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Each week Paula and Stephen explore unsolved murders, lost shipwrecks, local legends and more! https://www.ohiomysteries.com. https://www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries https://www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries https://www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio
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OM Backroads Ep:13. Somewhere Over the Rainbow: Hamilton, Hulse, and Grapewin
Did you know that there were three actors from Ohio who starred in the 1939 classic film, “The Wizard of Oz”? Join Dan and Mike as they travel the backroads of Ohio to tell the stories of these three amazing Ohio actors! The journey starts with Cleveland native Margaret Hamilton, then heads to Darbyville, the boyhood town of James Hulse, and ends in Xenia, the hometown of Charley Grapewin. So, slip on your ruby slippers, click the heels together three times, and let’s magically transport down Ohio’s Yellow Brick Road to discover the Buckeye State’s movie star connections to the Wizard of Oz!
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Mike hosts a Facebook page called "Too Late for Autographs" and explores people and their stories with Ohio ties that have passed away: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1469825446606552/?hoisted_section_header_type=recently_seen&multi_permalinks=3474200626169014
Dan hosts a Youtube Channel called: Ohio History and Haunts where he explores historical and dark places around Ohio: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCj5x1eJjHhfyV8fomkaVzsA
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3 days ago
Ep. 253 - John Bingham, a founding father for a new America
The United States changed dramatically after the Civil War, and new laws were needed in order to make reconstruction work. Enter John Bingham, a congressman from Ohio, who framed the 14th Amendment. His "Equal Protection Clause" has become the most cited constitutional amendment in history, and represented the very first time the constitution promised to serve all Americans.
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Nov 29, 2023
OM Backroads Ep:12 What's that smell? Body Snatching in the 1800's
In this episode we explore the gruesome ritual of body snatching. In the 1800's when medical colleges needed cadavers to dissect, they would frequently turn to clandestine groups of men and women, frequently called restrictionists, who would provide them with fresh bodies. Usually operating under the cover of darkness. they would often dig up graves to secure the bodies. Join us as we welcome our special guest, Doug Hullet, a local historian, to learn more about this frequently used practice. Also joining us is local historian Maria Dade.
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Nov 24, 2023
UNRESOLVED Ep 17: Greg Peters
A collaboration with the Akron Beacon Journal: In 2003, Greg Peters was working his dream job - the clerk of an Akron, Ohio head shop where the self-proclaimed hippie greeted like-minded people who stopped by to chat and buy smoking papers and black-light posters. But the day before Thanksgiving, a man swept into The Odd Corner, gunned Peters down, then fled. Twenty years later, police still don't know who ended the life of a man who spent a life preaching peace and love.
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Nov 22, 2023
OM Backroads Ep:11 Who Coined the Term "Rock and Roll"?
Join Dan and Mike as they rock and roll their way down Ohio’s Backroads to Cleveland to determine if Alan Freed really coined the term “Rock and Roll” while he was a popular disc jockey on Cleveland radio in the 1950s. The city is known as the “Rock and Roll Capital of the World” and the Rock and Roll Museum is located on its Lake Erie shore, but did Alan Freed really coin the term that eventually bestowed these honors upon Ohio’s north coast city? Let’s find out!
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Mike hosts a Facebook page called "Too Late for Autographs" and explores people and their stories with Ohio ties that have passed away: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1469825446606552/?hoisted_section_header_type=recently_seen&multi_permalinks=3474200626169014
Dan hosts a Youtube Channel called: Ohio History and Haunts where he explores historical and dark places around Ohio: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCj5x1eJjHhfyV8fomkaVzsA
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Nov 19, 2023
Ep. 252 - Revelations from a Preble County Jane Doe
In 1968, children in Eaton discovered partial remains in a flooded ditch, determined by pathologists to belong to a middle-aged woman. In 2019, Det Adam Turner in Shelby is searching for a missing person when he asks to exhume the old Eaton skeleton to test it for DNA. In 2023, investigators learn the Preble County Jane Doe is actually a man - Albert Allen Frost of Hamilton, Ohio - and Turner has quite a story to tell about who he is.
Click here for episode on Det Adam Turner's search for Mary Jane Vangilder
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Nov 15, 2023
OM Backroads Ep:10 Football's First Forward Pass
Football season is heating up, so Dan and Mike are “going long” and hitting Ohio’s backroads to bring us some little-known and fascinating history on the development, execution, and success of football’s first forward pass and its huge connection to three Ohio men. Join us as run a “post pattern” to Cleveland to talk about that city’s connection to the first forward pass in pro football, and then we complete “a slant” to Bellevue, Ohio, to discuss its connection to the first forward pass in college football history! This episode is the bomb!
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Mike hosts a Facebook page called "Too Late for Autographs" and explores people and their stories with Ohio ties that have passed away: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1469825446606552/?hoisted_section_header_type=recently_seen&multi_permalinks=3474200626169014
Dan hosts a Youtube Channel called: Ohio History and Haunts where he explores historical and dark places around Ohio: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCj5x1eJjHhfyV8fomkaVzsA
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Nov 12, 2023
Ep. 251 - The fortune teller killer
In 1847, a fortune teller from Morgan County traveled to Williams County and offered his self-proclaimed clairvoyant skills to the local farmers and settlers. There, he enlisted a mentally-challenged teenager to help him kill a boy so he could make money from the youth's parents by offering to find their missing child. It was something, he said, that had worked before.
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Nov 8, 2023
OM Backroads Ep:9 The Millfield Mine Disaster of 1930
In this episode we explore the Millfield Mine Disaster of 1930. On November 5, 1930 the town of Millfield, Ohio was devastated by an explosion in the Sunday Creek coal mine which resulted in the deaths of 82 men. Joining us today is our special guest, Ron Luce, who has written a book to be published in January 2024 called "The Millfield Mine Disaster". We discuss the causes, the rescues, the tragedy and the survivors.
Ron Luce's upcoming book can be ordered at: https://www.amazon.com/Millfield-Mine-Disaster-Ron-Luce/dp/1467155411/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3AZC5UTYVB8TA&keywords=ron+luce+millfield+mine+disaster&qid=1699422065&sprefix=ron+luce+millfield+mine+disaster%2Caps%2C92&sr=8-1
Ron Luce can be contacted at: luce_r@live.com
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Mike hosts a Facebook page called "Too Late for Autographs" and explores people and their stories with Ohio ties that have passed away: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1469825446606552/?hoisted_section_header_type=recently_seen&multi_permalinks=3474200626169014
Dan hosts a Youtube Channel called: Ohio History and Haunts where he explores historical and dark places around Ohio: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCj5x1eJjHhfyV8fomkaVzsA
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Nov 5, 2023
Ep. 250 - Ohio's prehistoric race of giants?
Ep. 250 - Ohio's prehistoric race of giants?
Between 1800 and 1904, there were dozens of reports in Ohio of people finding huge skeletons, mostly while excavating prehistoric Indian mounds. Descriptions typically suggested heights of 7 to 8 feet, rows of double teeth, and jaws that could encase the head of a modern man. What was going on? We review some of the more interesting accounts.
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Nov 1, 2023
OM Backroads Ep 8: Im hearing voices. Ohio's connection to 4 great Hollywood voice actors
In this episode, we explore the Buckeye state's connection to Smokey the Bear, the TV shows Gunsmoke and the Adventures of Superman, the cartoon character "Mr. Magoo", Yogi Bear, Disneyland and even the UFO crash at Roswell. All of these have connections to these four great voices: Jim Backus, Dawes Butler, Bill Kennedy and George Walsh.
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Mike hosts a Facebook page called "Too Late for Autographs" and explores people and their stories with Ohio ties that have passed away: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1469825446606552/?hoisted_section_header_type=recently_seen&multi_permalinks=3474200626169014
Dan hosts a Youtube Channel called: Ohio History and Haunts where he explores historical and dark places around Ohio: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCj5x1eJjHhfyV8fomkaVzsA
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Oct 29, 2023
Ep. 249 - A haunted gun in McConnelsville
In 1905, McConnelsville town constable Horace Porter was shot to death by a local man with no history of violence. Four years later, the same gun found its way into the hands of Morgan County prosecutor Frank Parsons, who used it to kill himself. Investigators found Parsons had been drawing the revolver on paper while working up the nerve to act. Bonus: A look at the ghosts of the Twin City Opera House, where the spirit of Horace Porter may still be in residence.
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Oct 25, 2023
OM Backroads Ep 7: Wes Craven, Freddy Krueger, and Kirtland, Ohio
In this special Halloween episode, Dan and Mike travel down Ohio’s backroads to explore the Buckeye State’s connection to horror film director-writer and Cleveland native Wes Craven, who created one of the most iconic screen villains in cinematic history, Freddy Krueger, from the “Nightmare on Elm Street” film franchise. We’ll discuss Craven’s connections to Cleveland, the small town of Kirtland, Ohio, and a real-life scary event that occurred during Craven’s childhood that triggered his imagination into creating the disfigured bogeyman known as Freddy Krueger – the diabolical monster who invaded the dreams of teenagers living on Elm Street in Springwood, Ohio!
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Mike hosts a Facebook page called "Too Late for Autographs" and explores people and their stories with Ohio ties that have passed away: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1469825446606552/?hoisted_section_header_type=recently_seen&multi_permalinks=3474200626169014
Dan hosts a Youtube Channel called: Ohio History and Haunts where he explores historical and dark places around Ohio: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCj5x1eJjHhfyV8fomkaVzsA
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Oct 22, 2023
Ep. 248 - Ohio's connection to Nazi art theft
In September of 2023, authorities seized a painting from Oberlin College, saying it had been stolen by the Nazis from a Jewish concentration camp victim. We tell the story of the colorful and talented Franz "Fritz" Grunbaum and how a piece of art he owned ended up in Ohio.
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Oct 18, 2023
OM Backroads Ep 6: The dark secrets of Schneider Park
In this episode we explore the dark mysteries about Schneider Park. A city park in a residential neighborhood in suburb Akron, Ohio, Schneider Park holds secrets to this day for it was on this site that the Summit County Infirmary once stood including the graveyard. A developer came in and purchased land but seemed to ignore the graveyard and progressed with building the houses in the area. Without any true grave markers, the land became a city park and to this day few people know that bodies are still there to this day. Join us in learning about the dark past of Schneider Park.
Check out my YouTube video about my visit to Schneider Park...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpLbFb4N7kQ
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Oct 15, 2023
Ep. 247 - The Moody Massacre
In 2005, Logan County investigators say 18-year-old Scott Moody shot and killed his mom, grandparents and two friends before turning the gun on himself. One problem with this theory is that Scott's sister Stacy was also shot that day, but she survived and insisted the shooter wasn't her brother, but a gray-haired man she had never seen before. That and a host of other problems have many folks in Bellefontaine believing this isn't really a closed case after all.
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Oct 11, 2023
OM Backroads Ep 5: The legends, stories, rumors and truths about Gore Orphanage
In this episode we explore the legends, stories, rumors and the truth about Gore Orphanage. For a century, this long rumored haunted location has drawn curiosity seekers to test their bravery and explore Gore Orphanage at night. Are the rumors about "Old Man Gore" really true? Who actually set the fire that burned down the mansion? Is Gore Orphanage really haunted? We explore the Swift, Wilbur, and Sprunger families and discuss what really happened.
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Mike hosts a Facebook page called "Too Late for Autographs" and explores people and their stories with Ohio ties that have passed away: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1469825446606552/?hoisted_section_header_type=recently_seen&multi_permalinks=3474200626169014
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Oct 8, 2023
Ep. 246 - The Satanic Panic and a Toledo mystery
In 1985, authorities in Lucas County announced they were bringing in bulldozers, fully expecting to find up to 75 bodies of people who had been ritually sacrificed by a local cult. They found none. We interview Jack Legg, whose new book "Digging up Devils" takes a look at that case and the national "Satanic Panic" scare that fueled thousands of witchhunts.
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Oct 4, 2023
OM Backroads Ep 4: The 1966 Portage County UFO Chase
In this episode we explore the UFO chase in Portage County, Ohio in 1966. At 5 a.m. April 17, 1966, two Portage County, Ohio, sheriff deputies on routine patrol stop to investigate an abandoned vehicle down a dark road and are blinded by known craft rising into the sky behind the car.
Deputy Dale Spaur decides to go check it out while his partner stayed behind. They heard a noise sounding like "an overloaded transformer" and illuminated the entire area in brilliant light.
Th craft would lead the pair on an 86-mile chase at speeds of more than 100 mph. From Portage County heading East, the deputies didnt stop until they ran out of gas over the border into Pa. Listen the learn the stunning details of the great UFO Chase of Portage County, Ohio.
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Oct 1, 2023
Ep. 245 - JFK bodyguard shatters "magic bullet" theory
In 1963, Ohio native Paul Landis was a Secret Service agent assigned to protect First Lady Jackie Kennedy, a role that put him on the running board of the car tailing President Kennedy at the moment Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. In October of 2023, Landis is releasing a memoir of his experience, and for the first time, he reveals a decision he made at the crime scene that could change theories about what happened that day.
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Sep 27, 2023
OM Backroads Ep 3: The Mad Miller of Milan
In this episode we journey to Milan, Ohio and discuss the Mad Miller of Milan. The Mad Miller of Milan was named Sam Winchester. He owned a mill in Milan, Ohio and decided to fly in a balloon. When he set aloft in 1855, this fateful flight would lead to mysteries that are still talked about today. Here is a YouTube video filmed at the actual launch spots!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfWWUmG8zzE&t=7s
Thanks for the gracious people at the Milan Historical society: https://milanhistory.org/
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Mike hosts a Facebook page called "Too Late for Autographs" and explores people and their stories with Ohio ties that have passed away: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1469825446606552/?hoisted_section_header_type=recently_seen&multi_permalinks=3474200626169014
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Sep 24, 2023
Ep. 244 - The ax murder of Rosa Colvin
In 1866, the body of Rosa Colvin was discovered in the woods near the shanty she shared with her husband, Bill, in Cuyahoga County's Olmsted Township. Cause of death: An ax to the head. Though Bill was initially arrested for murder, authorities began to believe the real killer may have been a boarder the couple had taken in.
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Sep 20, 2023
OM Backroads Ep 2: The Mysterious Death of Actor George Reeves
Join us on our Backroads journey to Cincinnati, Ohio, as we explore the Queen City's connections to actor George Reeves, who is best remembered for his role as Superman In the 1950s. Reeves died under mysterious circumstances in 1959. In this episode we'll discuss why Reeves' body was sent to a Cincinnati hospital after his death, and why his body spent several months in storage at a Cincinnati cemetery. We'll also discuss Reeve's multiple family connections to Cincinnati.
Mike hosts a Facebook page called "Too Late for Autographs" and explores people and their stories with Ohio ties that have passed away: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1469825446606552/?hoisted_section_header_type=recently_seen&multi_permalinks=3474200626169014
Dan hosts a Youtube Channel called: Ohio History and Haunts where he explores historical and dark places around Ohio: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCj5x1eJjHhfyV8fomkaVzsA
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Sep 17, 2023
Ep. 243 - The legends of Holcomb Woods, the Elmore Rider, and the Dogman of Defiance
A new book - “Unnatural Ohio: A History of Buckeye Cryptids, Legends and Other Mysteries” - has been released by Kevin Moore and Kristina Smith, who both work at the Hayes Presidential Library and Museum. They share with us three of their stories: the legend of Holcomb Woods (Wood County), the Elmore Rider (Ottawa County) and the Defiance Dogman (Defiance County.)
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Sep 13, 2023
OM Backroads Ep 1: The skydiving tragedy of Huron
Hello and Welcome to the first episode of Ohio Mysteries: Backroads. In this episode we discuss the skydiving tragedy of Huron, Ohio. On Sunday, August 28th, 1967, 18 skydivers accidentally parachuted into Lake Erie in an attempt at a high altitude (20,000') jump and 16 people were killed. A series of errors led to this tragedy including a deadly mistake by the FAA, a pilot who drifted off course and sky divers eager for the experience. This disaster was the deadliest accident in the history of skydiving and an investigation by the NTSB soon followed.
We're your hosts Mike and Dan. Join us as we explore this tragedy and learn about a deadly plot twist at the end which claimed more victims.
Check out the video that shows where it happened: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQkiTDAFheQ
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Sep 10, 2023
Ep. 242 - Where are Jesse Owens' gold medals?
In 1936, Jesse Owens single-handedly shattered Hitler's myth of Aryan supremacy by winning four gold medals at the Berlin Olympic Games. But he returned home to a deeply segregated country that challenged him to the very end. We share the highlights of his life and career, and follow the trail of what happened to his iconic gold medals.
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Sep 6, 2023
A special announcement - Introducing Ohio Mysteries: Backroads
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Sep 3, 2023
Ep. 241 - Interview with Justin Glanville of new "Mary & Bill" podcast
In 1970, university students Mary Petry and Bill Sproat were murdered in Bill's Columbus apartment in such a brutal way, people wondered if Charles Manson copycats were at work. In a new 7-part podcast "Mary & Bill: An Ohio Cold Case," investigative reporter Justin Glanville revisits the crime and offers fresh interviews, new facts and hope for a conclusion.
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Aug 30, 2023
UNRESOLVED Ep 16: Javan and Markus Rogers
An Ohio Mysteries/Akron Beacon Journal crossoverIn 2002, Javan and Markus Rogers - brothers and rap record producers in Akron - were shot and killed three months apart. Akron police thought they could prove who pulled the trigger in one of the murders, but an evidence mixup in Youngstown resulted in the case being thrown out. More than 20 years later, police still don't even have a motive in the murders, though suspect drugs or debt were involved.
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Aug 27, 2023
Ep. 240 - The Marietta ax murder
In Marietta, legend has it that in the late 1800s, a son beheaded his adulterous father in front of his mistress at a riverfront hotel. The former La Belle Hotel where it is said to have happened is now nearly 200 years old, and modern-day tenants believe all three of their spirits are still repeating the crime.
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Aug 23, 2023
Rewind! Episode 20: The disappearance of Mel Wiley
In 1985, Mel Wiley, the police chief in Medina County's Hinckley Township, tells his girlfriend he's meeting an old friend for a dip in Lake Erie. Three days later, park rangers find his abandoned car at Edgewater Park with his clothes, money and police ID inside - but no chief. While townsfolk wonder if he met with foul play, was lost in a drowning accident or committed suicide, the lead investigator settles on a completely different theory: That Wiley, who loved writing mystery novels in his spare time, had simply walked away from his life to start anew somewhere else.
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Aug 20, 2023
Ep. 239 - The journey of The Success
In 1840, a merchant ship was built in Burma for trading throughout India. But over the next century, it would be reinvented many times - as an immigrant ship from Britain to Australia, as a jail for convicts in Melbourne, as a tourist attraction throughout the western world. Her last chapter was written in Ohio, where someone lit it on fire on the Fourth of July in 1946.
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Aug 16, 2023
Rewind: Mysterious Gravesites (Ep 63)
Five mysteries in Ohio that involve the gravesite of notable Ohioans. We explore the strange habits of the granite ball over the Charles Merchant Family plot, why Chief Joc-O-Sot might be haunting the Joining us is Michael Bonano, administrator of the Facebook page "Too Late For Autographs, Ohio," who has visited each of the featured sites.
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Aug 13, 2023
Ep. 238 - The Cincinnati Strangler
Cincinnati arrested and convicted Posteal Laskey Jr. for running over and stabbing to death a woman he picked up in a stolen cab. But was Laskey also responsible for the rape and choking deaths of six other women in 1966? Officials believe he was the "Cincinnati Strangler," though he was never convicted in those deaths. The story was made more complicated because Laskey was black, during a height of racial tensions in the country, and his conviction led to volatile unrest in the Queen City.
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Aug 9, 2023
Rewind: The Toledo Clubber (Ep 16)
In 1925-26, a man with a face painted red and a maniacal laugh stalked the west end of Toledo, randomly selecting women and clubbing them - many, to the death.
A serial killer still unidentified to this date had this city on the edge of hysteria, and with good reason.
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Aug 6, 2023
Ep. 237 - Albert Sabin and the polio vaccine
When Albert Sabin graduated from medical school in New York, his mentor encouraged him to focus his career on a killer that had terrorized a generation: Polio. So when Sabin accepted a job as a medical researcher at the University of Cincinnati, he did just that. After solving the mysteries of the virus, he made Cincinnati the first American city immune to the illness.
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Aug 2, 2023
Rewind: More mysterious graves (10-Minute Mystery)
Why does the Painesville, Ohio tombstone of Joseph Linhart proclaim him to be "Not Guilty." Why did thousands of people visit the McMorran family plot in a small St. Paris, Ohio cemetery in 1975? Why does Jessica Lyn Keen have markers in two different cemeteries in West Jefferson, Ohio? www.ohiomysteries.comfeedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Audionautix- The Great Unknown The Great Phospher- Daniel Birch
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Jul 30, 2023
Ep. 236 - A WWII story: Two enemy pilots and a German orphan
In 1945, Jim Heckman of Akron, Ohio was knocked out of the sky over Germany by an enemy pilot. More than 40 years later, a German man who had been made an orphan by American bombers works to bring the two pilots together in a unique friendship.
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Jul 26, 2023
Rewind: How old is Ohio? (10-Minute Mystery)
10-Minute Mystery: How old is Ohio?
Ohio has been treated like a state since 1803, when Congress extended federal laws to the land. But in 1953, researchers preparing for Ohio's 150th birthday learned something stunning: Congress had never actually declared Ohio a state. So how old is Ohio, and what does it mean for the eight presidents Ohio gave the country in its first 150 years? www.ohiomysteries.comfeedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Audionautix- The Great Unknown The Great Phospher- Daniel Birch
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Jul 23, 2023
Ep. 235 - Confidence without conviction: The murder of Barbara Ann Butler
In 1968, Barbara Ann Butler, a 23-year-old schoolteacher, went to a store in Kettering in the middle of the afternoon. The next day, she was discovered dead on the floor of her car. Four years later, police named their top suspect as Jimmy Wayne Howard and closed her case, saying they were unable to pursue a conviction but were confident of his guilt.
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Jul 16, 2023
Ep. 234 - Larry Abshier's desertion to North Korea
In the early 1960s, four American soldiers patrolling the DMZ between South Korea and North Korea separately made an incomprehensible decision - to seek asylum in the communist country. Larry Abshier, a private from Garfield Heights, Ohio, was one of the four, and never seen by anyone in the free world again. His life was a complete mystery until 2004, when one of the defectors was able to leave North Korea and finally share their story.
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Jul 12, 2023
Rewind: The missing crew of Ghost Blimp (Ep 110)
In the 1942, in an Akron-built Goodyear blimp delivered to the Navy after the start of WWII, a two-man crew set out over the Pacific from San Francisco for a short four-hour patrol in search of Japanese subs. The blimp returned. The crew did not. www.ohiomysteries.comfeedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Get That Tree Up On The Roof, by Lisa Gain & the Rusty Silos. Find more at: https://www.facebook.com/rustysilos Additional music: Audionautix- The Great Unknown, and The Great Phospher- Daniel Birch
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Jul 9, 2023
Ep. 233 - The Independence Day mutant storm of 1969
In a weather event Ohio had never before experienced, a powerful "derecho" thunderstorm formed as Fourth of July revelers gathered along the Lake Erie shoreline for a fireworks show. The storm capsized 200 boats before making its way south to Wayne County and its neighbors, where flash floods devastated communities. In the end, 41 people were killed and an estimated 21,000 homes and businesses damaged or destroyed.
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Jul 5, 2023
10-Minute Mystery: Ohio's geological journey
A wild trip through Ohio's geologic past, from when it was a mountain, to when it was a warm tropical sea, to when it became buried beneath a mile of ice. We also share where Ohio allows you to walk on the bottom of the ocean, and how Ohio's unique location contributed to rich resources that range from oil and gas, to quarries of limestone, to one of the most amazing stretches of farmland in the country.
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Jul 2, 2023
To Catch A Killer: Part 3 of 3
The story of a determined detective who identified - and then caught - a serial killer. In the last of this 3-part series, Tallmadge Captain Doug Bohon describes the trial of Gus Sapharas - from pre-trial hearings that threatened to throw out key evidence, to the nail-biting wait for the jury's verdict.
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Jun 28, 2023
To Catch A Killer: Part 2 of 3
The story of a determined detective who identified - and then caught - a serial killer. In Part 2 of this three-part series, Tallmadge Captain Doug Bohon learns the shocking truth of his prime suspect, Gus Sapharas, whose criminal assaults spanned 40 years.
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Jun 25, 2023
To Catch A Killer: Part 1 of 3
The story of a determined detective who identified - and then caught - a serial killer. In Part 1 of this three-part series, Tallmadge Captain Doug Bohon discusses two unsolved homicides from the 1970s - Karen Bentz and Loretta Davis - and what compelled him to pull their files and try one more time to solve these old mysteries.
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Jun 21, 2023
Ep. 232 - Restoring identities: Othram successes, Part 2
This 2-part series shares recent successes of Othram Inc - a genetic genealogy lab that in the past 12 months has identified seven Ohioans, most of them lying in out-of-state unmarked grave. Tonight, the story of four of them: Brenda Sue Black of Vandalia; Colleen Rice of Portsmouth; Doreen Tiedman of Cleveland; and Douglas Streeter of Bryan.
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Jun 18, 2023
Ep. 231 - Restoring identities: Othram successes, Part 1
In the past 12 months, Othram Inc - a genetic genealogy lab that uses DNA to build family trees of unidentified homicide victims - has given three Ohioans their names back. Now the work can begin to find the killers of Florence Charleston of Cleveland, Robert Earl Sanders of Youngstown, and Maggie Sniegowski of Toledo - missing loved ones only known to authorities as Jane Doe or John Doe for decades.
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Jun 14, 2023
SOLVED! Rewind: David Evans (10-Minute Mystery)
In 1975, 13-year-old David Evans never returned home after heading out to skate at a local park in Boardman, Ohio. He was found dead days later, killed by a diabetic coma because he wasn't home to take his insulin. But who kept him from home, and then tried to hide his body in some bushes? www.ohiomysteries.comfeedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Audionautix- The Great Unknown The Great Phospher- Daniel Birch
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Jun 11, 2023
Ep. 230 - The Muskingum County Animal Farm tragedy
In 2011, the owner of nearly 60 exotic animals released them in one final act before taking his own life, setting up a massacre as local law enforcement raced to stop lions, tigers, wolves and bears from fleeing into the wild. Why would a man who spent more than 30 years caring for the animals doom them to such a tragic end?
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Jun 7, 2023
10-Minute Mystery: Willoughby and Lost Nation Road
A hometown mystery: The unique way Willoughby residents came up with their town name, and the century-long obsession the town has with trying to figure out the origin behind Lost Nation Road. We offer two popular theories, and a third that is long forgotten but might be closer to the truth.
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Jun 4, 2023
Ep. 229 - Kate Chase: First Lady of Washington DC
Cincinnati's Kate Chase was groomed to be a society lady, but the Civil War-era "Belle of the North" adopted her father's ambition for the White House and became a political strategist that made her the most influential woman in the nation's capital. Yet her end read like a tragic Victorian novel.
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May 31, 2023
10-Minute Mystery: Edison and the first electric chair
When Alfred Southwick invented the electric chair in Buffalo NY, Ohio's favorite son, Thomas Edison, was eager to design the procedure for using it but with nefarious motivation. He was in the middle of a fight to see whether his DC current would win public favor over his competitor's AC current. Edison designed the chair to use AC so he could connect AC to death and danger in the public mind. What happened next was horrifying.
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May 28, 2023
Rewind: What Happened to Judy Martins (Ep 41)
Episode Notes: One of the most confounding disappearances in Ohio history happened in May of 1978, when Judy Martins vanished on a late night walk between a friend's dorm room and her own room at Kent State Engleman Hall. With no evidence of foul play, the police eventually destroyed their file on her and there is no active investigation to find out what happened. But those who know her say she had no reason to walk away - and stay away for 41 years. www.ohiomysteries.comfeedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Too Much, by Larry Elefante. Find more at https://www.facebook.com/Larryelefante Audionautix the great Unknown Rise of the Pospher Daniel Birch
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May 24, 2023
10-Minute Mystery: Harry Andrews and Castle La Roche
In Loveland, Ohio, a medieval castle rises above the Little Miami River. It was built by stones hauled up from the river by a World War I vet obsessed with the era of knights and chivalry. Harry Andrews was one-of-a-kind, and the Knights group he found still operates the castle as a museum.
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May 21, 2023
Ep. 228 - Tyrone Noling: Guilty or not?
In 1990, Bearnhardt and Cora Hartig were brutally murdered in their Portage County home during a burglary. A few years later, four men were named as their assailants, with one sentenced to death. But with no physical evidence putting any of them at the site, and confessions determined by an expert as having been coerced, did the real killer get away?
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May 17, 2023
10-Minute Mystery: The Delta Queen's Ghost Captain
In 1897, Cincinnati's own Mary Becker Greene became the first woman to receive a steamboat pilot's license, and she and her husband spent the next 50 years plying the rivers of Ohio and the Mississippi. She later joined her son Tom aboard his Delta Queen. But after she died in her stateroom, some folks became convinced Captain Mary never left the ship.
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May 14, 2023
EP. 227: Anti-hero Thomas Midgley Jr.
Thomas Midgley Jr., a brilliant scientist working for Dayton, Ohio research companies in the 1920, invented two world-changing products. He discovered a lead additive could stop the destructing knocking noise prevalent in early auto engines. And he discovered a supergas that allowed average homes to safely have refrigerators and air conditioners. It wasn't until decades after Midgley's death that his revolutionary creations were destroying the planet, and the life upon it.
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May 10, 2023
UPDATE! Rewind: BCI Cold Cases: Zastudil, Thompson, Hebert (Ep 112)
So tonight we're doing a rewind of our 2020 episode about three cases that were getting new attention from the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation.
In at least one of those cases, DNA technology came through. A few months ago, Hamilton County authorities announced they tied a serial killer to the death of Cheryl Thompson -- a 19-year-old University of Cincinnati student killed in 1978.
Robert Howell was a Cincinnati truck driver who died in a 1985 car accident, so he can't be questioned.
But authorities are pretty firm in their belief that not only did he kill Cheryl, he may well be responsible for the deaths of three other women in Hamilton and Butler counties in that period.
Unfortunately, there isn't DNA to compare from those other cases. But it sounds like the case of Cheryl Thompson is as closed as it can possibly get with a dead suspect.
So here's the episode we did on Cheryl and two other cases the BCI had on their radar - and come back Sunday for a brand new story.
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May 7, 2023
Ep. 226 - The indefinable Victoria Claflin Woodhull
Born in Licking County when it was America's western frontier, Victoria Claflin was born into poverty and grew up the daughter of a conman who groomed her to be a child preacher and spiritualist. She ran away just after turning 15, becoming a child bride and mother. Her "spirit guides" promised her she'd grow up to be wealthy and powerful, but nobody could have predicted what was to come.
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May 3, 2023
10-Minute Mystery: The Golden Age Nursing Home fire
In Nov. 22 1963, Ohioans went to bed mourning the assassination of President John F Kennedy, and woke to the news of a different kind of disaster. Overnight, a fire at the Golden Age Nursing Home in Huron County had claimed the lives of 63 residents. The fire would have been national news any other day, but although it was overshadowed by Kennedy's death, it made an impact on federal safety requirements.
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Apr 30, 2023
Ep. 225 - How did Lt. Col. George Custer really die?
In 1876, Ohio native Lt. Col. George Custer led the 7th Cavalry into a battle with the Cheyenne at the Battle of the Little Bighorn - and died alongside every soldier of the five companies that he commanded. But questions remain about "Custer's Last Stand," including more than a dozen eye-witness reports who said Custer and a great many of his men actually killed themselves after realizing how badly they were outnumbered.
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Apr 26, 2023
10-Minute Mystery: Akron's stone-throwing ghost
In 1919, William Clemens, nephew of celebrated author Mark Twain, wrote about one of the most "mysterious, uncanny and problematic" cases he'd ever witnesses. He then proceeded to relate the tale of his visit to Akron, and his experience with a local family haunted by a ghost who had been throwing stones at them.
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Apr 23, 2023
Rewind: The I-70 Strangler (Ep 30)
In July of 1996, Herb Baumeister drove to a park outside Toronto, wrote a suicide note, then killed himself. In his final communication, the millionaire Indianapolis businessman penned pages about his failed thrift store chain and angst over his marriage. But he didn't say a thing about what authorities really wanted to know: Why were there skeletal remains of 11 men in his backyard, and what did he know about six men whose bodies were dumped in western Ohio.
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Apr 19, 2023
10-Minute Mystery: The Great Hopewell Road
Did the prehistoric culture known as the Hopewell build a 60-mile long prehistoric highway between two of southern Ohio's major cultural centers? Though weather and development destroyed the road long ago, technology - and old notes from 19th century explorers - suggest such a colossal monument did indeed exist.
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Apr 16, 2023
Ep. 224 - HH Holmes in the Queen City
HH Holmes would become one of America's most notorious serial killers, but when he was arrested in Philadelphia in 1895, it was only for insurance fraud. Fidelity Mutual accused him of faking the death of his partner in order to collect on a $10k policy. But then detectives began to think maybe Holmes had killed his partner. And if he had, what had become of the partner's missing three children? A Pinkerton detective set out to search for them, beginning in Cincinnati, Ohio.
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Apr 12, 2023
10-Minute Mystery: Fizzleville
For more than 50 years, folks in eastern Brown County tried to get recognition that they lived in the imaginary hamlet of Fizzleville. Though you won't find Fizzleville on any map, they managed to organize a popular annual festival, sold bumper stickers and promoted the name even in their obituaries.
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Apr 9, 2023
Ep. 223 - The murder of Amish farmer Paul Coblentz
In 1957, a pair of young, heavily intoxicated felons invaded the home of Paul Coblentz, a 25-year-old Holmes County farmer, and terrorized him, his wife and their baby before shooting Paul in the head. But after the shooter was convicted and assigned a date with the executioner, the victim's family and greater Holmes County Amish launched a campaign to save his life.
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Apr 5, 2023
10-Minute Mystery: Cory Barron
In 2014, Cory Barron left his seat at Progressive Field in Downtown Cleveland during a Jason Aldean country concert - and disappeared. His body was found a few days later in a garbage truck that had collected trash from the stadium - trash that had been put down a five-story chute with a compactor. Last year for the first time, authorities agreed with Cory's family that he was more likely a victim of murder than some kind of bizarre accident.www.ohiomysteries.comfeedback@ohiomysteries.comwww.patreon.com/ohiomysterieswww.twitter.com/mysteriesohiowww.facebook.com/ohiomysteriesAudionautix- The Great Unknown
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Apr 2, 2023
Ep. 222 - Crazy or misunderstood? The life of Tina Resch
Tina Resch got her first 15 minutes of fame as a teenager in Columbus when national news media showed up to report her account of a pesky poltergeist wreaking havoc in her home. The next time reporters caught up with her, she was a 22-year-old in jail, accused of playing a role in the violent death of her 3-year-old daughter, Amber. Some say she was a fraud and a killer. Others insist she was an innocent woman, a victim of public opinion and abusive echoes from her past.
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Mar 29, 2023
UNRESOLVED Ep. 15: Mary Yocono
In 1985, 79-year-old Mary Yocono left her family's restaurant - Yocono's Italian Eatery in Akron's Wallhaven neighborhood - and walked across the street to take an early Christmas gift to her friends. But night and rain descended during the visit, and during the return trip on the dark street, a car struck Mary, then sped away. Nearly 40 years later, no one has ever taken responsibility for the hit and run of this colorful and beloved Italian matriarch.
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Mar 26, 2023
Ep. 221 - The wives of Gerald "Bob" Hand
For 20 years, Ohio has been waiting to execute Gerald "Bob" Hand for the murder of his wife, Jill, and for the death of the man he hired to kill her at their Delaware County home in 2002. But whether or not it ever happens, there will be no official closure for the murders of his first two wives, both suffocated by plastic bags in the basement of his Columbus home.
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Mar 22, 2023
10-Minute Mystery: The paper towns of "goblu" and "beatosu"
In 1978, a Michigan state official ordered a mapmaker to add two fake towns to the Ohio side of the state's southern border, introducing the hamlets of "goblu" and "beatosu" to Lucas and Fulton counties. This is the story of how a couple of University of Michigan rallying cries taunting Ohio State University fans slipped through the cracks.
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Mar 19, 2023
Ep. 220 - It's a bird! It's a plane! It's...
In 1965, a fireball tore through the sky over Northeast Ohio, dropping fragments that started grass fires, sending explosive bits into Lake Erie, causing dispatch phones to ring off the hook as thousands of people tried to figure out what they were seeing. It ended with a fiery shock wave in Kecksburg, Pennsylvania, leaving nothing behind. Or did it? Today, experts still argue over what it was, and whether something was left in the woods where it came to rest.
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Mar 15, 2023
10-Minute Mystery: Georg Ann Reiter
In 1970, two women parked alongside a road in Butler County heard a knock on the car window and turned to find a man with a rifle who demanded their car, marched them into a wooded area, and shot them. One woman lived to tell the tale; the other woman, 21-year-old Georg Ann Reiter, did not. More than 50 years later, her family wants answers.
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Mar 12, 2023
Ep. 219 - Operation "Inter"
Youngstown-area native Mark Baker became a journalist in Europe, where he caught the attention of communist operatives in the 1980s who hoped to compel him to become a spy. We interview Baker from Prague, Czech Republic just months after he got to see a thick file and dozens of surveillance photos that he never knew existed, and his reaction to learning how he'd been targeted by the secret agency behind the Iron Curtain.
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Mar 8, 2023
Rewind: Inspiration of Thomas Edison (Ep 121)
Thomas Edison's long list of inventions touched every layer of our lives - from the lightbulb and electric industry, to movies, TV and music. In many cases, he was motivated by his own profound deafness - a condition that medical experts still debate. www.ohiomysteries.comfeedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Anything, by Tyrone Hornbuckle. Find more at https://www.facebook.com/tyrone.hornbuckle Additional music: Audionautix- The Great Unknown. The Great Phospher- Daniel Birch. Also: Home, by Whitesand - https://youtu.be/ZEZDlyetasc
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Mar 5, 2023
Rewind: The Patel Family (UNRESOLVED Ep. 7)
An Ohio Mysteries/Akron Beacon Journal crossover In 1991, Manher and Jyoti Patel and their 6-year-old daughter Alka were executed in their home in Green. The Patels owned the notorious pay-by-the-hour Steve's Motel. Summit County detectives have come to believe it was a professional hit over a business deal - and for the first time name their suspected triggermen. Ohio Mysteries: http://www.ohiomysteries.com Akron Beacon Journal: http://www.beaconjournal.com Ross Bugdon Music https://www.youtube.com/c/RossBugden
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Mar 1, 2023
Rewind: The Cave: An Underground Railroad story (Ep 97)
In 1892, a man named John wrote a three-part series for the local Middletown, Ohio newspaper detailing two tragic events that led to at least 25 deaths in a cave leaking, presumably, natural gas. One event involved 21 escaping slaves, the other involved four geologists who went in but never came out. His tale led to a century of spelunkers trying to find the cave, but others have wondered if his prose was purely fiction. www.ohiomysteries.comfeedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Music in my Mind, by Third Class. http://www.thirdclass.net Additional music: Audionautix- The Great Unknown, and The Great Phospher- Daniel Birch
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Feb 26, 2023
UPDATE! Rewind: Katelyn Markham (10-Minute Mystery)
In August of 2011, Katelyn Markham vanished from her home in Fairfield, Ohio. The Art Institute of Cincinnati student was two days from her 22nd birthday and three weeks from graduating when she failed to respond to texts and phone calls from her fiance. It took nearly two years to find her remains in an Indiana dumping ground. www.ohiomysteries.comfeedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Audionautix- The Great Unknown The Great Phospher- Daniel Birch
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Feb 22, 2023
10-Minute Mystery: Big Four Bridge, Sidney
In 1923 and 1924, the construction of the Big Four railroad bridge in Sidney, Ohio took the lives of at least four construction workers - and possibly a fifth? Is there really a migrant worker encased in the cement, a man whose death meant so little it didn't even stop the pouring of the concrete? A local witness said he saw it happen.www.ohiomysteries.com
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Feb 19, 2023
Ep. 218 - The life and death of Thurman Munson
\New York Yankees catcher Thurman Munson, captain of the most storied team in baseball history, learned to fly so he could go home to his family in Canton, Ohio between games. He died in a fiery crash at Akron-Canton Airport while practicing his landings in a brand new twin-engine Cessna that his wife believed he was high-pressured into buying.
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Feb 15, 2023
10-Minute Mystery: Melanie Doyle
In 1999, Ashtabula native Melanie Doyle died of uterine cancer. Her family calls it murder. Melanie was viciously assaulted three years earlier and never woke from the coma caused by blunt force trauma. Because Melanie was unconscious and unable to fight the cancer that invaded her body, some say she was as much a homicide victim as if she died that day in 1996. Making it unbearable: The police think they know who did it, but lack the evidence to test their theory in court.
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Feb 12, 2023
Ep. 217 - Arthur Ford's seance of Martin Jones
In 1964, a Canton, Ohio couple asked the nationally renowned spiritualist Arthur Ford to help them contact their son, Martin Jones, who was killed in a US Air Force accident. This is the story of Arthur Ford, Martin Jones, and what skeptics have had to say about the whole affair.
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Feb 8, 2023
10-Minute Mystery: Beth Franks
In 1965, Beth Franks vanished after a fight with her husband, who told Toledo police she stormed out of their home and never returned. Decades passed, and even the Toledo detectives forgot about the case. Until Beth's sister reminded them.www.ohiomysteries.comfeedback@ohiomysteries.comwww.patreon.com/ohiomysterieswww.twitter.com/mysteriesohiowww.facebook.com/ohiomysteriesAudionautix- The Great UnknownThe Great Phospher- Daniel Birch
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Feb 5, 2023
SOLVED! Rewind: The unsolved murder of Brad Bellino (Ep 93)
In 1972, 12-year-old Brad Bellino was walking from his buddy's home in Boardman, Ohio to his own home when he vanished. His brutalized body was found a few days later, but his killer has never been found. www.ohiomysteries.comfeedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Wrong Together, by Benjamin Marshall. https://www.benjaminmarshallmusic.com Additional music: Audionautix- The Great Unknown, and The Great Phospher- Daniel Birch
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Feb 1, 2023
Special: Podcast host Carol Costello discusses the Phyllis Cottle case
Special: Podcast host Carol Costello discusses the Phyllis Cottle caseFormer CNN anchor and Akron, Ohio TV journalist Carol Costello discusses her new podcast, Blind Rage, about Phyllis Cottle. In 1984, Cottle was abducted, raped and tortured, then left blinded inside a burning car, yet she survived to help detectives catch her assailant and become an advocate and icon for strength, determination and perserverance. Evergreen Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/carol-costello-presents-blind-rage/id1621640691www.ohiomysteries.com
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Jan 29, 2023
Ep. 216 - Codebreakers Pt 3: Agnes Meyer Driscoll, First Lady of Naval Cryptology
The last of a 3-part series on Ohio's famous WWII codebreakers: Agnes Meyer Driscoll spent 20 years breaking every Japanese code the Imperial Navy tried to use, helped form the US Navy's codebreaking office OP-20-G, and trained countless cryptologists. But it took years for this woman in a man's world to gain any recognition for her achievements.
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Jan 25, 2023
Ep. 215 - Codebreakers Pt 2: Joe Rochefort and the Battle of Midway
Part 2 of a 3-part series on Ohio's famous WWII codebreakers: Dayton native Joseph Rochefort was the naval officer most responsible for America's tide-turning victory against the Japanese at the Battle of Midway, having decrypted the code that allowed for an ambush. But superior officers who didn't like that this high school dropout who never attended the Naval Academy was in charge of the Pacific's codebreaking team conspired to downplay his role, which remained all but secret for decades.
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Jan 22, 2023
Ep. 214 - Codebreakers Pt 1: Joe Desch and the NCR
Much of America's success in breaking the Enigma, the message encrypting machine used by Germany during World War II, can largely be traced to two different men from Dayton, Ohio. In this episode, the story of Joe Desch, a brilliant engineer at National Cash Register who designed a machine that could read coded messages - even though it led to a nervous breakdown and a lifetime of trying to hide his work from his family.
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Jan 17, 2023
10-Minute Mystery: The Van Nguyen family
In April of 2002, a suicidal Stephanie Van Nguyen left her husband and parents a note saying she intended to kill herself by driving into the Ohio River - and that she was taking her 4-year-old daughter and 3-year-old son with her. It took 20 years for police to find her and her vehicle. But where were the children?www.ohiomysteries.comfeedback@ohiomysteries.comwww.patreon.com/ohiomysterieswww.twitter.com/mysteriesohiowww.facebook.com/ohiomysteriesAudionautix- The Great Unknown
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Jan 15, 2023
Ep. 213 - Livingston and the modern tomato
Before 1870, the tomato was a wild plant that most found hard, ugly and inedible. Most homes that had a plant just kept it as an ornamental curiosity. But after 15 years of work, A. W. Livingston of Reynoldsburg developed a sweet, juicy, smooth-skinned variety that made the tomato a commercial crop for the first time. Does Livingston deserve credit for "inventing" one of the world's favorite foods?
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Jan 11, 2023
10-Minute Mystery: Dawn Hickman
In January of 2009, residents of a mobile home park in Heath, Ohio grew concerned that they hadn't seen their bubbly, outgoing neighbor Dawn Hickman since the start of the new year. They called police. Police called Dawn's families. That's when Dawn's sisters made the chilling discovery of Dawn's body, strangled, wrapped in a blanket, and tucked into a corner of her closet.
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Jan 8, 2023
Ep. 212 - Col. James Forsyth and the Wounded Knee Massacre
In 1890, Col. James Forsyth - Maumee, Ohio born and bred - led the 7th Calvary into Wounded Knee, South Dakota to disarm 250 Lakota Indians who white settlers were fearing after the murder of their spiritual leader, Sitting Bull. What followed was a massacre of mostly unarmed warriors, women fleeing with babies clutched to their chests, and children hiding in ravines.
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Jan 4, 2023
10-Minute Mystery: Linda Bennett
In December of 2022, Kentucky State Police announced they had identified a 1988 Jane Doe as 38-year-old Linda Bennett of Columbus, Ohio. Linda was reported missing a month after Kentucky found their murder victim on the side of a road, and yet the connection was never made. But do police already have a prime suspect in Ohio-bred Samuel Little, America's most prolific serial killer?www.ohiomysteries.comfeedback@ohiomysteries.comwww.patreon.com/ohiomysterieswww.twitter.com/mysteriesohiowww.facebook.com/ohiomysteriesAudionautix- The Great UnknownThe Great Phospher- Daniel Birch
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Jan 1, 2023
Ep. 211 - The French 500
Gallipolis, Ohio was born of a scam. In 1790, some 500 Parisians eager to distance themselves from the aftermath of the French Revolution thought they'd bought deeds to land along the Ohio River in America's new Northwest Territory. But when they arrived in the New World, they learned their contracts were worthless. So, what happened to them?
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Dec 27, 2022
UNRESOLVED Ep. 14: Melvin Horst
In 1928, 4-year-old Melvin Horst left his home in Orrville, Ohio to show his friends the shiny red firetruck Santa had brought him. Then, he vanished in a case that captivated the country with twists and turns for more than a year. We talk to Melvin's surviving sister, Elgie, who is now 96 years old, and Orrville Sgt. Jaime McGreal, who has done some recent sleuthing on the ancient case.
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Dec 25, 2022
Rewind: The first Christmas Tree (Ep 18)
For more than 50 years, the country accepted without question that Wooster, Ohio immigrant August Imgard was the first to decorate a Christmas tree in America. His charming story was told and retold by newspapers from coast to coast every December. But was Imgard really the first? Ninety-nine years after he spruced up a fir and enchanted his neighbors, a Wooster professor would go looking for the answer.
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Dec 21, 2022
Rewind: The Girl In Blue (10-Minute Mystery)
On Christmas Eve in 1933, a stranger walked through the streets of Willoughby, Ohio - a young woman dressed head to toe in blue, with 90 cents in her purse and hopes of getting home to Pennsylvania by Christmas. No one understood her intent as she sprinted for an approaching train, running into its side and glancing off with a fatally cracked skull. The town would bury the unidentified girl in a grave marked "The Girl in Blue," and although research would give her a name 60 years later, it will never be known if she had intended to kill herself, or simply catch a free ride home. www.ohiomysteries.comfeedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Audionautix- The Great Unknown The Great Phospher- Daniel Birch
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Dec 18, 2022
10-Minute Mystery: The Poinsettia myth
For a century, Americans feared the Poinsettia, believing it to be poisonous to people and pets. In 1971, the Ohio State University was asked to test this longstanding myth. What did they learn? Why did we think this cheerful Christmas plant was a killer? And how many of us still believe it today?
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Dec 14, 2022
10-Minute Mystery: Mob Mentility - Cleveland's 10-Cent Beer Night Riot
In 1974, the Texas Rangers came to town to play the Cleveland Indians, one week after they had a bench-clearing brawl in Texas. Fans were whipped up into a frenzy before their arrival, but worse, the game took place on a pre-scheduled promotional night that sold beer for 10 cents a cup. The result was a day that lives on in infamy.www.ohiomysteries.comfeedback@ohiomysteries.comwww.patreon.com/ohiomysterieswww.twitter.com/mysteriesohiowww.facebook.com/ohiomysteriesAudionautix- The Great UnknownThe Great Phospher- Daniel Birch
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Dec 11, 2022
Ep. 210 - Was John Demjanjuk "Ivan the Terrible?"
In 1977, the US Justice Department sought to revoke the citizenship of a Ukrainian immigrant they believed to be guilty of World War II war atrocities. For the next 35 years, John Demjanjuk, an auto factory worker from Seven Hills, endured deportation hearings in the US, murder trials in Israel and Germany, and was almost hanged. But there are still questions about whether he was the sadistic guard he was accused of being.
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Dec 7, 2022
10-Minute Mystery: The Burning Tree Mastodon
In 1986, the most complete mastodon skeleton in the world was found in Ohio's Licking County. Researchers found more surprises than they expected: Butcher marks that hinted at how ice age hunters survived, and 13,000-year-old gut bacteria that was still alive and for a time hailed as the longest-living organism on the planet.www.ohiomysteries.comfeedback@ohiomysteries.comwww.patreon.com/ohiomysterieswww.twitter.com/mysteriesohiowww.facebook.com/ohiomysteriesAudionautix- The Great UnknownThe Great Phospher- Daniel Birch
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Dec 4, 2022
Ep. 209 - The mind and mysticism of Edgar Cayce
Kentucky-born Edgar Cayce dazzled generations with what appeared to be a unique talent for diagnosing illnesses and offering treatments, all while in a trance and with no medical training. During the two years he lived in Dayton, Ohio, he used his "gift" to explore the idea of reincarnation. His clairvoyant talents have modern historians calling him the founder of the New Age movement.
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Nov 30, 2022
10-Minute Mystery: Black Widow Betty Johnson
Betty Johnson from Ironton, Ohio had five husbands and an adult son die, most of them from gunshot. After North Carolina authorities charged her with trying to hire a hitman to take out husband No. 4, authorities in Ohio, Florida and Georgia began to wonder if they overlooked something. www.ohiomysteries.comfeedback@ohiomysteries.comwww.patreon.com/ohiomysterieswww.twitter.com/mysteriesohiowww.facebook.com/ohiomysteriesAudionautix- The Great UnknownThe Great Phospher- Daniel Birch
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Nov 27, 2022
Ep. 208 - Garrett Morgan, the "Black Edison"
Garrett Morgan's descendants hope a DNA test will prove what the family has believed for more than a century - that the inventor is the grandson of Confederate Col. John Morgan, of the Civil War's "Morgan Raiders." But even without that distinction, Garrett earned his place in history for designing the three-light traffic signal, and a gas mask he used to rescue men trapped in a Cleveland tunnel.
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Nov 23, 2022
UNRESOLVED Ep 13: Sam Hughes
In 2006, Sam Hughes was found beaten to death in his home in Akron's North Hill neighborhood. Hughes was a small-time drug dealer who mostly sold marijuana to friends, but his new addiction to cocaine might have let new and dangerous people into his life. He left behind family and friends who had been trying to help Sam get his life back in order.
Our UNRESOLVED series is in partnership with the Akron Beacon Journal. Stories on this case are also available at beaconjournal.com.
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Nov 20, 2022
10-Minute Mystery: Ohio River's John and Jane Does
We take a look at six cases from NamUs, the national database of unidentified remains and missing persons, that come from the shoreline of the Ohio River. They include a car discovered that likely belongs to an Ohio murder victim, a Kentucky man missing from a damaged boat that was drifting in circles, and a partial skeleton buried in the muck at the river's edge.www.ohiomysteries.comfeedback@ohiomysteries.comwww.patreon.com/ohiomysterieswww.twitter.com/mysteriesohiowww.facebook.com/ohiomysteriesAudionautix- The Great UnknownThe Great Phospher- Daniel Birch
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Nov 16, 2022
10-Minute Mystery: Lake Erie's John and Jane Does
Four mysteries on NamUs, the national database of unidentified remains and missing persons, come from the shoreline of Lake Erie. Two of the cases - a man found in 2014 by a downtown Cleveland break wall, and a woman in a disco dress who washed ashore at the Cedar Point causeway in 1980 - are currently undergoing fresh DNA testing. The other two are a man found in Lucas County in 2005, and the case of a Lorain fisherman presumed to have drowned in 1983, though his body was never found.
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Nov 13, 2022
207 - What made New Portage a ghost town?
Summit County's "ancient metropolis" was New Portage, an early settlement that discovered one of the best possible crossroads in the state, and yet was abandoned twice by its population. The area later became the wildly successful factory town of Barberton, but what forces doomed its first two attempts at civilization?
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Nov 9, 2022
Rewind: The hazing of Stuart Pierson (Ep 57)
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Nov 6, 2022
Ep 206 - The story of Johnson's Island
The only place in Ohio where you can walk ground associated with the American Civil War is Johnson's Island, which served as a prisoner of war camp for Confederate officers. Through letters from prisoners, newspaper stories about escape attempts, and a couple of incidents that almost lead to a national crisis, we tell this unique chapter in Ohio history.www.ohiomysteries.comfeedback@ohiomysteries.comwww.patreon.com/ohiomysterieswww.twitter.com/mysteriesohiowww.facebook.com/ohiomysteriesAudionautix- The Great UnknownThe Great Phospher- Daniel Birch
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Nov 2, 2022
10-Minute Mystery: Balloonfest '86
In 1986, the United Way of Cleveland launched nearly 1.5 million balloons to set a new world record and call attention to its annual fundraising campaign. It was beautiful for a few minutes, but then a stormfront caused the inflated balloons to fall, causing car accidents, closing an airport runway, spooking horses, and hindering the Coast Guard's effort to find two missing fishermen.
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Oct 30, 2022
Ep 205 - A stagecoach tour of southern Ohio ghosts
In this special seasonal edition, join us on our time-traveling stagecoach as we take a trip to the 19th century in hopes of spotting the headless ghost of Stumpy in Muskinghum County's village of Norwich; the spirit of Ross County's beloved hermit William Hewitt; the White Lady who haunts the riverboats passing Alexandria Point Park in Portsmouth; and the Miami Warriors buried beneath farmland in Butler County's West Chester Township.
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Oct 26, 2022
Ep 204 - Halloween and the truth about tainted treats
A University of Delaware sociologist has been spent decades chasing down every allegation of a child harmed by razors in apples, needles in chocolate bars and drugs injected into candy. And he said he hasn't found a single one. Ever. Are tainted treats an urban legend?www.ohiomysteries.comfeedback@ohiomysteries.comwww.patreon.com/ohiomysterieswww.twitter.com/mysteriesohiowww.facebook.com/ohiomysteriesFeatured Ohio music: All Hallows Steve, by Toby Danger. https://tobydanger.bandcamp.com/track/all-hallows-steve
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Oct 23, 2022
Rewind: The Mothman (Ep 107)
In 1966, people in the Ohio River communities of Point Pleasant, West Virginia and Gallipolis, Ohio saw a strange flying creature they couldn't identify. When the bridge connecting the two towns crashed into the river and killed 46 people, some wondered if the creature was connected. www.ohiomysteries.comfeedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Bad Advice, by tOd and the Bad Ideas. https://www.todandthebadideas.com Additional music: Audionautix- The Great Unknown, and The Great Phospher- Daniel Birch
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Oct 19, 2022
10-Minute Mystery: Procter & Gamble and the Satanic Panic
Procter & Gamble, founded in Cincinnati 185 years ago, is one of Ohio's most venerable companies. But in 1995, it had to give up its beloved logo of the man in the moon when rumors persisted that it symbolized ties to satanism.
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Oct 16, 2022
Ep 203 - Who killed Rollin and Anna Hudson?
In 1912, Rollin Hudson was hoping to distance his new bride Anna from other persistant suitors she had in Canton, Ohio by moving her to Paola, Kansas. But seven weeks after settling in their new home, they were beaten to death in their bed. Did their killer follow them from Ohio to exact revenge, or was it a serial killer known for riding the railways and annihilating families?
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Oct 12, 2022
10MM - The Soldier Wizard
In his lifetime, Revolutionary War veteran John Lamont became a punchline for his Ashtabula neighbors, who blamed him for everything that went wrong in their lives. They interpreted his eccentricity and anti-social behavior as a sign that he was a wizard. Modern historians don't know about that, but they do think he may have been a killer.
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Oct 9, 2022
Ep 202 - Clifford Osbun and the Hindenburg Disaster
In 1937, Wyandot County native Clifford Osbun survived the shocking crash of the Hindenburg, a football-sized dirigible from Germany making its debut trip to North America. When the airship caught fire and disintegrated in less than a minute, Osbun found himself on the ground with just a few burns on his hands. But when Osbun died suddenly four years later, had the Hindenburg claimed yet another victim?
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Oct 5, 2022
10-Minute Mystery: Ohio vs. Michigan and the Toledo War
The legendary football rivalry between Ohio State and the University of Michigan arguably has its roots in a 19th century border dispute that saw both sides call up militia armies to gain control of Toledo and the Maumee River.
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Oct 2, 2022
Ep 201 - Hatchet Man
201: Hatchet Man
As a Logan County tailor named Andrew Hellman, he killed his first wife with an ax and poisoned two of his children. As a fugitive in Maryland named Adam Horn, he murdered his second wife and unborn baby with a hatchet. History has lost track of where he was buried after his 1844 execution, but some say his ghost haunts a cemetery in Huntsville, Ohio.
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Sep 28, 2022
Ep. 200: Stephen Richards - "Ted Bundy of the Old West"
In 1879, 23-year-old Stephen Richards was arrested in his hometown of Mount Pleasant, Ohio - to where he fled after murdering a mother and three children in Nebraska. In the days that followed, he revealed at least nine murders at his hand. Because of his handsome face, charming demeanor and friendly smile, modern psychologists call him "Ted Bundy of the Old West."
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Sep 25, 2022
Ep. 199 - The eyes of Charles Breuer
199 - The eyes of Charles Breuer
The Charles Breuer monument in Cincinnati's Spring Grove Cemetery has long been a destination for ghosthunters, but the urban legend attached to the 3D bust on his obelisk is nothing compared to the real story of a millionaire who destroyed his own life out of spite.
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Sep 21, 2022
10-Minute Mystery: The confession of Canton's first killer
In 1833, 30-year-old Christian Bachtle was executed for murdering his wife as she nursed their baby. He left behind a detailed confession that is chilling even by 21st Century standards. His execution site is a stop on the Black Cat Tales and Tours walking tour this Halloween season in Canton, Ohio.
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Sep 18, 2022
Ep. 198 - Burr's Conspiracy
Three years after shooting Alexander Hamilton in a duel, former US vice president Aaron Burr was arrested for treason. President Jefferson suspected him of planning to take some US territories in the west, using boats he was building in Marietta, Ohio, and launching from Blennerhassett Island in the Ohio River. A jury would find Burr "not guilty," leaving historians to wonder what the heck Burr was up to.
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Sep 14, 2022
UNRESOLVED Ep. 12: Richard Wright
In May of 2004, Richard Wright - a 53-year-old Akron mail carrier - returned home from a trip to Las Vegas, and stopped on his way home from the airport to have a drink in his neighborhood bar. Shortly after, someone followed him home from the bar and shot him dead in his driveway. But he wasn't robbed, so who killed Richard Wright, and why?
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Sep 11, 2022
Ep. 197 - What happened to Philip Taylor Kramer?
Youngstown native Philip Taylor Kramer had success first as the bassist for the 1970s rock band Iron Butterfly, and then as a math and science prodigy working on government nuclear projects and then his own inventions. When he disappeared in 1995 from his California community, those who knew him were torn between whether he was a suicide risk, or had been abducted by people after his life's work.
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Sep 7, 2022
Ep. 196 - The Mounds Club heist
In 1947, masked gunmen in army fatigues and carrying submachine guns used flawless precision in storming the swanky Mounds Club in Lake County and robbing its nearly 300 patrons and staff. The gang was never arrested, though federal agents said they were told that the club's mob owners eventually got their vengeance.
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Sep 4, 2022
Ep. 195 - Who haunts Chillicothe's public square?
Ghosthunters say the old Ross County Archives building is haunted, and point to three possible candidates. We share the stories of the three men who were executed here when the site still housed the county jail.
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Aug 31, 2022
10-Minute Mystery: The forgotten history of Schneider Park
Until recently, most residents of Akron had no idea that a west side park used for playing soccer, flying kites and walking dogs was once a cemetery for the city's poor and forgotten. Modern researchers have revealed the likelihood that the bodies buried there a century ago were never removed.
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Aug 28, 2022
Ep. 194 - Clara Wolcott Driscoll and Tiffany's secret
For more than a century, it was presumed Louis Comfort Tiffany was the sole designer of his prized mosaic products. But in recent years, personal letters by the head of his women's department revealed his most famous lamps were the work of a woman from Tallmadge, Ohio.
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Aug 24, 2022
10-Minute Mystery: The Reservoir War
In 1888, the residents of Paulding County finally had enough with an abandoned canal and stagnant reservoir near Antwerp that was breeding mosquitoes and filling the countryside with the stench of dead fish. When the state refused to eliminate the problem, a mob took on the task - even as the Ohio National Guard moved in to stop them.
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Aug 21, 2022
10-Minute Mystery: Yvonne Regler
In 1977, 17-year-old Yvonne Regler disappeared from the Sunoco gas station in Fairview Park, leaving behind her purse and half-eaten lunch. Police recently have asked for help in solving this now-45-year-old mystery.
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Aug 17, 2022
Ep. 193 - Lured to Jonestown, Pt. 2
In 1978, the Rev. Jim Jones ordered the mass murder and suicide of 918 Americans who had followed him to a commune in Guyana, South America. Three Ohio women played key roles in the event. In Pt. 2, learn what happened to Patricia Cartmell (Columbus), Sharon Rose Cobb and Patty Parks (South Charleston, OH) after their move to Guyana.
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Aug 14, 2022
Ep. 193 - Lured to Jonestown, Pt. 1
In 1978, the Rev. Jim Jones ordered the mass murder and suicide of 918 Americans who had followed him to a commune in Guyana, South America. Three Ohio women played key roles in the event. In Pt. 1, meet Patricia Cartmell (Columbus), Sharon Rose Cobb and Patty Parks (South Charleston, OH) in the years leading up to Guyana
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Aug 10, 2022
10-Minute Mystery: Old Man's Cave
A historical marker at Old Man's Cave in Hocking Hills State Park offers one theory on who the cave was named for. But a 1907 newspaper suggested a different origin, and a recent history book named yet a third. We lay out the legends and let you decide.
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Aug 7, 2022
Rewind: Cindy Anderson (10-Minute Mystery)
In 1981, 20-year-old Cindy Anderson went to work at the Toledo, Ohio law office where she was a legal secretary. When co-workers arrived at the office, there were signs she had been there, but she was gone, with her locked car sitting in the parking lot. She was never seen again. www.ohiomysteries.comfeedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Audionautix- The Great Unknown The Great Phospher- Daniel Birch
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Aug 3, 2022
10-Minute Mystery: Tammy Hill Fafard
10-Minute Mystery: Tammy Hill Fafard
In 1995, Tammy Hill Fafard stormed out of her home in the Toledo suburb of Holland after a fight with her husband about her drug use. She never returned. Because her family was used to her disappearing for stretches of time, the 24-year-old mother of four wasn't reported missing for half a summer.
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Jul 31, 2022
Ep. 192 - Ghosts of Belmont County
Ghosts of two 19th century girls haunt the streets in western Belmont Count. We explore the legend of Lady Bend Hill, a tale of two lovers that ended in tragedy. And the murder of Louiza Fox, a 13-year-old courted by a coal miner who killed her when she rejected his marriage proposal.
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Jul 27, 2022
10-Minute Mystery: Sylvia Cabalic, Stacey Colbert
Sylvia Cabalic, a 24-year-old nurse and expectant mother, was raped and killed in her Cincinnati apartment building in 1974. Stacey Colbert, a 23-year-old marketing assistant, was kidnapped from her Columbus apartment in 1998 and found dead six years later. In each case, neighbors admitted to hearing the women being attacked, but chose to do nothing.
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Jul 24, 2022
Ep. 191- The sinking of the Kanawha
In 1916, raging currents on the Ohio River broadsided and sunk the Kanawha. With a passenger list lost, we can only guess that up to 20 people lost their lives, a few of whom have never been found. We share the survivor's accounts of what happened that dark and terrible night at the mouth of the Little Hocking River.
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Jul 20, 2022
10-Minute Mystery: The Dumler-Wilson murders
In October of 1969, one or more killers shot and stabbed a well-to-do Cincinnati couple and one of their mothers in their Mount Lookout neighborhood. Martin and Patricia Dumler were college sweethearts and doting parents of two children; Patricia's mom, Mary Wilson, was a loving grandma. Police say they don't even have a motive for the horrific crime.
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Jul 17, 2022
Ep. 190 - The spirit of Clarence Darrow
At the turn of the last century, Ohio-born Clarence Darrow rose to prominence as a criminal defense attorney, taking cases and making eloquent closing arguments that changed America. A look at his life, his cases, and his promise to send his ghost to a Chicago bridge if the afterlife made it possible.
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Jul 13, 2022
10-Minute Mystery: Lina Reyes-Geddes
10-Minute Mystery: Lina Reyes-Geddes
In June of 2022, detectives in Ohio and Utah said they were closing the case of a woman who went missing from the Youngstown suburb of Austintown, and the case of a woman found dead along a western highway. The woman was one and the same - Lina Reyes-Geddes - and authorities say modern technology and a new collaborative culture worked together to identify her killer.
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Jul 10, 2022
Ep. 189 - Mob Mentality: Ghosts of the Licking County Jail
Our Mob Mentality series continues with this tale of the historic Licking County Jail, a Newark facility said to be haunted by a young deputized temperance keeper named Carl Etherington, who was lynched by an angry mob in 1910. But there are other notable inmates whose spirits may be walking these halls as well.
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Jul 6, 2022
10-Minute Mystery: Lori Jean Lloyd
In 1976, 14-year-old Lori Jean Lloyd disappeared while walking to a store from her Kettering, Ohio home. After her family thought they spotted her in a documentary about runaways, they became convinced she might still be alive. But in recent years, they are more confident she's a Jane Doe buried in an unmarked grave in Kentucky.
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Jun 30, 2022
UNRESOLVED Ep. 11. Part 2: Tommy Sumerix and Ruth Guthrie
In May of 1964, 11-months after 15-year-old Tommy Sumerix of Green and 12-year-old Ruth Guthrie of Tallmadge disappeared from their community streets, their remains were found in different counties. We explore never-before-publicized theories about what may have happened.
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Jun 29, 2022
UNRESOLVED Ep. 11. Part 1: Tommy Sumerix and Ruth Guthrie
An Ohio Mysteries/Akron Beacon Journal crossoverIn 1963, 15-year-old Tommy Sumerix of Green and 12-year-old Ruth Guthrie of Tallmadge disappeared from their community streets within one week of each other. Widespread organized searches failed to turn up a shred of evidence as to what had happened.
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Jun 26, 2022
Ep. 188: Akron is the birthplace of baseball's biggest myth
A myth started in Akron, Ohio led to Abner Doubleday getting credit for being baseball's inventor, and for the Baseball Hall of Fame being placed in Cooperstown, NY. How it happened - and why it took a century for anyone to know Ohio's role.
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Jun 23, 2022
Rewind: The Minerva Monster (Ep 8)
What if you heard someone pelting your house with rocks, then investigated to find yourself face to face with a large hairy beast on two legs. In 1978, the Cayton family and several others living in and around Minerva reported seeing a manlike creature they couldn't identify lurking in the woods, something that has come to be known simply as "the Minerva Monster."
Akron Beacon Journal reporter Barb Galloway was the first journalist to document their stories, which - as it turned out - went back a generation. She accompanied local sheriff deputies as they found what appeared to be bedding pressed into tall grass, a tuft of fur snagged on a thorny bush, scratch marks on wood, and the strong odor of ammonia.
Hear what Galloway has to say about that unnerving summer.
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Jun 19, 2022
Ep. 187: The life of Leiland Cannon
In 2000, someone bludgeoned Leiland "Buster" Cannon in his home in Muskingum County's hamlet of East Fultonham. But our research showed there was so much more to know about the endearing grandfather because highlights of his life had been documented by his hometown newspaper for 74 years.
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Jun 15, 2022
10-Minute Mystery: Salem Cemetery and Panther's Hollow
The Amish countryside of Holmes County includes an old hamlet called Saltillo, which hosts two of the area's most mysterious spots. At Salem Cemetery is a statue, said to be a harbinger of death for anyone who catches her gaze. And Panthers Hollow - where locals once reported seeing a huge black wildcat roaming the woods - has grown into a gruesome legend.
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Jun 12, 2022
Ep. 186: Larry Doby, and Cleveland's integration of American League baseball
In 1947, three months after Jackie Robinson became the first black man to play Major League Baseball, Larry Doby took the field with the Cleveland Indians as the first black man in the American League. Doby refused to talk at length about the worst of his experiences, but being in the spotlight, we still know much of his inspirational story.
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Jun 8, 2022
10-Minute Mystery: Ghosts of Everett Road
Ghosthunters say they've encountered orbs, unexplained fog and a voice calling "Help Me" on Everett Road and its covered bridge, in Summit County's Boston Township. We explore the history of a canal-era crossroads here and find potential reasons for the paranormal activity, including the notable death of a farmer in the swollen creek, and the raiding of a nearly 2000-year-old Indian burial mound.
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Jun 5, 2022
Ep. 185: William Garretson, sole survivor of the Manson Family murders
In 1969, the Manson Family murdered seven people in a two-day California killing spree. But the night they killed actress Sharon Tate and her friends, they overlooked William Garretson, a 19-year-old Lancaster, Ohio youth who was dogsitting in the guest house 50 yards away. William's story of what he saw and heard that night changed several times over the years.
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Jun 1, 2022
10-Minute Mystery: The Salem (OH) witch trials
In 1893, a Columbiana County farmer was accused of being a wizard and using his occult powers to kill people and animals in the Salem area. When the farmer couldn't get a local attorney to represent him in a slander suit, he turned to the Methodist church where his accusers were members, and asked for justice.
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May 29, 2022
Ep. 184: Tecumseh
The Ohio-born Shawnee Chief Tecumseh spent a lifetime trying to stop American expansion into his homeland. But even his enemies revered him for his inherent nobility, his aversion to cruelty and his dedication to the native way of life. Where is he buried? And who pulled the trigger of the gun that killed him?
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May 25, 2022
10-Minute Mystery: Helen Stuart
In 1989, 71-year-old Helen Stuart disappeared from her Newark, Ohio home. Her body was discovered the next day, nude and left in the back seat of her own car, which had been abandoned on the berm of a highway. Was the convicted sex offender living next door to blame?
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May 22, 2022
Ep. 183: What made Eddie Rickenbacker invincible?
Eddie Rickenbacker defied death a handful of times growing up in Columbus, Ohio. He figured God was intervening. It was hard to argue the point after he survived accidents as a race car driver, being America's top combat air pilot of World War I, a civilian plane crash that killed half the passengers, and a World War II mission that left him adrift at sea for 24 days.
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May 18, 2022
10-Minute Mystery: Robert Hamrick
In 1970, Rock Creek Police Chief Robert Hamrick was pursuing a speeding car when his cruiser went off the isolated dirt road and struck a tree. Though it looked like a car accident, the fact that his revolver and night stick were missing and his skull was crushed when no car windows were broken had many thinking it was the murderous act of a local street gang.
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May 15, 2022
Ep. 182: Mob Mentality: Knights of the Flaming Circle vs. KKK
In 1923, a group called the Knights of the Flaming Circle formed to confront the Ku Klux Klan at their rallies and parades. They had an inaugural tussle in Steubenville, then met in 1924 - in Niles - for a deadly religious war.
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May 11, 2022
Ep. 181: Astronaut Mysteries Pt. 3
The last of a three-part series exploring mysteries that involved NASA astronauts from Ohio. In this episode, a couple of debates that arose after Neil Armstrong (Wapakoneta, OH) uttered his famous small step/giant leap line. And was Apollo 13, commanded by Jim Lovell (Cleveland, OH) fated to be a near disaster because of its number.
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May 8, 2022
Ep. 180: Astronaut Mysteries Pt. 2
In 1961, a pair of NASA scientists secretly tested a group of female pilots in the hopes of making them part of the Mercury astronaut program. Their final candidates' list included Jean Hixson - an Akron schoolteacher and World War II pilot. But when NASA leadership and Congress learned of the undercover effort, they shut the program down and sent the women home.
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May 4, 2022
Ep. 179: Astronaut Mysteries Pt. 1
The first of a three-part series exploring mysteries that involved NASA astronauts from Ohio. In this episode, we discuss things seen or said during space trips that got the UFO community excited, including John Glenn (New Concord, OH) and his "Fireflies," and three intriguing moments aboard Apollo 11, commanded by Neil Armstrong (Wapakoneta, OH.)
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May 1, 2022
10-Minute Mystery: The electrifying debut of Ray Caldwell
10-Minute Mystery: The electrifying debut of Ray Caldwell
In 1919, the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox had both given up trying to tame the very talented but hard-drinking pitching phenom Ray Caldwell. The Cleveland Indians had a plan to revive his career with a bizarre contract, but never expected his first game would require him to survive a lightning strike to win the game.
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Apr 27, 2022
UNRESOLVED Ep. 10: DeShawn Brown
In 2004, 29-year-old DeShawn Brown, a minor celebrity in Akron where he had once been the city's greatest high school football talent, was shot through the window of his North Hill apartment. Police struggled to find a motive, and soon learned it was possible Brown was never the intended target at all.
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Apr 24, 2022
Ep. 178 - The Beverly Hills Supper Club fire
In 1977, a fire at the Beverly Hills Supper Club in Southgate, Ky. killed 165 people. More than half were from Ohio. In the past decade, two new books on the subject argue that the cause wasn't an accident, but arson set by the Cleveland mafia against a business owner who wouldn't sell to them.
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Apr 20, 2022
10-Minute Mystery: Charles "Chico" Ballard
In 2000, someone lured Chico Ballard, an Ohio State University engineering student, to the basement of his apartment building and executed him. Columbus police have impressive circumstantial evidence against one suspect, but not enough to take the case to trial.
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Apr 17, 2022
Ep. 177 - The Gnadenhutten Massacre
In 1782, an American militia force from Pennsylvania marched into an Ohio village filled with Christian Delaware Indians and gruesomely executed 96 of them - men, women and children. Even today, historians find it a mystery of human behavior that such an atrocity could occur.
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Apr 13, 2022
10-Minute Mystery: Marine Sulphur Queen - A Bermuda Triangle mystery
In 1963, the 39-member crew of the Marine Sulphur Queen left the port at Beaumont, Texas, on a five-day journey to take molten Sulphur to Norfolk, Virginia. The ship vanished, along with two Merchant Marines from Akron, Ohio. In the years since, fans of the "Bermuda Triangle" theory say the Sulphur Queen was a victim of paranormal forces.
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Apr 10, 2022
Ep. 176 - Serial killer Anna Marie Hahn
In 1938, the first woman to die in Ohio's electric chair was Anna Marie Hahn, a 32-year-old wife and mother who romanced old men in Cincinnati's German district, rob them, and kill them. She was convicted of one death, confessed to three others, but authorities suspect her of at least eight murders.
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Apr 6, 2022
10-Minute Mystery: Robin Durrer
In 1981, Robin Durrer - a 19-year-old woman with developmental disabilities - left her home in the Franklin County village of Lockbourne to ride her 10-speed to a local store. She never made it back. She was sexually assaulted and beaten to death in a wooded area 300 yards from her house.
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Apr 3, 2022
10-Minute Mystery: Four fatal robberies
We look at four robberies that ended in murder - cold cases where modern day detectives have recently asked for help. Windom Durham, 1962, Oberlin, Lorain County. Donald Grogan, 1973, Toledo, Lucas County. Roger Parent Jr., 1973, St. Mary's, Auglaize County. Justin Miller, 2007, Delaware, Franklin County.
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Mar 30, 2022
UNRESOLVED Ep. 9: JoAnn Bartholomew
In 1987, JoAnn Bartholomew - a wife, mother of two and businesswoman from Stow - failed to return home from evening church services. Her family spent three days searching for her, and found her body in a wooded area behind Chapel Hill Mall. Her husband, Charles Bartholomew, and Akron Detective Jim Pasheilich discuss the cold case.
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Mar 27, 2022
Ep. 175 - Youngstown and the rise of the Warner Bros.
At the dawn of the 20th century, the nine Warner siblings were growing up in one of the most thriving-yet-dangerous neighborhoods in the Midwest industrial belt. Four of the brothers tried to break out of poverty through a variety of entrepreneurial businesses before they hit their stride as filmmakers. They would eventually move to Hollywood to establish their Warner Bros. Studio, but Youngstown is where it all started.
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Mar 23, 2022
10-Minute Mystery: The Cuyahoga River fire
In 1969, an oil slick on the Cuyahoga River in Cleveland caught fire. It was extinguished in 20 minutes. Nobody even got a picture of it. It wasn't even the first fire. The river had flamed up at least 13 times before that. So why did this unremarkable blaze lead to such a remarkable aftermath?
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Mar 20, 2022
Ep. 174 - A Trio of Musical Mysteries
1.When Twinsburg police finally were able to identify remains of a man found 40 years ago, they discovered he was an early member of the O'Jays. 2) The story behind the legend of "The Scream" on the Ohio Players' hit Love Rollercoaster. 3) The murder/suicide of Roger and Larry Troutman, founders of the Dayton funk group Zapp, still have people asking "Why?"
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Mar 16, 2022
10-Minute Mystery: The hazing of Herbert B. Knowles
Did a brutal hazing in his freshman year at Akron High School shorten the life of a bright and promising young businessman? Herbert B. Knowles didn't live to see his company, Burt Manufacturing, grow and evolve over the next 130 years. He was dead at 23.
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Mar 13, 2022
Ep. 173 - The Ray Gricar disappearance
In 2005, Ray Gricar, the sitting district attorney for Pennsylvania's Centre County, vanished. Gricar was born in Cleveland, earned his law degree at Case Western Reserve, and cut his teeth in the Cuyahoga County prosecutor's office. Did he commit suicide like his older brother had in West Chester, Ohio? Was he killed by any of the enemies he'd made in his long career? Or did he walk away from his life?
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Mar 9, 2022
10-Minute Mystery: Utopia
In the 1800s, three different experimental societies tried to establish a unique community in Clermont County, along the Ohio River. They failed. A road sign still marks where "Utopia" was meant to be, and where the specters of doomed and angry settlers are said to roam.
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Mar 6, 2022
Ep. 172 - The truth about Annie Oakley
In the late 1800s, Annie Oakley - a young sharpshooter from Ohio's Darke County - arguably became the most famous woman in America, maybe even the world. She toured with the Buffalo Bill Wild West show and entertained royalty and heads of state. But decades later, her brother cried while watching a Broadway musical about her life because they got her story so wrong. Let's separate fact from fiction.
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Mar 4, 2022
Ohio Mysteries Presents- Announcement
Announcing YouTube channel and change in "featured musical artist" segment.
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Mar 2, 2022
10-Minute Mystery: The Witch's Tower
In the 1940s, the scenic Hills and Dales MetroPark in Kettering, Ohio added an observation tower, built to look like the turret of a fortress. It became a lure for mischief makers who vandalized it and partied around it. But allegations that it's haunted come from the very real tragedy of a girl who was struck and killed by lightning after turning to the tower for shelter from a storm.
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Feb 27, 2022
Ep. 171 - Did Thomas Edison have Louis LePrince killed?
In 1890, Louis LePrince was reportedly on his way to America to demonstrate his invention of the moving picture camera. But on the train ride from his brother's home in France, he vanished. When Thomas Edison revealed his movie camera a few months later, LePrince's family became convinced Edison had their patriarch murdered. www.ohiomysteries.comfeedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Featured music: Countryside, by Nimbus Cloud. https://nimbuscloud.bandcamp.com Audionautix- The Great Unknownhe Great Phospher- Daniel Birch
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Feb 23, 2022
10-Minute Mystery: Cassie Cole
In 2002, 14-year-old Cassandra "Cassie" Cole disappeared from the family home in Tiffin - sometime after falling asleep, but before it was time to wake for school. Her body was found four months later along a river shoreline, but with no evidence of murder, her case is still called "a suspicious death." www.ohiomysteries.com feedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Audionautix- The Great Unknown The Great Phospher- Daniel Birch
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Feb 20, 2022
Ep. 170 - Dr. James Snook: Premeditation, or passion?
In 1929, an affair between married Ohio State University professor Dr. James Snook and medical student Theora Hix came to a crashing end when he beat her with a hammer and slashed her throat. He laid out an elaborate story, trying to convince the jury it was self defense. But two days after he was sent to the electric chair, the prison warden said Snook told him it had always been premeditated. (Warning: Some graphic sexual descriptions included.) www.ohiomysteries.com feedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Audionautix- The Great UnknownThe Great Phospher- Daniel Birch
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Feb 16, 2022
Rewind: Sojourner Truth (10-Minute Mystery)
In 1851, at the second National Woman's Rights Convention held in Akron, Ohio, a runaway slave named Sojourner Truth used her compelling life as an argument in favor of gender equality. Her speech electrified the crowd and her catch phrase "Ain't I a woman?" became a battle cry for feminists. But did Truth really say the words for which she is most famous? 20th-century historians launched an effort to find out. www.ohiomysteries.comfeedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Audionautix- The Great Unknown The Great Phospher- Daniel Birch
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Feb 13, 2022
Ep. 169 - What happened to Shaylene Farrell?
In 1994, 18-year-old Shaylene Farrell told her sister she was running to a corner store near their Piqua, Ohio home. When her family went looking for her later, they found her car, but Shaylene was gone. In never-before published details, we reveal what detectives on the case think might have happened. www.ohiomysteries.comfeedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries
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Feb 9, 2022
10-Minute Mystery: The Mythical Silver Mines of the Shawnee
In the late 1700s, men who had been held captive by the Shawnee told of how they were blindfolded, taken to a mysterious wood, then made to transport heavy ore. Later, pioneers found excavations that are believed to have been former silver mines. We explore the evidence of such mines in Greene County, Ohio and the historic Shawnee capital of Old Chillicothe. www.ohiomysteries.com feedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Audionautix- The Great UnknownThe Great Phospher- Daniel Birc
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Feb 6, 2022
Ep. 168 - The last Ohioans of the USS Oklahoma
In 1941, the USS Oklahoma sunk during the battle of Pearl Harbor, and the lost crew was buried together in Hawaii. This past decade, the military used DNA to return a majority of the remains to their families. We share the story of one Ohioan who is coming home for burial, and another who is still missing. www.ohiomysteries.comfeedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Audionautix- The Great UnknownThe Great Phospher- Daniel Birch
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Jan 30, 2022
Ep. 167 - Is George Remus "The Great Gatsby?"
When Chicago lawyer George Remus moved to Cincinnati in 1920, he was already famous for pioneering the temporary insanity defense. But he had another career in mind when he came to Ohio - building a criminal empire. Later, some would say F. Scott Fitzgerald modeled his legendary character Jay Gatsby after the multimillionaire who was so brilliant, he got away with shooting his wife in front of dozens of witnesses. www.ohiomysteries.comfeedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Audionautix- The Great UnknownThe Great Phospher- Daniel Birch
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Jan 26, 2022
UNRESOLVED Ep. 8: Jeffrey Sauber
In 1980, 18-year-old Jeff Sauber, on leave after finishing Marine boot camp, went to the Summit Drive-In with his friend to watch a movie called The Exterminator. During the evening, a stranger fatally stabbed Jeff while calling himself the exterminator. For the first time, Summit County Sheriff detectives reveal a racially-charged motive, and the fact that they have long had a suspect. Ohio Mysteries: http://www.ohiomysteries.comAkron Beacon Journal: http://www.beaconjournal.com
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Jan 23, 2022
Ep. 166 - Mob Mentality: Marion
In 1919, Marion became an all-white community overnight when a mob intimidated more than 200 black families into fleeing the city. The unrest began with the murder of a white woman and police insistence that the killer must have been black. Though the case went unsolved, Marion became one of six communities in Ohio known as "sundown" towns for efforts to stop black families from locating there. www.ohiomysteries.comfeedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Audionautix- The Great Unknown The Great Phospher- Daniel Birch
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Jan 19, 2022
10-Minute Mystery: Nadine Madger
In 1980, 25-year-old Nadine Madger was stabbed to death in the kitchen of her Willougby home while her infant slept in a crib nearby. The murder was never solved, though one detective attempted to tie it to father/son serial killers he'd put in jail for the stabbing murders of Philip and Dorothy Porter of Shaker Heights, and Karen LaSpina of Eastlake. www.ohiomysteries.com feedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Audionautix- The Great Unknown The Great Phospher- Daniel Birch
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Jan 16, 2022
Ep. 165 - Who was Johnny Appleseed?
In 1801, a man from New England - barefoot and with a cooking pot on his head - arrived in Ohio, planting apple trees to give sustenance to settlers who were coming to this wild frontier. John Chapman became known as the legendary Johnny Appleseed, but what do we really know about him? www.ohiomysteries.comfeedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Paradise, by Damn the Witch Siren. Find more at https://www.damnthewitchsiren.com Audionautix- The Great Unknown The Great Phospher- Daniel Birch
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Jan 12, 2022
10-Minute Mystery: Glenna White
In December of 2021, Portage County Sheriff's and US Marshals arrested Robert Moore of Alliance for the murder of Glenna Jean White, a 17-year-old girl that has been missing since 2009. They also announced a reward for information that will lead to her body. www.ohiomysteries.com feedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Audionautix- The Great Unknown The Great Phospher- Daniel Birch
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Jan 9, 2022
Ep. 164 - What sank the Sultana?
In April of 1865, more than 2100 Union soldiers were finally on their way home, having been released from southern prison camps at the conclusion of the Civil War. But as the grossly overloaded Sultana steamship chugged up the Mississippi, it exploded, killing most of those on board. The dead included nearly 800 soldiers from Ohio. www.ohiomysteries.comfeedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: How I'm Gonna Die, by tOd and the Bad Ideas. Find more at https://www.todandthebadideas.com Audionautix- The Great UnknownThe Great Phospher- Daniel Birch
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Jan 5, 2022
10-Minute Mystery: Andrea Flenoury and Donna Pittinger
In 2005, Andea Flenoury, an exotic dancer, and Donna Pittinger, a sex worker, were taken from Akron streets, killed and dumped in bodies of water. Their murders were never solved, and questions remain as to whether a serial killer was at work.www.ohiomysteries.com
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Jan 2, 2022
Ep. 163 - John Lambert and America's first car
In the 1920s, the Smithsonian Institute was faced with the question of who to credit with making America's first gasoline-powered car. And while two other auto pioneers insisted they were the first, the venerable museum cast its vote for John William Lambert and the creation he took for a spin in the Van Wert County village of Ohio City back in 1891. www.ohiomysteries.comfeedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Agape, by Benjamin Marshall. Find more at https://www.benjaminmarshallmusic.com
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Dec 22, 2021
Rewind: The First Christmas Tree (Ep 18)
(This is our annual repeat of a seasonal favorite.) For more than 50 years, the country accepted without question that Wooster, Ohioimmigrant August Imgard was the first to decorate a Christmas tree in America. His charming story from 1847 was told and retold by newspapers from coast to coast every December. Then, a Wooster professor vowed to learn if he really was the first.www.ohiomysteries.com feedback@ohiomysteries.com
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Dec 19, 2021
Ep. 162 - Jesse James' mysterious visit to Ohio
In 1880, citizens of Lexington in Richland County thought they saw the notorious outlaw Jesse James and his gang visiting a local horse thief and toiling around some hidden caves. For decades, treasure hunters tried following their footsteps. Modern day researchers say there's good reason to think the story is more than legend. www.ohiomysteries.comfeedback@ohiomysteries.com www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Mother's Acting Strange, by Casey Redmond. Find more at https://cmsr11.weebly.com Audionautix- The Great UnknownThe Great Phospher- Daniel Birch
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Dec 15, 2021
UNRESOLVED Ep. 7: The Patel Family
An Ohio Mysteries/Akron Beacon Journal crossover In 1991, Manher and Jyoti Patel and their 6-year-old daughter Alka were executed in their home in Green. The Patels owned the notorious pay-by-the-hour Steve's Motel. Summit County detectives have come to believe it was a professional hit over a business deal - and for the first time name their suspected triggermen. Ohio Mysteries: http://www.ohiomysteries.com Akron Beacon Journal: http://www.beaconjournal.com Ross Bugdon Music https://www.youtube.com/c/RossBugden
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Dec 12, 2021
Ep. 161 - The Cumminsville murders
In 1904, the Cumminsville neighborhood of Cincinnati was rocked with the brutal murders of three women. Six years later, there were two more gruesome attacks within that one-mile radius. More than a century later, all five homicides - and whether they were the work of one or more villains - remains a mystery. www.ohiomysteries.comfeedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Back Real Soon, by Fuzz Aldrin. Find more at https://www.facebook.com/FuzzAldrinBand Audionautix- The Great UnknownThe Great Phospher- Daniel Birch
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Dec 8, 2021
10-Minute Mystery: Edward Roye
In 1846 Edward Roye, native son of Newark, Ohio, set sail for Liberia, a new independent country that was attracting thousands of black Americans who wanted to escape racial prejudice. He became the country's richest man, and then its fifth president. But he vanished during a political coup, and was never seen again.www.ohiomysteries.com
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Dec 5, 2021
Ep. 160 - The real story of drummer boy Johnny Clem
In 1861, 9-year-old Johnny Clem ran away from his home in Newark, Ohio to join Union soldiers leaving for the Civil War. His exploits were so legendary, movies have been made about him. We sort the fact from the fiction. www.ohiomysteries.comfeedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Kisses for Christmas Day, by Diana Tyler. Find more at https://www.dianatyler.com Audionautix- The Great UnknownThe Great Phospher- Daniel Birch
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Dec 1, 2021
10-Minute Mystery: Columbia Pictures' Torch Lady
In 1936, Columbia Pictures unveiled its new logo, and for the next 40 years, the image of a toga-draped woman holding a bright torch would open every feature film. But who was that woman? Four have claimed to be the famous "torch lady," including two actresses from Ohio. www.ohiomysteries.com feedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Audionautix- The Great Unknown The Great Phospher- Daniel Birch
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Nov 28, 2021
Ep. 159 - The revelation of Carla Dellerba's death
In 1974, Stark County Coroner Gus Shaheen ruled Carla Dellerba, a 45-year-old Canton woman, had committed suicide by stabbing herself in the chest three times. Sixteen years later, a mob hitman admitted he'd murdered her, a revelation that launched an investigation into whether others got away with murder during Shaheen's long career. www.ohiomysteries.comfeedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Ghost Hymn, by A Basic Wagon. Find more at https://www.abasicwagon.com Audionautix- The Great UnknownThe Great Phospher- Daniel Birch
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Nov 24, 2021
10-Minute Mystery: Amy Hooper
In 1992, 19-year-old Amy Hooper was found stabbed and beaten in her new apartment in western Franklin County, the killer posing her body with a medallion wrapped around her hands. Investigators have yet to find a killer, or motive, or the reason for the medallion. www.ohiomysteries.com feedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Audionautix- The Great Unknown
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Nov 21, 2021
Ep. 158 - What started the Collinwood school fire?
In 1908, the worst school fire in American history killed 172 children, two teachers and a rescuer at Lake View Elementary in the Cleveland suburb of Collinwood. But what - or who - was to blame?
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Nov 17, 2021
UNRESOLVED Ep 6: Phyllis Mosley
In 1971, Phyllis Mosley, wife of a background singer with Ruby and the Romantics, was killed in her Akron home. Her four children talk about how her murder - which was never solved - caused their lives to spiral out of control. Ohio Mysteries: http://www.ohiomysteries.com
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Nov 14, 2021
Ep. 157 - Who killed Clyde Dierkes?
In 1970, 65-year-old bachelor Clyde Dierkes disappeared from his home in Clarington, Ohio. A couple of days later, a suspect led them to his body in an abandoned well. But after a nephew and uncle offered different stories about what happened that day, the jury couldn't decide beyond a reasonable doubt who was responsible.
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Nov 10, 2021
10-Minute Mystery: Mary Ann Lodatto and Wilma Simpson
Two unsolved homicides that still frustrate Jackson County officials: Mary Ann Lodatto - a wife, mother and secretary shot to death in her kitchen in 1991. And Wilma Simpson - a homegrown girl and wife of a local radio personality, abducted from her home and strangled in 1981.www.ohiomysteries.com
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Nov 7, 2021
Ep. 156 - The disturbing world of Ceely Rose
In 1896, three members of the Rose family - who operated a mill outside Mansfield - fell sick and died. Police suspected the only surviving member of the family - 24-year-old Ceely Rose - must have poisoned them. What they learned about Ceely led to her finishing her life in an asylum, and - some say - haunting her old farmhouse beside the ghosts of her parents and brother. www.ohiomysteries.com
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Nov 3, 2021
10-Minute Mystery: Finding "Luther"
In 1989, Marion County officials found the remains of a man they could never identify. Until this year. More than three decades later, they know the real name of the man they always called "Luther," but it will be much harder to find out who killed him. feedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Audionautix- The Great Unknown The Great Phospher- Daniel Birch
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Oct 31, 2021
Ep. 155 - The remarkable life of Phoebe Wise
Living just outside Mansfield, Phoebe Wise became an unwitting celebrity. A series of violent acts against her put her in the news at the turn of the last century, and the town marveled at how she handled them all. Today, people wonder if the beloved regal lady who never married is the ghost that haunts a local road, and question whether she ever had the fortune that caused her to be such a target. www.ohiomysteries.comfeedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: One of a Kind, by Andrew McManus. Find more at http://www.amcmanusmusic.com. Audionautix- The Great Unknown
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Oct 27, 2021
10-Minute Mystery: Anna Hochwalt, Buried Alive
In 1884 in Dayton. 18-year-old Anna Hochwalt was preparing for her brother's wedding ceremony when her mother discovered her unresponsive. After a doctor declared her dead, she was quickly buried. But when friends kept expressing concern that she looked very much alive in the coffin, she was exhumed for another look www.ohiomysteries.com feedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Audionautix- The Great Unknown The Great Phospher- Daniel Birch
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Oct 24, 2021
Ep. 154 - Campfire Stories: Haunted Roads and Bridges
Ohio has numerous haunted roads and bridges. Tonight, we share the stories behind six of them: 1) Ghormley Road in Fayette County. 2) The Faceless Hitchhiker of Deadman's Curve in Clermont County. 3) Schader Road Tunnel in Ross County. 4) Gibbs Bridge in Lucas County. 5) Egypt Road's Crybaby Bridge in Columbiana County. 6) Buckley Road in Butler County. www.ohiomysteries.com
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Oct 20, 2021
10-Minute Mystery: The Biedenbach murders
In 1880 in Monroe County's Seneca Township, neighbors responding to a late-night alarm found a house filled with death. Two dead babies, two dead women, and a bludgeoned but breathing serving girl. She told authorities that her employer, Frank Biedenbach, had arrived home drunk and took an axe to everyone in the house. But Biedenbach killed himself before he told anyone why.www.ohiomysteries.com feedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Audionautix- The Great Unknown The Great Phospher- Daniel Birch
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Oct 17, 2021
Ep. 153 - Campfire Stories: Encounters with Beasts
Two news reports and two legends about encounters with mysterious beasts. 1) Champaign County's Cedar Bog Monster. 2) Logan and Union counties' visit from Bigfoot in 1980. 3 & 4) Richland and Ashland counties' Orange Eyes and the Charles Mill Lake Monster. www.ohiomysteries.com
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Oct 17, 2021
10-Minute Mystery: The buried gold of Gen. Mad Anthony Wayne
After Gen. Mad Anthony Wayne masterminded the 1795 treaty that moved Ohio's Indian tribes to the northwest, a roving band of angry warriors stole the gold meant to pay his military. Thus began the legend of buried treasure in Henry County, and the ghost that guards it. Bonus story on the ghost of Girty's Island! www.ohiomysteries.com feedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Audionautix- The Great Unknown
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Oct 10, 2021
Ep. 152 - Campfire Stories: Encounters with Strangers
Reading four news reports about mysterious encounters with strangers. 1) Logan County's mischievous gnome, 1880. 2) Highland County's vanishing visitor, 1873. 3) Meigs County's Men in Black, 1967. 4) Washington County's alien liaison, 1966. www.ohiomysteries.com
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Oct 6, 2021
10-Minute Mystery: William Miscannon
In 1970, Toledo Police Ofc. William Miscannon was sitting in a patrol wagon with another officer when a stranger walked up to the window side of the car and shot Miscannon in the head. Police laid siege to the local Black Panthers headquarters, believing they may be connected. But a jury deadlocked twice in the trial of the man they named as their top suspect. www.ohiomysteries.com feedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohiowww.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Audionautix- The Great Unknown The Great Phospher- Daniel Birch
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Oct 3, 2021
Ep. 151 - Mob Mentality: The New Bremen Speedway Riot
In 1931. a crowd at the New Bremen Speedway became so enraged over a disputed prize, they tore down the grandstands, judge's platform and ticket booths and burned them. Our Mob Mentality series is a look at the mysterious and wild behavior of crowds in Ohio's past. www.ohiomysteries.com
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Sep 29, 2021
10-Minute Mystery: John Robek
In 1974, John Robek - an undercover narcotics agent for the Youngstown Police Department - went hunting with his partner and childhood friend. The friend came home; John did not, and he was never seen again. www.ohiomysteries.com feedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Audionautix- The Great Unknown The Great Phospher- Daniel Birch
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Sep 26, 2021
Ep. 150 - Ohio's own Phantom of the Opera
In 1846, two men fighting over a beautiful ballet dancer ended in a backstage murder during a performance at a Cincinnati theater - and the killer slipped from the hands of hunters, never to be seen again. What happened to Aquilla Cook? www.ohiomysteries.com
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Sep 22, 2021
10-Minute Mystery: Tammy Osborne and Sean Kearney
In 1981, clerk Tammy Osborne was abducted from her Mansfield Lawsons store and killed. A couple of days later, a Mansfield man named Sean Kearney was found dead in his apartment, a bullet wound in his head. Police guessed that the man had killed Tammy then committed suicide, but years later, an investigation into widespread police corruption found that conclusion unlikely. www.ohiomysteries.com feedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Audionautix- The Great Unknown The Great Phospher- Daniel Birch
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Sep 19, 2021
Ep. 149 - Mob Mentality: The dynamiting of Akron City Hall
Akron started the new century off with a bang when, in 1900, a mob intent on lynching a black man accused of rape went to city hall, exchanged gunfire with police, set the block on fire, and leveled the city building with dynamite. Two children were killed in the melee, dozens were jailed for rioting - and the accused was later pardoned for not receiving a fair trial. www.ohiomysteries.com
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Sep 15, 2021
UNRESOLVED Ep. 5: Jeannette Bartee and Roy Addison
An Ohio Mysteries/Akron Beacon Journal crossover In 2002, Akron police had a busy day when investigative teams were called to two different homicide scenes - an unidentified man shot dead on a West Akron street, and a mother of three girls executed in her West Akron bedroom. Before the day was done, detectives realized the murders of Jeannette Bartee and Roy Addison were connected. Ohio Mysteries: http://www.ohiomysteries.comAkron Beacon Journal: http://www.beaconjournal.comSong: 'Scott Buckley - Filaments' is under a creative commons license https://youtube.com/user/musicbyscottb Song: 'Juan Sánchez - Luz de Luna' is under a Free for YouTube license.https://soundcloud.com/juansanchezcomposer🎶 Music promoted by BreakingCopyright:https://youtu.be/h7fSbXEadzIRoss Bugden Last DawnINSTAGRAM! : https://instagram.com/rossbugden/ (rossbugden)TWITTER! : https://twitter.com/RossBugden (@rossbugden)
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Sep 12, 2021
Ep. 148 - What caused the Cleveland Clinic x-ray fire?
In a ghastly 1929 tragedy, a storage room full of x-rays at the Cleveland Clinic's first facility in Cleveland caught fire and exploded, sending deadly fumes up through ducts and killing 123 people - many of them dropping dead where they stood. Investigators debated two theories on what might have started the fire.www.ohiomysteries.com
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Sep 8, 2021
10-Minute Mystery: The legend of Jack Trice
In 1923, Jack Trice, a talented black football player from Hiram, Ohio who was recruited to play for Iowa State University, died of injuries in his first major college game. Historians have since debated whether his injuries were accidental, or whether he was roughed up unfairly because of his race. www.ohiomysteries.com feedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Audionautix- The Great Unknown The Great Phospher- Daniel Birch
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Sep 5, 2021
Ep. 147 - The mystery of the USS Maine
In 1898, a mysterious explosion sunk the USS Maine in the harbor of Havana, Cuba, killing 266 military personnel and sending America into war with Spain. The cause of the blast was never discovered. The ship and the aftermath of this tragedy has numerous ties to Ohio. www.ohiomysteries.com
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Sep 1, 2021
10-Minute Mystery: Shakira Johnson
In 2003, a Cleveland neighborhood was rocked by the disappearance of an 11-year-old girl during a block party. When her skeletal remains were found a month later, Shakira Johnson became a citywide household name. But a jury disagreed with prosecutors and police on the top suspect. www.ohiomysteries.com feedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Audionautix- The Great Unknown The Great Phospher- Daniel Birch
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Aug 29, 2021
Ep. 146 - The Andover restaurant explosion
In 1955, a restaurant full of anglers, vacationers, and local residents in Andover - Ashtabula County's gateway to Pymatuning Lake - suddenly blew up, killing 22 people inside. Three theories emerged as to what caused the blast, though investigators could never prove any of them. www.ohiomysteries.com
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Aug 25, 2021
10-Minute Mystery: Carolyn and Amanda Adams
In 1986, 4-year-old Amanda Adams disappeared from her bedroom in a west side Columbus home. Before the month was out, Amanda and two more people would be dead. Detectives think they know what happened, even if they can't prove it. www.ohiomysteries.com feedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Audionautix- The Great Unknown The Great Phospher- Daniel Birch
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Aug 22, 2021
Ep. 145 - The Great Train Robbery
In 1935, a couple of Akron gangsters were convicted of the robbery of a mail truck in Warren after a mail pouch and some of the stolen booty was found floating in the nearby Portage Lakes. But after FBI Public Enemy No. 1 Alvin Karpis robbed a train in Garrettsville - the last great train robbery in America - authorities began to think they might have jailed the wrong men. www.ohiomysteries.com
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Aug 15, 2021
Ep. 144 - The crash of the USS Shenandoah
In 1925, The US Navy's first zeppelin - the USS Shenandoah - was ripped apart by turbulence over Noble County. The 14 crew killed included her Ohio-born captain, Zachary Lansdowne. But after area residents stripped the crash site of its wreckage, investigators had little physical evidence to explain the spectacular disaster. www.ohiomysteries.comfeedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: The Wreck of the Shenandoah, by Vernon Dalhart. Audionautix- The Great Unknown
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Aug 11, 2021
10-Minute Mystery: The curse of Rocky Colavito
In 1960, the Cleveland Indians traded one of the most popular players in the team's history - record-setting slugger Rocky Colavito. Since the team hasn't won a world series in 73 years, superstitious fans and sports writers blame that ill-conceived trade as a sign that the sports gods are were not happy with that decision. www.ohiomysteries.com feedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Audionautix- The Great Unknown The Great Phospher- Daniel Birch
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Aug 8, 2021
Ep. 143 - The strange ending to William Quantrill
William Quantrill, a Dover, Ohio youth who turned into a Civil War guerilla for the south, is considered by many historians to have been a psychopath, responsible for the deaths of hundreds of civilians. He met his end at the age of 27, a month after the war had ended. But decades later, a man living in Canada announced he was the infamous killer - a brag that cost the old man his life. www.ohiomysteries.comfeedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Mourning Dove, by Cory Breth. Find more at corybrethofficial.com. Audionautix- The Great Unknown The Great Phospher- Daniel Birch
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Aug 4, 2021
UNRESOLVED Ep. 4: Leslie Ann Barker
An Ohio Mysteries/Akron Beacon Journal crossover In 1978, Akron school teacher Leslie Ann Barker attended a matchmaking event at the popular Reds discotheque in Akron, Ohio. But three hours after leaving the bar, she was found in her burning car, a few blocks from home. Ohio Mysteries: http://www.ohiomysteries.com Akron Beacon Journal: http://www.beaconjournal.com Jaun Sanchez- luzdeluna
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Aug 1, 2021
Ep. 142 - Mob Mentality: The Who concert, 1979
In 1979, 11 concert-goers were crushed to death trying to get inside Cincinnati's Riverfront Stadium to see British rockstars The Who. Investigations afterward pieced together the series of bad decisions and unfortunate circumstances that led to the tragedy, and inspired new law to prevent it from happening again. www.ohiomysteries.comfeedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Audionautix- The Great Unknown The Great Phospher- Daniel Birch
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Jul 28, 2021
10-Minute Mystery: Vicki Koch
In 1980, Circleville school teacher Vicki Koch was reported missing after she failed to show up for a weekend with her family back home in Sandusky. Police soon learned nobody had seen her for a few days, since she'd attended a play with friends. After her skeletal remains were found a month later, she became what remains as Circleville's only unsolved homicide. www.ohiomysteries.com feedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Audionautix- The Great Unknown The Great Phospher- Daniel Birch
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Jul 25, 2021
Ep. 104 - Elizabeth Stiles and the Madison Seminary
Elizabeth Stiles was asked by Abraham Lincoln himself to spy for the Union Army during the Civil War, and she served with distinction through many close calls. Could her spirit be among those that some say haunt the Madison Seminary where she died in old age?
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Jul 21, 2021
10-Minute Mystery: Carey's shrine of miracles
In Carey, Ohio, a tiny white church built n 1875 was granted an opening day miracle, according to 1,000 people in attendance. As word spread, pilgrims from all over started coming to the town to pray. Today, the Basilica and National Shrine of Our Lady of Consolation has collected nearly 150 years worth of testimonials from people who say their lives were changed after a visit. www.ohiomysteries.com feedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Audionautix- The Great Unknown The Great Phospher- Daniel Birch
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Jul 18, 2021
Ep. 141 - What started the Ohio Penitentiary fire?
Still one of the worst fires in U.S. history, a 1930 blaze at the Ohio Penitentiary in downtown Columbus killed 322 inmates. A century later, researchers and historians still debate the cause: Did prisoners start the fire as part of a planned jailbreak, or did prison officials frame them to divert attention from their own tragic missteps? www.ohiomysteries.com
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Jul 14, 2021
10-Minute Mystery: The Cassidy family
In 1968, 17-year-old Michael Cassidy arrived at his Milan, Ohio home after work to find his parents shot to death in their beds, and his 12-year-old sister Patty bludgeoned in her bed. Authorities have always been stumped for a motive, since the only thing missing was a family shotgun that may have been used to commit the crime.
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Jul 11, 2021
Ep. 140 - Mob Mentality: Mercer County, 1872
In 1872, a mob broke into the Mercer County jail and whisked away three men suspected of raping and killing 13-year-old Mary Arabelle Secaur. Two of the suspects were lynched, the third was spared. But a couple of years later, one of the mob's leaders made a deathbed confession that he had killed little Mary and led the hanging of two innocent men. www.ohiomysteries.com
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Jul 7, 2021
10-Minute Mystery: The Coonrod brothers
In 2010. brothers Thomas and Steven Coonrod, 3 and 4 years old, died in a house fire in Highland County's village of Greenfield. First responders found their father Wesley standing outside the burning house, drunk and unwilling to answer questions about where his sons were. Two juries would have to consider the prosecutor's question: Did the father's disturbing behavior equate to capital murder? www.ohiomysteries.com feedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Audionautix- The Great Unknown The Great Phospher- Daniel Birch
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Jul 4, 2021
139 - Who killed the Bricca family?
In 1966, Jerry and Linda Bricca and their 4-year-old daughter Debbie, were found stabbed to death in their suburban Cincinnati home. The motive for the gruesome crime is as much a mystery as who did it. www.ohiomysteries.comfeedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: "Dream on, Sisters," by Diana Tyler. Find more at http://www.dianatyler.com Audionautix- The Great Unknown The Great Phospher- Daniel Birch
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Jul 1, 2021
UNRESOLVED Ep. 3: Roderick Clemons
An Ohio Mysteries/Akron Beacon Journal crossover In 1991, 26-year-old Roderick Clemons wanted to ask for a transfer from the Church's Chicken restaurant in Akron, where he was assistant manager. There were too many shady characters in the Copley Road neighborhood, he told his mom. But Clemons would never get the chance to request a change. Ohio Mysteries: http://www.ohiomysteries.coAkron
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Jun 27, 2021
Ep. 138 - Mob Mentality: Springfield
This is the first in an occasional series looking at the mystery of mob mentality. This episode: In 1904, thousands of Springfield citizens attacked the Clark County jail, murdered a black man who had killed a cop, then burned down a black neighborhood. A year later, sympathetic juries supported the mob leaders. www.ohiomysteries.comfeedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Audionautix- The Great Unknown The Great Phospher- Daniel Birch
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Jun 23, 2021
10-Minute Mystery: William Sproat and Mary Petry
In 1970, 6 months after the infamous Charles Manson cult killings in California, southwest Ohio was rocked by its own gruesome crime scene. OSU grad student William Sproat and his girlfriend Mary Petry, who was visiting him in Columbus from her Cincinnati college, were found bound, gagged, stabbed with a butcher's knife and beaten with a bowling ball.www.ohiomysteries.com
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Jun 20, 2021
Ep. 137 - The Ice Bridge Disaster
A century ago, Niagara Falls tourists enjoyed a winter attraction - ice forming a bridge over the river beneath the falls. When the ice broke free in 1912, a Cleveland youth turned from safety to help a struggling couple. Crowds were helpless to stop the ice floe from sailing them into crushing rapids. But where did the river hide their bodies? www.ohiomysteries.comfeedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Girl's Best Friend by Steel Ivory. Find more: https://www.steelivory.com
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Jun 15, 2021
Ep. 136 - Part 2: The assassination of Donald Mellett
When Don Mellett became publisher of the Canton Daily News, he vowed to take on the city's underworld and corruption in the Canton Police Department. He was killed for it. In the second of this two-part episode: With local law enforcement among the suspects, a different kind of investigation had to take place. But the conspiracy uncovered left more questions. www.ohiomysteries.comfeedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Audionautix- The Great Unknown The Great Phospher- Daniel Birch
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Jun 13, 2021
Ep. 136 - Part 1: The assassination of Donald Mellett
When Don Mellett was hired as editor, and then publisher, of the Canton Daily News, he vowed to take on the city's underworld and corruption in the Canton Police Department. He was killed for it. In the first of this two-part episode: The events leading up to his murder, and the sultry summer night in 1926 when he was gunned down at his home. www.ohiomysteries.comfeedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Good for Me, by Cheley Tackett. https://cheleytackett.com Additional music: Audionautix by The Great Unknown. The Great Phospher by Daniel Birch.
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Jun 9, 2021
Ep. 135 - Part 2: The mystery of Pretty Boy Floyd's death
In the second of this two-part episode, Floyd's ascension to "Public Enemy No. 1" and the multi-day manhunt in Northeast Ohio that led to his death in a cornfield near East Liverpool in Columbiana County. But did he die during a gunfight, or was he executed after he was handcuffed by the FBI? Lawmen who were present gave two versions of his death. www.ohiomysteries.comfeedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Additional music: Audionautix by The Great Unknown. The Great Phospher by Daniel Birch
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Jun 6, 2021
Ep. 135 - Part 1: The mystery of Pretty Boy Floyd's death
In the first of this two-part episode, the story of three Ohio towns who had experience with Floyd's gang. Sylvania in Lucas County, and Floyd's very first bank robbery. Akron in Summit County, and his capture after an accomplice killed a cop. And Bowling Green in Wood County, where a shootout left a second officer dead. www.ohiomysteries.comfeedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Father's Lament, by Shiloh Hawkins. Find more: https://shilohhawkins.com Additional music: Audionautix by The Great Unknown. The Great Phospher by Daniel Birch
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Jun 2, 2021
10-Minute Mystery: Dr. Ellis W. List
In 1986, prominent Trumbull County physician Dr. Ellis List disappeared while attending a medical convention in Arizona, Ohio. An exhaustive search by air, foot and car could turn up no sign of an accident along the route he was supposed to be traveling to visit a friend. www.ohiomysteries.com feedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Audionautix- The Great Unknown The Great Phospher- Daniel Birch
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May 30, 2021
10-Minute Mystery: Angel's Glow and the Battle of Shiloh
In 1862, 18,000 Ohioans participated in one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War. And the wounded who lay in the muddy Tennessee fields afterward found that their wounds began to glow. In 2001, a high school student won international acclaim for solving this mystery, only to be shot down by Shiloh experts who said "Angel's Glow" never happened. But... could it have? www.ohiomysteries.com feedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Audionautix- The Great Unknown The Great Phospher- Daniel Birch
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May 26, 2021
UNRESOLVED Ep. 2: Melissa and Jasmine Collins
In 1991, 17-year-old mom Melissa Collins and her 8-month old baby girl Jasmine vanished from their West Akron apartment. In the decades since, police have torn up a local park, searched abandoned houses and followed leads to other states in search of the pair. And now, 30 years later, women are calling Akron police to ask: Could I be the missing Jasmine? Ohio Mysteries: http://www.ohiomysteries.com Akron Beacon Journal: http://www.beaconjournal.com Ohio Attorney General: https://www.ohioattorneygeneral.gov/Files/Law-Enforcement/Investigator/Ohio-Missing-Persons/Missing-Children/Collins Music:
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May 23, 2021
Ep. 134 - Where is Lucy Loader?
In 1994, 79-year-old Lucy Loader went home to her Tuscarawas County farmhouse for the first time in weeks after having recovered from recent cancer surgery. And that's where she was found by two Newcomerstown men who made her the first of four victims in a cross-country murder rampage. But where is her body? www.ohiomysteries.comfeedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: TO COME Additional music: Audionautix by The Great Unknown. The Great Phospher by Daniel Birch.
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May 19, 2021
10-Minute Mystery: Asenath Dukat
In 1980, someone raped and murdered Asenath Dukat, an 8-year-old in the Columbus suburb of Upper Arlington, as she walked home from school. While more than one suspect has caught the attention of police, detectives have never been able to tie evidence to any of them.
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May 16, 2021
Ep. 133 - The Resurrectionists
In the 1800s, Ohio was a hotbed for grave robbers, especially in the southwest where more than a dozen medical schools were in desperate need of cadavers for anatomy class. This episode features three stories: The infamous bodysnatcher William Cunningham; Ohio inventors who tried to thwart them; and men willing to kill a family just to sell their corpses. www.ohiomysteries.comfeedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: The Devil You Know, by Wheeling Jjin. More at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXWZXomSAnVCooJvU5LyCCQ Additional music: Audionautix by The Great Unknown. The Great Phospher by Daniel Birch.
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May 12, 2021
10-Minute Mystery: The murder of Pres. McKinley's brother-in-law
George Saxton, the brother of First Lady Ida McKinley, was shot dead outside the Canton, Ohio home of his lover in 1898. Police immediately arrested another lover, who had long been threatening to kill him. But all police had was a motive. A jury, as it turned out, would need more. www.ohiomysteries.com feedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Audionautix- The Great Unknown The Great Phospher- Daniel Birch
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May 9, 2021
Ep. 132 - Who killed Olive Peaney - and why?
In 1895, a Wood County wife named Olive Peaney was found dead from a bullet wound as she lay at the rear doorstep to her doctor's office, her clothes on fire. But after an unsuccessful attempt to convict the doctor, the townspeople of Tontogany were left with a real whodunnit - no killer, no motive, and not even an explanation for the crime scene. www.ohiomysteries.com
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