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Heading: Eli’s body found at Thomas’s house

Text: {¶ 9} Police started looking for Froman following the abduction at the gas station. They contacted Mills Health and Rehab Center on September 12 and learned that Thomas had not been scheduled to work that day. One of Thomas’s coworkers texted Thomas and asked her to “call me now, I need you now.” A little before 10:00 a.m., Munsell received a text from Thomas’s number stating, “I’ll call you in a minute.” {¶ 10} Munsell and two of her colleagues then drove to Thomas’s house. They saw Thomas’s and Eli’s cars in the driveway. They knocked on the doors and a window and noticed what they thought was a smudge of blood on the front door’s glass. Munsell then opened the unlocked front door, stepped inside, and saw Eli’s body on the floor. Munsell could tell that he was dead and then called 9-1-1. {¶ 11} Police arrived at Thomas’s house and found Eli lying on his back on the living room floor. Glass fragments from a shattered table lay on the floor, and there was blood spatter on the floor and walls. Eli had sustained bullet wounds to the back of his head, his abdomen, and his right forearm. Police recovered a .40- 3 SUPREME COURT OF OHIO caliber Smith & Wesson shell casing and an unfired .40-caliber Smith & Wesson round next to his body.