Ohio Mysteries
584 episodes - English - Latest episode: 4 days ago - ★★★★★ - 277 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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Ep. 230 - The Muskingum County Animal Farm tragedy
June 12, 2023 00:00 - 30 minutesIn 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? www.ohiomysteries.com [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Additional music: New Ho...
10-Minute Mystery: Willoughby and Lost Nation Road
June 08, 2023 00:00 - 14 minutesA 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. www.ohiomysteries.com [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries New Horizon - AderinAudionautix- The Great Unknown Learn mo...
Ep. 229 - Kate Chase: First Lady of Washington DC
June 05, 2023 00:00 - 25 minutesCincinnati'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. www.ohiomysteries.com [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Additional music: New Horizon - Aderin; Audionautix-...
10-Minute Mystery: Edison and the first electric chair
May 31, 2023 16:00 - 21 minutesWhen 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. www.ohiomysteries.com [email protected]...
Rewind: What Happened to Judy Martins (Ep 41)
May 29, 2023 00:00 - 28 minutesEpisode 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@ohiomysteri...
10-Minute Mystery: Harry Andrews and Castle La Roche
May 25, 2023 00:00 - 12 minutesIn 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. www.ohiomysteries.com [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Audionautix- The Great UnknownThe Great Phospher- Daniel Bi...
Ep. 228 - Tyrone Noling: Guilty or not?
May 22, 2023 00:00 - 20 minutesIn 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? www.ohiomysteries.com [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries...
10-Minute Mystery: The Delta Queen's Ghost Captain
May 18, 2023 00:00 - 15 minutesIn 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. www.ohiomysteries.com [email protected]/ohiomysterieswww.twitter.com/mysteriesohiowww.facebook.com/ohiomysteries...
EP. 227: Anti-hero Thomas Midgley Jr.
May 15, 2023 00:00 - 22 minutesThomas 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. Learn more about yo...
UPDATE! Rewind: BCI Cold Cases: Zastudil, Thompson, Hebert (Ep 112)
May 11, 2023 00:00 - 33 minutesSo 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. Bu...
Ep. 226 - The indefinable Victoria Claflin Woodhull
May 08, 2023 00:00 - 28 minutesBorn 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. www.ohiomysteries.com [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/myster...
10-Minute Mystery: The Golden Age Nursing Home fire
May 04, 2023 00:00 - 17 minutesIn 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. www.ohiomysteries.com [email protected]/ohiomysterieswww.twitte...
Ep. 225 - How did Lt. Col. George Custer really die?
May 01, 2023 00:00 - 23 minutesIn 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. www.ohiomysteries.com [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohi...
10-Minute Mystery: Akron's stone-throwing ghost
April 27, 2023 00:00 - 16 minutesIn 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. www.ohiomysteries.com [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Audionautix- The Great UnknownThe Gr...
Rewind: The I-70 Strangler (Ep 30)
April 24, 2023 00:00 - 24 minutesIn 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. www.ohiomysteries.comfeedback@ohi...
10-Minute Mystery: The Great Hopewell Road
April 20, 2023 00:00 - 15 minutesDid 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. www.ohiomysteries.com [email protected]/ohiomysterieswww.twitter.com/mysteriesohiowww.facebook.com/ohiomysteriesAudionautix- The Great UnknownThe Great Phosph...
Ep. 224 - HH Holmes in the Queen City
April 17, 2023 00:00 - 37 minutesHH 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. www.ohiomysterie...
10-Minute Mystery: Fizzleville
April 13, 2023 00:00 - 10 minutesFor 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. www.ohiomysteries.com [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysterieswww.twitter.com/mysteriesohiowww.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Audionautix- The Great UnknownThe Great Phospher- Daniel...
Ep. 223 - The murder of Amish farmer Paul Coblentz
April 10, 2023 00:00 - 34 minutesIn 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. www.ohiomysteries.com [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook....
10-Minute Mystery: Cory Barron
April 06, 2023 00:00 - 14 minutesIn 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 [email protected]....
Ep. 222 - Crazy or misunderstood? The life of Tina Resch
April 03, 2023 00:00 - 25 minutesTina 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. www.ohiomysteries.co...
UNRESOLVED Ep. 15: Mary Yocono
March 29, 2023 10:00 - 23 minutesIn 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. Ohio Mysteries: http://www.ohiomysteri...
Ep. 221 - The wives of Gerald "Bob" Hand
March 27, 2023 00:00 - 23 minutesFor 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. www.ohiomysteries.com [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.co...
10-Minute Mystery: The paper towns of "goblu" and "beatosu"
March 23, 2023 00:00 - 12 minutesIn 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. 10-Minute Mystery: The Toledo War: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/FPMN6986625239.mp3?updated=1665002148 [email protected]...
Ep. 220 - It's a bird! It's a plane! It's...
March 20, 2023 00:00 - 20 minutesIn 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. www.ohiomysteries.com feedback...
10-Minute Mystery: Georg Ann Reiter
March 16, 2023 00:00 - 15 minutesIn 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. [email protected]/ohiomysterieswww.twitter.com/mysteriesohiowww.facebook.com/ohiomysteriesAudionautix- The G...
Ep. 219 - Operation "Inter"
March 13, 2023 00:00 - 41 minutesYoungstown-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. www.ohiomysteries.com [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohio...
Rewind: Inspiration of Thomas Edison (Ep 121)
March 09, 2023 01:00 - 36 minutesThomas 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. [email protected] 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...
Rewind: Inspiration of Thomas Edison
March 09, 2023 01:00 - 36 minutesThomas 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. [email protected] 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...
Rewind: The Patel Family (UNRESOLVED Ep. 7)
March 06, 2023 01:00 - 36 minutesAn 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.you...
Rewind: UNRESOLVED Ep. 7: The Patel Family
March 06, 2023 01:00 - 36 minutesAn 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.you...
Episode Rewind Ep. 97 - The Cave: An Underground Railroad story
March 02, 2023 01:00 - 47 minutesIn 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. [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomys...
Rewind: The Cave: An Underground Railroad story (Ep 97)
March 02, 2023 01:00 - 47 minutesIn 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. [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomys...
UPDATE! Rewind: Katelyn Markham (10-Minute Mystery)
February 27, 2023 01:00 - 17 minutesIn 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. [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Audionautix- The Gre...
Update & Rewind Katelyn Markham
February 27, 2023 01:00 - 17 minutesIn 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. [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Audionautix- The Gre...
10-Minute Mystery: Big Four Bridge, Sidney
February 22, 2023 13:00 - 15 minutesIn 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 [email protected]/ohiomysterieswww.twitter.com/mysteriesohiowww.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Audionautix- The Great ...
Ep. 218 - The life and death of Thurman Munson
February 20, 2023 01:00 - 24 minutes\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. www.ohiomysteries.com [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Addi...
10-Minute Mystery: Melanie Doyle
February 16, 2023 01:00 - 10 minutesIn 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. www.ohiomysteries....
Ep. 217 - Arthur Ford's seance of Martin Jones
February 13, 2023 01:00 - 26 minutesIn 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. www.ohiomysteries.com [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Featured Ohio musical artist: Better Place, by Timmy the Boy of Allian...
10-Minute Mystery: Beth Franks
February 09, 2023 01:00 - 12 minutesIn 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
SOLVED! Rewind: The unsolved murder of Brad Bellino (Ep 93)
February 06, 2023 01:00 - 37 minutesIn 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. [email protected] 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 Phosp...
Now Solved! Rewind episode Ep. 93 - The unsolved murder of Brad Bellino
February 06, 2023 01:00 - 37 minutesIn 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. [email protected] 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 Phosp...
Special: Podcast host Carol Costello discusses the Phyllis Cottle case
February 02, 2023 01:00 - 16 minutesSpecial: 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-prese...
Ep. 216 - Codebreakers Pt 3: Agnes Meyer Driscoll, First Lady of Naval Cryptology
January 30, 2023 01:00 - 23 minutesThe 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. www.ohiomysteries.com [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Mus...
Ep. 215 - Codebreakers Pt 2: Joe Rochefort and the Battle of Midway
January 26, 2023 01:00 - 29 minutesPart 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. ...
Ep. 214 - Codebreakers Pt 1: Joe Desch and the NCR
January 23, 2023 01:00 - 32 minutesMuch 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. www.ohiomysteries.com [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohio...
10-Minute Mystery: The Van Nguyen family
January 18, 2023 01:00 - 8 minutesIn 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 Learn more abo...
Ep. 213 - Livingston and the modern tomato
January 16, 2023 01:00 - 22 minutesBefore 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? www.ohiomysteries.com [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter...
10-Minute Mystery: Dawn Hickman
January 12, 2023 01:00 - 10 minutesIn 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. www.ohiomysteries.com [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.faceboo...
Ep. 212 - Col. James Forsyth and the Wounded Knee Massacre
January 09, 2023 01:00 - 29 minutesIn 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. www.ohiomysteries.com [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebo...