Opal Bogan, Lindsay’s grandmother, who lives in Tennessee, said whoever killed her granddaughter needs to pay.
The 81-year-old said her oldest granddaughter made bad decisions that led to drug addiction, but those were no reason for her to be killed.
Lindsay aspired to follow in her grandmother’s footsteps and become a nurse. But, Opal Bogan said, Lindsay fell in with the wrong crowd and never finished school.
“I feel in my heart that someone killed her,” Opal said. “They need to answer for what they did.”
Then with a long sigh, she added, “I know it won’t bring her back.”
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Opal Bogan said she and Middletown police Lt. Jimmy Cunningham talk weekly.
“He is very kind. He keeps me updated. I know they are still working on it,” she said.
Jeri Lewis, a community activist, said she frequently saw Bogan around downtown and supplied her with food, coats and gloves.
Bogan’s life turned because she was at the “wrong place and wrong people,” Lewis said. She said Bogan had been off drugs and appeared to be doing well.
“I believe the process of getting to a ‘normal life’ was overwhelming to her,” Lewis said. “But she still wanted to figure it out.”
When Bogan was reported missing more than two years ago, Lewis said she was “really confused” because the young mother appeared to be clean.
Lewis said she was “sick to my stomach” when Bogan’s remains were found.
“How anyone can treat another human that way is beyond understanding,” she said. “I am angry that whoever did this is walking free. At first I just figured it would take time to put it all together. But here we are two years out and still nothing. Many people knew her. Nobody is talking. It’s unsettling especially with more girls missing.”
