Ohio Mysteries

Between 1990 and 1992, three young women who had attended the Washington County Career Center together were murdered . A decade after the death of Ronda Manley, her killer was caught. Two decades after the murder of Patsy Sparks, her killer pleaded guilty. But it's now been three decades since the killing of Terri Roach, a case that is still unsolved. www.ohiomysteries.comfeedback@ohiomysteries.co...

Episode Notes: In this episode we discuss the exciting news about Barbara Blatnik's murder being solved with the help of the Porchlight Project. Then we discuss Porchlight Projects next mystery they are focusing on. Skeletal remains found in a New London Barn! www.ohiomysteries.com feedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries...

The Ohio State Reformatory is nationally famous for its role in movies like The Shawshank Redemption, Tango and Cash, and Air Force One. But the abandoned prison is also a popular ghosthunting site, where visitors say they can still feel the despair and violence that once dwelled here. A look at the history of the prison might explain those vibes. www.ohiomysteries.comfeedback@ohiomysteries.com ww...

On July 30, 1973 in East Liverpool, an antique shopper came across a gruesome scene: Three bludgeoned bodies in a used furniture shop. Although witnesses saw a man running from the scene, nobody has been able to catch the man who killed store owner Earl Tweed, customer Linda Morris, or her 4-year-old daughter Angela. www.ohiomysteries.com feedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries ww...

In 1988, Bellevue wife and mother Isabel Cordle fell asleep on the living room couch watching television. She was found the next morning, a large gash in her head and a bloody hatchet abandoned in the front yard. Investigators would split on whether she was killed by someone in her own home, or by a neighbor seeking revenge. www.ohiomysteries.comfeedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomyste...

Permon Gilbert was a popular and respected husband, father and GE appliance repairman in Hamersville, Ohio when he disappeared after making house calls on May 22, 1982. He was found the next morning, beaten, shot and left naked in a roadside ditch.  www.ohiomysteries.com feedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Aud...

Four strange events that either science has trouble explaining, or Ohioans have trouble believing: A town besieged by falling worms, another pelted with a rain of rocks, a pair of tidal waves in Lake Erie, and the phenomenon known as the Lake Erie Lights. www.ohiomysteries.comfeedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music...

On February 6, 1991, Jill Holzbach was in the race of her life. With someone chasing her car, she made the decision to drive to the Stark County parking lot of the Jackson Township parking lot. It did no good. People inside the station heard the altercation, but responded too late to catch the killer who shot her to death as she blared the horn from her parking spot. www.ohiomysteries.com feedback...

In 1952, a Wyandot County farmer taking his trash into the woods near his home came across a gruesome sight: Body parts blasted into the trees. Detectives quickly learned the victim was a small business owner from Maple Heights named Karl Kwinem, a.k.a. Karl Stone. They also had a pretty good working theory about how he died, and who killed him. Proving it, however, was another thing. www.ohiomyst...

John Hundley and James McQueary were 9-year-old inseparable best friends in 1964 when they vanished from their neighborhood. No trace of them or evidence of what might have happened has ever been found. www.ohiomysteries.com feedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Audionautix- The Great Unknown The Great Phospher-...

In 1977, there was more than one serial killer stalking young women in the Hamilton County area. Police still hope to learn which one was responsible for killing University of Cincinnati freshman Nancy Theobald. www.ohiomysteries.comfeedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Ceasar Knows, by Oliver Hazard.  https://w...

An old homicide out of Lawrence County that last year took a step closer to being solved when authorities were finally able to reveal the identity of a woman that locals call, "the Belle in the Well." www.ohiomysteries.com feedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Audionautix- The Great Unknown The Great Phospher- D...

In 1995, the five Markley children returned from school to find their parents, John and Shelly, missing from their Trumbull County home. The couple was never seen again.  www.ohiomysteries.com feedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Here She Comes, by Stupid Beautiful Heaven.  https://stupidbeautifulheaven.bandcam...

It was the first murder Oxford police had seen in a quarter century when they arrived at the apartment shared by Miami University grad Elizabeth Andes and her boyfriend, Bob Young, in 1978. Beth lay dead on the bedroom floor, naked, strangled, stabbed. And Bob stood accused. When two juries acquitted him, it raised the obvious question: Did police let a murderer go free in order to close the books...

It's taken 150 years to build a frightening legend around an old, vandalized grave near New Philadelphia. But if we peel away the years, what will we find? www.ohiomysteries.com feedback@ohiomysteries.com 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....

In 1999, Dayton police officer Kevin Brame dropped off his boys at his estranged wife's house, and then was shot in the back by a stalker hidden in the shadows as he returned to his car.  www.ohiomysteries.com feedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Love in Your Soul, by The Katawicks. Find more at https://www.fac...

The young woman - a new mother, by the coroner's estimation - was found dead in Muddy Creek in 1975. But police say it'll be hard to find her killer if they can't even identify who she is. See drawing of victim here: https://www.ohioattorneygeneral.gov/Files/Law-Enforcement/Investigator/Unidentified-Remains/Doe-2021     www.ohiomysteries.com feedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries...

Ohio attorney Edwin Stanton rose from a humble start in Steubenville, Ohio to become President Abraham Lincoln's war secretary. But was he also a conspirator in the president's assassination? Books have been written arguing both sides of this 150-year-old debate. www.ohiomysteries.comfeedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteri...

Ohio native Ambrose Bierce became one of the most famous literary stars of his day, as well as a renowned investigative journalist. Still, people raised an eyebrow in 1913 when the 71-year-old announced he was off to find Pancho Villa and join his army as a witness to the Mexican Revolution. Ambrose disappeared on his adventure, leaving behind different versions of the legend of what might have ha...

Patricia Adkins was a woman in love when she and her married boyfriend planned a romantic getaway to a Canadian cabin in 2001. They were supposed to leave together from where they worked at the Honda of America plant in Marysville, Ohio. But when Patti failed to return from that trip to pick up her young daughter, her family - and police - quickly suspected Patti was never coming home again. Even...

On Mother's Day in 2000, someone walked into the Barberton home of Michelli "Mickey" Wilson and Edward Rhodes and shot them in their bed. It turned out to be the second tragedy in the life of Mickey's children, who lost their father, Samson Rollins, 13 years earlier on Father's Day. The murder of Samson Rollins was solved in a day. But 20 years later, police say they are no closer to an answer in...

Angela Hicks was 14 years old when she disappeared from her Elyria home in 1990. Her stepfather, Samuel Legg III, told police they'd had an argument and she ran away, but her remains were found five weeks later. In 2019, police traced DNA from a series of truck stop murders to that stepfather, leading to the obvious question: Was Angie the first victim in the making of a serial killer? www.ohiomys...

Ohio has been treated like a state since 1803, when Congress extended federal laws to the land. But in 1953, researchers preparing for Ohio's 150th birthday learned something stunning: Congress had never actually declared Ohio a state. So how old is Ohio, and what does it mean for the eight presidents Ohio gave the country in its first 150 years? www.ohiomysteries.com feedback@ohiomysteries.com ww...

Some called Cleveland-born Ed Delahanty baseball's 19th century Babe Ruth. The MLB Hall of Famer is the only slugger to have topped the batting field in both leagues, was the highest-paid player of his day, and remains No. 5 on the list of all-time highest batting averages. But he's even more famous for the way he died. When his body was found beneath Niagara Falls, it started a century-long debat...

In 1848, Alexander and Rachel McAdams were raising their six children on a farm outside Ashtabula when the first of their children died. Over the next two years, four more children would die, one at a time, unexpectedly and without explanation. Was someone poisoning the family? www.ohiomysteries.com feedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook...