Initially recorded in 2019. Many thanks to Chief Spaetzel for the time he gave me to ask about Amy Mihaljevic. Amy's case remains unsolved. If you have any information, please get in touch with the BVPD at 440-871-1234 or 1-800-CALL-FBI. If you'd like to support THIS show, you can do so by clicking on this link: https://paypal.me/williamhuffman3 . Thank you again to everyone who tunes in each week, and many thanks to those who have donated to the show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit meg...
Nov 24, 2023•1 hr 2 min
On this week's episode of Who Killed...? I am going to flip things around a bit. I was recently a guest on the True Crime Garage premium show Off the Record on Apple Podcasts. Since this was an opportunity for Nic to ask me some questions about this case, I thought it would be relevant to the listeners of this program to hear where I stand on things and how it was that I got involved in Amy’s case. Please listen to our interview from True Crime Garage’s premium show, Off the Record. Learn more a...
Nov 23, 2023•1 hr 3 min
TIPS: 440-871-1234 The thing is, that October 27, 1989, was just like any other day in northeast Ohio up until those first reports of a missing girl from Bay Village hit the news around 10 o’clock. The city and the citizens felt like they had been punched in the gut. How could one of their own be taken right out from under the noses of the public, across from the police station nonetheless? As the days progressed, new information was being released regularly, with the most important being that o...
Nov 23, 2023•45 min
Vickie Lynn Belk was a federal employee who worked for the Department of Agriculture. On August 27, 1979, she left her job in Beltsville, MD, with her boyfriend, who was also her coworker. He claimed he dropped her off at a bus stop near their office, but she has yet to reach her apartment in Suitland, MD. She was reported missing by her boyfriend the next day to the Prince George's County Police Department. He was the only witness to her last known whereabouts. Sources: NBC4 Washington Charles ...
Nov 17, 2023•59 min
Thank you to Sonya and Noel from the Evidence Locker Podcast for joining me to discuss the case of Ivan Milat, aka The Backpack Killer. You can check out their show wherever you get your favorite podcasts. Ivan Milat was a road worker who killed seven backpackers in the Belanglo state forest in the early 1990s. Since his death, questions loom on how many other victims he is responsible for because he supposedly made his first kill in his 40s. This leads investigators to believe there may have be...
Nov 16, 2023•58 min
Who was Bruce Everitt Lindahl? Lindahl was a serial killer in the 1970s and early 1980s around the Chicago area. He is suspected of a dozen murders, and it could have been more if he wasn't clumsy with a knife... Pamela Maurer, of Woodridge, was reported missing on Jan. 12, 1976, after leaving a friend's house. Her body was later found on the side of the road by a passing driver, who initially spotted her purse. Her case remained cold for more than four decades until there was a HUGE BREAK in th...
Nov 10, 2023•46 min
The mother of Noel Rodriguez-Alvarez — a 6-year-old Everman boy missing since March and presumed dead — has been charged with capital murder, Everman police announced Monday. Noel, a missing child in danger, was reported on March 25 with an AMBER Alert. His mother, Rodriguez-Singh, and her husband escaped to India with six other kids after the police started to investigate. Cindy Rodriguez-Singh, who is suspected of leaving the country, has been indicted by a grand jury in Tarrant County. She fa...
Nov 09, 2023•31 min
Both the Delphi murder case and the Idaho 4 case were back in the courts this week. Get the latest update on the Delphi & Idaho murder cases with lawyer Matt Mangino. Matthew T. Mangino is the former district attorney of Lawrence County, Pennsylvania. He also spent a six year term on the Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole. He is currently 'Of Counsel' with Luxenberg, Garbett, Kelly and George, P.C. Mangino's book The Executioner's Toll, 2010 was published by McFarland & Company. ...
Nov 03, 2023•51 min
POLICE MISSED THE CHANCE TO STOP THE MAINE MASS SHOOTER Police across Maine were alerted just last month to “veiled threats” by the U.S. Army reservist who would go on to carry out the worst mass shooting in the state’s history, one of a string of missed red flags that preceded the massacre. Two local law enforcement chiefs told The Associated Press that a statewide awareness alert was sent in mid-September to be on the lookout for Robert Card after the firearms instructor made threats against h...
Nov 03, 2023•30 min
Tips: 440-871-1234 or 1-800-CALL-FBI October 27, 2023, marks 34 years since 10-year-old Amy Renee Mihaljevic was abducted from the Bay Village Plaza in Bay Village, Ohio. Amy was lured to the plaza by a mysterious phone caller who called Amy at home and set up a time to go and buy her mom a gift for her new promotion at work. The problem was there was no promotion, and this person didn't work with her mom. The city freaked out at the idea of a child being kidnapped from their quiet & safe su...
Oct 27, 2023•1 hr 9 min
Tips: 440-871-1234 or 1-800-CALL-FBI October 27, 2023, marks 34 years since 10-year-old Amy Renee Mihaljevic was abducted from the Bay Village Plaza in Bay Village, Ohio. Amy was lured to the plaza by a mysterious phone caller who called Amy at home and set up a time to go and buy her mom a gift for her new promotion at work. The problem was there was no promotion, and this person didn't work with her mom. The city freaked out at the idea of a child being kidnapped from their quiet & safe su...
Oct 27, 2023•1 hr 12 min
Officials in Maine provide the latest update on mass shootings. The number of deaths now confirmed to be 18 and injuries 12. Robert Card now named a suspect in the case, is not in police custody, and a massive search is now underway. Maine's Governor Janet Mills called the shooting a tragedy saying "Thus city did not deserve this." Sources: https://youtu.be/NoQW3YiJW60 https://youtu.be/LD7xNVwHaUQ?si=tEVYj30Xy_VAKMZ0 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Oct 26, 2023•40 min
Holly Kristen Piirainen, kidnapped and murdered 30 Years, and the case remains unsolved. Today’s case takes us back to the summer of August 5th, 1993, in Sturbridge, Mass. 10-year-old Holly Piiranian is on a family vacation visiting her grandmother when she was abducted in the middle of the day. Holly Kristen Piirainen was a 10-year-old American murder victim from Grafton, Massachusetts. She was a typical young girl with blonde hair and blue eyes. She went with her brother to visit some puppies ...
Oct 26, 2023•56 min
On September 20, 1982, Kelly Ann Prosser was abducted while walking through the University District on her way home from Indianola Elementary School. On September 22, 1982, her body was discovered in a cornfield along A.W. Wilson Road in Madison County. It was determined that Kelly Ann had been beaten, sexually assaulted and strangled. Tiffany Jennifer Papesh, also known as TJ by her relatives, was a young girl of 8 years old who vanished on June 13, 1980, in Maple Heights, Ohio. She was a Cauca...
Oct 20, 2023•42 min
No one knows the agony Natalee Holloway went through when the hands of Joran Van Der Sloot killed her. On Wednesday, October 18, 2023, Joran finally confessed to the killing of the Alabama teenager in 2006. He took a plea deal from prosecutors and admitted to the killing in an Alabama courthouse. He was sentenced to 20 years, which will begin when he completes his current sentence for the murder of a Peruvian college student, Stephany Flores , in 2010. Sources: AP AL.com CBS NEWS ABC NEWS Learn ...
Oct 19, 2023•19 min
According to attorney John Ray, a new witness in the Long Island serial killer trial, the victim left Rex Heuermann's house crying. New details about the Gilgo Beach murders were revealed Wednesday afternoon. John Ray, attorney for the victims, held a press conference at 3:15 p.m. in Miller Place. CBS NEWS Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Oct 19, 2023•39 min
As we approach the 34th anniversary of Amy Mihaljevic's abduction and unsolved murder, I am looking for cases from that era that have recently been solved. This week, I highlight a case 25 days before Amy was lured to the Bay Village Shopping Plaza in 1989. The case had been unsolved until just last week. This is why you can never give up and never stop pursuing answers. We will have the technology to end these nightmare cold cases one day. Thirty-four years after Krista Martin was found dead in...
Oct 13, 2023•22 min
Honoring the Lives of Missing Women Through their Stories and Poetry Aimee Baker, co-host of the She Goes By Jane podcast, joins me to discuss various cases. We touch on the mysterious disappearance of Brianna Maitland, who went missing in 2004 in Vermont. Despite the efforts of her family and detectives, the case remains unsolved. In this episode, we also look into the complexities surrounding cases where the media coverage was lacking and were eventually forgotten. She Goes by Jane tells the s...
Oct 13, 2023•1 hr 2 min
Between 1978 and 1992 a serial killer is believed to be responsible for the murders of 6 to 11 women. The case has been dubbed the Redhead Murders due to the similar hair color of the victims. The case remains unsolved to this day, and many of the victims remain unidentified. If you have any information regarding this case, you should contact your local authorities. If you would like to help support Who Killed...?, you can do so by clicking on the donate button at sloburnmedia.com or via Venmo w...
Oct 06, 2023•46 min
A 47-year-old man charged with kidnapping 9-year-old Charlotte Sena at an upstate New York park and allegedly holding her in the cabinet of a camper he lived in next to his mother's home has been identified by authorities. Craig N. Ross Jr. is being held without bail Tuesday morning at the Saratoga County Correctional Facility on a charge of first-degree kidnapping, according to jail officials. Charlotte was abducted from the Moreau Lake State Park in Saratoga County, New York, on Saturday eveni...
Oct 03, 2023•30 min
Jan Brogan has been a journalist for more than thirty years, working as a correspondent for the Boston Globe , a staff writer for the Worcester Telegram and the Providence Journal , where she won the Gerald Loeb award for distinguished business writing. She is the award-winning author of four mysteries, Final Copy , Confidential Source , Yesterday’s Fatal , and Teaser . Transactional Pictures, (Steven Soderbergh and Philip Fleishman) purchased the rights to A Confidential Source , which is curre...
Sep 29, 2023•33 min
Jan Brogan has been a journalist for more than thirty years, working as a correspondent for the Boston Globe , a staff writer for the Worcester Telegram and the Providence Journal , where she won the Gerald Loeb award for distinguished business writing. She is the award-winning author of four mysteries, Final Copy , Confidential Source , Yesterday’s Fatal , and Teaser . Transactional Pictures, (Steven Soderbergh and Philip Fleishman) purchased the rights to A Confidential Source , which is curre...
Sep 29, 2023•46 min
On October 27th, 1989, Fifth-grader Amy Mihaljevic went to Bay Village Middle School on Friday wearing green pants, a lavender, and a green sweatshirt, and carrying a denim and red backpack. Her body was discovered 106 days later in Ashland County and her death was ruled a homicide. Her case is the one I am the most passionate about because she was abducted about 3 miles from where I lived. 33+ years later the case is unsolved but there was a case this week that gives us hope. Cobb County police...
Sep 22, 2023•23 min
Was this revenge? Was this the occult? Who killed the Evangelist family? "On the quiet summer evening of July 3, 1929, Benny Evangelist and his family were brutally murdered in their residential Detroit home on St. Aubin Street, mutilated by an axe-wielding killer. His wife and four children were butchered while sleeping in their beds, while Benny himself was killed—and nearly decapitated—in his study. Evangelist was known as a carpenter, faith healer and, most intriguingly, a cult leader and au...
Sep 22, 2023•36 min
In the early morning hours of July 4, 1954, Marilyn Sheppard was bludgeoned to death in her bed. Her husband Sam, a prominent Bay Village doctor, maintained that Marilyn was murdered by a bushy-haired intruder. He stood trial and was convicted for his wife’s murder amidst a media storm. Harrison Ford's character in The Fugitive is roughly based on Sam Sheppard. The media frenzy so tainted the case that the United States Supreme Court released him and ordered a retrial in the decision Sheppard v....
Sep 15, 2023•44 min
Part 2: Thank you to Nic of the True Crime Garage Podcast for joining me to discuss one of Northeast Ohio's most infamous "unsolved" murder. In the early morning hours of July 4, 1954, Marilyn Sheppard was bludgeoned to death in her bed. Her husband Sam, a prominent Bay Village doctor, maintained that Marilyn was murdered by a bushy-haired intruder. He stood trial and was convicted for his wife’s murder amidst a media storm. The Academy Award-winning movie The Fugitive, starring Harrison Ford, w...
Sep 15, 2023•1 hr 1 min
In the early morning hours of July 4, 1954, Marilyn Sheppard was bludgeoned to death in her bed. Her husband Sam, a prominent Bay Village doctor, maintained that Marilyn was murdered by a bushy-haired intruder. He stood trial and was convicted for his wife’s murder amidst a media storm. Harrison Ford's character in The Fugitive is roughly based on Sam Sheppard. The media frenzy so tainted the case that the United States Supreme Court released him and ordered a retrial in the decision Sheppard v....
Sep 15, 2023•43 min
History Colorado holds two Ku Klux Klan membership books for the Greater Denver area and beyond. The information inside them, which was collected for administrative purposes around 1924 through 1926, dates from the peak of the Klan's influence in Colorado. Together they have nearly 30,000 entries across more than 1,300 pages that record the names and other personal details, such as home and business addresses, of people affiliated with the KKK in metropolitan Denver and other areas. While the fi...
Sep 08, 2023•29 min
That's when the suspect told the 16-year-old's grandfather, "I wouldn't go in there if I was you. I killed someone. You may need to call the police." The grandfather told investigators that it wasn't uncommon for the suspect to say "bizarre" things, Sheriff Judd said. According to authorities, the suspect has a history of using methamphetamine and has had psychotic episodes previously. Investigators said they arrested Stephan Thomas Rodda, 37, after he took off from the homicide scene and tried ...
Sep 07, 2023•19 min
From Slo Burn Media, Evergreen Podcasts & Killer Podcasts production comes episode #230 of Who Killed...? In this week’s episode, we will be talking about the senseless murder of a teenager in Polk County Florida. I am highlighting this case because there was no need for this to occur and how callous these suspects are. Another reason I am covering this case is because the Sheriff of Polk County gives lengthy and sometimes controversial press conferences. Sources: Polk County Sheriff https:/...
Sep 01, 2023•32 min
