Ohio Mysteries
Each week Paula and Stephen explore unsolved murders, lost shipwrecks, local legends and more! https://www.ohiomysteries.com. https://www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries https://www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries https://www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio In any given episode we feature fantastic music by the following music-https://soundcloud.com/davidhydemusic. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCL0pcAGV4g67jCxGIPWv9iQ https://www.youtube.com/c/WhitesandComposer https://www.youtube.com/user/audionautix https://www.youtube.com/c/RossBugden https://soundcloud.com/andrei-burcea-20972653
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June 5, 2023 • 25 mins
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.
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May 31, 2023 • 21 mins
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.
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May 29, 2023 • 28 mins
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...
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May 25, 2023 • 12 mins
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.
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May 22, 2023 • 20 mins
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?
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May 18, 2023 • 15 mins
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.
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May 15, 2023 • 22 mins
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 de...
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May 11, 2023 • 33 mins
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.
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May 8, 2023 • 28 mins
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.
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May 4, 2023 • 17 mins
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.
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May 1, 2023 • 23 mins
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.
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April 27, 2023 • 16 mins
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.
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April 24, 2023 • 24 mins
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 ...
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April 20, 2023 • 15 mins
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.
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April 17, 2023 • 37 mins
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 sea...
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April 13, 2023 • 10 mins
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.
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April 10, 2023 • 34 mins
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.
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April 6, 2023 • 14 mins
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 bizarr...
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April 3, 2023 • 25 mins
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 o...
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March 29, 2023 • 23 mins
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 belo...
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