Tips lead to second search on Hickory Street apartment

CLYDE – Investigators into the homicide of a Ballville Township woman have received several tips helping them close the gap on the number of people of interest in the case, a detective said.

There are no suspects, and police still are investigating the death of Heather Bogle, 28, who was found beaten and shot to death in the trunk of her car Friday night in Clyde.

Authorities are offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to the leads to identifying the person or people responsible for the brutal killing.

Detective Sean O’Connell said a tip led to a trip to an abandoned building and a second search of the Somerton Apartment Complex in the 240 block of Hickory Street in Clyde.

“One tip led us to this individual that maybe something that had occurred on County Road 175 and County Road 113. That locations falls within the last time the phone pinged (off the cell tower),” O’Connell said. “We decided to bring a cadaver dog with us with the intent on finding tissue, clothing, blood, hair or fibers. We didn’t find anything.”

Despite not finding anything in the buildings, O’Connell said investigators decided to use the cadaver dog to search the apartment previously searched Monday.

“That’s the apartment we believe our victim (Bogle) is somehow associated with, at least as of Thursday,” O’Connell said. “The cadaver dog alerts on the front door, suggesting to handler that human remains may have been present.”

O’Connell said investigators did not find any evidence to suggest the apartment as the homicide location. He said investigators were looking for possible evidence she was physically harmed at the apartment because she showed signs of blunt force trauma throughout her body during the initial autopsy findings.

O’Connell said they still are seeking any information for the investigation. He said anyone with information about the green 2003 Oldsmobile Alero can call the sheriff’s office at 419-332-2613.

Bogle last was seen punching out at 6:17 a.m. after her shift at Whirlpool.

“Her phone goes dead at around 9:20 a.m.,” O’Connell said. “We’re thinking somewhere in between there she was probably in the OK mode. But things started taking a turn for the worse when her phone went dead.”

O’Connell said Bogle’s routine each morning included calling the babysitter who watched her 5-year-old daughter before she went to school. The routine also included Bogle sleeping when she returned home.

“Had she been OK at 9:20 a.m. or later, she probably would have recharged her phone, kept it on,” he said.

Bogle had little contact with local law enforcement. The sheriff's office had no reports about her, and Clyde police helped her once with a disabled vehicle in 2013.

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