Brad Bellino

DNA: ID

AbJack Entertainment

Society & Culture, True Crime

4.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2026

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

Episode 184 Brad Bellino

The 1972 rape and murder of 12 year old Brad Bellino in Boardman Ohio shook residents of the safe, peaceful town. The case of the little boy abducted and discarded in a dumpster was worked hard by police, but remained unsolved, even as another little boy was taken just three years later. Investigators never forgot Brad Bellino and David Evans, and when modern DNA testing technology came around, they jumped at a new chance to solve the crimes that were a scourge on the town and a black mark on the Boardman police department. Finally, thanks to updated DNA testing and IGG, Brad and David's families have answers, answers that, a half century later, came too late.

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0:00.0	You're listening to DNAID.
0:03.8	Brought to you by Abjack Entertainment, be sure to check out some of the other great
0:08.2	true crime podcasts from this network, including The Murder in My Family, Missing Persons,
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0:57.0	The This episode concerns child murder.
1:29.2	Listener discretion is strongly advised.
1:33.3	It was 1972.
1:35.3	The Bellino family was not one to worry.
1:37.3	They lived in a small, safe suburb, Boardman Township, Ohio.
1:41.0	Helicopter parenting hadn't been invented yet,
1:43.0	and 12-year-old Brad Belino's parents
1:45.1	who had four kids were decidedly hands-off. But when Saturday, April first rolled around and family
1:51.1	members realized that 12-year-old Brad hadn't been seen or heard from since Friday evening,
1:55.4	his older sister, Debbie, called the police at 3.20 p.m. When patrolman Robert Laird got to the Bolino home, located at 61
2:03.4	McClurg Road, Brad's sister Debbie and father Joseph told the patrolman that they put together just
2:09.0	that morning that Brad was missing. The last they knew, he had left the house around 1 p.m. on Thursday,
2:14.1	March 30th, to go to the Southern Park Mall to meet his friends, and then he was going
2:18.3	to the house of his bestie, Don Templeman, who lived at 733 Teakwood in the Applewood-acre's neighborhood.
2:24.3	School was closed on Friday for Good Friday, and Brad spent the night at the Templeman home on Thursday night.
2:30.7	Brad had left Don's house to walk home, but he never made it.
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