I think there is a body out here. They have a body of a young woman that matches the description of reagan. I just kept saying, it has to be wrong. Reporter who would want to hurt reagan . Investigators would start with those closest to her. We figured it was probably somebody she knew. And exboyfriend, current boyfriend. Reporter but miles away, a string of alarming encounters. He had a knife and put it to my neck. I heard a voice say, dont turn around or i will shoot. Reporter could there be a connection to reagans murder . The answer would leave an entire city and rage. How does this happen . They couldve connected the dots sooner. The system failed reagan. Reporter hello and welcome to dateline. College student reagan tokes was smart. Beautiful. Determined. As graduation approach, her life was rooming with possibilities. But that Bright Future ended before it began when reagan was found shot to death. Investigators quickly closed in on itself but a stunning discovery would reveal an unbelievable line spot in Law Enforcement and color her familys grief with rage. Here is unchecked evil. Reporter look at the pictures and you can see reagan tokes was a ray of light. She was a vivacious ball of energy. She was always so fun to be around. I still dont think ive ever met anyone to make me laugh like she did. Reporter a caring friend, a devoted daughter, she radiated life from her very first breath. She came out eyes wide open. Just ready to take on the world. Reporter which made her final moments all the more incomprehensible. Terrified and alone and that darkened field. To think about what she had to endure and what she was ultimately clinging onto, it was to live and go home. Reporter your sister met with people that night. Thats all he is. Just evil. Reporter for reagans family, the way she was taken from them wasnt just heartbreaking, it was infuriating. Is this a crime that never should have happened . Absolutely never should have happened. They had this monster in the graft under control and they let him slip through. Reporter our story begins on a College Campus that had long been reagan stream. Her dad took her to an ohio state Football Game and she was little. Then they say that was it. She told me that is where she wanted to be and i told her, if she worked hard and got good grades, make sure she could go pick she never applied anywhere else . No. Thats where i want to go and dont worry. Im going to get in. Reporter makenzie is reagans little sister. I remember she said she was going to ohio state university. Reporter madison, jackie, kiersten and stephanie were her college roommates. She had a goofy streak to her. Yeah. She was hilarious. She was always laughing and always making us Leopard Reporter to earn some extra cash, reagan apply for a job at this popular restaurant called bodega. Kirsten and stephanie worked there too. Shes like i need a job and do you know anything and i said, come work at bodega. Reporter died february 2017, reagan was months away from graduation. She made a difficult decision, she and her boyfriend broke up. She was so heartbroken that week. They really cared about each other. It was hard but it was best for both of them. Reporter days later on february 8th, she headed off for an Evening Shift at bodega. It was like normal. Ill see you later. Reporter like you have done 1 million times before . Exactly. Reporter reagans dad expected to get a call from her after work but the call never came . No. I remember after 10 00 i started to get concerned. That something might be wrong and i tried, really, to get a hold of her for about four hours. Reporter in this case, you had a fathers intuition that something was wrong . I did. Reporter the next morning, kirsten got an uneasy feeling when she passed reagans empty room. They were supposed to walk to class together. I was like, she probably got up early and went to the library. Reporter by early afternoon, it was clear no one had heard from reagan since she left work the night before. What are you thinking happened to her . Its almost like you have a gut feeling but at the same time youre like, its going to be fine. I thought she wanted to go see one of her friends out of town and maybe her phone dried died when she was driving. Reporter they went to the last place reagan was seen. Bodega. And the manager called in a Missing Persons report. As they waited for police to arrive, kirsten overheard two employees talking about and on my new story. Is like, youve got to look at this article. And show the bartender. He was like, thats not good. Reporter earlier, a man 10 miles away spotted something. 911. Yeah, i think there is a body out here. I dont know if this is fake or what. I cant, im afraid to get close to somebody her if it reporter the Police Lieutenant was on the scene within minutes. When we first got here we could see the body out here, about 18 or 20 feet from the roadway. She was completely naked and you the tell she had been shot in the head. Reporter shot twice and possibly raped. Were using any clues in the field . There was nothing other than her. We were scanning the entire area and we did not see anything. Reporter any idea who this woman is . At this time, no. Reporter her close, while in cell phone were nowhere to be found. We had a necklace and there was a tattoo on her body. Reporter what kind of a tattoo . He thought it might be someone they were looking for from a neighboring county but then he got word that an osu student was missing. Detectives refunded to bodega. One of their first questions for reagans friends, did she have a tattoo . The answer was yes. The detective looked at me and said, the body we did find did have that tattoo but we wont know for sure until the Family Member identifies it. Reporter blood that enough for you . Yes. 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Your mind so its going, oh, no. What if she had a car accident and her car skidded off the road and its in a ditch somewhere. Your mind is all over the place and its horrible. Reporter her disappearance had her sister worried, too. I broke down and went to my school and was a mess. Everyone there was constantly telling me its going to be okay. She is 21. She is fine. Reporter after dark, the phone rang. They said they had the body of a young woman who matched the description of reagan. Who was found naked and shot twice in the head. I just kept saying, that has to be wrong. I just saw my parents to the door and i knew immediately that it wasnt just a car accident or was found somewhere. It was worse than that. It was a lot more violent. Reporter how could you tell . I could see it in their faces. Everything was sucked out of them. It was just any life that was there was gone reporter as sure as police were that reagan was there vic them, official identification would still have to be made by a Family Member. Reagans uncle live within driving distance. I just kept remembering that i was praying all through the night that it was just going to be a mistake and he would get there and call me and say, no. They made a mistake it is not her. But that is not the phone call we got. Reporter reagan was caught at just 21 years old. Now that there vic them had a name, police had to figure out who killed her. Brian davidson, he supervised the detective division. Reporter any risk factors in her life . Was she into drugs or anything that could have let her down this path somehow . No. That was the thing. She was a brilliant student. She was getting ready to graduate. She was just a great kid. I can remember the detective asking me if theres anybody we knew of who would want to hurt her. And i can remember i was just like, no. Why would anyone want to hurt her . Everybody loved her. Reporter makenzie could see that, too. I went to apply for my first job when i turned 16 and i just had my last name and i said, my sister works for you last summer and they said, you are hired. Reporter Reagan Spencer free time doing Mission Trips with her church and was planning a career in psychology. She knew she would have a positive impact. Reporter you were probably just so proud of her. We were. She had a gift and she would have done anything she set her mind to. Reporter at osu, her roommate say she was all about making friends. Not enemies. She said that she looked me up on facebook before we moved in and she immediately knew we would be friends. She was right. Reporter what did you put on your Facebook Page . I look at everyone and i picked you out to be my friend. Reporter there didnt seem to be anything in reagans history that would shed light on what happened to her. Yet to the detective, reagans murder seemed personal. Reporter is your gut telling you this is someone she knew . At that time, we were thinking it was probably someone she knew. And exboyfriend, or a current boyfriend. Reporter remember, reagan and her boyfriend just broken up. His name was jake. Reagans friends thought he was a sweetheart. We were just at me like, no. Absolutely not. Reporter why were you so sure . He loved her and he was still her friend. There is not a mean bone in his body. Reporter of course, that is not the way a detective thinks. Just the breakup alone could be a red flag. Yes. Reporter detectives page and visit and recorded the conversation. When was the last time you talk to her . About a week and a half ago. Is that normal . Not usually. Reporter did he get a reason why they broke up . The reason was, i guess, they wanted to concentrate on their schoolwork and they felt dating was getting in the way. Reporter did he say that they thought . He said they never fought. They just it was a mutual breakup. She even said in a text, that i was one of her best friends, no matter what. Reporter the detective asked to talk to to look at jakes phone. Something caught his eye. Why in the world would you ride you would hit her in the face . I was talking to her like you just dont hear very often better place. Reporter there was Something Else that seemed a little strange to police. You said you posted on instagram . Yes, sir. Reporter he was talking about how many likes it had. It brought up a lot of red flags immediately. Reporter but there were other leads to chase including one from an unlikely source. Reporter coming up, a garbage truck. It gives you a huge break in this case. It was definitely the break we were looking for. Reporter then, and even bigger break drums this year from some security of video. When dateline continues. You ready . Showtime. This is gonna be epic. [ barking ] its what the poster said. Do you want to make out or . Nope. I meant yes. Hes a bon garcon. I give amazing spongebaths. Can i get a room . [ chuckling ] chefs kiss. But you were so numb. [overlapping speech] Andrea Canning voiceover reagan tokes Friends Reagan Tokes friends were living a nightmare. A day earlier she was the Beating Heart of the group and now she was dead. Ripped from their lives in such a violent way. I dont think any of us left at all. We stayed together the whole night. We had a lot of people, i think all of our parents came to our apartment and were there to console us. It didnt feel real at all. Reporter trying to figure out who killed her was equally confusing. Because it couldnt be her ex boyfriend, her Disappearance Hit him hard. I remember talking to jake that day. You could tell that he was very worried. Reporter detectives checked jakes alibi and it was rock solid. He tells us he was watching a movie with his roommates and we were able to interview the other Roommate Epperly and they all backed up his story completely. Reporter did you literally cross them off for this . We cross them off the list. Reporter truth be told, their list had no promising names on it. They traced reagan steps that last day. Starting with the moment she left her apartment for work that afternoon. The lead detective on the case. We were able to find out when she left and see if there was anybody around the area. Did another car seem to follow her. We didnt find anything to reporter they also took a look at bodega surveillance video. Here you can see reagan walking out after her shift around 9 45 p. M. We kept expecting to see someone follow her out of the bar but we didnt see any of that. Reporter there was no customer giving her a hard time or following her . No one. Reporter Police Received a tip that a man posing as a uber driver was pray on intoxicated women around town. There were several attacks in an alleged rape . Surrounding this man posing as a driver . I believe there were seven or eight individuals that reported this person posing as a Rideshare Driver and inappropriately touching them. Reporter but that did not seem to touch reagans case. She drove herself to her. She had her car there and she wasnt intoxicated. She was just leaving work. Reporter perhaps, reagans car was the key. No one had seen it since she was murdered. Reporter it could be anywhere in the state of ohio at this time but it could be out of state. We had no idea where it was at. Reporter they entered the plates into a database that tracks vehicles nationwide and it turned up nothing. Detectives tried another private database, one that collect information from License Plates readers on vehicles. Sure enough. Reporter a trash truck picked up her License Plate near childrens hospital. Reporter that is incredible. A garbage truck gives you a huge break in this case. It was. It was the break we were looking for. We wanted to get over to that area. Reporter the car could be gone. The car could be gone to reporter but when they pulled up, there it was. This is the street that reagans car was found on. It was facing that direction. Reporter the first things detectives noticed were burn marks on the back seat and the overwhelming stench of gasoline. What was that tell you . That this individual tried to destroy evidence. Reporter but he failed because the car was intact. He failed miserably. Reporter they also found Bank Receipts but only 60 was withdrawn from her account but <