Joey Nagle Case Timeline

Ray McCann Jr., a reserve Constantine police officer, joined the search and suggested searchers check the cemetery, where her body was found. That single fact turned McCann from searcher to suspect. Michigan State Police reopened the case in 2011.

Fuller did not work alone. Detective Shane Criger, who would later lead the Joey Nagle investigation, jointly conducted the interrogations with Fuller that produced Ray McCann’s wrongful perjury conviction.

Fuller and Criger arranged for McCann to testify under oath about his whereabouts, then used surveillance video to claim his account was false, while separately telling him his DNA had been matched to the killer. It had not. No forensic evidence tied McCann to the murder; the case was built entirely on interrogation. McCann denied involvement 86 times across 20 interrogations before pleading no contest to five counts of perjury. He served 20 months.

Daniel Furlong was arrested and confessed after McCann was already in prison; his DNA matched the profile recovered from Parrack’s body. The Michigan Innocence Clinic found the surveillance video Fuller relied on did not establish what he had claimed, and that evidence shared with McCann during interrogation was fabricated. St. Joseph County Prosecutor John McDonough vacated McCann’s conviction in December 2017.

McCann v. Fuller et al., No. 1:19-cv-01032, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan. The federal docket names Shane Criger among the defendants. The lawsuit remained active for three and a half years, spanning the entire period Criger later led the investigation into Joey Nagle’s death.

Investigators later built an extensive record of Nagle’s comments and behavior during deliveries that day, including at Wilderness Expressions in Kent County, which became the basis for a secondhand referral to MSP through a Kent County dispatch supervisor who was, by his own admission, a regular customer there.

MSP’s report says Sandy Pines Resort surveillance shows vehicles similar to Nagle’s and the deputy’s patrol car traveling southbound past the resort at 22:02, with Nagle’s vehicle followed by the deputy’s. The stop was called out just over two minutes later.

Nagle’s actual plate was EJV6635. Fifty-seven seconds later the deputy read the correct plate aloud over the radio. No LEIN query of EJV6635, and no driver’s-license LEIN query, appears anywhere in the released record. This was the first documented step of the stop, and it was wrong on the record’s own terms.

Unit A6 called out the stop at 26th St / 138th Ave (later records also give 26th St / 136th Ave and other nearby descriptions) on a silver 2012 Chevrolet Impala, plate EJV6635, in Monterey Township, Allegan County. Allegan County had not equipped its patrol deputies with body or dash cameras.

At 22:07:56 the deputy indicated he was performing field sobriety testing; at 22:11:19 he reported he was “still testing.” His own account describes Nagle retrieving and putting on his glasses but never describes removing them before the horizontal gaze nystagmus (HGN) test, as NHTSA instructions require.

At 22:13:19 the deputy requested another unit. At 22:13:46 he reported “fighting with one.” At 22:14:41 he reported “shot fired,” 55 seconds after the fight report. The deputy’s account describes 15–20 punches and 3–5 headbutts, a spoken exchange of four lines, and Nagle breaking away twice, all inside that 55-second window.

The witness described the shouting as progressively more desperate: “no” three times, then a gunshot, then silence. He could not confidently identify the age or pitch of the voice. Attorney Thomas Siver later submitted this witness’s recorded account to MSP. Koch’s September 16, 2022 declination memo does not mention this witness or his account.

At 22:16:15 the deputy reported he was doing CPR. Deputy Austhof arrived at 22:21:15. Sandy Pines Public Safety Officer Philip Holscher, Gun Lake Tribal Police, and Allegan City PD Officer Duesterberg all arrived during the medical response, per their own documented accounts, and none were on scene before the shot was fired.

MSP Trooper Tyler Spoelma’s report says Joey was identified through a driver’s license found face-down on the roadway. The report never explains who read it, whether it was lifted or turned over, or when its photographed position was established.

Criger describes a 22:48 notification. Detective Christopher Hayward arrives at 23:36; Detective Todd Petersen at approximately 23:45. The MSP crime-scene team (Bommarito, Crum, Karsten) arrives at 00:56 on June 17, more than two hours after the shot was reported.

Dr. Jared Brooks, Case W22-0791, classifies the cause of death as gunshot wound of the chest and the manner homicide, a medical classification, not a determination of criminal guilt. The wound path is front to back, slightly right to left, and downward, with stippling but no muzzle imprint or soot. The autopsy documents scattered abrasions on Joey’s arms, forearms, right palm, and finger joints, and faint contusions over the knuckles, findings consistent with a raised or blocking arm as much as with punching.

Siver advised MSP that his firm represented Joey’s family and estate and asked that communication go through his office. He later submitted a witness interview and Facebook screenshots, including the recorded account of the neighbor who heard shouting and a gunshot.

A four-page letter, provided through attorney Mike Woronko, describes the punches, headbutts, blurred vision, and weakening legs the deputy says he experienced, and explains blood on his hands and shirt as his own nosebleed and first aid performed on Joey. The deputy remains unnamed in all released materials.

A Kent County Sheriff’s dispatch supervisor, later identified by Clutch Justice as Shawn Holtrop, relayed what Wilderness Expressions workers told him, hearsay by his own admission as a regular customer there. The shop’s own security recording was reportedly overwritten before the June 21 interviews.

MSP downloaded the deputy’s Taser history and reported it appeared not to have been used. The same day, Criger delivered Joey’s phone, seized from the dashboard, to Computer Crimes. Property records also document a family request for Joey’s wallet (later found) and varsity jacket (never located), and a disputed floor mat.

The examination report says the iPhone arrived damaged and a full file-system extraction was obtained. Criger later acknowledged he did not personally examine every part of the large extraction. Joey’s mother requested the phone’s return on July 26; no receipt of its return to the family appears in the released packet.

NMS Labs confirmed Delta-9 THC and its inactive metabolite in blood. Cocaine/metabolites appeared only in a presumptive urine screen the lab itself flagged as unreliable and recommended confirming further; that confirmation was never obtained. No confirmed positive cocaine finding was reported in blood. No deputy drug or alcohol toxicology result appears anywhere in the released materials, despite a hospital record noting a legal blood draw was arranged for him.

Allegan County Prosecutor Myrene Koch received the complete Michigan State Police investigative file, built by lead detective Shane Criger, for her charging review.

Koch’s eight-page memorandum to Criger addresses the stop, force, injuries, Taser, and use-of-force policy, and lists cocaine alongside THC without distinguishing the confirmed blood finding from the unconfirmed urine screen. It does not address the wrong-plate query or the missing LEIN verification, and does not mention the witness who heard shouting and a gunshot.

Karie Herringa’s report, headlined with the deputy’s quote “I just kept letting him hit me,” states in its subheadline that Joey “was on cocaine when shot,” reporting the presumptive urine screen as fact without the confirmation limitation.

Associated Press / ClickOnDetroit reports Koch’s declination. Joey’s mother, Kelly Nagle, tells reporters the family intends to ask the Michigan Attorney General’s Office to review the case.

Per family documentation reviewed by Clutch Justice, the AG’s Office declined Joey’s family’s request for review while it was simultaneously defending Criger and Fuller in the active McCann federal lawsuit. That conflict was not disclosed to the family.

A seven-person jury deliberated roughly four hours before awarding $12.5 million compensatory and $2 million punitive damages. Assistant Attorney General Mark E. Donnelly, defending Fuller and the other named MSP investigators at public expense, argued the detectives followed proper process. On the stand, Fuller acknowledged lying to witnesses during the investigation and called it “not the preferred method but not improper either.”

Prison Legal News reports the settlement and confirms Fuller’s continued MSP employment as of August 2024. As of Clutch Justice’s 2026 reporting, both Fuller and Criger remain MSP employees.

Twenty-one days after Joey’s shooting, the 57th District Court dismissed Katherine Lindsey Henry’s prosecution with prejudice and ordered her arrest record and biometric data destroyed. The citing officer, Matthew Langlois, is identified by Clutch Justice as a Leighton/Dorr contracted deputy, the same contract assignment the deputy who shot Joey names in his own statement.

MSP adopts an internal policy governing disclosure of potential impeachment information tied to officer misconduct, adopted after Criger led Joey’s investigation without disclosing his own pending federal exposure.

Rita Williams’s first full review of the MSP file documents the wrong-plate query, the missing body camera, the unused Taser, the downward close-range gunshot, and the asymmetry between the scrutiny applied to Joey and the scrutiny applied to the deputy. Added to the BGS (Brady-Giglio-Santobello) List.

“Same Detective, Same Lawyer, Different County” establishes that neither MSP nor Koch nor the Attorney General’s Office ever disclosed that Criger was an active federal defendant in the McCann case while he led Joey’s investigation and while the family sought AG review.

An 83-minute forensic read of the released file: the airbag-data-style scrutiny of the knife, the hand and head injuries, the license and glasses in the roadway, the exclusion list of everyone the record rules out, and an interactive report card grading the stop an overall F. Confirms no deputy toxicology result, no knife DNA result, and no resolution of the wrong-plate query.

A full minute-by-minute transcript of the Allegan Central Dispatch radio traffic from the stop through the shooting and medical response, allowing readers to check the reporting’s timeline claims against the primary audio record directly.