Bogle autopsy reveals details of brutal death
FREMONT – A preliminary autopsy report released Friday of homicide victim Heather Bogle revealed more details of her brutal death last April.
“This is a very brutal crime. I’ve seen a lot over the years. This is probably one of the more brutal ones of my career,” Sandusky County Sheriff Chief Deputy Bruce Hirt said Friday.
The body of the 28-year-old single mother was found in the trunk of her car April 10, badly beaten and shot twice in the back. The preliminary autopsy stated her wrists and ankles had been bound; her scalp hair had been cut in a ragged, uneven pattern; and that she had died within minutes of being shot through the lungs.
Bogle’s body had defensive marks — round bruises — on the back of both hands, according to the one-page preliminary autopsy report provided by the Sandusky County Coroner’s Office.
The News-Messenger reviewed the one-page document after a month of legal challenges asserting that the preliminary autopsy report was a public record according to Ohio law. The coroner’s office and county prosecutor initially refused to comply with the request, but the prosecutor’s office notified the newspaper Thursday that it would make the document available on Friday.
Hirt said investigators suspect Bogle was beaten before being shot twice in the back.
The autopsy performed by Lucas County Coroner James Patrick and Deputy Coroner Diane Scala-Barnett noted ligature marks on Bogle’s wrists and ankles, indicating she had been tied up.
Bruises were found on her face, jaw, eyes, forehead and legs, and there were lacerations on her tongue, according to the report. There also were “curvilinear marks” on the left side of her neck.
Hirt said hundreds of man hours have been put in by several investigators, and that they are working on the case every day, following tips and leads.
Dr. John Wukie, the Sandusky County coroner, told The News-Messenger in June that marijuana had been detected in Bogle’s body. The preliminary autopsy reported the level measured in her urine was 51 ng/mL.
Bogle was last seen alive at 6:17 a.m. April 9 leaving her job at Whirlpool. Her body was found around 8 p.m. the next day inside the trunk of her 2003 Oldsmobile Alero, parked at the Somerton Apartments in Clyde.
No suspects have been named, but police have identified three persons of interest: Omar Satchel, of Fremont; Keyona Bor, of Clyde, and Kathaline Mora, of Fremont.
Investigators twice searched Bor’s Somerton Apartment and reported they retrieved undisclosed evidence that was taken to the Bureau of Criminal Investigation crime lab in Bowling Green.
Satchel, who is being held on $100,000 bond in the Sandusky County Jail, was arrested May 5 on felony charges of theft and having a weapon while on probation.
O’Connell said Satchel was on parole for a weapons-related offense in Michigan and that the weapon might be related to Bogle’s homicide.
Jail records show Bor visited Satchel in jail.
Bor, who has not been charged but hired an attorney, saying she fears she is a suspect in the investigation, said she never met Bogle.
“They have searched my apartment twice and found nothing,” Bor said in May. “They said I am a person of interest. They pull up to me in public, have questioned my friends and come to my job.”
Another search was conducted in May on a house on Bidwell Avenue in Fremont that is rented by Mora. Authorities said the home may have been the location of Bogle’s homicide.
Evidence was reported seized by BCI from the Bidwell Avenue address but authorities have declined to comment about what was seized and whether the crime lab has finished testing any of the evidence.
Records show Bor visited Mora in the Sandusky County jail after Mora was arrested for a probation violation in October 2014. The probation violation stemmed from an assault conviction in 2013 when police were called to the 1100 block of White Avenue in Fremont after a woman said Mora assaulted her, according to reports.
Several fundraisers have been hosted in the area to benefit Bogle’s 6-year-old daughter, McKenzie, who is living with her grandparents.
Bogle’s father, Bruce, posted on his Facebook page that he had been told by the lead detective, Sean O’Connell, that an arrest is coming soon, but Hirt said Friday that was not accurate.
“He was told we were interviewing people,” Hirt said.
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