The 1946 case of Lola Celli, a pretty, dark-haired school teacher who left the front stoop of her parents home in broad daylight to walk to a bus stop a few blocks away, and vanished without a trace before she got there. www.ohiomysteries.com feedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: 4:30 by Angela Perley. Find more at https://www.angelaperley.com The Great Unknown- Audionautix Rise of the Phosper- Daniel Birch Le...
Aug 11, 2019•39 min•Season 1Ep. 50
The year 1929 was the start of the Great Depression - and the start of a would-be serial killer in Cleveland. Someone was shooting women on the streets of residential neighborhoods over the holiday season. Most survived the assault, but just after New Years, a high school girl named Janet Frater Blood became the "mad masher's" first homicide. www.ohiomysteries.com feedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Audionau...
Aug 08, 2019•16 min
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.ohiomysteries.com feedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio w...
Aug 05, 2019•34 min•Season 1Ep. 49
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 stories have been told about victims of the train tracks who are trapped at the now-abandoned site. W...
Aug 01, 2019•19 min
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.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Catacombs, b...
Jul 29, 2019•37 min•Season 1Ep. 48
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 1970s. Ending that mystery revealed another: Whatever happened to the national championship trophy that ...
Jul 25, 2019•19 min
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 Dillinger associate would show up and reveal a hidden treasure. www.ohiomysteries.com feedback@ohiomyste...
Jul 22, 2019•41 min•Season 1Ep. 47
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 story are true, and which are really only a mystery. www.ohiomysteries.com feedback@ohiomysteries.com ww...
Jul 18, 2019•22 min
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/ohiomysteries Music: She's With Me, by Deadbeat Poets. Find more at https://www.facebook.com/Deadbeat-Poets...
Jul 15, 2019•40 min•Season 1Ep. 46
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 Music: New Horizon- Alderin The Great Unknown- Audionautix Learn more about your ad choices. Visit meg...
Jul 11, 2019•16 min
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 as if the very earth had simply opened up and swallowed her. www.ohiomysteries.com feedback@ohiomyst...
Jul 08, 2019•41 min•Season 1Ep. 45
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 Audionautix-Alderin The Great Unknown-Audionautix Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adcho...
Jul 04, 2019•11 min
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 and the prosecutor have failed to consider. www.ohiomysteries.com feedback@ohiomysteries.com www.pat...
Jul 01, 2019•44 min•Season 1Ep. 44
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 had been coldly executed in the night. www.ohiomysteries.com feedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon...
Jun 27, 2019•11 min
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 televised Court TV case. But a jury found Kevin not guilty, leaving Lisa's murder one of northern Ohio's most...
Jun 24, 2019•42 min•Season 1Ep. 43
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 www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries The Great Unkn...
Jun 20, 2019•12 min•Season 1Ep. 43
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/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Gray, by Whiskey Pilot. Find more at https://www.faceb...
Jun 17, 2019•43 min•Season 1Ep. 42
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.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Audionau...
Jun 13, 2019•15 min•Season 1Ep. 42
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 had no reason to walk away - and stay away for 41 years. www.ohiomysteries.com feedback@ohiomysteries....
Jun 10, 2019•36 min•Season 1Ep. 41
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 coroner couldn't pick a side, saying both ideas were possible. www.ohiomysteries.com feedback@ohiomysterie...
Jun 06, 2019•11 min
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 prisoner, so they let him go Christmas shopping. Alone. At a Columbus mall. Eubanks walked away, and has...
Jun 03, 2019•36 min•Season 1Ep. 40
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.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Audionautix- The great Unknown Aderin- New Horizon Learn mor...
May 30, 2019•11 min•Season 1Ep. 40
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.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Tu...
May 27, 2019•40 min•Season 1Ep. 39
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/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Audionautix- The Great Unknown Alderan- New Horizon Learn more ...
May 23, 2019•12 min•Season 1Ep. 40
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 Northern Ohio https://www.amazon.com/Legends-Lost-Treasure-Northern-American/dp/1626192405 www.ohiomyst...
May 20, 2019•32 min•Season 1Ep. 39
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/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries The Great Unknown Audion...
May 16, 2019•16 min
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/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Devil Child, by Noah Smith. Find more at https://www.noahsmithmu...
May 13, 2019•53 min•Season 1Ep. 37
Episode Notes: It was 1957 when someone mentioned that buzzards seemed to be returning to the same spot in Medina County's Hinckley Township every year on the same day - an event that has been celebrated on March 15 for more than half a century. But why do they come to this same spot? Some say it's a perfect mix of field and stream and hills. But others say a great hunt in 1818 that killed off the township's wildlife attracted the carrion lovers - and the memory of that feast was written into th...
May 09, 2019•14 min•Season 1Ep. 37
Episode Notes: She was discovered on the side of the road in Miami County in 1981. She wore a purple-lined, tasseled buckskin coat - a garment that would become her name for the next 37 years as authorities tried everything to figure out who she was, where she was from, and what she was doing in Ohio. In time, technology would solve one big question, but another still remains: Who killed her? www.ohiomysteries.com feedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteries...
May 06, 2019•35 min•Season 1Ep. 36
Episode NotesRoderick Clemons, 26, was working hard to make life better for he and his mom. He worked his way up to assistant manager of a Church's Fried Chicken in Akron, and was happy when he got transferred to a store near his home. But after a few months, he told his mom the neighborhood scared him and he was thinking of asking for a transfer out. He didn't ask fast enough. www.ohiomysteries.com feedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebo...
May 02, 2019•11 min•Season 1Ep. 36
