On the Job 

The 2012 murder of Jessica Sacco is both tragic and grue­some. It was the topic this past February of an episode of “Web of Lies” on Investigation Discov­ery Channel. But her killer and accomplices are behind bars, thanks to the assistance of the Ohio Attorney General’s Office and the Bureau of Criminal Investigation.

In preparing the episode, producers talked to Special Agent Supervisor Ben Suver, and spe­cial agents Bryan White and Michael Trout.

Sacco was killed in March 2012 at a resi­dence in Urbana. Her killer was a man she had befriended online. He had moved into her apartment, eventually stabbing her and then suffocating her. The killer, and several others who were present, dismembered her body. One other person who did not participate, but did nothing to alert authorities, was also sentenced.

Urbana Police had called in BCI to investigate and, from that point, the situation moved quickly, said Special Agent Trout.

“We were called in on a Friday morning,” said Trout. “The suspects were arrested and in jail by mid to late Saturday morning.”

Investigators discovered some telephone numbers while poring over the crime scene. In tracing the phones, it looked like the suspects were in Hamilton.

Investigators found a van belonging to one of the suspects on a Hamilton street, but they were unsure of the suspects’ location. Back­ground and social media checks led them to a nearby address of a friend of one of the suspects, said Trout.

Overall, Trout said the television show did a good job of telling the story in the time avail­able. But it would have been easy to do several shows because of the many possible angles, he noted. “In the beginning, the killer kept telling us stories, trying to lead us in four or five different directions,” said Trout. “Ultimately, he confessed to stabbing her and killing her.”