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Repeat Offender: The Abduction and Murder of Reagan Tokes

True Crime Nightmares
15 min readNov 11, 2024

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Reagan Tokes

In the winter of 2017, twenty-one-year-old Reagan Tokes was at the jumping off point of the rest of her life. Only months away from graduating from Ohio State University with a degree in psychology, she already had a job lined up at the prestigious Cleveland Clinic. With the ultimate goal of opening her own practice, the young go-getter was preparing to take the world by storm. Sadly, owing to circumstances beyond her control, she would never get the chance.

On February 2, Reagan finished up her shift at Columbus’ trendy Bodega bar and restaurant at around 9:45 p.m. Although she normally had one of her male coworkers walk her to her car, on this occasion, business had been hopping, forcing her to make the short trek on her own.

Over a thousand miles away, Reagan’s father, Toby, was awaiting word from his daughter that she had made it back to her off-campus apartment safe and sound. Having spoken to her shortly before she left work, he had expected her to call at any moment, which she did every night like clockwork.

As the minutes turned into hours without any word from Reagan, her parents grew increasingly concerned. Even so, hoping that their daughter had simply lost track of time, they left several messages on her voicemail urging her to get in touch with them as soon as possible. With nothing…

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True Crime Nightmares
True Crime Nightmares

Written by True Crime Nightmares

Author, victim advocate, true crime historian.

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