Photo/Garland Police Department
As Gary Sweet got farther into the Reyes investigation, he kept an “inspiration book” with photographs of the child to remind him of who he was doing it for and combat the times when he wasn’t sure he would succeed.
Photo/Gary Sweet
The bogeyman stalked his prey in the Dallas area during the mid-1980s, crossing jurisdictional lines to confuse law enforcement efforts to catch him.
Graphic/Garland Police Department
Gary Sweet (middle) and Don Phillips (right) talk to a Columbus PD detective outside of the house where Penton grew up and later lived as an adult. The investigators located twenty pieces of cloth tied together beneath the floorboards located in the attic. When tested the cloth revealed blood and semen stains; however, the stains were too old to give positive DNA results.
Photo/Garland Police Department
Albert Mulligan, a cellmate after Penton’s arrest for the Nydra Ross murder, drew this picture of his daughter who’d died young ascending to heaven. He told Sweet that Penton had taken the drawing and put breasts on the girl then added the swingset, merry-go-round and lake, which he said was in Texas.
Drawing/Garland Police Department
While detectives Sweet and Bradshaw talked to Penton at the Ohio State Penitentiary prior to his indictment, detectives Phillips and Meeks combed through Penton’s tidy cell.
Photo/Garland Police Department
During their search, Phillips and Meeks discovered this plastic bag containing articles of civilian clothing tied together and hidden. They believe it was an “escape bag,” put together by Penton should the opportunity to escape present itself.
Photo/Garland Police Department
Detectives Billy Meeks and Don Phillips put together a Powerpoint presentation of the cases including this timeline that included two young women who stepped forward after Penton’s indictment in the spring of 2003.
The Texas detectives involved in the Penton investigation following their interviews with Penton prior to his indictment for the Texas murders, from left: Bruce Bradshaw, Don Phillips, Marletta Scribner , Gary Sweet and Billy Meeks.
Photo/Garland Police Department
The Bogeyman as he appears now.
Photo/Ohio Department of Corrections
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