The Scariest Barn On Earth

In July 2016 Sierra Joughin, known to everyone as C, was 20 years old and living west of Toledo, Ohio. She had grown up in Lyons, a small place near Delta, and was studying at the University of Toledo, going into her junior year. She was a member of the Alpha Kappa Psi business fraternity, loved horses and was remembered as vivacious. Her boyfriend was Josh Colasinsky, who rode a motorcycle.

On July 19th, 2016, Sierra rode her purple bicycle to Josh's house a little after four in the afternoon. She left at about 6.45 p.m. to ride home down County Road 6, and Josh followed her on his motorcycle for part of the way before turning off. He asked her to text when she got home; she never did. At about 7.20 p.m. a motorist, Mary Stein, saw a bicycle lying beside the west side of County Road 6 and a man bent over two or three rows into the cornfield, wearing red shorts and a white or off-white shirt. By about 9.30 p.m. Josh had called Sierra's mother, Sheila, and found the bicycle was not at the house; the two searched, then found a police officer at the fire department. Sierra did not come home.

At about one in the morning a sheriff's deputy with a canine found the purple bicycle in a cornfield about half a mile from Sierra's home. Nearby were disturbed corn, a strong smell of petrol, motorcycle tyre tracks, a box of fuses and a pair of women's sunglasses. There was blood on the bicycle's handlebars and seat, and a checkered dish towel with a bloodstain was found a thousand feet north. A farmer had found a bloodstained motorcycle helmet at the roadside at about seven the previous evening and taken it home, and he brought it to police the next day. The FBI joined the case, the community searched the cornfields, and an anonymous donor offered a $100,000 reward. Blood was found on corn leaves, along with a green sock, men's sunglasses and an orange-handled screwdriver.

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details of the account remain covered until revealed None of those items had been made public. When he later rang to ask for his helmet back, investigators returned and spent 14 hours on the property, then obtained a search warrant. They found women's laundry in a green crate, an air mattress hidden behind straw bales, duct tape, rope, adult nappies, handcuffs, zip ties, bleach and a carpet-lined chest freezer sunk into the barn floor with blood in it. The barn became known as the Barn of Horrors. Tire casts from County Road 6 matched his pickups. Security video from Evergreen High School showed a motorcycle travelling north on County Road 6 on July 19th. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it

On July 22nd a volunteer, Scott Hoodick, found drag marks in a cornfield on County Road 7 and a yellow latex glove. this part of the story is covered for now She was wearing an adult nappy. The cause of death was asphyxiation from the gag, and she had a head wound and a hairline skull fracture that could have come from the motorcycle helmet.

The case had an older echo. details of the account remain covered until revealed She escaped with one cuff on her wrist, jumped on a passing motorcycle and survived with a concussion and a fractured skull. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now details of the account remain covered until revealed

the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it Robin Gardner testified. The prosecution argued that he had taken Sierra intending to kill her and had used a dog toy rather than a ball gag because he wanted to watch her die. this part of the story is covered for now details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now

Sierra's family set up a scholarship fund for one graduate of Evergreen High School each year and a nonprofit, Justice for Sierra. Their campaign led to Sierra's Law, Ohio Senate Bill 231, passed in 2018, which created a searchable violent crime database of repeat offenders.