Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Fall in Ashland, Ohio, is former detective Kim Major's favorite time of the year.
Chapter 2: What is the significance of fall in Ashland, Ohio?
The maple and oak leaves turn blazing orange and deep red, and the county fair comes to town.
The whole community goes. The rides, the food. It's just a wonderful time for families. It's a good time.
The fair runs for a week every September. There's livestock shows, high school band parades, and funnel cake aplenty. As a child growing up in Ashland County, Major used to breed rabbits that were judged at the fair. And in September of 2016, as an Ashland police detective, Major was set to return to the fair, only this time alongside her colleagues to staff a police information booth.
So we were really happy about it. It lets people actually see us as human and come up and interact with us. We give out little things to the kids.
A few days before the fair, the logistics of the booth were weighing on Detective Major's mind right when she woke up. There was a lot to organize, but that was days away. On this morning, she had an 8 a.m. station shift, so she jumped in the shower.
And I could hear my phone on the counter, and I got two phone calls, and then I could hear a text alert. So I'm like, okay, somebody's trying to reach me.
Major ran through the usual mental list. Her husband, Dan, was at home. So were her three kids. If it was an emergency, it wasn't about them. Still, someone clearly wanted to reach her.
So I stepped out of the shower, cut it short, went over to the counter, and I looked down, and I can see that it's my captain.
Ashland's police captain, David Lay. Call me, his text read, ASAP.
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Chapter 3: How did Detective Kim Major prepare for the county fair?
20 years ago, the Red Brick Pump factory was sold off to a local Christian charity. The charity now owned a large patch of downtown Ashland, including some vacant land and two old houses. These houses, clad in yellow siding, were on 4th Street, right across the street from a laundromat. Empty and abandoned, the houses sat decaying for years.
Until one September day, a 911 call was made from inside one of those houses. It was the call that ultimately put the spotlight back on Ashland. I wanted to ask Kim Major about the aftermath of that call, the minutes and hours after Jane Doe was brought into the Ashland Police Department. What happens when you arrive at the station?
When I arrive, the first thing I noticed is her appearance.
Jane Doe, as she would later be called by the police and the press to keep her real name from the public, was sitting in an empty interview room. She was in her mid-thirties, thin and wearing a tank top and shorts. Her appearance told the detective a story. She had been beaten with cuts and bruises all over her face and body. Major knew she needed medical attention.
Her brown hair was greasy, which told the detective that she hadn't showered in several days. Her eyes were bloodshot and swollen, and her face was streaked with tears.
The second thing I noticed was the scent of not her, but I could smell the scent of her perpetrator. It's testosterone. I work sex offenses. I could smell him on her, his sweat.
You could smell him? I could. Early in her career, Major worked for Ashland County in the Children and Families Department. For three years, she investigated horrific abuse cases. Then she joined the Ashland Police Department. That was more than 20 years ago. Since then, Major has been assigned to many of Ashland's sexual assault cases, adults and children.
She had become the go-to for cases like Jane Doe's. She'd even been drafted by neighboring counties to help them with their cases. And after meeting Kim Major, I can see why. Out of uniform, she doesn't look like a typical police officer. With long hair and flowy clothes, she could be a high school art teacher. She's soft spoken, gentle, no sharp corners.
Her soft approach was at once empathetic and disarming. It made her good at what she did. When it came to Jane Doe, Detective Major immediately had a plan. First, they would need to relocate to a more comfortable space. She got Jane to follow her out of the interview room and down the hall.
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Chapter 4: What led to the frantic 911 call on September 13, 2016?
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Elizabeth Griffith was a local 29-year-old with her round face and close-cropped blonde hair. She was recognized all over Ashland.
Elizabeth was known in our town. I know where her apartment was. I had had contact with her. I think we all had.
Elizabeth was familiar to many of the police officers in Ashland. She often called the department with complaints about her neighbors.
Yeah, she very much got the title Girl Who Cried Wolf because she would call them about anything and everything.
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