Daniel Myers pleads guilty to Heather Bogle's murder Fremont News-Messenger


FREMONT - Public records obtained by the News-Messenger included 196 files of reports, video and audio interviews along with investigative files pertaining to Heather Bogle's 2015 homicide.

Here are five things to know about the investigation records.

Daniel Myers lied about knowing Heather Bogle

When authorities descended on Myers' trailer in May 2017, they asked if he knew Bogle and why she would have been near his trailer.

Myers, who confessed to the murder in February and was sentenced to life in prison, said he barely knew Bogle, telling authorities he and Bogle worked the same line at Whirlpool for about three months and only had basic conversations about their kids during breaks.

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But Myers actually knew Bogle more than he led on when talking to detectives.

One woman interviewed at Whirlpool said Myers asked Bogle out and on April 9, 2015, the day Bogle went missing, Myers was consoling her after she received a text from her half-brother calling her "white trash like her parents" and a "hoe."

Although Bogle said she was gay the first time Myers asked her out, the two went to his trailer and he made one more pass at Myers.

Bogle said no and laughed at Myers, and the two got into a scuffle in which she was badly beaten and he had two broken teeth. Myers knocked Bogle unconscious, tied her up and eventually fatally shot her.

Myers visited the crime scene after Bogle's death

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After spending most of April 10, 2015, cleaning up the crime scene, including changing the shirt worn by Bogle and discarding the one with two bullet holes, and cutting her hair to remove DNA, Myers decided to drive to Somerton Apartments for a second time.

The first time was to park Bogle's car off with her dead body in the trunk. The second was to come back to view his handiwork as authorities found the vehicle parked in the apartment complex.

Three women told detectives that a man drove up in either a red or blue truck and began acting "strange."

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The women said his teeth were messed up, a possibility after Bogle broke two of Myers' teeth during their fight, and was making comments about what shoes Bogle was wearing.

"Is she still wearing her yellow sweater," the witnesses told authorities Myers said. 

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Myers tried to pay former suspect to point finger at Omar Satchel

In April 2016, Kayree Jeffery joined Keyona Bor and Omar Satchel as named suspects in the Bogle murder.

Jeffery was charged with drugging and raping a Fremont teen in July 2018, and on Aug. 9, 2018, was interviewed by Sandusky County Sheriff's Major Nick Kotsopoulos. He told the major that Myers had offered him $5,500 to lie and say that Omar Satchel was Bogle's killer.

Jeffery did not take the bribe, and Myers denied making the request.

Sean O'Connell's investigation was built on lies

Four years after her death, justice came for Bogle and her friends, family and a county hoping to see authorities find the person responsible for her death.

But O'Connell's initial investigation failed in every way to give the family closure as he stubbornly pursued three African-Americans suspects through lies and secondhand information.

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Sandusky County Sheriff Chris Hilton said O'Connell was "chasing his tail" with the investigation and had he followed the leads and tips he received they would have shifted the focus to Myers.

Myers' past behavior led to his murderous rage

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After Myers was charged in Bogle's murder, many ex-lovers came forward detailing Myers' violent tendencies in the bedroom.

When Myers was indicted, his charges included sexual predator specifications, but he was never accused of sexually assaulting Bogle.

But more than 10 women came forward to paint a picture that Myers was a sexual deviant who did not take no for an answer.

During sexual encounters he would tie them up, beat them, whip them, bite them, and choke them, the women told investigators.

Hilton said Myers preyed on vulnerable women and would manipulate them to submit to his desires.

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