Unchecked Evil

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🗓️ 28 June 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Twenty-one-year-old Ohio State senior Reagan Tokes was just months away from graduation when she was shot and killed in a public park. Her parents’ heartbreak soon turned to anger as they learned that Reagan’s killer was wearing an ankle monitor during the attack. Andrea Canning reports. In Dateline’s ‘After the Verdict’ series, Andrea Canning sits down with Lisa Tokes to talk about her fight to change the laws in Ohio following her daughter Reagan’s 2017 murder. Available only to Dateline Premium subscribers: https://dateline.supportingcast.fm/listen/dateline-nbc-premium/after-the-verdict-unchecked-evil

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0:00.0	Hello, 911. I think there's a body out here.
0:04.0	They send somebody hurry.
0:05.0	They had the body of a young woman who matched the description of Reagan.
0:10.0	And I just kept saying that has to be wrong.
0:15.0	Who would want to hurt Reagan?
0:19.0	Investigators would start with those closest to her.
0:22.0	Is your gut telling you this is someone she knew?
0:24.7	We were figuring that it was probably somebody that she knew.
0:27.8	An ex-boyfriend, current boyfriend.
0:30.1	But miles away, a string of alarming encounters.
0:34.2	He had a knife, he put it to my neck.
0:36.1	I heard a voice say, don't turn around or I'll shoot.
0:38.9	This was somebody that wanted to do evil.
0:40.8	Could there be a connection to Reagan's murder?
0:43.8	The answer would leave an entire city infuriated.
0:47.5	How the heck does this happen?
0:49.2	How does this happen?
0:50.2	They could have connected the dots way sooner.
0:52.0	The system failed Reagan terribly.
0:55.0	I think it's outrage times a thousand.
0:58.0	A harrowing story that would reveal an unbelievable blind spot in law enforcement.
1:04.2	I'm Lester Holt and this is Dateline.
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