The phone that placed the call did not belong to Todd. Detectives traced it to a woman from Akron named Terreona Paschal. According to the information investigators developed, she was a thin woman with dark hair and was associated with a light-colored vehicle. That description immediately echoed what Eugene and Sherry had seen from across the street.
At first, police did not know whether Terreona was a witness, another victim, or the person responsible. If she had been inside when someone else attacked Todd, she might have fled because she feared for her life. If she had been involved, the silent 911 call could have placed the killer at the scene without the caller ever intending to contact police. Either possibility made finding her urgent.
Officers went to an address linked to Terreona, but the encounter created more questions than answers. A man there said she was not inside and resisted the idea of officers searching his home, insisting they were not going to walk through the house while his family was sleeping. He described Terreona as a younger woman with children and said she had been around but was now staying elsewhere. His description of her vehicle shifted between a white or silver Ford, eventually settling on a silver Ford Taurus.
Police tried to determine where Terreona had gone. The man mentioned that she might be staying with a girlfriend in the Garden Valley area, but he did not provide a clear phone number or location that immediately solved the problem. To investigators, the fact that she could not be found at the address connected to her phone raised suspicion, but it still did not prove she had committed a crime. They needed to know where her phone had traveled before and after the silent 911 call.
A warrant for location data began filling in that gap. Investigators found that Terreona's phone had arrived in Hudson shortly after midnight and remained in the area of Todd's street for hours. Then, within minutes of the 7:21 emergency call, the device was moving away from Hudson at highway speed. Roughly six minutes after the call, the phone was traveling near the Interstate 271 split in Macedonia at close to 60 miles per hour.
Even more important, Todd's missing phone appeared to be traveling along the same route. The two devices moved together away from his home, strongly suggesting that whoever left with Terreona's phone also had Todd's phone. Then Todd's device stopped reporting location data altogether. Police searched along portions of the highway and surrounding areas but never recovered it.
That movement transformed the missing phone from a curious detail into a central piece of the timeline. Todd had been found dead with his other property still in the house, yet his phone traveled away from the scene at the same time as a device connected to a woman matching the neighbors' description. The location history did not tell detectives exactly what happened inside the home, but it placed Terreona in a position they could no longer treat as coincidence. Surveillance footage along the route would later add support to the same sequence of movements.
Detectives eventually located Terreona at her sister's apartment in the Envision Apartment Complex and took her into custody for questioning. By then, investigators were not relying on a single clue. They had the neighbors' account, the light-colored vehicle, the 7:21 silent 911 call, phone-location data, and the movement of Todd's missing device. But another forensic development made the case even more troubling.
A 9 mm cartridge casing recovered from Todd's crime scene was associated by investigators with a firearm connected to an unsolved Cleveland homicide from 2021. In that earlier case, Terreona Paschal was reportedly the registered owner of the firearm and had been the former girlfriend of the victim. She had also been considered a major suspect during that investigation and pointed investigators toward another former boyfriend, but authorities at the time did not have enough evidence to charge her.
The earlier case did not, by itself, establish what happened to Todd, and detectives still had to prove this homicide independently. Yet from their perspective, the connection made the weapon evidence at Todd's home impossible to ignore. This time they also possessed a digital trail that seemed to place Terreona at the scene in real time. They entered the interrogation room prepared to confront her with that evidence piece by piece.
At the start, Terreona acted as though she did not understand why police wanted to speak with her. Detectives showed her photographs and asked whether she recognized Todd or the location of his home. She said no. When they told her the images had been viewed through a device connected to her, she questioned whether the phone was really hers.
The phone itself became an early point of dispute. At one moment, Terreona said a device belonged to her daughter; at another, she acknowledged another phone was hers. Detectives told her one of the phones had been found plugged into a charger in her bedroom rather than taken from her child's hand. Terreona became defensive when she thought police were involving her children, but investigators kept returning to ownership of the devices because the data on them was becoming increasingly important.
According to the investigation described in the source, Terreona had changed devices or SIM information after Todd's death. Detectives found a search asking whether police could track a phone after the SIM card was removed. They also found repeated searches for coverage of the Hudson homicide investigation. Her device had refreshed or checked news about the case dozens of times, including repeated attempts to see whether her own name had appeared publicly.
None of those searches could tell detectives what happened during the shooting, but they suggested an intense awareness of the investigation. The phone also contained searches connected to Todd himself and to his address. When detectives confronted her with the records, Terreona continued to say she did not know what they were talking about. She did not offer an explanation for why those searches appeared on a device associated with her.
A different set of records showed that Todd and Terreona had connected through Bumble only days before the killing. In a conversation dated April 16, an account connected to Terreona opened with a message to Todd and then asked whether he wanted to exchange phone numbers. The account used the name Siobhan, which detectives asked Terreona about during the interview. She acknowledged Siobhan was part of her name, but she still resisted identifying the exchange as a conversation she remembered having with Todd.