Ohio Mysteries

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/ohiomyste...

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/ohiomyste...

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.ohiomy...

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 Learn mor...

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.tw...

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@ohio...

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? www.ohiomysteries.com feedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries...

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....

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 feedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreo...

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. www.ohiomysteries.com feedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohio...

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 feedback@ohiomysteries.com...

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? w...

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 h...

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 Learn mor...

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.twit...

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 feedback@ohiomysteries.co...

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.p...

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@ohiomyst...

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.pat...

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 ww...

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...

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/o...

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 feed...

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.co...

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....