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 quickly? www.ohiomysteries.comfeedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter....
Apr 06, 2020•42 min•Season 1Ep. 78
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.facebook.com/thekatawicks Additional music: Audionautix- The Great Unknown, and The Great Phospher- Dani...
Mar 30, 2020•32 min•Season 1Ep. 77
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. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mar 30, 2020•12 min
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 www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Audionautix- The Great Unknown The ...
Mar 26, 2020•9 min
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/ohiomysteries Music: When I Leave, by The Floorwalkers. Find more at https://www.thefloorwalkers.com Additional...
Mar 23, 2020•41 min•Season 1Ep. 76
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 happened to him. www.ohiomysteries.com feedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.tw...
Mar 19, 2020•13 min
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 without a body, police don't classify her case as a missing person; they consider her a victim of ho...
Mar 16, 2020•38 min•Season 1Ep. 75
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 the execution-style hit of Wilson and Rhodes. www.ohiomysteries.com feedback@ohiomysteries.com www.p...
Mar 12, 2020•9 min
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.ohiomysteries.comfeedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www...
Mar 09, 2020•42 min•Season 1Ep. 74
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 www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Audi...
Mar 05, 2020•11 min
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 debate as to whether his fall from a bridge over the river was suicide, or a tragic accident. www.ohiomys...
Mar 01, 2020•34 min•Season 1Ep. 73
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.com/ohiomysteries Music: Audionautix- The Great Unknown The Great Phospher- Daniel Birch Learn more...
Feb 27, 2020•14 min
Peggy Andrews was just a dozen steps from the door of the boarding house where the Columbus Business School student was living when she was likely forced at gunpoint to put down her books and follow a killer to her death in a garage a few houses away. Police have DNA in this 1962 case and are hoping one day, they'll find a suspect to match it. www.ohiomysteries.com feedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Go Back...
Feb 24, 2020•38 min•Season 1Ep. 72
The 16-year-old Hamilton, Ohio teen was sweet and kind, but she was also attracted to a rowdy crowd. It led her to the parking lot of a biker bar, where she willingly entered the car of a man her friends didn't know. Her body was found two weeks later. 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. Vi...
Feb 20, 2020•12 min
Since the 1700s, Ohio settlers have been reporting sightings of an unusual aquatic species, describing it as 17- to 60-feet long with a sleek body. In the 90s, voters in a newspaper poll named the local legend South Bay Bessie and businessmen raised a reward fund to pay anyone who could catch it. But the Lake Erie Monster remains elusive, and speculation continues as to what the serpentine encounters may have been. www.ohiomysteries.com feedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries ww...
Feb 17, 2020•40 min•Season 1Ep. 71
10-Minute Mystery: Sweetest DayIf you're outside of Ohio, good chance you've never heard of Sweetest Day. If you're in Ohio, good chance you're not doing it right. How Sweetest Day got started, and the mystery of how we came to be doing it wrong, as well as the debate over its origins. 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 Le...
Feb 13, 2020•11 min
A story out of Newburgh Heights in 1981, authorities have never been confident on how to classify the case of 17-year-old Kurt Sova. Did he die in an accident of his own making after a night of heavy drinking? Or was he murdered. But new interest has reopened this case as forensic students try to decipher the riddles, contradictions and coverups that have made this one almost impossible to solve. www.ohiomysteries.com feedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/myste...
Feb 09, 2020•27 min•Season 1Ep. 70
If Charlotte Nagi Pollis is alive, she'd be 54 years old today. But her family is convinced the mother of two died at the age of 28, when she was reported missing from her Girard home on March 12, 1994. Her husband, Paul Pollis, told police she was gone when he came home from an afternoon of running errands. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Feb 06, 2020•13 min
A story of torment, Bill and Dorothy Wacker of Massillon, Ohio spent a decade fearing every knock on the door and every ring of their phone. From 1984 through 1993, they endured break-ins, banging in the middle of the night, letters left on their porch, strange phone calls, and twice a physical attack on Dorothy inside her home. Who stalked the Wackers? www.ohiomysteries.comfeedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music...
Feb 03, 2020•35 min•Season 1Ep. 69
Margaret Dodd left Akron soon after marrying, and settled into a contented life with her husband in West Virginia. That is, until 1977, when witnesses saw her abducted. Soon after, her family back home in Ohio began receiving ransom demands. Did the caller really know where Margie was, or was he just hoping to take advantage of desperate parents? The case took more dramatic twists, including the death of a suspect, an unidentified skeleton, and finally an answer that only brought with it more qu...
Jan 27, 2020•48 min•Season 1Ep. 68
Dec. 10, 1977 began with a lot of promise for 23-year-old Alana Gwinner, who finished the last exam she needed for her associate's degree in business from the University of Cincinnati. But she disappeared after a night of celebrating, with her remains turning up in the Ohio River a month later. 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...
Jan 23, 2020•12 min
Authorities never learned the identity of the man who was found dead of natural causes along a road outside Sabina, Ohio in 1929. But he would become the town's most famous resident over the next 35 years as his embalmed body went on display as a roadside attraction and is estimated to have been viewed in person by 1.5 million people. www.ohiomysteries.comfeedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Sorrow for Sorrow...
Jan 20, 2020•36 min•Season 1Ep. 67
Cincinnati police officer Donald Martin, a young husband and father-to-be, was cut down in the line of duty in 1961 by an unknown assailant. In 2005, two homicide detectives reopened the investigation and came to a conclusion, though their top suspect was already dead. 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 yo...
Jan 16, 2020•20 min
In one of the most famous criminal trials of the 20th century, Cleveland physician Sam Sheppard was accused in the brutal beating death of his wife, Marilyn Sheppard. The first trial returned a guilt verdict. A second trial found him innocent. The case so gripped the nation, it is said to have been the inspiration for the TV series and movie The Fugutive. www.ohiomysteries.comfeedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Mus...
Jan 13, 2020•40 min•Season 1Ep. 66
When Ohio Farmers Insurance (the predecessor to Westfield Insurance Companies) was robbed of $60,000 in 1865, the famed detective Alan Pinkerton thought he had it all figured out. Then the man in jail for the crime began to insist he was an undercover detective on the case, getting some law enforcement friends to back him out. But was it all just a big con game? www.ohiomysteries.com feedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomyste...
Jan 09, 2020•18 min
We looked for recent news on previous episodes, and also received mail from people associated with podcasts we've done. This special edition will offer updates and new insights on: Ep 12 The Corpse of John Wilkes Booth; Ep 47 John Dillinger's loot; Ep 65 Who killed the Hoods?; Ep 23 Bank Heist - The Ted Conrad story; Ep 19 The Hicks Babies; Ep 40 The escape of Lester Eubanks; 10-Minute Mystery - Knockemstiff, Ohio; Ep 57 The hazing of Stuart Pierson; Ep 63 Mysterious Gravesites; Ep 54 The Mad Bu...
Jan 06, 2020•34 min
Episode Notes: For more than 50 years, the country accepted without question that Wooster, Ohio immigrant August Imgard was the first to decorate a Christmas tree in America. His charming story was told and retold by newspapers from coast to coast every December. But was Imgard really the first? Ninety-nine years after he spruced up a fir and enchanted his neighbors, a Wooster professor would go looking for the answer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dec 23, 2019•19 min
In 1991, Margaret and Howard Hood returned home late at night from a card party at their daughter's home. An hour later, a killer entered their New Franklin home and slit their throats. A man living with one of the Hood's daughters had previously been questioned in two other murders, though police could never find evidence connecting him to any of the crimes. www.ohiomysteries.comfeedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries...
Dec 16, 2019•32 min•Season 1Ep. 65
In 1892, newspapers around the country printed the stunning account of a Portuguese sailor serving time in the Ohio Penitentiary for killing and drinking the blood of his shipmates. Modern researchers have sought to explain why 19th century Americans thought they had a living vampire. 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 Lea...
Dec 12, 2019•15 min
Actress Agnes Moorehead was a two-time Oscar nominee perhaps best known for playing Endora on the television series Bewitched. When she died in 1974, she became one of 46 cast and crew who died of cancer following the filming of The Conqueror. Movie production included 13 weeks on location at a Utah site that was downwind of a dozen nuclear bomb tests the year before. Co-stars John Wayne and Susan Hayward and director Dick Powell also died of cancer within a few years of filming the movie. Was t...
Dec 09, 2019•32 min•Season 1Ep. 64
