245: Good Solid Policework & Monopoly

Published: March 8, 2023, 12:30 p.m.

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Heather Bogle\\u2019s murder was nothing short of brutal. The young, single mother\\u2019s body was discovered in the trunk of her car, shot and beaten. Detective Sean O\\u2019Connell was assigned to Heather\\u2019s case. Despite the fact that Heather disappeared shortly after she finished a shift at the local Whirlpool plant, Detective O\\u2019Connell didn\\u2019t bother talking to her co-workers. Instead, he focused on three people with no apparent tie to Heather. When samples of their DNA didn\\u2019t match DNA found on Heather\\u2019s body, the detective hid that information from the district attorney.
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\\nThen Brandi felt like she\\u2019d been told to go straight to jail when, by chance, Kristin told the history of everyone\\u2019s least favorite game \\u2013 Monopoly. Brandi was tempted to turn on the water works, but she hung in there as Kristin told the tale of how Parker Brothers\\u2019 sought a monopoly on Monopoly. Rumor has it that Brandi nearly kicked a small dog with an old boot (again!) but Kristin distracted her with her community chest.\\xa0
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\\nAnd now for a note about our process. For each episode, Kristin reads a bunch of articles, then spits them back out in her very limited vocabulary. Brandi copies and pastes from the best sources on the web. And sometimes Wikipedia. (No shade, Wikipedia. We love you.) We owe a huge debt of gratitude to the real experts who covered these cases.
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\\nIn this episode, Kristin pulled from:
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An episode of American Experience, titled, \\u201cRuthless Monopoly\\u2019s Secret History\\u201d
\\n\\u201cMonopoly was designed to teach the 99% about income inequality,\\u201d by Mary Pilon for Smithsonian Magazine
\\n\\u201cHow a fight over a board game monopolized an economist\\u2019s life,\\u201d by Mary Pilon for the Wall Street Journal
\\n\\u201cNew game is marked by a two-way stretch,\\u201d by Richard Ramella for The Berkeley Gazette
\\n\\u201c\\u2018Anti-Monopoly\\u2019 loses to Monopoly,\\u201d Associated Press, The Hanford Sentinel
\\n\\u201cRalph Anspach,\\u201d holocaustfoundation.com/ralph
\\n\\u201cMonopoly loses its trademark,\\u201d by Pamela G. Hollie for the New York Times
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\\nIn this episode, Brandi pulled from:
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\\u201cGood Cop/Bad Cop: The Heather Bogle Murder\\u201d episode 48 Hours
\\n\\u201cJagged\\u201d episode Dateline
\\n\\u201cHeather Bogle\\u201d chillingcrimes.com
\\n\\u201cHow Did An Investigator End Up Behind Bars Himself After Probing The Murder Of An Ohio Mom?\\u201d By Jill Sederstrom, Oxygen
\\n\\u201cO\'Connell victim wins his lawsuit\\u201d by Matt Westerhold, Review Times
\\n\\u201cJustice comes in 2 colors\\u201d by Staff, Sandusky Register
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