Ohio Mysteries
594 episodes - English - Latest episode: 18 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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10-Minute Mystery: The buried gold of Gen. Mad Anthony Wayne
October 17, 2021 15:14 - 18 minutesAfter 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 [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Audionautix- The Great Un...
Ep. 152 - Campfire Stories: Encounters with Strangers
October 11, 2021 00:00 - 27 minutesReading 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 [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Guiedeline, by Zach Friedhof. Find more at https://zachmusic.net Learn more about your ad choices. Visit me...
10-Minute Mystery: William Miscannon
October 06, 2021 21:20 - 14 minutesIn 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 [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohiowww.facebook.co...
Ep. 151 - Mob Mentality: The New Bremen Speedway Riot
October 04, 2021 00:00 - 30 minutesIn 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 [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Plans, by Joe Joyce Band. Find more at https://joejoyce.bandcamp.com Audionautix- ...
10-Minute Mystery: John Robek
September 30, 2021 00:00 - 18 minutesIn 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 [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Audionautix- The Great Unknown The Great Phospher- Daniel Birch Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ep. 150 - Ohio's own Phantom of the Opera
September 26, 2021 16:00 - 21 minutesIn 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 [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Audionautix- The Great Unknown The Great Phospher- Daniel Birch Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/ad...
10-Minute Mystery: Tammy Osborne and Sean Kearney
September 23, 2021 00:00 - 16 minutesIn 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 [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio w...
Ep. 149 - Mob Mentality: The dynamiting of Akron City Hall
September 20, 2021 00:00 - 31 minutesAkron 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 [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com...
UNRESOLVED Ep. 5: Jeannette Bartee and Roy Addison
September 16, 2021 00:00 - 24 minutesAn 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 Buckl...
Ep. 148 - What caused the Cleveland Clinic x-ray fire?
September 13, 2021 00:00 - 31 minutesIn 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 [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Run, by Lisa Gain and the Rusty S...
10-Minute Mystery: The legend of Jack Trice
September 09, 2021 00:00 - 24 minutesIn 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 [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Audionautix- The Great Unknown The Gre...
Ep. 147 - The mystery of the USS Maine
September 06, 2021 00:00 - 32 minutesIn 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 [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Go Out Tonight, by Theo Perry. Find more at www.theosloosehinges.com. Audionaut...
10-Minute Mystery: Shakira Johnson
September 02, 2021 00:00 - 17 minutesIn 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 [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Audionautix- The Great Unknown The Great Phospher- Daniel Birch...
Ep. 146 - The Andover restaurant explosion
August 30, 2021 00:00 - 30 minutesIn 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 [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Dance Champa, by Victor Samalot. Find more at www.victorsamalot.com...
10-Minute Mystery: Carolyn and Amanda Adams
August 26, 2021 00:00 - 12 minutesIn 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 [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Audionautix- The Great Unknown The Great Phospher- Daniel Birch Learn more about your ad choices. Vi...
Ep. 145 - The Great Train Robbery
August 23, 2021 00:00 - 26 minutesIn 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 [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.faceboo...
Ep. 144 - The crash of the USS Shenandoah
August 16, 2021 00:00 - 27 minutesIn 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. [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: The Wreck of the Shenan...
10-Minute Mystery: The curse of Rocky Colavito
August 12, 2021 00:00 - 12 minutesIn 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 [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Audionautix-...
Ep. 143 - The strange ending to William Quantrill
August 09, 2021 00:00 - 37 minutesWilliam 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. [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohi...
UNRESOLVED Ep. 4: Leslie Ann Barker
August 05, 2021 00:00 - 25 minutesAn 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ep. 142 - Mob Mentality: The Who concert, 1979
August 02, 2021 00:00 - 30 minutesIn 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. [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Audionautix- The Great Unknown The Great ...
10-Minute Mystery: Vicki Koch
July 29, 2021 00:00 - 10 minutesIn 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 [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook...
Ep. 104 - Elizabeth Stiles and the Madison Seminary
July 26, 2021 00:00 - 47 minutesElizabeth 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? www.ohiomysteries.com [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Paul and Sharon, by David Zuder. https://www. davidzudermusic.com Island by MBB https://...
10-Minute Mystery: Carey's shrine of miracles
July 22, 2021 00:00 - 16 minutesIn 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 [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteries...
Ep. 141 - What started the Ohio Penitentiary fire?
July 19, 2021 00:00 - 34 minutesStill 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 [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: "Float" ...
10-Minute Mystery: The Cassidy family
July 15, 2021 00:00 - 15 minutesIn 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. www.ohiomysteries.com [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Audiona...
Ep. 140 - Mob Mentality: Mercer County, 1872
July 12, 2021 00:00 - 36 minutesIn 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 [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music...
10-Minute Mystery: The Coonrod brothers
July 08, 2021 00:00 - 22 minutesIn 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 [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitte...
139 - Who killed the Bricca family?
July 05, 2021 00:00 - 33 minutesIn 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. [email protected] 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 Learn ...
UNRESOLVED Ep. 3: Roderick Clemons
July 01, 2021 19:00 - 19 minutesAn 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
UNRESOLVED Ep. 3: Roderick Clemons *FIXED*
July 01, 2021 19:00 - 20 minutesAn 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ep. 138 - Mob Mentality: Springfield
June 27, 2021 16:00 - 39 minutesThis 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. [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Audionautix- The Great Unknown The G...
10-Minute Mystery: William Sproat and Mary Petry
June 24, 2021 00:00 - 16 minutesIn 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 [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomyst...
Ep. 137 - The Ice Bridge Disaster
June 21, 2021 00:00 - 32 minutesA 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? [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Gir...
Ep. 136 - Part 2: The assassination of Donald Mellett
June 16, 2021 00:00 - 29 minutesWhen 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. [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomyste...
Ep. 136 - Part 1: The assassination of Donald Mellett
June 14, 2021 00:00 - 31 minutesWhen 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. [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Good ...
Ep. 135 - Part 2: The mystery of Pretty Boy Floyd's death
June 10, 2021 00:00 - 19 minutesIn 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. [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Additio...
Ep. 135 - Part 1: The mystery of Pretty Boy Floyd's death
June 07, 2021 00:00 - 33 minutesIn 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. [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Father's Lament, by Shiloh ...
10-Minute Mystery: Dr. Ellis W. List
June 03, 2021 00:00 - 14 minutesIn 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 [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Audionautix- The Great Unknown The Great Phospher- Daniel Birch ...
10-Minute Mystery: Angel's Glow and the Battle of Shiloh
May 31, 2021 00:00 - 19 minutesIn 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 [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www....
UNRESOLVED Ep. 2: Melissa and Jasmine Collins
May 27, 2021 00:00 - 32 minutesIn 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.ohioatto...
Ep. 134 - Where is Lucy Loader?
May 24, 2021 00:00 - 31 minutesIn 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? [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: TO COME Additional music: Audionautix by...
10-Minute Mystery: Asenath Dukat
May 20, 2021 00:00 - 18 minutesIn 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. www.ohiomysteries.com [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Audionautix- The Great Unknown The Great Phospher- Daniel Birch Learn mor...
Ep. 133 - The Resurrectionists
May 17, 2021 00:00 - 46 minutesIn 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. [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries...
10-Minute Mystery: The murder of Pres. McKinley's brother-in-law
May 13, 2021 00:00 - 26 minutesGeorge 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 [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Audionautix- The Great Unknown The Great Phospher- Daniel Bir...
Ep. 132 - Who killed Olive Peaney - and why?
May 10, 2021 00:30 - 35 minutesIn 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 [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music:...
10-Minute Mystery: Tim Case; Jason Marti
May 06, 2021 00:00 - 18 minutesTwo unsolved murders that cross the county line of Wayne and Holmes: The 1973 strangulation of 19-year-old Tim Case, and the 1996 shooting of 21-year-old Jason Marti. www.ohiomysteries.com [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Audionautix- The Great Unknown The Great Phospher- Daniel Birch 10-Minute Mystery: Tim Case; Jason Marti Learn more about your ad choices. Visit...
Ep. 131 - John Scott Harrison and the bodysnatchers
May 03, 2021 00:00 - 42 minutesJohn Scott Harrison is unique in American history, the only person who can say he was both son of and father to a U.S. president. But John Scott earned his own place in history after his death in 1878 - when grave robbers pulled his corpse from his North Bend, Ohio grave and sold it to a Cincinnati medical school that tried to hide the deed. www.ohiomysteries.com [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Time ...
10-Minute Mystery: Eve Ashbaugh; Lisa Ann Gross
April 29, 2021 00:00 - 16 minutesTwo unsolved murders out of Delaware County: The 2007 stabbing death of llama rancher Eve Ashbaugh in her Troy Township home, and the 2001 case from Genoa Township of Lisa Ann Gross, found submerged in an overflowing bathtub by her two daughters returned from school. www.ohiomysteries.com [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Audionautix- The Great Unknown The Great Phospher- Daniel Birch Lea...
10-Minute Mystery: Robin Stone
April 26, 2021 00:00 - 15 minutesIn 1991, 17-year-old Robin Stone - seven months pregnant - disappeared from her Cambridge, Ohio home, then was found dead four months later. In 2014, the TV show Cold Justice joined the effort to find her killer, and finally answered some questions. www.ohiomysteries.com [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Audionautix- The Great Unknown The Great Phospher- Daniel Birch Learn more about your...