Ohio Mysteries
573 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 268 ratingsEach 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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Episode 23: The Bank Heist
February 04, 2019 01:00 - 25 minutesEpisode Notes: Bank Heist: The Ted Conrad story Ted Conrad was obsessed with the movie, The Thomas Crown Affair, when it was released in 1968. It inspired the 20-year-old bank teller to pull off his own bank heist. But where did he go with his fortune? www.ohiomysteries.com [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Trouble, by Lisa Biales. Find her music at www.lisabiales.com Audionautix The Great Unk...
Episode 22: Little Boy Blue
January 28, 2019 01:00 - 39 minutesThe Nebraska town named him Matthew - "gift from God" - when they found his frozen body in a snow-filled ditch. But as authorities spent the next two years trying to find the identity of the little dead boy in the blue pajamas, many simply began referring to him as Little Boy Blue. When they finally learned the child in that Nebraska grave was 9-year-old Danny Stutzman, their search would take them to an Ohio Amish community, where a whole new mystery awaited. www.ohiomysteries.com feedback...
Episode 21: Vanished
January 21, 2019 00:45 - 31 minutesEpisode Notes The 1963 disappearance of Ruth Guthrie, Tommy Sumerix and Joe Kulesza Over a period of 10 days in June of 1963, three Summit County children disappeared. For months, three communities held their collective breath as investigators and families searched, then ultimately waited. The next year, one by one, their fates would be revealed. www.ohiomysteries.com [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries ...
Episode 20: The disappearance of Mel Wiley
January 14, 2019 03:36 - 34 minutesEpisode 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 ...
Episode 19: The Hicks Babies
January 07, 2019 00:45 - 56 minutesImagine reading a Mother's Day story in your local newspaper, and finding clues that suggest you may have been sold as a baby out the back door of a small clinic in the Appalachian Mountains of Georgia. Now imagine dozens of Northeast Ohio residents waking that day to the same revelation. The amazing story of the black-market "Hicks babies" and the 20-year effort of one baby to understand the doctor who sold him, the saga of how he ended up in Akron, and how technology helped him find his bi...
Episode 18: The First Christmas Tree
December 24, 2018 01:00 - 20 minutesEpisode Notes: 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. www.ohiomysteries.com [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiom...
Episode 17: Who Poisoned Clifford Badger?
December 17, 2018 01:00 - 39 minutesOn March 15, 1971, sheep rancher Clifford Badger is returning from a morning business trip when he stops to pick up the mail outside his farmhouse in West Salem. He finds a box of homemade chocolates, and a simple handwritten message that reads "To Our Good Neighbor." A few minutes later, Clifford would be lying dead on his kitchen floor. His wife, who had sampled the candy as well, had time to call for help before falling unconscious. Who poisoned the couple? And why? www.ohiomysteries.c...
Episode 16: The Toledo Clubber
December 10, 2018 01:00 - 50 minutesIn 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. www.ohiomysteries.com [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: On My Own, by Master TC & the Visitors. Find their videos at ht...
Episode 15: Missing Melvin Horst
December 03, 2018 01:00 - 50 minutesTwo days after Christmas in 1928, 4-year-old Melvin Horst is playing in a vacant lot with a friend when he realizes its dinner time. "Goodbye, Bobbie. I got to go home now," he says. An hour later, all his parents find is a little red wagon abandoned in the front yard. For the next year, local bootleggers and mobsters would use Melvin's disappearance to try and put each other out of business. Eight of them would see the inside of a jail before all of their tales were proved to be lies. So w...
Episode 14: The curious case of Ruth Baumgardner
November 26, 2018 01:00 - 46 minutesEpisode Notes On May 4, 1937, Ruth Baumgardner said goodnight to her sorority sisters, then went to her dorm room at Ohio Wesleyan to study for a test. But Ruth didn't make it to that class, or any other class, the next day. A national manhunt was launched. Two years later, her parents would privately ask police to close the case, with no public explanation of what they had learned or if Ruth had been discovered. Could it have had something to do with a human trafficking ring operating in t...
Episode 13: Where is Ron Tammen?
November 19, 2018 00:45 - 43 minutesIn 1953, Ron Tammen Jr. was a 19-year-old Maple Heights man nearing the end of his sophomore year at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. On April 19, a typical evening, Ron walked into his dorm room to study - and was never seen again. www.ohiomysteries.com [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Shorts Season, by Tunnel Songs. For more, visit http://www.tunnelsongs.com The Great Unknown- Audionautix ...
Episode 12: Owning the Corpse of John Wilkes Booth
November 12, 2018 00:45 - 33 minutesEpisode Notes In 1977, a Barberton man made a remarkable claim: He was the legal owner of the corpse of John Wilkes Booth. How could an Ohio optometrist come to own the embalmed remains of arguably America's most infamous assassin? Follow the twists and turns of this bizarre mystery before you scoff. www.ohiomysteries.com [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Cello, by Mr. Carnivore. For more, visit...
Episode 11: Beard and Leonard: Waiting for Justice, Part 2
November 05, 2018 01:00 - 43 minutesBeard and Leonard: Waiting for Justice, Part 2 In Part 1, 17-year-old Mary Leonard and 19-year-old Ricky Beard of Akron vanish after a date night to a drive-in movie theater. Their whereabouts are unknown for nearly six years, their families helpless but to follow every lead and tip, alternating between despair and hope. In this episode, learn about the discovery in 1985 that ended one mystery while launching another. Special guests: Mary's brother, Jerry Leonard, and Ricky's sister, Luann...
Episode 10: Beard and Leonard: Waiting for Justice, part 1
November 05, 2018 01:00 - 38 minutesEpisode Notes: In 1979, 17-year-old Mary Leonard and her boyfriend, 19-year-old Ricky Beard, disappeared after a date night to a drive-in movie theater. Years passed, both families clinging to hope that their loved ones were alive, especially after private investigators and police detectives suggested they may have run off together. In Part 1 of this 2-part story, we talk to Ricky's sister, Luanne Beard Eddy, and Mary's brother, Jerry Leonard, about the roller coaster of pain, despair and h...
Episode 9: The Great UFO Chase
October 29, 2018 00:00 - 59 minutesEpisode Notes: At 5 a.m. in the pre-dawn darkness of Portage County, a police chief in northern Portage County and two sheriff deputies in southern Portage County are calling in reports of a saucer-shaped object plowing through the sky. Two deputies will even give chase, soon joined by a patrolman in another county as they follow the object all the way into Pennsylvania - and into history. The event will ruin lives and careers after the U.S. military dismisses the encounter. We go straight...
Episode 8: The Minerva Monster
October 22, 2018 00:00 - 48 minutesEpisode Notes 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 turn...
Episode 7: Who Killed Raymond Timbrook? Special Guest Phil Trexler
October 15, 2018 00:00 - 43 minutesEpisode Notes: Phil Trexler joins us to discuss the mystery of Raymond Timbrook! Raymond Timbrook of Mentor was a successful businessman, engineer and father of two teenage sons when someone coldly executed him as he sat in his car on the side of the road in a vacant development in Kirtland Hills. More than 25 years later, his unsolved murder still haunts Phil Trexler, who spent his career covering crime for print media before moving into an Emmy-award-winning broadcast role with WKYC in C...
Episode 6: The SS Marquette & Bessemer No.2
October 07, 2018 21:22 - 37 minutesEpisode Notes: On Dec. 8, 1909, the train ferry SS Marquette & Bessemer No. 2 sank during a winter storm on Lake Erie as it made its daily run between Conneaut, Ohio, and Port Stanley, Ontario. More than 30 lives were lost, and residents on both shores reported hearing the haunting wail of its horn as it desperately searched for a port before slipping beneath the waves. More than a century later, the location of its watery grave is still unknown. www.ohiomysteries.com feedback@ohiomysteri...
Episode 5: What happened to Linda Pagano?
October 01, 2018 00:00 - 34 minutesEpisode Notes: In 1974, 17-year-old Linda Pagano reportedly stormed out of the apartment she shared with her stepfather and was never seen again. Many presumed her to be a runaway. In 2015, a Cleveland woman became curious about a cemetery index that mentioned the interred bones of an unknown young woman with a bullet hole in her skull, buried in 1975. How Internet web sleuths turned Linda Pagano from a missing persons case into an unsolved murder. www.ohiomysteries.com feedback@ohiomyst...
Episode 4: The Lost French Gold
September 24, 2018 00:00 - 42 minutesEpisode Notes In 1758, the British took Fort Duquesne in Pittsburgh from the French who had established it. But before their arrival, the French spared 10 men to whisk away their army's payroll. They loaded 16 packhorses with gold and silver and headed for Fort Detroit. They never made it. The British intercepted the small detail, killing eight of the 10 Frenchmen. But not before the French soldiers buried the treasure to keep it out of the hands of their enemy. Years later, a nephew of one...
Episode 3: Deadly Holidays
September 17, 2018 00:00 - 37 minutesEpisode Notes The 1987 Holiday season was a tense one in the Akron area. Over an 18-week period, four area women, all doing absolutely average activities, were snatched from the streets, raped and murdered. While evidence suggests the timing was a coincidence and the homicides were work of at least three different men, fear of a serial killer kept residents on edge from August through Christmas and into the new year. More than 30 years later, all four murders remain unsolved. www.ohiomyst...
Episode 2: The True Story of Rogues Hollow
September 10, 2018 16:00 - 37 minutesEpisode Notes For a century, Northeast Ohio teens have made trips to Rogues Hollow in the dead of night to look for its ghost train, headless horse, and listen for weeping at Crybaby Bridge. We'll share the real history of this once-lawless frontier. www.ohiomysteries.com [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Episode 1: The Unsolved Murder of Marion Brubaker
September 02, 2018 01:26 - 37 minutesEpisode Notes Join us as we tell the story of Marion Brubaker, a 12-year-old Akron area girl whose life was suddenly snuffed out as se rode her bike home from the library in 1962. Fifty-Six years later, her killer has never been brought to justice. Who is Marion, and what do we know about the day her life ended? www.ohiomysteries.com [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: New Horizon-Aderin Music: ...