Dark Side of the Land

Dark Side of the Land

Podcast by 19 News

Episodes

June 26, 2025 23 mins

19 Investigates has uncovered new developments in the mysterious disappearance of a Cleveland mother who went missing four years ago. Rajah McQueen was last seen on June 26, 2021. In an exclusive interview with 19 News investigator Sara Goldenberg, Cleveland Police and the FBI identify two persons of interest in Rajah's disappearance and reveal how this missing persons case has sadly turned into a death investi...

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Six years after Kate Brown and Carnell Sledge were shot and killed in a busy park, investigators are still searching for answers.  Could a recent murder suicide near the original crime scene be the key to this dark mystery?  Was the only witness more than just an innocent bystander? Will new DNA technology finally bring justice for two grieving families?  19 News anchor Nichole Vrsansky reveals n...

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Martha Wise was obsessed with funerals - so much so that the Medina County woman made sure she had plenty to attend. She pretended to have a rat problem and bought massive amounts of arsenic under the pretense of wanting to rid her rural homestead of rodents. But it wasn't rats she was feeding the poison to; it was more than a dozen members of her own family. In this episode, 19 News reporter Jen Picciano digs ...

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The Kaber House along Lakewood’s wealthy Gold Coast looked like a happy home from the outside. But behind closed doors, Eva Kaber was slowly poisoning her husband. When the arsenic she was putting in his food didn’t kill him fast enough, this original ‘Desperate Housewife’ hired a couple of hitmen to finish the job. And it seems Eva w...

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Velma West craved the Cleveland nightlife so much that she killed for it. 
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Around the turn of the century, Cassie Chadwick conned Clevelanders out of millions of dollars - and she did it all by claiming to be the illegitimate daughter and heir of steel titan Andrew Carnegie. In this episode, 19 News reporter Jen Picciano unravels the wild story of the original "Queen of the Con," who also operated as a jewel smuggler, a brothel mad...

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April 9, 2025 31 mins

After 35 years, the answer to the question, "who killed Amy Mihaljevic" may finally be answered thanks to new DNA testing and a group of dedicated scientists working in labs from coast to coast.  In this episode, 19 News anchor Nichole Vrsansky takes us inside the Florida lab that uncovered new DNA in the case.  Find out how they did it and how soon experts can go from science to a suspect.

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On March 24, 1972, a team of professional thieves from Northeast Ohio pulled off a multi-million dollar bank heist in a sleepy California beach town. The crew of top-notch crooks almost got away with it too, but a few tiny mistakes turned their almost flawless burglary into one of the most notorious busts in American history. In this episode, 19 News investigator Kelly Kennedy goe...

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On March 24, 1972, a team of professional thieves from Northeast Ohio pulled off a multi-million dollar bank heist in a sleepy California beach town. The crew of top-notch crooks almost got away with it too, but a few tiny mistakes turned their almost flawless burglary into one of the most notorious busts in American h...

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November 26, 2024 24 mins
Charles Rini was a suburban father and businessman who vanished on March 30, 1981 after leaving his home to meet someone. Could his ties to the Cleveland Mafia and selling diamonds be the reason he disappeared? In this episode, 19 News investigative reporter Sara Goldenberg goes into the theories behind Rini’s mysterious disappearance and the dismantling of the mob by the federal government in the 1980s. If y...
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November 21, 2024 40 mins
Pete DiGravio was known as the mayor of Cleveland's Little Italy neighborhood. He was also a loan shark who any number of people could have wanted dead. On June 21, 1968, DiGravio was gunned down on the 16th hole of the Orchard Hills Golf Club - shot by a sniper hiding in the nearby woods, waiting for his target to tee up. In this episode, 19 News investigator Jen Picciano outlines the many characters in DiGrav...
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November 19, 2024 55 mins
Infamous Irish-American gangster Danny Greene declared war on the Italian mafia and he nearly won. Greene escaped death countless times and his reputation as "unkillable" grew with each bullet and blast he dodged. His son, who is now a Cleveland city councilman, says his father was fearless. But Greene's luck finally ran out in October 1977. In part 3 of this series, 19 News investigator Kelly Kennedy takes you...
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November 11, 2024 42 mins
In this episode, 19 News investigator Kelly Kennedy dives into part two of the story of Danny Greene, the notorious Irish-American gangster who ignited a brutal turf war with the Mayfield Road Mob. Journey back to when Cleveland was "Bomb City, USA" and discover how the death of the city's last don and one fearless Irish mobster helped topple Italian organized crime in America.
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November 5, 2024 47 mins
Danny Greene wasn’t just any mobster. The Cleveland union president-turned-gangster was a force of nature; a wild card in the deck of organized crime, blurring the lines between hero and villain, with a reputation that grew as fast as the explosions he left in his wake. Despite surviving several assassination attempts, Green was ultimately killed in a car bombing in 1977 during a time when Cleveland was known a...
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October 9, 2024 17 mins
Investigators have revealed new developments in their hunt for Keshaun Williams, nearly 16 months after the Cleveland teenager vanished without a trace from the city’s Slavic Village neighborhood. In part 3 of this series, 19 News investigative reporter Sara Goldenberg updates the ongoing search for Keshaun with the latest from U.S. Marshals, Cleveland Police, and Keshaun’s grandmother, who is “prayerfully aski...
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October 3, 2024 52 mins
Who killed Kate Brown and Carnell Sledge? The two longtime friends were gunned down in broad daylight while sitting on a bench in the Cleveland Metroparks. Five years later, the murders remain unsolved. In this episode, 19 News anchor Nichole Vrsansky sits down with police and the FBI as they go through the evidence in the case, persons of interest, and the latest developments in their investigation. You'll als...
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August 30, 2024 58 mins
On May 13, 2005, a millionaire doctor was gunned down while traveling long the Ohio Turnpike with his wife and mother-in-law. Was it road rage? A robbery gone wrong? Or was it something more sinister? In a tearful television interview, Donna Moonda made a plea for help to find her husband’s killer. But more than a year after the deadly roadside ambush, it was Dr. Gulam Moonda’s widow who ended up behind bars. I...
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August 21, 2024 42 mins
It is arguably one of the darkest days in Cleveland baseball history. On June 4, 1974, the Indians held a "Ten Cent Beer Night" promotion to help boost fan attendance as the team struggled to fill seats. Their ploy worked, and over 25,000 fans descended upon Municipal Stadium to watch the Indians take on the Texas Rangers. But the cheap beer stunt also led to something never seen before, or ever again, on a Maj...
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August 14, 2024 23 mins
An elderly man vanished in the mid-1990s, leaving behind a large sum of money. Nearly a decade later, his ex-wife disappeared too. What happened to the Shoemakers? And where did the money go? 19 News investigative reporter Sara Goldenberg takes you through the clues and uncovers family secrets within the investigation.
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August 8, 2024 33 mins
In September 2021, chaos erupted at an off-campus college party near the University of Akron when someone pulled out a gun and started shooting, taking two innocent lives. Nearly three years later, the person who killed 18-year-old Maya McFetridge and 25-year-old Alexander Beasley is still walking the streets. In this episode, 19 News investigative reporter Kelly Kennedy dives deep into this chilling cold case,...
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