Hi, Crime junkies. I'm your host Ashley Flowers, and I'm Britt.

And today I want to tell you all about a woman whose life in a small rust belt town

was brutally stolen from her just as she was working to make positive changes and build

a better future for her and her daughter. But what at first seemed like a straightforward

murder investigation turned into so much more with allegations swirling while a killer

remained on the loose. This is the story of Heather Bogle.

On April 9, 2015 in Clyde, Ohio, which is this any bitty town about an hour to like an hour

and a half west of Cleveland, this woman named Renee McLaughlin gets some odd news. Her grand

daughter Mackenzie hasn't been picked up from school. Now usually Mackenzie's mom Heather,

who is Renee's daughter, is the one to pick her up, but today for whatever reason Heather

never showed up. Right away, this strikes Renee as odd. She'd already texted Heather a couple

of times really super early in the morning, like once at 2.24am asking if she was at home,

and then again at 3.13am after she didn't get an answer. At the time, Renee didn't think it was

too weird for Heather not to respond, but now with no one going to pick up Mackenzie from school,

it just doesn't sit right. So why was Renee texting Heather so early? Yeah, it's an odd time.

It kind of stood out to me too, but according to Craig Schoep's article for the news messenger,

Heather actually works the night shift doing material handling at the whirlpool plant

there in Clyde. So she was pretty likely to be awake at that hour. It's not like she was just

texting her in the middle of the night when most of us would be sleeping. Right, and even if Heather

wasn't at work, she would probably still be sticking with that schedule just to keep her body

in that mode. Right, right. So now Renee is trying to get a hold of Heather again, really hoping for

an answer. She sends Heather a message at 2.33pm basically asking, hey, who is supposed to get Mackenzie

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