Ohio Mysteries

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/ohiomyste...

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/...

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. (W...

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 effor...

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/my...

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@ohiomyst...

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.co...

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 doz...

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 Myste...

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. ww...

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.c...

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.f...

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 M...

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/oh...

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 feedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Audionauti...

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...

(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...

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/myster...

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.ohiomy...

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...

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 feedback@ohiomysteries.comwww.patreon.com/ohiomysterieswww.t...

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 Dian...

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/oh...

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...

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/ohiomyst...