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A GPS monitor strapped to the ankle of convicted sex-offender Brian Golsby provided investigators with “a road map” that helped them obtain a death-penalty indictment against him Friday in the abduction, rape and murder of a 21-year-old Ohio State University student.
The GPS monitor also was critical in the decision by the Franklin County grand jury to charge Golsby with six armed robberies, mostly in the German Village area, that occurred in the days leading up to the slaying.
In the homicide case, the data showed that Golsby spent about an hour walking on the night of Feb. 8 from the campus area to the Short North before he kidnapped Reagan Tokes as she approached her car on East Third Avenue, just east of North High Street, Prosecutor Ron O’Brien said.
“It would appear to me that night he was trolling the entire neighborhood looking for someone like her who was alone in an environment that he could prey upon,” he said.
Investigators were able to retrace Golsby’s movements from Tokes’ abduction at about 9:45 p.m. until her body was dumped near the entrance to Scioto Grove Metro Park in Grove City around midnight. Golsby was at the park for only three to five minutes, O’Brien said.
“I believe she was killed at the park,” although the rape likely occurred elsewhere, he said.
Golsby, 29, is charged with aggravated murder, kidnapping, aggravated robbery, rape, tampering with evidence and having a weapon despite a felony conviction in Tokes’ slaying.
Columbus police robbery detectives investigating the robberies were able to place Golsby “at the precise location of those six robberies by the GPS device,” O’Brien said.
Because the robber’s face was covered during the incidents, “absent the GPS device... it would have been hard to pursue those charges,” he said.
Golsby is charged with six counts of aggravated robbery and two counts of kidnapping for the attacks in the days before the murder.
Golsby had been wearing an ankle monitor and living in an East Side halfway house since November, when he was released after serving a six-year prison sentence for the attempted rape and robbery of a Grove City woman in 2010.
The Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, which ordered that Golsby wear the ankle monitor, does not monitor the GPS devices in real time, O’Brien said.
Suspect in OSU student's death tied to German Village attacks, prosecutor says
Oh really? What good is a passive GPS ankle monitor on a violent offender?
The GPS monitor also was critical in the decision by the Franklin County grand jury to charge Golsby with six armed robberies, mostly in the German Village area, that occurred in the days leading up to the slaying.
In the homicide case, the data showed that Golsby spent about an hour walking on the night of Feb. 8 from the campus area to the Short North before he kidnapped Reagan Tokes as she approached her car on East Third Avenue, just east of North High Street, Prosecutor Ron O’Brien said.
“It would appear to me that night he was trolling the entire neighborhood looking for someone like her who was alone in an environment that he could prey upon,” he said.
Investigators were able to retrace Golsby’s movements from Tokes’ abduction at about 9:45 p.m. until her body was dumped near the entrance to Scioto Grove Metro Park in Grove City around midnight. Golsby was at the park for only three to five minutes, O’Brien said.
“I believe she was killed at the park,” although the rape likely occurred elsewhere, he said.
Golsby, 29, is charged with aggravated murder, kidnapping, aggravated robbery, rape, tampering with evidence and having a weapon despite a felony conviction in Tokes’ slaying.
Columbus police robbery detectives investigating the robberies were able to place Golsby “at the precise location of those six robberies by the GPS device,” O’Brien said.
Because the robber’s face was covered during the incidents, “absent the GPS device... it would have been hard to pursue those charges,” he said.
Golsby is charged with six counts of aggravated robbery and two counts of kidnapping for the attacks in the days before the murder.
Golsby had been wearing an ankle monitor and living in an East Side halfway house since November, when he was released after serving a six-year prison sentence for the attempted rape and robbery of a Grove City woman in 2010.
The Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, which ordered that Golsby wear the ankle monitor, does not monitor the GPS devices in real time, O’Brien said.
Suspect in OSU student's death tied to German Village attacks, prosecutor says
Oh really? What good is a passive GPS ankle monitor on a violent offender?
