Chapter 70: A Fight for Justice-The Murder of Kaylene Oehling w/ Beyond the Rainbow

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In this chapter of the Book of the Dead, we partnered with CJ from Beyond the Rainbow-True Crimes of The LGBT to bring you the story of the Unsolved Murder of Kaylene Oehling on the anniversary of her disappearance. Kaylene Oehling was a 19-year-old Bi-sexual woman who had recently found out she was pregnant when she disappeared on January 10th, 2020 after going to meet her, much older, ex-boyfriend, Michael Manno, to get some of her personal belongings back. That would be the last time anyone would see Kaylene alive. What would follow would be a 3-year-long fight by her father, Jason, to find his daughter, and make sure the man who killed his daughter is brought to justice.
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Admin. (2023, March 24). Kaylene Oehling - disappeared. Disappeared. https://disappearedblog.com/kaylene-oehling/Coleman, L. (2023a, March 28). Kaylene Oehling’s family returns to Pittsburgh neighborhood where her body was found. WTAE. https://www.wtae.com/article/kaylene-oehling-family-answers/43438057Coleman, L. (2023b, May 2). Cause and manner of death “undetermined” for Etna woman whose remains were found in March. WTAE. https://www.wtae.com/article/kaylene-oehling-missing-person-cause-manner-of-death/43762873#:~:text=The%20cause%20and%20manner%20of%20death%20for%20a%20woman%20whose,those%20of%20Kaylene%20Marie%20Oehling.Coleman, L. (2023c, November 2). “I’m not going anywhere:” Father of Kaylene Oehling still pleading for answers. WTAE. https://www.wtae.com/article/kaylene-oehling-case/45723225#Kilmer, L. (2022, March 29). Plea deal reached for man accused of sending explicit photos of missing woman to her younger sister. Yahoo News. https://news.yahoo.com/plea-deal-reached-man-accused-234137563.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAFMaOXtyeKJLqgwvbvSkaHVmsaWqKsE2dNWeFsk3oO0vRPIdr3K5hmHaYSl_1vq_grdZKsY_5bwbf_QEYUv56sJXj6eWonShunZEiLzIvSEC1N7yniqhybzl6E6a0E7l8kOC7-j74X-lFWu5xC-GlZgHjeLbn-PGUXvBesU1B1TrLinder, L. (2023, March 25). Kaylene Oehling: Human remains identified as 20-year-old woman who went...
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mysterious death of someone, And while
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the family of victim Kayleen Oling,
especially for her father Jason, they feel
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there is no real mystery to their
loved one's death. They consider her death
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a murder, and they also believe
they know who her killer is after seeing
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the message the man they suspect the
Kayleen's murder, who is named Michael Mano,
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sent to Jason. I tend to
agree The message from the alleged killer
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told Kayleen's dad, I took care
of her too bad. You can't search
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my backyard, and then fine,
I killed her, but you have no
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proof, followed up with a laughing
face emoji. That's a bold and disgusting
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move to send a message like this
to a grieving father, whether or not
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Mano is Kayleen's murderer or not.
Michael Mano had also texted a nude picture
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of Kayleen to Jason and to one
of Kayleen's younger siblings. I wanted to
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throw that out there to show what
kind of sick dude we're talking about.
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Let's get a little into Kaylen's background. Kaylen was a self proclaimed bisexual woman,
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and she'd come out as bisexual in
high school. Kayleen wasn't too much
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about school, and she had dropped
out. As I've discussed another episode,
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some people just aren't institutional learners,
and they learn more from life experiences.
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This was Kayleen. She got more
out of working on cars than sitting in
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algebra class trying to figure out how
numbers and letters add up. Kaylen was
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a junior firefighter and she loved volunteering
with her dad at their church growing up,
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she was a tomboy and she preferred
playing with toys that were deemed to
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be boy toys. This is something
I can very much relate to. Kayleen
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loved hanging out with her family.
She was a great big sister. Another
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thing Kaylen loved was doing nails.
She aspired to do hair and nails for
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a career some day. While it's
not one hundred percent cleared just how Kaylen
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met Michael Mano and became romantically involved
with him, what is clear this guy
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was not a good match for her. Mano was twenty five years Kaylen senior,
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making him forty four forty five years
old when they started to date.
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He also has a felony rap sheet
as long as a new roll of toilet
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paper, and I've thought that a
fair comparison, since this guy is a
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shit stain of a human. Kayleen
broke it off with Mano when she discovered
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he was cheating on her with another
woman, and after Mano's love bombing of
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Kayleen was all done, she started
to see him for the asshole he really
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is. Weeks after their break up, Kayleen found out she was pregnant with
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Mano's baby, Jason. Her dad
accidentally discovered about Kaylen's pregnancy a few months
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before she went missing. He'd gone
into her room to get something while she
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was in the shower and he saw
the positive pregnancy test. Both of Kayleen's
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parents came together and sat her down
for a long conversation. That's when Kaylen
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decided to move in full time with
her dad and her then stepmom. They
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were going to help with the baby
and help Kayleen get her ged. Both
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things were something Kayleen really wanted to
have happen. Kayleen moving in with Jason
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was going to be a good thing. It got her away from Michael Mano,
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and it put Kayleen on the right
track to raise her baby. Exactly
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four years ago as when twenty year
old Kayleen Owling disappeared, making her family
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frantic with worry. The date was
January tenth, twenty twenty, right before
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the shit show of COVID had everyone
locked down. Kayleen was out visiting a
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friend before she was supposed to head
to her mom's home in Etna, Pennsylvania.
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Kayleen had plans to babysit her younger
siblings, who lived with their mother.
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However, in spite of texting her
mom very early in the morning that
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she'd be there later. Kayleen would
never get to her mom's. Later that
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same day, Kaylen's mom called Jason
to let him know that Kayleen never showed
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up and no one could get Kaylen
on her phone either. Then the mom
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waited a bit, hoping Kayleen would
return on her own, but when that
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didn't happen, she went and filed
the missing persons report on January twelfth.
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Kayleen was a pretty responsible young lady, and it was highly out of character
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for her not to show up when
the whole point of her being near Etna
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was to watch her younger siblings.
Jason claims the Etna Police department did a
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crappy job from the get go on
Kayleen's case. After Kaylen's mom filed the
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report, Jason tried to follow up
with an email to the police. He
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asked for a copy of the report
so he could maintain a paper trail,
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but the Etna police didn't file the
report with the National Missing Database until March
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thirteenth, twenty twenty. That's a
day over two months later. Can you
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imagine being the parent of a missing
child and the cops dropping the ball on
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your kid for two freaking months?
It's beyond infuriating Jason, who was displeased
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with Etna Police department's lack a daisial
interest in looking for Kayleen. He begged
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the police department to transfer her case
to the county, but they refused.
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The Etna Police department only went once
to Michael Mano's residence to ask questions,
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in spite of everything that was shared
with them about the man. Finally,
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half a year later, after tiring
of Jason's asking, the Etna police agreed
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to transfer Kaylen's case along with an
active warrant to search Mano's home and property.
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Mano lived in the residence with his
mother, his kids, and his
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current girlfriend. When the new police
department on the case of Allegheny County went
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to pay a visit to Mano's house, the girlfriend and the mother told the
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police they couldn't go into the garage
because there was a vicious dog locked in
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the garage. Say what, you
can't refuse the police to go into places
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if they have a warrant. If
you have a vicious dog in the garage,
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the police can put your dog down. So what the fuck? But
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the police didn't search the garage.
I only wish that they had known a
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year or so prior. When Kayleen
was still with Mano, he had padlocked
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her in that garage. Kayleen met
up with Mano between the time she was
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done visiting her friend and when she
was supposed to go watch her siblings.
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This would have been the early morning
hours of January ninth and January tenth,
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right around one am, so technically
January tenth. Kaylen's purpose for seeing Mano
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was to try and get her grandmother's
necklace he had taken from her. At
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one thirty six am, a text
from Kaylen's phone to her mom was sent
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to assure her mom she'd be home
later that morning to watch her siblings.
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At three forty am, Kayleen's phone
pinged over the sixty second Street bridge in
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Sharpsburg, Pennsylvania. Ten minutes later, Mano's phone shows that he made a
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call to his friend a mirror.
Nearly twelve hours later, at three pm,
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after Kaylen missed her babysitting detail,
Kayleen's mom called Mano and asked where
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Kayleen was. Manos said that Kayleen
didn't want to talk to her, and
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he refused to put Kaylen on the
phone. Alleghany police didn't do an official
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group search until August twenty twenty,
although her family and friends did several group
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searches on their own. And then
March nineteenth, twenty twenty three, Kayleen's
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case moved from a missing person's case
to a homicide case because March nineteenth,
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twenty twenty three is when her remains
were discovered in Allegheny County. Now I'm
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going to pass the baton to Courtney
of the Book of the Dead for more
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information on Kaylen's case. Courtney,
thanks c J. On March nineteenth,
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twenty twenty three, a Sunday,
hunters were in the woods near the twelve
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hundred block of Washington Boulevard in the
Lincoln Lemington Belmar area of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
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just after two fifteen PM when they
stumbled upon a human skull. Once
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investigators were called, they arrived and
found more human remains that Friday. The
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remains are confirmed to be that of
Kayleen. When he was notified, Jason
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said, quote all the blood just
ran for me just hearing them words.
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Jason, it's Kayleen. It's confirmed. Total shock, just total shock,
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because you just always hope for a
different outcome, and I can only imagine
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the mix of emotions that comes from
being notified that your loved ones have been
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found after waiting years for information.
There's the anguish of having the unimaginable pain
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of learning that his daughter is gone, but you also have that sense of
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something akin to relief because Jason can
lay his baby to rest. But now
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there is that ache and suffering of
just waiting for answers as to what happened.
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On March twenty fourth, once the
family was notified about the identification,
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Jason and other family members arrived at
Washington Boulevard to create a memorial for Kayleen
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at the site where she was found. While there, Jason and his daughter
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found two more bones. Pittsburgh Police
and the Allegheny County Office of the Medical
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Examiner were notified of the discovery,
and they came back to the scene to
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investigate. Where the medical examiner found
an additional bone. According to Jason,
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the manager of operations for the Alleghany
County Office of the Medical Examiner, Nelson
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Early, confirmed on the thirtieth that
the bones were the forearm, shoulder,
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and toe of Kaylen Oling. The
biggest issue with these additional bones being found
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is that it indicates that investigators did
not thoroughly investigate the scene when they were
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first called by the hunters. These
bones were found not miles away. They
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were in the exact same area,
so how did police miss them? That
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tells me that the police did not
do their job properly Unfortunately, and this
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could be due to the condition of
Kleene's remains, the medical examiner was unable
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to determine a cause and a manner
of death. And just for a clarification,
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the cause would be the method in
which she died, whether by a
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strangulation, trauma, et cetera.
And the manner in which she died is
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the categorization such as homicide, natural
causes, suicide, et cetera, et
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cetera. Now, when Kaylen was
found, according to Jason, the clothes
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she was wearing the days she disappeared
were also found, which clearly indicates that
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Kaylen died the day she went missing. So at least in my mind,
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police would have to be looking at
the last person confirmed to have seen Kayleen
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that day, which was Michael Mano. Additionally, the site where she was
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found was about twenty feet away from
land reported as belonging to Michael Mano's father,
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Pasqual just beyond the railroad trucks.
This area also had security cameras nearby,
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which if police had done a proper
investigation from the get go, it's
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very possible they would have discovered these
cameras and would have been able to view
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the footage if they investigated Michael Mano
and his family properly. Now that's not
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to suggest his immediate family had anything
to do with it, but looking into
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his family would have led them to
land in close proximity. This would mean
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that Kaylen could have been found soon
after disappearing, saving her family years of
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heartache, and it also means that
the police could have possibly had visual proof
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of who put Kaylene's body in that
area, further aiding in the investigation.
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Now, the Alleghany County District Attorney's
Office did confirm that Kaylene's death is being
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investigated as a criminal matter, but
they have been incredibly tight lipped about the
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investigation thus far, which is interesting
because they have a person of interest in
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Michael Mano at the very least.
Now, the problem with the investigation is
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that there really isn't one, at
least from the outside booking in Jason Olling
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has been fighting for the last three
years for progress to be made, but
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it seems as if law enforcement is
either not doing anything even though the case
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is considered active, and there has
only been one update to my knowledge that
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has been given to the family,
although that has not been made public at
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this time. Either way, if
they aren't really talking, then the assumption
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is that they aren't doing their jobs. But unfortunately, as we've seen before,
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this happens all to often. So
we're going to talk about Michael Mano,
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the man that Jason Owling wholeheartedly believes
killed his daughter, and there is
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even an alleged confession from Michael,
but the DA's office refuses to sign an
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arrest warrant. First of all,
this shining example of an exemplary citizen has
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had multiple charges filed against him going
back to nineteen ninety four. These include
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charges of corruption of miners, reckless
endangerment, statutory sexual assault, conspiracy,
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and criminal solicitation. And that is
just a name of few. We're talking
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career criminal. Additionally, the corruption
of miner's charge was due to Michael Manos
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sending sexually explicit photos of Kayleen to
her younger sister in twenty twenty two via
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Facebook, as well as to Jason
himself. Now, Michael took a plea
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deal in regard to this, pleading
no contests and was sentenced to six to
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twelve years in prison with one year
of probation. He was also barred from
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having any contact with the victim.
It's interesting to me, though, that
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he only got one year max,
when according to Pennsylvania law, the sentence
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for corruption of a minor related to
a sexual act is up to seven years,
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and it's considered a serious criminal offense
because it is one. Now,
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that's besides the fact that this was
clearly a taunt. When you take into
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consideration the fact that Michael, as
CJ said, taunted Jason on Facebook saying
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that he killed Kayleen prior to this
happening. In fact, let me repeat
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to you the direct quote Michael said, quote, I took care of her
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too bad. You can't search my
backyard. Fine, I killed her,
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but you have no proof, and
then he very kindly added a laughing emoji.
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What more do the police know based
on this alone to bring him in,
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have a conversation with him, do
a thorough search of his home,
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including the yard, the shed,
the basement, everywhere. That alone should
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have been enough to bring him in. A spokesperson for the Alleghany County DA's
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office actually released a statement about this, where they said, quote, the
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decision whether to file criminal charges in
a missing person's case in which a body
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is discovered after several years have passed
must be approached carefully and methodically. The
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family will be justifiably passionate about obtaining
justice for their loved one as soon as
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possible. However, we must proceed
deliberately in order to ensure that there is
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sufficient admissible evidence to not just identify
a suspect, but also that there is
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sufficient admissible evidence to link that suspect
to criminal acts that resulted in the death
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of the victim. There can be
no rush to judgment or arrest. There
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is an ongoing investigation with county detectives
actively working with attorneys in our office.
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The district Attorney will continue to confer
with the county superintendent. However, details
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of an ongoing, active investigation cannot
be discussed. As I've said in multiple
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cases that I have covered, I
fully understand that there are procedures that need
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to be followed in regard to any
criminal investigation. However, when there is
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evidence indicating there is an identified guilty
person, coupled with the fact that the
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investigation from the very beginning was not
handled efficiently like it should have been,
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this to me sounds like a cop
out. Are we really that surprised?
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There is a possible reason for Michael
to have gotten such a lenient sentence,
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though, and that is because he
is an alleged police informant for the and
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Wealth of Pennsylvania. Obviously, this
can't be substantiated since police don't speak about
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who their informants are, but it
could explain why his sentence was just a
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slap on the wrist and why no
one at the DA's office seems to mind
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that he owes over twenty three thousand
dollars in past who finds related to his
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charges just know that if the average
person owed a substantial amount of money to
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the government, I'm pretty sure the
government would be wanting to know why payments
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weren't being made If he is an
informant, though, that would absolutely also
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explain why police have yet to sign
an arrest warrant for him in regards to
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the murder of Kayleene Owling and have
refused to go back to thoroughly search his
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home, which, if it's not
obvious, is bullshit. Clearly this man
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knows something or or very much had
something to do with it. If there
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is anyone with further information on this
case or the murder of Kaylene Owling,
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they are asked to call the Alleghany
County Homicide Unit at one eight three three
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two five five eight four seven seven
or four one two four seven three twelve
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hundred. They can also call the
Pittsburgh FBI office at one eight hundred two
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two five, five three two four. The case number is zero one two
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seven five two zero. Thank you
so much, Courtney for coming together with
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me on the case of Kayleen Owling. I'm gonna go ahead and speak for
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both Courtney and I. There's nothing
more than the two of us would like
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than to help find justice for Kayleen
and her family. And if this means
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removing a scumbag off the street so
we can't hurt anyone else's child, that
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it'd be the proverbial icing on the
cake. CJ. Thank you so much
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for having me join you in telling
Kaylene's story and trying to get justice for
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Kayleen and her father and her family, and for you guys, thank you
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for listening and I truly truly hope
we both truly hope that true justice is
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served in this case. If you
haven't already, please take the time to
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check out CJ's podcast Beyond the Rainbow, True Crimes of the LGBT. She
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covers cases with a focus on the
LGBT community and she does such an amazing
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job covering them and I truly recommend
listening to her. And as always,
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we hope you have a wonderful week. Share this podcast with anyone and everyone
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the world needs to hear it because
the Olings need justice, Kayleen needs justice,
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and with that, I hope you
have a wonderful week and we will
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see you in the next one.
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