Speaker 1: What it actually was was a two and a half
[17:00] Speaker 1: year old child's single word spoken in grief and shock,
[17:04] Speaker 1: treated as the foundation of a criminal case, and a
[17:07] Speaker 1: maintenance man's exhausted, desperate confession extracted before dawn, taken as
[17:12] Speaker 1: confirmation of what the department had already decided. The casserole
[17:16] Speaker 1: the one Ronda put in the oven on the evening
[17:20] Speaker 1: of April twenty eighth, two thousand two, when she came
[17:24] Speaker 1: home from her mother in law's house and started planning
[17:27] Speaker 1: the next day. She had written a note to herself
[17:30] Speaker 1: to call Nick about the lawnmower. She was trying to
[17:33] Speaker 1: manage a household alone while her husband sat in County
[17:36] Speaker 1: lock up. She put dinner in the oven for herself
[17:40] Speaker 1: and her daughter, and she made a list. That image
[17:44] Speaker 1: does not belong in any police report. It belongs to
[17:47] Speaker 1: what Ronda was doing the last hours of her life,
[17:49] Speaker 1: not preparing for anything catastrophic, just preparing for Tuesday. When
[17:54] Speaker 1: I first read through the timeline of this case, the
[17:57] Speaker 1: detail that wouldn't leave me wasn't the DNA or the
[18:00] Speaker 1: alibi math or even the false confession. It was the
[18:04] Speaker 1: note about the lawnmower. She was going to call Nick
[18:07] Speaker 1: about it the next day. There was no next day.
[18:11] Speaker 1: Amanda Boggs was two and a half years old when
[18:13] Speaker 1: she stood at the window of that white paneled house
[18:16] Speaker 1: and waited for some one to come. Gary Polowski, Ronda's
[18:20] Speaker 1: co worker, was the one who arrived first. He had
[18:25] Speaker 1: driven over because she hadn't shown up for work and
[18:27] Speaker 1: hadn't called. He saw Amanda at the glass, he called
[18:31] Speaker 1: the police. Amanda is in her mid twenties now. She
[18:36] Speaker 1: was the only living person inside that house the night
[18:39] Speaker 1: her mother was killed. Whatever she witnessed, whatever she understood
[18:44] Speaker 1: or didn't understand at that age, she carries it in
[18:48] Speaker 1: a way no investigation ever fully accounts for. Her first
[18:52] Speaker 1: word to a social worker was Uncle Nick. Her second
[18:55] Speaker 1: interview weeks later named some one else entirely Bob the
[19:00] Speaker 1: police had already made their rest The second name did
[19:04] Speaker 1: not change the direction of the investigation. Not then Chris
[19:08] Speaker 1: Williams knew that house. He had been Dave Bogg's bandmate.
[19:12] Speaker 1: He walked in without forcing anything. He ransacked the rooms,
[19:17] Speaker 1: took the jewelry, left Amanda untouched. Whether that last detail
[19:21] Speaker 1: reflects a moment of restraint or simply a calculation, no
[19:25] Speaker 1: one can say with certainty. He was high on crack cocaine.
[19:30] Speaker 1: He left Ronda on the kitchen floor with more than
[19:32] Speaker 1: twelve stab wounds, the knife from her own block buried
[19:35] Speaker 1: under her body. The door he walked through had no
[19:39] Speaker 1: marks on it, no scratches, no splintered frame, no broken lock.
[19:46] Speaker 1: Whatever arrangement allowed him entry, a key, a known habit
[19:50] Speaker 1: of Ronda's, an unlocked door she hadn't yet secured for
[19:54] Speaker 1: the night. It went with him into the courtroom and
[19:58] Speaker 1: came out the other side without ever being fully explained.
[20:02] Speaker 1: Some things about this case were resolved by the verdict.
[20:06] Speaker 1: The question of who killed Ronda Boggs was answered in
[20:09] Speaker 1: a Licking County courtroom on March twenty eighth, two thousand
[20:12] Speaker 1: and five. The question of what the investigation nearly cost
[20:17] Speaker 1: a man's freedom, his sobriety years of his life. That
[20:21] Speaker 1: question doesn't close with a verdict, It sits beside it.
[20:25] Speaker 1: Nick Robinson asked the officers who stopped his su v
[20:28] Speaker 1: that April night whether it was about Ronda. He asked,
[20:34] Speaker 1: before they said a word. The police read that as guilt.
[20:38] Speaker 1: A private investigator, a bartender a forty five minute drive,
[20:44] Speaker 1: and a DNA result read it differently. The door to
[20:47] Speaker 1: Ronda's house had no marks on it. It never did.
[20:51] Speaker 1: And that detail, so small, so structural, is the one
[20:55] Speaker 1: that should have changed everything from the beginning. It means
[20:59] Speaker 1: someone came in here you already knew how to get inside.
[21:02] Speaker 1: It means Ronda may have let them in herself, or
[21:05] Speaker 1: left the way open without knowing it. It means the
[21:10] Speaker 1: house she had tried to hold together while her husband
[21:13] Speaker 1: sat in jail was not as closed off from the
[21:16] Speaker 1: world as it appeared. She put a casserole in the oven,
[21:20] Speaker 1: she wrote a note, the door was unlocked or as
[21:25] Speaker 1: good as and somewhere in the hours between that quiet,
[21:29] Speaker 1: ordinary evening and the morning Gary Pilowski knocked on the glass,
[21:33] Speaker 1: something walked through it. This show is made by Obo
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