The room was hidden inside a barn, behind tall hay bales, on James Dean Worley’s three-acre property west of Toledo, Ohio.

Its furnishings were chilling: restraints attached to the walls and a freezer lined with blood-stained carpet.

Almost as chilling were the contents of Worley’s truck: zip ties, a ski mask, two sets of handcuffs, rope, tape and recording equipment.

Scattered around his property were more rope, tape, zip ties, handcuffs, firearms and ammunition, alongside several video recording devices and film, according to an arrest warrant released Thursday and obtained by the Toledo Blade.

Worley was arrested last Friday and has been charged with the abduction and aggravated murder of 20-year-old University of Toledo student Sierah Joughin. The judge has ordered him to remain in jail.

Authorities believe this may not be the first abduction allegedly committed by Worley.

“Worley fits the profile of a serial offender and could potentially have additional unknown victims who could have been kept at the above described location,” Sgt. Matthew Smithmyer of the Fulton County Sheriff’s Department, said in court documents obtained by the Toledo Blade.

With long brown hair — sometimes curled, sometimes straightened — and a white, toothy smile, Sierah Joughin looked like many young college girls with their lives ahead of them. She loved horses and was a member of the University of Toledo’s business fraternity, Alpha Kappa Psi, according to her obituary.

On her Facebook page, she shared videos of cute, floppy puppies, recipes for no-bake chocolate peanut butter bars and messages encouraging beginners to try a barre workout.

Her profile photo showed her and her mother, Sheila Vaculik, their arms wrapped around each other, smiles on their faces.

Tuesday, July 19, Joughin went for a bike ride around her hometown of Lyons, Ohio, a tiny hamlet of 562 people about 30 miles west of Toledo. Out there, the flat landscape stretches on endlessly, punctuated periodically by cornfields.

Perched on a purple bicycle, clad in neon yellow tennis shorts and shirt and bright teal shoes, Joughin was a flash of bright color amid all that green.

Her boyfriend, Josh Kolasinksi, rode slowly alongside her on his motorcycle, People magazine reported. Eventually, it was growing late, and the two parted ways. They assumed they would have much more time together — after all, they’d been dating since middle school.

Joughin didn’t come home that night. Or the next. Or the next.

“We are struggling and trying to stay hopeful,” Tara Shaffer Ice, Joughin’s aunt, told People the day after Joughin’s disappearance. “We just want her to come home safe and [whoever has her] to just leave her where she is and let us have her back.”

“It’s the worst nightmare I’ve ever experienced,” Ice added.

“I just want her to come home,” Vaculik said.

She never would.

After three days of searching, police found Joughin’s remains resting in a shallow grave in a cornfield just a mile away from Worley’s property, on July 22.

That same day, police arrested 57-year-old James Dean Worley, crediting “old-fashioned police work” for the collar.

Police originally questioned Worley while they were canvassing houses near his property. He told them he had been riding his motorcycle at the time of Joughin’s doomed bike ride, but that his motorbike had broken down. He claimed to have lost his helmet, screwdriver, sunglasses and fuses when he pushed his motorcycle into a nearby field, presumably to work on it.

All of those items were found near Joughin’s bicycle. Human blood coated the helmet.

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