"Someone Close" - The Murder of Jeffrey Risner

Ohio has nearly 2,500 unsolved murder cases on the State Attorney General's page. This number does not include those cases that have not even been sent to the State's Attorney, so there could be many more we don't know about. The sad part about these numbers is that they are not going down very fast. Many of these cases do not get the attention as the more high-profile cases, yet the families and friends of the victims continue to grieve every day. It is no different for the family and friends of Jeffrey Risner from Fostoria, OH. In a small rural cul-de-sac, a man who was known to take care of those close to him was brutally stabbed and beaten to death in his garage. Jeffrey was a large imposing individual, so the perpetrator or perpetrators had to be able to subdue and handle him while he fought for his life. Like so many other stories of unsolved murders, Jeffrey's story has gone cold. Attention to his case has dwindled to the point it seems to have fallen into the shadows. The students of Cold Case MHS want to bring his story back into the open so that maybe "Someone Close" will step out of the darkness to give the Fostoria Police Department some information to one day find his killer and allow Jeffrey Risner to rest in peace. Contact information:The police department can be reached at 419-435-8573.http://www.fostoriaohio.gov/Cold Case MHS: phone [phone] ext. 33304 or 513-967-0368Email: [e-mail]://coldcase2.wixsite.com/mhscoldcaseWe also can be reached through Facebook, X, and Instagram