Cold Ohio

In 2004 Professor Douglas Shaw was found shot dead in his home.  Douglas' son was the one who found the body.  Doug's wife was out of town.  There has been no arrest in the unsolved homicide investigation of Douglas Shaw from Kent, Ohio.

2019 Troy Lamont Stevens was shot down in the city of Akron, Ohio.  Troy's body was found on the sidewalk in front of a house.  No arrests have been made.

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In 1990 16-year-old Lisa Pruett had sneaked out of her parent's house to go see her boyfriend.  Lisa never made it to her boyfriend Dan's house.  Lisa's body was found at Dan's neighbor's house in the backyard.  A teenage boy by the name of Kevin Young was arrested for the murder, however, was found not guilty by a jury.  This unsolved homicide case happened in Shaker Heights, Ohio near Cleveland.

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Three unsolved homicide cold cases out of Toledo Ohio.  Brian Hoskins is a cold case from 2005.  Brian was found in his car fleeing from where he had been shot.  Sammie Justice is an unsolved homicide case from 1998.  Sammie was found in his home he had suffered from several stab wounds.  Carla Bailey is a homicide case from 2000.  Carla's family had called the police to do a welfare check on Carla. &n...

In 1997 someone cut the phone lines to Dennis Young's home in Greenville, Ohio.  The killer or killers had gone inside of the Greenville Ohio home to murder Dennis Young and Kim Stephan.  The Greenville has only ever name one suspect, Robert Stephan, Kim's husband.  No arrest has ever been made in this unsolved homicide case out of Greenville.

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In February of 1998 the body of John Campbell would be found in the Mad River in Springfield Ohio.  Months later another body would be found and identified as Raymond Kreitzer.  Law enforcement would discover that John and Raymond had somethings in common.   The Springfield Police Department don't know if their murders are tied together.  This remains as two unsolved homicide cases out of Springfield Ohio.

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In 1998 a Columbus woman by the name of Stacey Colbert.  Stacey Colbert was an Ohio State University graduate and worked as a marketing assistant.  The Columbus Police Department would treat Stacey's case as a missing person's case for six years.  In 2004, human remains would be found in Delaware County and would be identified as Stacey Colbert from Columbus.  There is no known cause of death or homicide date.

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In 1982 17-year-old Sharon Ward was left for dead in a field outside of Oregon Ohio.  Oregon is a suburb of Toledo.  Sharon was hit in the head and her wrists had been slashed.  Sharon Ward's body was left on Jacob Road.  The Oregon Police Department did give the public a name of their person of interest.  This unsolved murder is over 40 years old.  No arrest has ever been made.

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March 10, 2012, Dawann Harris' mother got a phone call from an unknown caller.  That call lead to Dawann's body being found by his mom and sister.  22-year-old Dawann Harris was shot in the head while sitting on a couch.  There have been people of interest, but no arrest has been made in the case.  This may have been drug related.

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Cold Ohio is focused on Cleveland Ohio with the unsolved murder cases of Kyle Davis and Stephen Halton Jr.  Kyle Davis was gunned down and left dead in the snow.  Kyle's car was found at a different area in Cleveland.  Kyle's case is out of the Maple Heights area of Cleveland

Stephen Halton Jr was on his way to work when he was shot at an RTA bus stop.  Stephen worked at a hospital and was on call the morning of...

Two unsolved homicide cases from Cincinnati in Hamilton County Ohio.  LeRon Billings, whose body was found in an alleyway in Walnut Hills.  Then Tony Walls who was shot in his car in North College Hill in 2017.

If you have any information on the Leron Billings case, please contact the Cincinnati Police Department.

If you have any information on the Tony Walls case, please contact the North College Hill Police Department

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In March of 2017 two human legs were found in the trash at a garbage sorting plant in Columbus Ohio.  DNA proved that the legs belonged to 21-year-old Candice Taylor from Columbus.  This homicide left police baffled and the case is a cold case.  Law Enforcement and Candice Taylor's family need everyone's help in finding the rest of Candice's body and her murderer.

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June 16, 2015, a body was found in an alley in Dayton Ohio.  The body would be soon identified as 39-year-old Larry Axel.  Larry was shot multiple times.  This cold case out of Montgomery County has been unsolved now for seven years.  There are too many unsolved homicides in Dayton Ohio, let's put our investigative minds to work and help solve Cold Ohio.

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April 16, 2012, 15-year-old Chelsea Johnson's body was found on a creek bed in Fairfield Ohio.  Chelsea had left her home the day before and had never returned.  Chelsea was stabbed to death.  There was a person of interest, but no arrest has ever been made in this cold case from Butler County.

If you have any information on the case of Chelsea Johnson, please contact the Fairfield Police Department or Ohio BCI

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Seventeen-year-old Tyler Anderson was found in a driveway with a gunshot wound to the head on May 17, 2012 in Akron Ohio.  There has been no arrest made in the case.  There is a person of interest that law enforcement is looking to talk to.  Can you help solve Cold Ohio.

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In November of 1987 three people were murdered execution style in an isolated cabin outside of a smalltown called Eaton, Ohio.  There has never been an arrest for the murders of David Smelser, Donald Marker, and Melinda Newcomb.  All three victims had been shot in the head.  Did the killer get lucky with a three-day head start?

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August 21, 1993, Kelly Camargo, from Hamiliton, Ohio, had gone out with some friends and had never returned home.  Kelly's body would be found in a field in Preble County Ohio.  There has never been anyone convicted for this crime.

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Cold Ohio takes a look at unsolved homicide cold cases from all over the state of Ohio with host Bill Swafford (host of Murderers In Ohio podcast). Cold Ohio episodes will be only ten to fifteen minutes long for the listeners don't have to set aside a lot of time to put their investigative minds to work.

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