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blood and drag marks on the living room carpet and what appeared to be blood on the
linoleum at the top of the basement stairs. At this time, Lt. Rohler and I exited
the residence to await BCI&I Crime Scene Agents.” BCI&I was Ohio’s Bureau of Criminal
Identification and Investigation.
Brown next received verbal consent from Greg Borders to examine his arms, hands and
torso for scratches and injuries. After the examination, Brown noted that Greg did
not appear to have any injuries on him.
The actual affiant for the search warrant, the person responsible for detailing the
warrant’s purpose, was KCSO Detective David Light. Even though Greg Borders had given
a verbal okay to search the residence, it was best to have a written search warrant
signed by a judge. Detective Light began by stating that he had been with KCSO since
1993 and had been a detective since 2008. In his time with the sheriff’s office, he’d
investigated twelve cases involving felonious assault, one kidnapping and twenty deaths.
The main part of Light’s search-warrant request included the lines, “At approximately
4:15 PM on November 11, 2010, Sergeant Tom Durbin and Sergeant Dexter responded to Ms. Haythorn’s
call, entered Ms. Herrmann’s residence where they observed bloodstains on the living
room and hallway carpet, apparent drag marks in the bloodstains on the hallway carpet
going in the direction of the bathroom and a large amount of blood around the tub
and toilet area. And they observed a gallon jug of what appeared to be [motor] oil
in the hallway with a ten inch trail of liquid leading from the hallway to a bedroom.”
In fact, the motor oil had been dripped on the rugs in several portions of the house.
Light added that Sergeants Durbin and Dexter had also observed bloodstains going down
the stairs to a lower-level garage where a light gray or green 1996 Jeep Cherokee
with Ohio plates was parked.
The Jeep Cherokee was known to be driven by Stephanie Sprang, but the registration
listed a man named Jeremy Biggs as the owner. Just how Biggs fit into all this, the
investigators did not yet know.
KCSO deputies spread throughout the neighborhood, questioning neighbors about the
missing individuals. Investigators noted immediately that no houses were right next
door to the King Beach Drive address—it was fairly isolated, with a patch of woods
across the street and farmland across Magers Drive.
* * *
Even before the search team began processing Tina Herrmann’s house, miles away Matt
Hoffman was deciding to put into action his plan to burn down the house on King Beach
Drive.
After first making sure that Sarah Maynard was completely restrained and could not
get away, sometime after 6:00 PM on Thursday, November 11, Hoffman drove his Toyota Yaris back to Gambier near Kenyon
College and the parking lot where he had left Tina’s blue pickup truck. He was going
to collect the gas cans from the truck, fill them up with gasoline and then go to
the residence. But before he could access the pickup, fate intervened.
Hoffman had abandoned the pickup at the Kokosing Gap Trail parking lot off of Laymon
Road and State Route 229, an area used as a launching spot for canoes on the Kokosing
River. At 6:55 PM , KCSO Deputy Aaron Phillips was driving around on his routine patrol when he spotted
the blue pickup truck. Deputy Phillips already knew that Deputy Charles Statler had
spotted a similar pickup truck in Tina Herrmann’s driveway at around 11:15 PM on November 10. What was it doing here now?
Then Deputy Phillips spotted something else unusual. There was a silver car parked
near the edge of another nearby lot, even though the lot was now closed for the night,
and a man was sitting in the car behind the steering wheel.
Deputy Phillips approached the vehicle and asked the man what he was doing there and
asked to see his driver’s license. The man cooperated and
blood and drag marks on the living room carpet and what appeared to be blood on the
linoleum at the top of the basement stairs. At this time, Lt. Rohler and I exited
the residence to await BCI&I Crime Scene Agents.” BCI&I was Ohio’s Bureau of Criminal
Identification and Investigation.
Brown next received verbal consent from Greg Borders to examine his arms, hands and
torso for scratches and injuries. After the examination, Brown noted that Greg did
not appear to have any injuries on him.
The actual affiant for the search warrant, the person responsible for detailing the
warrant’s purpose, was KCSO Detective David Light. Even though Greg Borders had given
a verbal okay to search the residence, it was best to have a written search warrant
signed by a judge. Detective Light began by stating that he had been with KCSO since
1993 and had been a detective since 2008. In his time with the sheriff’s office, he’d
investigated twelve cases involving felonious assault, one kidnapping and twenty deaths.
The main part of Light’s search-warrant request included the lines, “At approximately
4:15 PM on November 11, 2010, Sergeant Tom Durbin and Sergeant Dexter responded to Ms. Haythorn’s
call, entered Ms. Herrmann’s residence where they observed bloodstains on the living
room and hallway carpet, apparent drag marks in the bloodstains on the hallway carpet
going in the direction of the bathroom and a large amount of blood around the tub
and toilet area. And they observed a gallon jug of what appeared to be [motor] oil
in the hallway with a ten inch trail of liquid leading from the hallway to a bedroom.”
In fact, the motor oil had been dripped on the rugs in several portions of the house.
Light added that Sergeants Durbin and Dexter had also observed bloodstains going down
the stairs to a lower-level garage where a light gray or green 1996 Jeep Cherokee
with Ohio plates was parked.
The Jeep Cherokee was known to be driven by Stephanie Sprang, but the registration
listed a man named Jeremy Biggs as the owner. Just how Biggs fit into all this, the
investigators did not yet know.
KCSO deputies spread throughout the neighborhood, questioning neighbors about the
missing individuals. Investigators noted immediately that no houses were right next
door to the King Beach Drive address—it was fairly isolated, with a patch of woods
across the street and farmland across Magers Drive.
* * *
Even before the search team began processing Tina Herrmann’s house, miles away Matt
Hoffman was deciding to put into action his plan to burn down the house on King Beach
Drive.
After first making sure that Sarah Maynard was completely restrained and could not
get away, sometime after 6:00 PM on Thursday, November 11, Hoffman drove his Toyota Yaris back to Gambier near Kenyon
College and the parking lot where he had left Tina’s blue pickup truck. He was going
to collect the gas cans from the truck, fill them up with gasoline and then go to
the residence. But before he could access the pickup, fate intervened.
Hoffman had abandoned the pickup at the Kokosing Gap Trail parking lot off of Laymon
Road and State Route 229, an area used as a launching spot for canoes on the Kokosing
River. At 6:55 PM , KCSO Deputy Aaron Phillips was driving around on his routine patrol when he spotted
the blue pickup truck. Deputy Phillips already knew that Deputy Charles Statler had
spotted a similar pickup truck in Tina Herrmann’s driveway at around 11:15 PM on November 10. What was it doing here now?
Then Deputy Phillips spotted something else unusual. There was a silver car parked
near the edge of another nearby lot, even though the lot was now closed for the night,
and a man was sitting in the car behind the steering wheel.
Deputy Phillips approached the vehicle and asked the man what he was doing there and
asked to see his driver’s license. The man cooperated and
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