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Yes, okay, she has a great story. You know, I didn't
want to say exciting because people get upset or you know, yeah, why
is true crime exciting? True? Yeah, I be exciting, right,
it shouldn't be, I guess serious. We're being serious. But for a
true crime story, this is excellent, yes right, yes, and it
is a story that was suggested to us by one of our listeners. Her
name is Duanne Sanchez. Is she a patron? No, she's not a
patroon. She's a listener and she sent us an email that's exactly when.
But she suggested this case, okay, and I know nothing about it.
Well good, then you're going to be on the edge of your seat just
like everyone else. All right, right, let's do it. Okay.
In the early morning hours of September nineteenth of two thousand and eight, a
passing motorist stopped to investigate what they had found on the side of Northwest Tulip
Street in and Over, Soda. The concerned passer by found a crashed two
thousand and four Kati m Ennerow Rendezvous motorcycle. Okay, so it's a crash
motorcycle on the side of the road and with what appeared to be the lifeless
body of a young woman lying roughly about fifty feet from where the motorcycle crash
was. It was fall in Minnesota, and Andover was just a few short
miles from what's called the Halloween Capital of the World. Oh really, I
thought that was in Romeo, Michigan. I know, That's why I was
surprised. But it's Anoka, Minnesota, Okay, the Halloween capital. So
I guess it's probably big at Halloween, I would, Okay, Capital anyway,
residents in the area, you know, the Halloween, they have just
this passion for all things spooky, So it's probably a good place to visit.
And I'm mentioning it because the motorcycle, it didn't appear to be like
decorations or like a Halloween set up, you know, with a skeleton like
that body with the motorcycle. You know, sometimes put people like in my
neighborhood this past Halloween, people had like a garbage bag looked like a body
was like duct taped in a garbage bag. Okay, this wasn't what appeared
to be a Halloween decoration. It just appeared to be a true gruesome accident.
And it was discovered just past midnight, and the Anoka County Sheriff's Department
was called and they arrived on the scene. Investigators responded to the motorcycle accident.
They began processing it. It was appearent to some that there it's obviously
a motorcycle accident in which the driver of the motorcycle lost her life. Upon
further investigation, investigators were asking themselves like, well, how could this have
happened? Something A lot of females that are out there alone, rightcycle at
midnight or a little before mid night, right, and some things just didn't
seem to add up in their eyes. The young woman wasn't wearing any shoes.
Well, that is weird, and no shoes were found near the crash
site. She also had no cuts, scrapes, or other markings on the
soles of her feet. Yeah, it's an accident on a motorcycle. Yeah,
you know, you would expect to see something because there's also like sharp
footpegs on the motorcycles. So I guess for your shoe. I've never been
on one, but apparently so your shoe can grip, you know, the
where you would put in your feet. Well, if you've ever known anybody
that's had a motorcycle accident, they're pretty mussed up. Yes, you're gonna
have road rash. Well, she's missing some are missing legs. Well,
she did have some injuries, but they weren't to the soles of her feet.
She was found with several wounds to the back of her hands, as
well as wounds to her forehead, but again the injuries didn't seem consistent with
where her body was found. In relationship the motorcycle red tied down straps were
also found wrapped around her body in arms. What does that mean? They
were these straps like for what? Well, I'm gonna tell you. I'll
tell you. Eventually, no identification, no cell phone was found or anything
that could identify. You know, there's nothing in her pockets, nothing that
could identify this young woman. And they didn't find anything even like scattered around
so here, investigators are tasked with piecing together this massive puzzle, like what
happened to this woman? Who is she? And how did she get there?
I'm going to tell you about a woman named Natasha Walin. She was
also known as Tasha to her friends and family. She was born in nineteen
seventy nine in Minneapolis. Tasha grew up with her parents and siblings in Anoka,
Minnesota until her parents divorced, and during her school age years, Tasha
was to be very kind, extremely smart, and she was a free spirit.
After graduating from Anoka High School, she moved on to complete her bachelor's
and master's degrees. She loved the outdoors. She's educated. She loved the
outdoors. She would often go on walks, visit parks. She enjoyed riding
her motorcycle. She once traveled out west for a week by herself to explore
wow parts of the country I know. She worked full time at a company
named Achieve Services, Inc. Which was a training agency for disabled adults.
She also worked as an acupuncturist nice twenty hours a week at the family friendly
chiropractic I Can't Talk Chiropractic Clinic in nearby Andover. Friends and co workers stated
that Tasha had an absolute heart of gold, and she had a special quality
that would let others know that she seemed to be like truly interesting. Did
and he didn't tell you? Sound like just a free spirit. Yeah,
just like a lovely person. And she was always kind of the champion for
the little guy or like the underdog, even when she was in school.
While in high school at a Nooka High School, Tasha met someone she thought
was her prince charming. His name was Ryan Boland. He was about five
years older than Tasha, but he was a smitten with her as she was
with him. Isn't that illegal? Yeah? Maybe? Yeah. Ryan was
really charming and you know when he wanted to be. Although some of Tasha's
friends saw Ryan kind of a bully and a little bit annoying. Tasha didn't
let that get to her, right, she really kind of didn't even notice
it. But she liked him. Yeah, he showed her his softer side,
and you know, that's what she fell in love with. So she
soon began to ignore, like anything negative her friends said about him. And
they had many things in common. They both loved to ride motorcycles. Okay.
As Tasha and Ryan began dating, the relationship quickly became serious. So
what is it like, it's seventeen twenty three, yeah, year old,
Yeah kind of thing. Yeah, it wasn't like she was, you know,
fourteen and he was nineteen. Yeah, okay, and not that it's
you know anyway. Ryan came from a loving family. His parents, Patrick
and Sonya, both worked in education. His father, Patrick left the education
field to begin his own construction company called Bowlin Construction. The company was just
a success from the start, so they were wealthy. They lived in a
big house in Anoka, and they were able to spend their winters in their
vacation home in Arizona. Nice. Yeah, nice. Ryan always had nice
cars he you know, that were purchased by parents, and he seemed to
always have money after he graduated from Anoka High School his parents' money, Yes,
his parents' money. After he attended or after he graduated from high school.
He attended college for a short time, but he ultimately decided to quit
college and go work for his father's construction company. I mean that just makes
sense, right. A couple of years into the relationship Ryan, the shine
on Ryan seemed a dull at you know, I started to losing a little
bits of his charm to Tasha. In October of nineteen ninety nine, and
she's about twenty Okay. She'd been out with some of her friends having a
good time. Time got away from her and she got home. And at
this point, she's living with Ryan. Oh, they're living together in Arizona.
No, they're in Minnesota. Yet she got home later than he was
expecting her to get home, so he was passed. Okay, he was
pissed that she was out later than he thought she should have been, and
he had buttered her when she got home. And this happened in front of
her friends when they dropped her off. Oh yeah, oh hell no.
Yeah. Tasha's friends were shocked at this act of violence, and they urged
her to report it to police. She did go to the police department to
file a complaint, but she ended up not pressing charges against Ryan for this
abuse. The police deemed the situation one in which, you know, abuse
had clearly happened, so they arrested him anyway. Oh good, Yeah,
he was quickly released from jail. He returned home in two thousand and three,
so this is like four years later. Tashall learned that she was pregnant
with her She's still with him, She's still with him, Yes, she's
still with him. She learned she's pregnant with her and Ryan's first child,
and it was going to be a daughter. They've been together a long time,
yeah, exactly, they've been together. It's probably been seven years.
And I'm not going to say the name of the child, like for real,
but we're gonna call her Samantha. So little Samantha was born in the
summer of two thousand and four, and both families just adored this new addition.
I mean, she's the first grandchild, right for both families, and
Ryan and Tasha were super excited. They moved into a new home that same
year, and this now was Tasha's first home that was like actually in her
name so she was really excited about that, and she was excited to raise
her daughter there. As they were spending their first Christmas in their new home,
Tasha confided in her mother about more abuse that had been taking place.
Knew it behind closed doors, yes, even just headbut somebody once. No.
She told mom that Ryan would frequently hit her, choke her, and
would do all of this in front of little Samantha. At her mother's insistence,
Tasha called the police after telling her that Ryan had just hit her.
Ryan left the house before police arrived, and he was never held accountable for
that action. Mainally. Yeah, and many friends just then begged Tasha to
get help, get out, Yeah, get help, get out, but
she always refused. And she's got this new baby. Yeah, and she
was just really afraid of what Ryan would do if she'd get out. Yeah,
because most of the murders occurred with domestic violence. When domestic violence,
I used to study and work at a domestic violent shelter. Pregnancy is a
trigger for violent men and they tend to increase the violence and once a baby
is born, huge trigger. Yeah, So I can only imagine what she
was the control they start, like if they wanted control before. Now that
there's a baby, they have to have control. That makes a lot of
sense. Tasha and Ryan's relationship then soon to become It quickly became like an
on again, off again relationship. Tasha loved Ryan and she wanted their family
to be together, but she would sometimes distance herself when the abuse became increasingly
worse. Like she's trying, right, trying, and then he's bad and
honeymoon face, he's sweet as high and it is a peach saying it would
never happen again. And you know, I'm so sorry, and you know,
I'm sure that whatever you need me to do. But during the times
that Tasha left, Ryan acted as though he was single. He would casually
date multiple women while trying to woo Tasha back and married. Yeah, but
Tasha didn't do the same. She couldn't easily just move on. Right after
they reconciled, Ryan was still sometimes seeing some of the women he had been
seen better, of course, And it seemed like Tasha knew this and was
just ignoring it. And she really just tried to make the relationship work for
her kind of hard though, yeah, for her daughter. I mean,
she tried. When he's got a girlfriends. Yeah exactly. I mean,
yeah, it's extremely difficult. Eventually, Tasha just became sick of Ryan's abuse
and she started to take action now to really separate herself and her daughter from
him. Tasha confided in a coworker on September sixteenth, two thousand and eight,
that she was miserable with Ryan and she planned to get orders of protection
against him EPO or restraining order in that state. Yeah, whatever's in Minnesota.
In Michigan, it's PPL personal protection order. This co worker had been
in similarly abusive and a similarly abusive relationship, and was able to give Tasha
some advice on how to ensure that she would retain custody of Samantha by Minnesota
laws. The friend also helped Tasha with debt consolidation paperwork, since Ryan had
started to spend more and more of their money to support his increasing Guess what
drug habit drug? I was gonna say drug or gambling or prostitutes? Yeah,
right, the big three of usually where money goes. Tasha then demanded
that he move out of their house by the end of September that year.
The girlfriend of Tasha's brother was planning on moving in with Tasha and Samantha like
to help out for with expenses, the monthly expenses, because oh wait,
we get on now we get a man moving in saying anything bad about Natasha.
No, it was Tasha's brother's girlfriend. So it's a woman. I
know. Oh woman, Okay, Yanta, I'm sorry, probably said that
awkwardly, right, you were fine. On the morning of Friday, September
nineteenth, two thousand and eight, Ryan received a call from Tasha's supervisor at
Achieve letting him know that Tasha had not made it to work. Yep,
I don't know. Ryan told a supervisor that he and Tasha had gotten into
an argument the night before and she had left the house on her motorcycle.
He was certain, you know that she would of course show up for work.
And Ryan has Samantha at this point, so he gets her dressed for
school, and after dropping Samantha off for school that day, he went to
Tasha's dad's house. Her father and brother had already been notified that she was
missing, and they were visibly upset. Ryan reiterated to them that they he
had this argument with Tasha and she left on her motorcycle. On her motorcycle,
I don't know anything more exactly. She never came back. She never
came back. I haven't seen her. So the family that notifies the police
in Anoka County that Tasha could be missing. And now it's become a parent.
Who that woman, that unidentified woman in the motorcycle. Yeah, that
who was found on the side of the road with her motorcycle in andover and
so now Tasha has been found and identified. The morning of September nineteenth,
an investigator showed up to Tasha and Ryan's house to question Ryan. He wasn't
home, so the investigator looked around the outside of the home. While looking
inside an attached garage, the investigator noticed a red It's probably a window.
So if it's isn't that covered on her plane site? Yes? Yeah,
we need a worm. No, No, he's looking through windows, and
that's one of the extra options to a search one this plain sight. Mm
hm. So I was looking, you know, peeking into this garage.
He sees some red tie down straps hanging from the wall and it's the exact
style that had been found wrapped around Tasha's body. And what I'm picturing these
tie down straps are like sometimes you have like what is it a winch a
wench where you like you tighten it with something and it's probably like a canvas
strap and you make like when you're wrapping something or tying down like I don't
know, a cover or something. You know, you're transporting things. That's
what I'm picturing. It's like you have this strap, you're tightening it and
I'm not thinking it's like it's not like a like a zip tie I'm you're
talking about, and you can like pull it tighter, like yeah, yeah,
get it. Not that I've ever used one, but I've seen it
being used. That's what I'm picturing trying to describe. Yes, I don't
use exactly right, I've seen it. I mean at some point in my
life I've seen something like that, right, my dad, somebody. Okay,
before I tell you more, we're going to take a break. I'm
telling you now this this seems like the exact strap that was around her body.
So this finding prompted the investigator to get a search warrant for the house
as well as for Ryan's truck. After thoroughly searching the home, authorities discovered
evidence of blood in the garage as well as a carpet with a piece purposefully
cut out. Oh okay, all right, that's not fucking suspicious. Like
if you're going to get piece as a carpet cut out and blood in your
home right now, you need to just you need to just rip up every
piece of carpet, I mean, putting a new carpet or something, right,
Yeah, I get rid of it. I mean, I'm not I'm
not giving advice on how to get away with a crying, but I mean,
if you're going to do something like this, it's pretty obvious, right,
something happened on that carpet, Brian. This truck was eventually located at
his parents' home, and the investigators discovered traces of blood on the tailgate,
steering wheel, and both the driver and passenger seats. A broken orange plastic
clamp was also found in the bat of the truck, like a clamp,
Yeah, and it matched pieces of an orange clamp that were found near Tasha's
body and the wrecked motorcycle. When you say clamped, what do you mean
like something that I could hook on a stable and then tighten. Yes,
okay, yeah. The preliminary autopsy findings were given to investigators and it stated
that the medical examiner had determined that the injuries sustained to Tasha's body were not
consistent with injuries you would get in a motorcycle accident, and that she had
died as a result of blunt first trauma to her head by multiple blows.
In Ryan's interview with police, he counted the events of the night you know,
before she stormed off on her motorcycle and just which was just hours before
her body and the motorcycle were found. So, according to Ryan, he
and Tasha had been arguing. Ryan claimed that Tasha had been out to a
local bar and had been drinking heavily, okay, all right, and then
to make her look bad, and this caused some friction in their relationship.
You know. He said that he attempted to stop her from leaving and drinking
too much. Don't don't leave, don't leave, and you know that's what
caused the argument. She comes home super drunk and he questions her about it,
and now she's going to just storm off, storm off on the motorcycle,
and so she does, he says. He specified that the argument never
became physical, never, because you know, that's not in them for this
relationship, and hexcept for that head budding, yeah, witnessed by her friends
and the abuse that she told her mother about. So Ryan claimed that,
you know, this was the last time I sawsh ar Tasha. She stormed
off and I saw her leave on her motorcycle and that was it. However,
one of Tasha's friends rebutted this comment by telling investigators that Tasha she didn't
like to go out partying, that she was too focused on being a mom
to her four year old daughter, and she wasn't going to go out on
her motorcycle alone to the bar. No. No. And she wasn't going
to leave her child, leaving her baby. Yeah, she wasn't going to
leave her daughter. Blood analysis at the time of the autopsy would further support
her friend's claims, as a medical examiner revealed that Tasha's blood alcohol level was
nearly nonexistent. Really mm hmmm, surprise, surprise. Neighbors of Tasha and
Ryan also stated that they didn't hear the familiar and distinct sound of Tasha's motorcycle
being cranked, you know, firing it up in the in the evening.
Well, I had to ben at some point because it was though I don't
does it I don't know, does it. I'm jumping to conclusion. Yes,
you are jumping to conclusion. I mean, sorry, you know Ryan
has a truck. Okay, don't spoil it. I know. Detectives also
took note that Ryan arrived at the interview wearing a sweatshirt, and this seemed
odd to investigators because the weather had been warm and sunny. I'm with temperatures
reaching near eighty degrees, he's trying to cover something off visiting. So when
they asked about the sweatshirt, Ryan said, well, I have some scrapes
and scratches from the argument. You know, I did have a scuffle with
Tasha. Now here's a scuffle, even though you know at first it was
not all physical, right, but now we had a little scuffle because I
was trying to prevent her from leaving, I mean, and she scratched me.
And you know, that's what he's telling them is I was just trying
to get her to stay. He's trying to do the right thing, exactly
right. Anoka County Sheriff's officer Lieutenant Paul Summer commented about the evidence that was
found at Ryan's home. He said, quote, the search warrant made it
clear that some sort of a violent assault took place in that attached grage and
the blood evidence is there. It made the picture perfectly clear. End quote.
So she was beaten in the garage and the attached graus. That's what
the police believe. So the following day when she's after she's found September the
twentieth, it's a Saturday. They found the piece of carpet and it was
stained with blood. And where they found it was they were searching nearby dumpsters.
Oh so you did get rid of the bloody the bloody section, right,
I mean, do you explain missing chunk of carpet and guess how far
it was from Brian and Tasha's home. It was a half a mile and
that's where No. I mean, come on, dude, And I'm not
saying I'm not suggesting to right, I mean really really, but you know,
I'm saying, if you're going to do it, try to be clever.
Yeah. I love stupid criminals because when stuff like this happens, it's
like, oh, that's how people get caught is because they're stupid. So
I mean, well, first of all they do wrong things, well yeah,
and then they do them stupidly, and then they try to cover it
up stupidly. Yeah, and so we like to make fun of those people.
So right, the dumb ass, I mean, the dumb man,
and which I'm glad for because now police have even more evidence against him.
So the dumpsters are half a mile from their home. The bloody carpet was
found to be consistent, surprise, surprise, with the type of carpet that
was found to be cut from the carpet that was in the garage. Investigators
now tell Ryan during his interview, Well, the injuries ta Tasha's body didn't
happen because of a motorcycle crash. So he just started acting like he just
didn't understand, like it does not compute right, what like, what are
you trying to tell me? A detective told Ryan that the working theory was
that he gets into a physical altercation and something happens in the garage. He
hits Tasha over the head and knocks her out, kills her whatever. This
happens on the carpet and she dies, And did they know what they hit
what she got hit with? Did they have an idea? No trauma?
Yeah, yeah, exactly. So, uh, I'm sorry you're forgiven.
I'm sorry, you're forgiven. I lost my place, you guys, I'm
sorry, forgive her. Okay, here I am. He he denies,
you know that this happened. Of course, it is going to continue lying
to please. He even says, you know, I'll take a polygraph to
prove my innocence. Po're like, okay, cool, well we'll set it
up, and that's when they Ryan started to shut down and asked for a
lawyer. He didn't show up for the polygraph. No, I knew it,
and asking for a lawyer ends the police interview and Ryan was able to
leave the station, and Lieutenant Summer told reporters it's not unusual for a suspect
to lie about what happened, but it's unusual for them to just concoct a
whole other scenario, right, that what happened, He should have just kept
his mouth shut the whole time. Yeah, I mean he's trying to,
you know, cover up what happened with a big fat lie. It didn't
make sense, right, So search warn't is now issued for Ryan's parents home.
Oh why because they're figuring there's some evidence there. I'm sorry, there's
some evidence, but I wonder I mean, you have to have something that
supports the reason why you would want search, warn't, and you have to
be looking for specific items. So they were looking for specific items. Yes,
they were at his parents' house. Yeah, they were. I'm not
sure exactly what those items were, but the police searched the house. They
found Ryan in a bedroom in an open dresser. In that room, they
found two bags of marijuana and a spoon used to heat cocaine. Oh so
no, wait, a spoon used to heat cocaine. That's not cocaine.
It's like crack then, right, Yeah, I think you snort cocaine.
Yes, you snort cocaine. I don't know, do you not? Well
you know, I mean you've seen enough movie. I know. Yes,
I stort cocaine. Yes, it's something different. I think it turns into
like crack when you heat it up. I'm not a trained professional. Yeah
I'm not. You know, I'm not sure. Yes, he was doing
that. So police find all these drugs and so now he's handcuffed again,
brought back to the police station. He's arrested for drug POSSESSI So now you
know he's still insisting that the night, Yeah, the night Tasha died.
Nothing physical happened. I just you know, tried to get her to stop
leaving. But he said, you know, and if someone did hurt Tasha,
I have no idea who it could be. You know, everyone loved
her, so I don't know who would hurt her. Of course, police,
you know, are like just so full of shit hit and he had
lots of motives to kill her. As he's being arrested, investigators quickly discovered
that there was actually someone who didn't like Tasha besides him, Yes, besides
Ryan. And it was someone that was close to Tasha and Ryan and Tasha
was even afraid of this person. And this guy is Tim Boland, Ryan's
brother, his younger brother by eighteen months. Okay. Tim Boland was once
a promising baseball player. He was awarded a baseball scholarship to Saint Cloud University.
He studied, He studied English, and he broke several baseball records for
the university. I mean, he played there. He graduated with plans to
become an author, but his life quickly began to spiral out of control.
After getting married, he started using drugs. Doesn't that happen a lot?
Yeah, it's unfortunate right right, and he had recently been separated from his
wife. Tim had a growing coke habit, and he'd also been dealing drugs
to support his drug use. So Tim and his two dogs had been living
out of his Chevy Malibu when he wasn't able to crash on a friend's couch.
Oh that sucks, and Ryan offered Tim, you know, he can
stay with you can stay with Tasha and I some nights. And because see
now Tim is running out of friend's couches that he can crash. Yeah.
And now, yeah, when you're at the level where you're in your vehicle,
Yeah, your family's really got to step in. Yeah, absolutely,
But Tasha didn't like Tim to be at her house with her and her he's
doing drugs exactly. Tim had previously physically assaulted Tasha. What Yeah, because
well, I really wouldn't like him there. He felt that Tasha was ruining
his brother's life, Yeah, by going to the police and accusing him of
abuse. Tasha felt that Tim was unpredictable and volatile, and she told many
friends that she was scared of Tim. So infascigators started looking at him a
little bit closer, that maybe he was also involved in Tasha's death. One
piece of the initially unexplained evidence found at the crash scene. So you know,
when they're doing the crash scene, they're collecting everything, right, and
what they found was a single piece of dog hair that was discovered on the
motorcycle, a single piece of dog hair. And they found a single piece
of dog hair. Yeah, found a little motorcycle, one little dog hair.
God bless them for work and so forensics, right, So after testing,
they were able to link that dog hair to Tim because it matched hair
that belonged to his yellow Labrador retriever. But Tim had been living with them
with her. Yeah, it's true transference. That's probably what his defense sideway.
Right, thank you for thinking like a criminal defense attorney. Right,
I'd be a prosecuting attorney. But that's fine defense. Everybody needs a good
advocate. Everybody's allowed right where we're attorneys. That's the American way. Everybody's
allowed a defense. So Ryan Bolin was arrested September twenty second, and he
was charged with second degree intentional murder and aiding and abutting second degree murder.
Wait, second degree intentional murder, Yeah, isn't that premeditated? How do
you have second degree. How Minnesota's laws laws must be we're there because if
it's intentional, it's usually premat Yeah. And they also charged him with aiding
a bet and a betting second degree murder in Tasha's death, who he ate
in a bed. Well. Tim Bolin was also arrested. Okay, there
you go with the same charges as his brothers. So they're not sure right
that they're covering both, like one of them mighty killed her and the other
one was aiding in a betting or you know, vice versa. At least
they're covering their butts with these charges. Yeah. Officers took note that there
was dog hair found on Tim's clothing at the time of his arrest as well.
Bail had been set for a million dollars for each of them. Yeah,
and they go to trial because these guys aren't saying that they did it.
They had separate trials, but each had similar proceedings. Both brothers pleaded
guilty to manslaughter by taking an Alford plea. An Alford plea, Yeah,
and the purpose of an Alfred plea, for those of you that don't know,
is your waving the defendant's right to a jury trial. So They were
saying that, you know, there's enough evidence against me that I could be
found guilty by a jury, So therefore I'm going to take the Alford plea
yes and please doesn't mean I actually did it. Yes, but I believe
the prosecutors could show there's enough that the evidence convincing jury. Yes, and
prosecutors were able to factually piece together what really happened to Tasha that night of
her murder. On Thursday September eighteenth, the Bowlan brothers went to a bar
in nearby Ramsey, and this bar was the Spectator's Bar, and they got
there about eight fifteen pm. After third person joined them at the bar.
The three left the bar between nine thirty and nine forty five, so about
an hour and a half or so. The third person is suspected of meeting
the brothers to supply one or both of them with drugs OK, but nothing
really to do with the murder. Ryan and Tim returned to the home that
Ryan shared with Tasha, and so Brian and Tasha now start arguing. Tasha
was also furious with Tim and accused him of setting up her father and brother
in a drug sting operation. Because there's some other shit going on behind the
scenes that yeah, left field. Yeah. He and Tasha believed that Tim
used his position as a confidential informant's aidential informant, Yeah, to shed light
on her family and this was done as a way to help Rian get sole
custody of their daughter. So a lot of times in custody battles, people
make up evil shit about their former pardner. Yes, they do, they
do, they do, they do, and it's just evil with no evidence
whatsoever, no, just accusations. Ryan stated in court documents that Tasha tried
to call her brother to inform him of what she suspected Tim of doing,
but Ryan grabbed her wrists. At this point, Tasha scratched Ryan's wrists and
knack as they argued. Ryan claimed that Tim had been sitting in a chair
in the garage wrapping black duct tape around a baseball bats. No no,
no, no, no, that reminds me of the Walking Dey, I
know, right. Ryan testified that Tasha threatened to call Tim's estranged wife and
tell her that Tim had been having an affair. At this threat, Tim
snapped and hit Tasha repeatedly in the head with the baseball bat. Ryan claimed
he left the garage at this point to check on their sleeping four year old
daughter. Ryan and Tim placed then placed Tasha's bloody body, buddy and beaten
body, along with her motorcycle in the back of Ryan's Chevy pickup truck,
got behind the wheel and was driving about fifty miles an hour as they headed
toward and Over, which is about three or four miles away. They left
the tailgate open as they drove. Ryan claimed that Tim jerked the wheel several
times until then Tasha's body and her motorcycle fell out of the back of the
truck. So he's driving fast and jerking so that she out. Why not
it look like a motorcycle accident, right, They did a really bad job
of that. They're dumbasses, so, I mean, thank god, Ryan
said, you know, this was how they planned to dispose of her body,
make it look like a motorcycle accident, and they, like you said,
they just were dumb asses and they did a shitty job. Think thankfully.
Thankfully. Ryan testified that he and Tim parted ways about twelve thirty am,
which was around the same time that Tasha's body had been discovered by that
passing motorist. Ryan went to the garage when he got home and he tore
up the piece. He tore up and cut out that piece of the bloodied
carpet. He also stated that he wrapped the baseball bat with that. I
know, he wrapped the baseball bat in newspapers and he placed it in a
dumpster at an Anoka car wash. And that's what he did with the bat.
And then he went and throughout that scrap of carpet in another dumpster.
The baseball bat's never been found. After cleaning the garage and disposing of the
evidence, Ryan then prepared to take his daughter to school. Time to go
to school, Get up, Samantha, Yeah, time to go. We
want breakfasts, I know, right like just and when he got the call
from her employer, Oh no, I've not seen her up. And he
did admit on the stand that he lied to police in his initial interview A
lot, right, I mean they had to get him to admitted, I
guess on the record. In March of twenty ten, Anoka County District Judge
Lawrence Johnson sentenced him to eleven years in prison. What for first degree manslaughter?
What? Mm hmm? Do you want to know what? The sentencing
guidelines are for this offense eighty percent. Yeah, six, I'm six to
eight and a half years. If unbelievable, well that's when he can put
try to get try to get parol. Right. If Tim had been found
guilty on the original charges of second degree homicide, he could have been sentenced
to twenty one to thirty and a half years in prison. Ryan was also
sentenced in twenty eighteen to eight years in prison. Yep, sorry for his
part in the cover up or attempted cover up of Tasha's death. It pisses
me off. Well, be even more because guess what, don't No,
No, yep, you already know what I'm gonna say. No, I
don't. Yes, you do because you're angry. Because you're angry, Okay,
go ahead. Ryan was released from prison in twenty eighteen and Tim was
released in twenty twenty one after serving how long. Let's see, the sentencing
was in twenty ten, So eight years for Ryan and eleven years for Tim.
That's all you get for Order's sister in law and your wife. Yeah,
both men still remain free. Ryan has moved on and has gotten married.
I knew you were going to say that. Can you believe it.
He's a reform man and now he runs his father's construction business, so I'm
sure he's also financially secure. He's probably going to send some nasty hate comments
onto this podkast. Well, he fucking did it, so suck it.
Yeah, all you did is time. Tim was last known to be working
at a bar somewhere in Minnesota. A benefit was held for Timesha's daughter shortly
after Tasha's I'm assuming that Ryan lost costody, Yes, yes, he didn't
mean he had to have. Yeah, and by that time she would have
been twelve. Yeah, and it'd be too late for him to regain,
but he could have a parenting time. Yeah. Who was who had applied
for custody or a petition for custody was Tasha's sister and brother in law,
and they had been taking care of Samantha, so that's who took care of
her after Tasha's death. In Ryan's sentencing, the benefit was lovely. There
was appearance by the Minnesota Viking's cheerleaders, there was live music, and all
the proceeds went to the benefit of Samantha's education. Ah nice, Tasha's cousin
commented, because I don't want to and this on like a shitty note that
these assholes are out free. So we're gonna kind of focus on maybe a
little positiveness that occurred afterward. Tasha's cousin commented on the love that Tasha had
for her daughter, because you know, she was little and she lost her
mom. And I think it's valuable to hear these things or read these things
when you grow up and when you lose a parent. And she said,
quote, they were pretty much inseparable. Everything she did, she did for
Samantha. Samantha resembles Natasha. Is a child with blonde hair, and she
has the same energy, smile, and free spirit that Tasha had. Unquote.
Natasha's cousin added, every time you look at Samantha, you see Tasha.
Oh that's mazy. Yeah. So they consider themselves blessed. They have
a beautiful memory of Tasha. She was laid to rest. She was only
twenty eight. She was laid to rest Sunday, September twenty first, two
thousand and eight, and Loua Flowers the family asked that donations be made to
Samantha's education fund. And that's the end of her story. But I do
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