Ohio Mysteries

More than 7,000 miles from Ohio, one of the bloodiest battles of the Korean War cost the lives of 800 US servicemen. Among them were 12 men from Ohio whose fates have never been accounted for. In recent years, DNA tests have confirmed two of the missing 12 ended up in POW camp mass graves. Ten more Ohio families still hope the remains of their loved ones will be found and returned home.  www.ohiom...

Episode Notes: In the mid 1800s, the mining town of Moonville sprouted along the route of a new Marietta to Cincinnati rail line. But the community was so far off the beaten path, tucked into a southern Ohio forest, that the only way people could reach it was to follow the train tracks - including the long single-track trestle and a dangerously narrow train tunnel. For more than a century, ghost s...

Episode Notes: In 1978, school teacher Leslie Barker went to a Akron nightclub to participate in what was that decades version of a computerized matchmaking program. She met a man and made plans for a date. But she never made it home. Her remains were found in a burned out car about five hours after the bartender last saw her at the club. www.ohiomysteries.com feedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreo...

Episode Notes: In 1920, owners of semi-pro football teams throughout the Midwest met to form what became the National Football League. And the first NFL champs set a record that stands today. The Akron Pros defense only gave away 7 points that entire season. Interestingly, the season all but faded from memory, with the NFL forgetting their first champs were Akron until records surfaced in the 1970...

Episode Notes: John Dillinger's career as America's most famous bank robber lasted less than a year. He died in a hail of bullets outside a movie theater in Chicago in 1934. A few months later, after the last of his gang was dead or executed, the FBI turned their focus on a farm in Northwest Ohio. One of the gang's key hideouts, they would spend three months staking out the property, hoping a Dill...

Episode Notes: In 1758, Delaware Indians kidnapped a Pennsylvania girl as a surrogate for a tribal chief's dead granddaughter, and brought her with them to live in the Ohio country. For nearly a century, books, paintings and commemorative plaques held that the girl, Mary Campbell, lived with her captors in a cave in what is now Gorge Metro Park in Cuyahoga Falls. We explore what parts of this stor...

Episode Notes: A suspect in the 1981 murder of Rebecca Seaburn in a Mt. Gilead laundry would be put on trial three times, with three different outcomes: a guilty conviction that was thrown out, a hung jury, and finally, a not guilty verdict. Which jury got it right? www.ohiomysteries.com feedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomys...

Episode Notes: Harry Beasley won the Medal of Honor for bravery and a Purple Heart for a 1914 battle between the US and Mexico, then went on to serve in World War I. But it was the streets of his own hometown in Newark that proved to be the ultimate danger.  www.ohiomysteries.com feedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries M...

n 1951, Beverly Potts was a happy 10-year-old Cleveland girl when she went to a neighborhood live arts performance with her best friend. But on the way back home, Beverly vanished without a trace. For decades, police have followed up on thousands of false leads, digging up potential gravesites, shattering concrete floors, chasing authors of mysterious letters. Frustrated investigators said it was...

Episode Notes: Raymond Ogle and Arthur Works were well-loved and highly-respected men who worked at a Dayton used-car dealership. So who would walk into the lobby and shoot them dead? Twenty years after the slaying, a new witness reveals a motivation. www.ohiomysteries.com feedback@ohiomysteries.com   www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries   www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio   www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Au...

On Christmas Eve in 1959, a bullet shatters the kitchen window and the Norman Rockwell image of a family fixing dinner. Charles Roy Clark falls dead before his wife and daughter as they prepare a holiday pie. Lois Clark's affair-ridden marriage will come to light, and her most recent lover will stand accused. That is, until a retired police officer learns something shocking that the investigators...

In 1991, the day clerk at Steve's Motel in Green, Ohio wondered why the daughter of the motels owners didn't come out of their home to meet the school bus. As a matter of fact, the girl's father was also late in bringing over cash to start the business day. Curious, she walked to the brick home where the family lived at the entrance to the collection of rent-by-the-hour cottages to find the family...

  Episode Notes: In 1990, Lisa Pruett was a popular 16-year-old Shaker Heights High School student who snuck out of her house one late September evening to go visit her boyfriend. She was found in the early morning hours in his neighbor's lawn, stabbed to death before she'd made it to his house. Police would focus on a fellow student, Kevin Young, even bringing him to trial in a nationally televis...

The new technology using genealogy with DNA recently identified a Geauga County mother as the parent of a newborn discarded in the woods 26 years ago. That story called to mind another case - an unidentified baby who still had his umbilical cord attached when he was found lying in the mud on the shore of Portage Lakes in Summit County in 2005. www.ohiomysteries.com   feedback@ohiomysteries.com   w...

Episode Notes: In 1973, two families in the Dayton-area put classified ads in a local Trading Post. Is that how their killer found them? Gloria Buck and her two children lived 15 miles from 13-year-old Linda Sue Dearth, but they would forever be connected by the way they were slain in their homes. www.ohiomysteries.com feedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/myster...

Episode Notes: Does Blue Limestone Park in Delaware, Ohio deserve its haunted reputation? For a century, people have believed the legend of a horrific train accident and the dozens of souls trapped by their sudden demise. Our research, however, turns, up a true mystery: A drowning that officials could never quite decide between suicide and homicide. www.ohiomysteries.com   feedback@ohiomysteries.c...

Episode 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 ha...

Episode Notes: In 1959, Bertha was one day into her 13th birthday and just had her hair done at a beauty parlor when she was found dead alongside a Mansfield Road. Her extensive broken bones and wounds led the prosecutor to think she'd been hit by a driver who didn't stop. The sheriff thought she was targeted, assaulted, and dragged alongside the road to make it look like a hit and run. The corone...

Episode Notes:   Lester Edward Eubanks was convicted of the 1965 murder of 14-year-old Mary Ellen Deener in Mansfield Ohio. He took the witness stand and told the jury how he did it, and they put him on Death Row. When the U.S. Supreme Court ruled the death penalty unconstitutional in 1972, his sentence was commuted to life in prison. The very next year, his jailers decided he was a pretty good pr...

She was found dead, wrapped in worn blankets, lying alongside an East Liverpool road. But people who came from near and far couldn't identify her. Was it possible she was traveling with a carnival that had just come to town? The mysterious death and identity of a victim only known as Carnival Girl.   www.ohiomysteries.com   feedback@ohiomysteries.com   www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries   www.twitter.c...

Love triangle: The death of Rose Cable In 1937, Rose Cable was a wealthy society matron, the wife of prominent Canton contractor Deuber Cable, and days away from her 48th birthday. A shotgun blast through her mansion's breakfast room made sure she never saw that birthday. But who did it? A random prowler? A hitman? Her husband? Her husband's lover?   www.ohiomysteries.com  feedback@ohiomysteries.c...

Episode Notes:  In 1991, 17-year-old Melissa Collins and her 8-month-old daughter, Jasmine, disappeared from their West Akron apartment. For the next two years, detectives assigned to the Akron police missing persons unit conducted a search for Melissa and Jasmine that reached into all 50 states.  www.ohiomysteries.com feedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/myster...

Meyers Lake in Stark County is best known for its former amusement park. But in the early 1800s - a century before that attraction was even conceived - Andrew Meyer was famed for being one of Ohio's wealthiest residents. Were neighbors right in saying he used to bury his treasure on his 3,000-acre property to avoid using banks?   Special guest: Wendy Koile, author of Legends and Lost Treasure of N...

Just outside Vermilion is one of Ohio's most notoriously spooked locales, where tales of a horrific fire that killed a hundred orphans has attracted ghosthunters and visitors for more than a century. The event never happened - but join us as we explore how some disturbing factual events might be responsible for the birth of a legend. www.ohiomysteries.com feedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com...

The 1908 trial of Guy Rasor for the murder of his pregnant fiance captivated Northeast Ohio and divided the town of Wadsworth on whether the guilty verdict was justified.   Special guest: Linda Buesch, who authored two books on the case, reveals an alternative theory of who killed Ora Lee.   www.ohiomysteries.com  feedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesoh...