This 2-part series shares recent successes of Othram Inc - a genetic genealogy lab that in the past 12 months has identified seven Ohioans, most of them lying in out-of-state unmarked grave. Tonight, the story of four of them: Brenda Sue Black of Vandalia; Colleen Rice of Portsmouth; Doreen Tiedman of Cleveland; and Douglas Streeter of Bryan. www.ohiomysteries.com feedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Additional musi...
Jun 22, 2023•28 min•Season 1Ep. 232
In the past 12 months, Othram Inc - a genetic genealogy lab that uses DNA to build family trees of unidentified homicide victims - has given three Ohioans their names back. Now the work can begin to find the killers of Florence Charleston of Cleveland, Robert Earl Sanders of Youngstown, and Maggie Sniegowski of Toledo - missing loved ones only known to authorities as Jane Doe or John Doe for decades. www.ohiomysteries.com feedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/m...
Jun 19, 2023•26 min•Season 1Ep. 231
In 1975, 13-year-old David Evans never returned home after heading out to skate at a local park in Boardman, Ohio. He was found dead days later, killed by a diabetic coma because he wasn't home to take his insulin. But who kept him from home, and then tried to hide his body in some bushes? www.ohiomysteries.comfeedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Audionautix- The Great Unknown The Great Phospher- Daniel Birch...
Jun 15, 2023•16 min
In 2011, the owner of nearly 60 exotic animals released them in one final act before taking his own life, setting up a massacre as local law enforcement raced to stop lions, tigers, wolves and bears from fleeing into the wild. Why would a man who spent more than 30 years caring for the animals doom them to such a tragic end? www.ohiomysteries.com feedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Additional music: New Horizon - A...
Jun 12, 2023•31 min•Season 1Ep. 230
A hometown mystery: The unique way Willoughby residents came up with their town name, and the century-long obsession the town has with trying to figure out the origin behind Lost Nation Road. We offer two popular theories, and a third that is long forgotten but might be closer to the truth. www.ohiomysteries.com feedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries New Horizon - AderinAudionautix- The Great Unknown Learn more about ...
Jun 08, 2023•15 min
Cincinnati's Kate Chase was groomed to be a society lady, but the Civil War-era "Belle of the North" adopted her father's ambition for the White House and became a political strategist that made her the most influential woman in the nation's capital. Yet her end read like a tragic Victorian novel. www.ohiomysteries.com feedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Additional music: New Horizon - Aderin; Audionautix- The Grea...
Jun 05, 2023•26 min•Season 1Ep. 229
When Alfred Southwick invented the electric chair in Buffalo NY, Ohio's favorite son, Thomas Edison, was eager to design the procedure for using it but with nefarious motivation. He was in the middle of a fight to see whether his DC current would win public favor over his competitor's AC current. Edison designed the chair to use AC so he could connect AC to death and danger in the public mind. What happened next was horrifying. www.ohiomysteries.com feedback@ohiomysteries.comwww.patreon.com/ohio...
May 31, 2023•22 min
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.comfeedback@ohiomysteries.c...
May 29, 2023•29 min
In Loveland, Ohio, a medieval castle rises above the Little Miami River. It was built by stones hauled up from the river by a World War I vet obsessed with the era of knights and chivalry. Harry Andrews was one-of-a-kind, and the Knights group he found still operates the castle as a museum. www.ohiomysteries.com feedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Audionautix- The Great UnknownThe Great Phospher- Daniel Birch Learn...
May 25, 2023•14 min
In 1990, Bearnhardt and Cora Hartig were brutally murdered in their Portage County home during a burglary. A few years later, four men were named as their assailants, with one sentenced to death. But with no physical evidence putting any of them at the site, and confessions determined by an expert as having been coerced, did the real killer get away? www.ohiomysteries.com feedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Additio...
May 22, 2023•22 min•Season 1Ep. 227
In 1897, Cincinnati's own Mary Becker Greene became the first woman to receive a steamboat pilot's license, and she and her husband spent the next 50 years plying the rivers of Ohio and the Mississippi. She later joined her son Tom aboard his Delta Queen. But after she died in her stateroom, some folks became convinced Captain Mary never left the ship. www.ohiomysteries.com feedback@ohiomysteries.comwww.patreon.com/ohiomysterieswww.twitter.com/mysteriesohiowww.facebook.com/ohiomysteriesAudionaut...
May 18, 2023•16 min
Thomas Midgley Jr., a brilliant scientist working for Dayton, Ohio research companies in the 1920, invented two world-changing products. He discovered a lead additive could stop the destructing knocking noise prevalent in early auto engines. And he discovered a supergas that allowed average homes to safely have refrigerators and air conditioners. It wasn't until decades after Midgley's death that his revolutionary creations were destroying the planet, and the life upon it. Learn more about your ...
May 15, 2023•24 min
So tonight we're doing a rewind of our 2020 episode about three cases that were getting new attention from the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation. In at least one of those cases, DNA technology came through. A few months ago, Hamilton County authorities announced they tied a serial killer to the death of Cheryl Thompson -- a 19-year-old University of Cincinnati student killed in 1978. Robert Howell was a Cincinnati truck driver who died in a 1985 car accident, so he can't be questioned. But a...
May 11, 2023•34 min
Born in Licking County when it was America's western frontier, Victoria Claflin was born into poverty and grew up the daughter of a conman who groomed her to be a child preacher and spiritualist. She ran away just after turning 15, becoming a child bride and mother. Her "spirit guides" promised her she'd grow up to be wealthy and powerful, but nobody could have predicted what was to come. www.ohiomysteries.com feedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio...
May 08, 2023•29 min•Season 1Ep. 206
In Nov. 22 1963, Ohioans went to bed mourning the assassination of President John F Kennedy, and woke to the news of a different kind of disaster. Overnight, a fire at the Golden Age Nursing Home in Huron County had claimed the lives of 63 residents. The fire would have been national news any other day, but although it was overshadowed by Kennedy's death, it made an impact on federal safety requirements. www.ohiomysteries.com feedback@ohiomysteries.comwww.patreon.com/ohiomysterieswww.twitter.com...
May 04, 2023•18 min
In 1876, Ohio native Lt. Col. George Custer led the 7th Cavalry into a battle with the Cheyenne at the Battle of the Little Bighorn - and died alongside every soldier of the five companies that he commanded. But questions remain about "Custer's Last Stand," including more than a dozen eye-witness reports who said Custer and a great many of his men actually killed themselves after realizing how badly they were outnumbered. www.ohiomysteries.com feedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomyste...
May 01, 2023•24 min•Season 1Ep. 225
In 1919, William Clemens, nephew of celebrated author Mark Twain, wrote about one of the most "mysterious, uncanny and problematic" cases he'd ever witnesses. He then proceeded to relate the tale of his visit to Akron, and his experience with a local family haunted by a ghost who had been throwing stones at them. www.ohiomysteries.com feedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Audionautix- The Great UnknownThe Great Phosp...
Apr 27, 2023•17 min
In July of 1996, Herb Baumeister drove to a park outside Toronto, wrote a suicide note, then killed himself. In his final communication, the millionaire Indianapolis businessman penned pages about his failed thrift store chain and angst over his marriage. But he didn't say a thing about what authorities really wanted to know: Why were there skeletal remains of 11 men in his backyard, and what did he know about six men whose bodies were dumped in western Ohio. www.ohiomysteries.comfeedback@ohiomy...
Apr 24, 2023•25 min
Did the prehistoric culture known as the Hopewell build a 60-mile long prehistoric highway between two of southern Ohio's major cultural centers? Though weather and development destroyed the road long ago, technology - and old notes from 19th century explorers - suggest such a colossal monument did indeed exist. www.ohiomysteries.com feedback@ohiomysteries.comwww.patreon.com/ohiomysterieswww.twitter.com/mysteriesohiowww.facebook.com/ohiomysteriesAudionautix- The Great UnknownThe Great Phospher- ...
Apr 20, 2023•17 min
HH Holmes would become one of America's most notorious serial killers, but when he was arrested in Philadelphia in 1895, it was only for insurance fraud. Fidelity Mutual accused him of faking the death of his partner in order to collect on a $10k policy. But then detectives began to think maybe Holmes had killed his partner. And if he had, what had become of the partner's missing three children? A Pinkerton detective set out to search for them, beginning in Cincinnati, Ohio. www.ohiomysteries.co...
Apr 17, 2023•38 min•Season 1Ep. 224
For more than 50 years, folks in eastern Brown County tried to get recognition that they lived in the imaginary hamlet of Fizzleville. Though you won't find Fizzleville on any map, they managed to organize a popular annual festival, sold bumper stickers and promoted the name even in their obituaries. www.ohiomysteries.com feedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysterieswww.twitter.com/mysteriesohiowww.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Audionautix- The Great UnknownThe Great Phospher- Daniel Bir...
Apr 13, 2023•11 min
In 1957, a pair of young, heavily intoxicated felons invaded the home of Paul Coblentz, a 25-year-old Holmes County farmer, and terrorized him, his wife and their baby before shooting Paul in the head. But after the shooter was convicted and assigned a date with the executioner, the victim's family and greater Holmes County Amish launched a campaign to save his life. www.ohiomysteries.com feedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohio...
Apr 10, 2023•36 min•Season 1Ep. 223
In 2014, Cory Barron left his seat at Progressive Field in Downtown Cleveland during a Jason Aldean country concert - and disappeared. His body was found a few days later in a garbage truck that had collected trash from the stadium - trash that had been put down a five-story chute with a compactor. Last year for the first time, authorities agreed with Cory's family that he was more likely a victim of murder than some kind of bizarre accident.www.ohiomysteries.comfeedback@ohiomysteries.comwww.pat...
Apr 06, 2023•15 min
Tina Resch got her first 15 minutes of fame as a teenager in Columbus when national news media showed up to report her account of a pesky poltergeist wreaking havoc in her home. The next time reporters caught up with her, she was a 22-year-old in jail, accused of playing a role in the violent death of her 3-year-old daughter, Amber. Some say she was a fraud and a killer. Others insist she was an innocent woman, a victim of public opinion and abusive echoes from her past. www.ohiomysteries.com fe...
Apr 03, 2023•27 min•Season 1Ep. 222
In 1985, 79-year-old Mary Yocono left her family's restaurant - Yocono's Italian Eatery in Akron's Wallhaven neighborhood - and walked across the street to take an early Christmas gift to her friends. But night and rain descended during the visit, and during the return trip on the dark street, a car struck Mary, then sped away. Nearly 40 years later, no one has ever taken responsibility for the hit and run of this colorful and beloved Italian matriarch. Ohio Mysteries: http://www.ohiomysteries.c...
Mar 29, 2023•25 min
For 20 years, Ohio has been waiting to execute Gerald "Bob" Hand for the murder of his wife, Jill, and for the death of the man he hired to kill her at their Delaware County home in 2002. But whether or not it ever happens, there will be no official closure for the murders of his first two wives, both suffocated by plastic bags in the basement of his Columbus home. www.ohiomysteries.com feedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomy...
Mar 27, 2023•24 min
In 1978, a Michigan state official ordered a mapmaker to add two fake towns to the Ohio side of the state's southern border, introducing the hamlets of "goblu" and "beatosu" to Lucas and Fulton counties. This is the story of how a couple of University of Michigan rallying cries taunting Ohio State University fans slipped through the cracks. 10-Minute Mystery: The Toledo War: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/FPMN6986625239.mp3?updated=1665002148 www.ohiomysteries.comfeedback@ohiomysteries.comwww.patr...
Mar 23, 2023•13 min
In 1965, a fireball tore through the sky over Northeast Ohio, dropping fragments that started grass fires, sending explosive bits into Lake Erie, causing dispatch phones to ring off the hook as thousands of people tried to figure out what they were seeing. It ended with a fiery shock wave in Kecksburg, Pennsylvania, leaving nothing behind. Or did it? Today, experts still argue over what it was, and whether something was left in the woods where it came to rest. www.ohiomysteries.com feedback@ohio...
Mar 20, 2023•21 min•Season 1Ep. 220
In 1970, two women parked alongside a road in Butler County heard a knock on the car window and turned to find a man with a rifle who demanded their car, marched them into a wooded area, and shot them. One woman lived to tell the tale; the other woman, 21-year-old Georg Ann Reiter, did not. More than 50 years later, her family wants answers. www.ohiomysteries.comfeedback@ohiomysteries.comwww.patreon.com/ohiomysterieswww.twitter.com/mysteriesohiowww.facebook.com/ohiomysteriesAudionautix- The Grea...
Mar 16, 2023•16 min
Youngstown-area native Mark Baker became a journalist in Europe, where he caught the attention of communist operatives in the 1980s who hoped to compel him to become a spy. We interview Baker from Prague, Czech Republic just months after he got to see a thick file and dozens of surveillance photos that he never knew existed, and his reaction to learning how he'd been targeted by the secret agency behind the Iron Curtain. www.ohiomysteries.com feedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomyster...
Mar 13, 2023•43 min•Season 1Ep. 219
