January 15, 2024 • 18 mins
This episode takes us back to 1953 and the unsolved disappearance of Ronald Tammen from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.
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Sources:
(1953, April 24). Plain Dealer, p. 1. Available from NewsBank: America's News – Historical and Current: https://infoweb-newsbank-com.eresources.cuyahogalibrary.org/apps/news/document-view?p=AMNEWS&docref=image/v2%3A122AFBBA107AC9E4%40EANX-NB-1271E9571671CE2F%402434492-1271E6B359E94085%400-1271E6B359E94085%40.
(1953, April 27). Plain Dealer, p. 19. Available from NewsBank: America's News – Historical and Current: https://infoweb-newsbank-com.eresources.cuyahogalibrary.org/apps/news/document-view?p=AMNEWS&docref=image/v2%3A122AFBBA107AC9E4%40EANX-NB-1271E95A556A26EC%402434495-1271E899D929EC96%4018-1271E899D929EC96%40.
https://www.miamistudent.net/article/2023/04/the-history-of-ronald-tammen-jr-a-miami-student-still-missing-after-70-years?ct=content_open&cv=cbox_latest
https://www.clermontsun.com/2022/07/13/the-disappearance-of-college-student-ronald-tammen-jr
https://medium.com/of-misdeeds-and-mysteries/roommate-returns-to-dorm-room-to-strange-scene-witness-claims-odd-sighting-440758ef1185
https://ronaldtammen.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisher_Hall_(Miami_University)
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Sources:
(1953, April 24). Plain Dealer, p. 1. Available from NewsBank: America's News – Historical and Current: https://infoweb-newsbank-com.eresources.cuyahogalibrary.org/apps/news/document-view?p=AMNEWS&docref=image/v2%3A122AFBBA107AC9E4%40EANX-NB-1271E9571671CE2F%402434492-1271E6B359E94085%400-1271E6B359E94085%40.
(1953, April 27). Plain Dealer, p. 19. Available from NewsBank: America's News – Historical and Current: https://infoweb-newsbank-com.eresources.cuyahogalibrary.org/apps/news/document-view?p=AMNEWS&docref=image/v2%3A122AFBBA107AC9E4%40EANX-NB-1271E95A556A26EC%402434495-1271E899D929EC96%4018-1271E899D929EC96%40.
https://www.miamistudent.net/article/2023/04/the-history-of-ronald-tammen-jr-a-miami-student-still-missing-after-70-years?ct=content_open&cv=cbox_latest
https://www.clermontsun.com/2022/07/13/the-disappearance-of-college-student-ronald-tammen-jr
https://medium.com/of-misdeeds-and-mysteries/roommate-returns-to-dorm-room-to-strange-scene-witness-claims-odd-sighting-440758ef1185
https://ronaldtammen.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisher_Hall_(Miami_University)
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(00:00):
On April twenty fourth, nineteen fiftythree, the Cleveland Plain Dealer newspaper reported
that a Miami University student named RonaldTamman from suburban Maple Heights had been missing
since the night of Sunday, Aprilnineteenth, nineteen fifty three, or five
days earlier. That Sunday night,when Ron wasn't in his dorm room,
his roommate assumed he decided to spendthe night elsewhere. But the next day,
(00:24):
when there was still no sign ofRon, his roommate Charles Findley,
reported the missing student to Miami Universityauthority. Ronald Tamman would never be seen
or heard from again from the southshore of Lake Erie. This is Great
Lake's true crime. Ronald Tamman wasborn in nineteen thirty three and grew up
(01:19):
in Maple Heights, Ohio, whichis a suburb of Cleveland. He was
the second oldest of six children.In nineteen fifty three, Ron was a
sophomore at Miami University, living oncampus in a dormitory called Fisher Hall.
His younger brother, Richard, alsoattended the university. Ron was described as
tall and handsome, and he drovea nineteen thirty eight Chevrolet Sedan. Before
(01:44):
we go any further, I wantedto clarify that Miami University is the tenth
oldest public university in the United Statesand is located in Oxford, Ohio,
near Dayton, in the southwestern portionof the state. It should not be
confused with the Union Diversity of Miami, which is a private university that was
founded over one hundred years later inFlorida. Ron was a Delta Doo Delta
(02:09):
fraternity member and played string bass ina college jazz band at Miami called the
Campus Owls. He was also aresident assistant on the second floor of his
men's dormitory, Fisher Hall, whichwas located on the site of what is
now the Markham Hotel and Conference Center. Fisher Hall had quite an illustrious history.
(02:31):
The dormitory actually first opened in eighteenfifty six as the Oxford Female College.
It was used by the women's collegeuntil eighteen eighty two. Then the
old college building was sold to doctorGeorge Cook for forty five thousand dollars,
and doctor Cook operated the building asa sanitarium until the mid nineteen twenties.
(02:54):
Miami University purchased the building in nineteentwenty five and renovated it to be used
as a freshman men's dormitory until nineteenforty one. During World War II,
the US Navy operated a radio schoolin the building. After the war,
it was alternatively used over the yearsas a women's and men's dormitory by Miami,
(03:16):
and it also housed a theater onthe first floor for several years.
Ronald Tamman was well liked, dependable, and had a wide range of responsibilities
in college. He was also veryathletic, being a member of the university's
varsity wrestling team. On Sunday,April nineteenth, nineteen fifty three, Ron
(03:38):
stumbled onto something very disconcerting. Hefound a fish in his bed, which
turned out to be one prank amonga series of practical jokes between himself and
a friend who also lived in FisherHall. The residence hall manager reported briefly
interacting with Ron between eight and eightthirty p m. That night while he
(04:00):
was getting new bedsheets, during whichRon mentioned that he would be going straight
to bed. Later on in theevening, around ten PM, Ron's roommate,
Charles Finley, returned to the roomand found the door that was wide
open and Both the radio and thelight were on. Ron's psychology book was
also found open on his desk,and beside that were his watch, wallet,
(04:25):
and his car keys. What wasmost unusual about his psychology book being
open is that Ron had actually droppedhis psychology class three weeks earlier. Initially,
Charles did not suspect that anything waswrong. He assumed that Ron was
spending the night at the fraternity house, but he still waited for him for
about an hour before going to bed. When Ron still had not returned to
(04:48):
his dorm room the next day,Charles started to get concerned and actually reported
Ron missing to school authorities. Whenthis report reached Carl Knox, the Dean
of men at the the university,Knox told Charles that it was perfectly normal
for stressed out students to take timeoff and that Ron would probably come back
in a day or two. Itwas a very cold night with snow flurries
(05:13):
in the air when Ron disappeared,and it was not until Thursday, four
days after the disappearance, that theuniversity and local police took action. Every
bus, rail and air terminals subsequentlywas checked, and even the Air Force
ROTC helped out with the search.Meanwhile, the Oxford, Ohio Police Department
(05:34):
called in the Butler County Sheriff's Officeand Ohio Highway Patrol to assist in the
search. The community also rallied tosearch for Ron. About four hundred Miami
University students searched a three mile radiusaround Ron's dormitory, while forty prison inmates
from the nearby Oxford Honor Farm searchedthe Houston Woods Forest, which is five
(05:58):
miles north of the campus and isnow known as Houston Woods State Park.
Follow up searches produced no results.Ron's bank account remained untouched, his car
with his base fiddle inside, wasstill in the school parking lot, and
it was clear that the car hadnot moved for quite a while. A
search of Ron's room determined that hecouldn't have had more than eleven dollars cash
(06:21):
with him, and while that amountwould certainly go further in nineteen fifty three
than it would today, eleven dollarswas still not going to get him very
far. For some reason, policewere very quick to discount any type of
foul play, mainly because Ron wasvery strong and athletic, as well as
the fact that his dorm room showedno signs of a struggle. As we
(06:44):
alluded to earlier, Dean Carl Knoxat Miami University concluded that Ron had simply
wandered off and must have had amnesia. It should be noted, however,
that Dean Knox had absolutely no evidenceor logical reason to draw that conclusion.
It also seems odd to discount foulplays simply because Ron was strong and athletic.
(07:08):
Weeks passed by with little progress beingmade, but then investigators received word
of two potential sightings. The first, reported in June nineteen fifty three,
took place in a place called sevenMile nearby. A young man who looked
like Ron had shown up on awoman's doorstep the night of Ron's disappearance.
(07:28):
Seemingly confused about where he was,he asked for directions and walked away.
The university and Oxford Police Department sharedthat story widely, feeling that it supported
their theory that Ron had developed amnesiaand had gone wandering. The second potential
sighting took place in August of thatsame year in Wellsville, New York.
(07:51):
While returning from vacation, a housingofficial who'd known Ron felt sure that he
saw him dining in a hotel restaurantwith a group of young men. Although
the housing official had told Carl Knoxthe next day that potential sighting, wasn't
made known to the public until reporterJoe Chella brought it up in nineteen seventy
(08:11):
six. Beyond those two supposed sightings, there were a few reported sightings of
Ron from time to time over theyears. Nothing ever came of those events,
however, but in one surprising report, doctor Garrett Boone, who was
then the Butler County Coroner, cameforward in nineteen seventy three, two decades
(08:33):
after the disappearance, to state thatfive months before Ron disappeared, he received
a visit from Ron at his doctor'soffice in Hamilton, Ohio, so that
Ron could get a blood test tofind out his blood type. Doctor Boone,
who was in private practice as adoctor back then, stressed to authorities
(08:56):
that it was extremely rare for someoneto schedule a blood test to only get
their blood type tested. The coronersaid that he'd never had anyone before or
since then make such a request inhis thirty five years of practice. No
one knows why Ron wanted to havea blood test done, or why he
didn't just have it done in Oxford. If he had wanted to find out
(09:18):
its blood type, which was OHpositive, local physicians in Oxford or even
the University Medical Center could have donethe test for him. Ron had been
scheduled by the Selective Service or theDraft for a physical exam to potentially get
drafted into the Army, but there'sno requirement to find out your blood type
in that type of scenario. Innineteen seventy eight, Ron's former dormitory,
(09:48):
Fisher Hall, was demolished. Rightafter the demolition, the rubbel was thoroughly
searched for any signs of human remains, but no signs of Ron or other
clues were discovered. In that sameyear, Miami University student Jennifer Wenger became
very curious about Ron's disappearance during atour of the dormitory before it was torn
(10:11):
down. Her tour of Fisher Hall, which was the residence where Ron lived
in the last place he was seen, would launch Jennifer into a decade's long
fascination with this mystery. Decades passedby and by chance. In two thousand
and eight, two sheriff's departments,one in Walker County Georgia, and the
(10:33):
other in Butler County, Ohio,where Miami University is located, teamed up
to see if they might solve eachother's cold cases. Back in July nineteen
fifty three, a dead body hadbeen discovered in a ravine outside Lafayette,
Georgia, but the body had neverbeen identified. Wondering if the dead man
(10:54):
might have been Ron since it wasright around the time he disappeared, authorities
exhumed his remains and compared the unknownman's DNA to the DNA of Ron's sister
Marcia, but no luck, itwas not Ron. Two years later,
in twenty ten, that former Miamistudent Jennifer Wenger decided to seriously research Ron's
(11:15):
disappearance. According to her blog,which is called A Good Man Is Hard
to Find, Jennifer was going througha rough patch in her life and wanted
to find a project to work on. Specifically, she wanted to write a
book. That's when the disappearance ofRon Tamman came to mind. Determined to
find out what happened to Ron,Jennifer left her job in twenty fourteen and
(11:37):
started working on the case full time. Her very thorough research has brought forth
more clues and uncovered previously unknown andconflicting information regarding Ron and his disappearance.
After spending nine years looking into it, Jennifer believes that Ron did not die
on the night of his disappearance.She actually believed he may have lived as
(12:01):
long as forty two years after thefact. Jennifer apparently came to this conclusion
after finding several discrepancies in information thatMiami University had released and information that she
had found in her investigation. Accordingto one source's first hand account, Ron
had attended music practice later that nightthat he disappeared well after eight pm,
(12:24):
and had walked back to Fisher Hallsome time after ten pm with two freshmen
fraternity brothers. After reaching their dorm, the two younger men said good night
to Ron as he continued walking theshort distance to Fisher Hall. When the
young men told Dan Knox about theirwalk home that night, he told him
that they may have been the lastones to have seen Ron before he disappeared,
(12:46):
and if this is true, itseems to conflict with the narrative that
Ron said he was going straight tobed by eight thirty that evening. Another
detail that came to light is thatRon was reportedly seen late that night sitting
in a car outside Fisher Hall witha woman and then being driven away,
but that lead seems to not havebeen looked into by authorities. Jennifer also
(13:13):
goes into hypnosis studies that were beingcarried out by the CIA during that time,
and there is some evidence that leadsher to believe that Ron may have
been involved with that effort. Accordingto this theory, it was his involvement
with the CIA that led to Ron'sdisappearance and later absence from public life.
(13:33):
I won't go further into that becauseit gets pretty detailed, and I tend
to think that likelihood of that israther low. Jennifer's blog, however,
which is again called a Good Manis Hard to Find, has much more
information on this CIA theory. Ifyou're interested in following up with it,
a link to the blog can befound in the show notes. It's now
(13:54):
twenty twenty four and both of Ron'sparents have passed away. His brother,
Richard, who was a first yearstudent at Miami the same year Ron disappeared,
later graduated from the university. Tragically, he died five years later in
a fire at his apartment. Ron'ssister Marcia, who was ten years old
(14:15):
when her brother went missing, passedaway in August twenty twenty. She lived
the rest of her life wondering whathappened to Ron and hoping that the mystery
would one day be solved. Sowhat happened to Ron? Can someone just
disappear into thin air? And whatdo you think happened to Ron? Hit
me up on our Facebook page orTwitter, just search for Great Lakes True
(14:37):
Crime and let me know if youhave any thoughts on this case. But
before we go, I did havea quick streaming recommendation. I just finished
the series Fool Me Once on Netflix, which is a British series based on
a Harlan Coben novel, so youknow it's probably good. It is about
a woman who witnessed the brutal murderof her hu husband and also had her
(15:01):
sister murdered in the not too distantpast, and then she sees her husband
on her nanny cam after the supposedmurder, So it's a pretty interesting psychological
crime drama. I would recommend youcheck it out if you're interested in these
type of shows. Again, andit's called Fool Me Once and it's currently
on Netflix in the United States,and that is all for this episode of
(15:26):
Great Lakes True Crime. You canemail me at Great Lakes true Crime at
gmail dot com with any thoughts orcase suggestions for Great Lakes True Crime.
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On April twenty fourth, nineteen fiftythree, the Cleveland Plain Dealer newspaper reported
that a Miami University student named RonaldTamman from suburban Maple Heights had been missing
since the night of Sunday, Aprilnineteenth, nineteen fifty three, or five
days earlier. That Sunday night,when Ron wasn't in his dorm room,
his roommate assumed he decided to spendthe night elsewhere. But the next day,
(00:24):
when there was still no sign ofRon, his roommate Charles Findley,
reported the missing student to Miami Universityauthority. Ronald Tamman would never be seen
or heard from again from the southshore of Lake Erie. This is Great
Lake's true crime. Ronald Tamman wasborn in nineteen thirty three and grew up
(01:19):
in Maple Heights, Ohio, whichis a suburb of Cleveland. He was
the second oldest of six children.In nineteen fifty three, Ron was a
sophomore at Miami University, living oncampus in a dormitory called Fisher Hall.
His younger brother, Richard, alsoattended the university. Ron was described as
tall and handsome, and he drovea nineteen thirty eight Chevrolet Sedan. Before
(01:44):
we go any further, I wantedto clarify that Miami University is the tenth
oldest public university in the United Statesand is located in Oxford, Ohio,
near Dayton, in the southwestern portionof the state. It should not be
confused with the Union Diversity of Miami, which is a private university that was
founded over one hundred years later inFlorida. Ron was a Delta Doo Delta
(02:09):
fraternity member and played string bass ina college jazz band at Miami called the
Campus Owls. He was also aresident assistant on the second floor of his
men's dormitory, Fisher Hall, whichwas located on the site of what is
now the Markham Hotel and Conference Center. Fisher Hall had quite an illustrious history.
(02:31):
The dormitory actually first opened in eighteenfifty six as the Oxford Female College.
It was used by the women's collegeuntil eighteen eighty two. Then the
old college building was sold to doctorGeorge Cook for forty five thousand dollars,
and doctor Cook operated the building asa sanitarium until the mid nineteen twenties.
(02:54):
Miami University purchased the building in nineteentwenty five and renovated it to be used
as a freshman men's dormitory until nineteenforty one. During World War II,
the US Navy operated a radio schoolin the building. After the war,
it was alternatively used over the yearsas a women's and men's dormitory by Miami,
(03:16):
and it also housed a theater onthe first floor for several years.
Ronald Tamman was well liked, dependable, and had a wide range of responsibilities
in college. He was also veryathletic, being a member of the university's
varsity wrestling team. On Sunday,April nineteenth, nineteen fifty three, Ron
(03:38):
stumbled onto something very disconcerting. Hefound a fish in his bed, which
turned out to be one prank amonga series of practical jokes between himself and
a friend who also lived in FisherHall. The residence hall manager reported briefly
interacting with Ron between eight and eightthirty p m. That night while he
(04:00):
was getting new bedsheets, during whichRon mentioned that he would be going straight
to bed. Later on in theevening, around ten PM, Ron's roommate,
Charles Finley, returned to the roomand found the door that was wide
open and Both the radio and thelight were on. Ron's psychology book was
also found open on his desk,and beside that were his watch, wallet,
(04:25):
and his car keys. What wasmost unusual about his psychology book being
open is that Ron had actually droppedhis psychology class three weeks earlier. Initially,
Charles did not suspect that anything waswrong. He assumed that Ron was
spending the night at the fraternity house, but he still waited for him for
about an hour before going to bed. When Ron still had not returned to
(04:48):
his dorm room the next day,Charles started to get concerned and actually reported
Ron missing to school authorities. Whenthis report reached Carl Knox, the Dean
of men at the the university,Knox told Charles that it was perfectly normal
for stressed out students to take timeoff and that Ron would probably come back
in a day or two. Itwas a very cold night with snow flurries
(05:13):
in the air when Ron disappeared,and it was not until Thursday, four
days after the disappearance, that theuniversity and local police took action. Every
bus, rail and air terminals subsequentlywas checked, and even the Air Force
ROTC helped out with the search.Meanwhile, the Oxford, Ohio Police Department
(05:34):
called in the Butler County Sheriff's Officeand Ohio Highway Patrol to assist in the
search. The community also rallied tosearch for Ron. About four hundred Miami
University students searched a three mile radiusaround Ron's dormitory, while forty prison inmates
from the nearby Oxford Honor Farm searchedthe Houston Woods Forest, which is five
(05:58):
miles north of the campus and isnow known as Houston Woods State Park.
Follow up searches produced no results.Ron's bank account remained untouched, his car
with his base fiddle inside, wasstill in the school parking lot, and
it was clear that the car hadnot moved for quite a while. A
search of Ron's room determined that hecouldn't have had more than eleven dollars cash
(06:21):
with him, and while that amountwould certainly go further in nineteen fifty three
than it would today, eleven dollarswas still not going to get him very
far. For some reason, policewere very quick to discount any type of
foul play, mainly because Ron wasvery strong and athletic, as well as
the fact that his dorm room showedno signs of a struggle. As we
(06:44):
alluded to earlier, Dean Carl Knoxat Miami University concluded that Ron had simply
wandered off and must have had amnesia. It should be noted, however,
that Dean Knox had absolutely no evidenceor logical reason to draw that conclusion.
It also seems odd to discount foulplays simply because Ron was strong and athletic.
(07:08):
Weeks passed by with little progress beingmade, but then investigators received word
of two potential sightings. The first, reported in June nineteen fifty three,
took place in a place called sevenMile nearby. A young man who looked
like Ron had shown up on awoman's doorstep the night of Ron's disappearance.
(07:28):
Seemingly confused about where he was,he asked for directions and walked away.
The university and Oxford Police Department sharedthat story widely, feeling that it supported
their theory that Ron had developed amnesiaand had gone wandering. The second potential
sighting took place in August of thatsame year in Wellsville, New York.
(07:51):
While returning from vacation, a housingofficial who'd known Ron felt sure that he
saw him dining in a hotel restaurantwith a group of young men. Although
the housing official had told Carl Knoxthe next day that potential sighting, wasn't
made known to the public until reporterJoe Chella brought it up in nineteen seventy
(08:11):
six. Beyond those two supposed sightings, there were a few reported sightings of
Ron from time to time over theyears. Nothing ever came of those events,
however, but in one surprising report, doctor Garrett Boone, who was
then the Butler County Coroner, cameforward in nineteen seventy three, two decades
(08:33):
after the disappearance, to state thatfive months before Ron disappeared, he received
a visit from Ron at his doctor'soffice in Hamilton, Ohio, so that
Ron could get a blood test tofind out his blood type. Doctor Boone,
who was in private practice as adoctor back then, stressed to authorities
(08:56):
that it was extremely rare for someoneto schedule a blood test to only get
their blood type tested. The coronersaid that he'd never had anyone before or
since then make such a request inhis thirty five years of practice. No
one knows why Ron wanted to havea blood test done, or why he
didn't just have it done in Oxford. If he had wanted to find out
(09:18):
its blood type, which was OHpositive, local physicians in Oxford or even
the University Medical Center could have donethe test for him. Ron had been
scheduled by the Selective Service or theDraft for a physical exam to potentially get
drafted into the Army, but there'sno requirement to find out your blood type
in that type of scenario. Innineteen seventy eight, Ron's former dormitory,
(09:48):
Fisher Hall, was demolished. Rightafter the demolition, the rubbel was thoroughly
searched for any signs of human remains, but no signs of Ron or other
clues were discovered. In that sameyear, Miami University student Jennifer Wenger became
very curious about Ron's disappearance during atour of the dormitory before it was torn
(10:11):
down. Her tour of Fisher Hall, which was the residence where Ron lived
in the last place he was seen, would launch Jennifer into a decade's long
fascination with this mystery. Decades passedby and by chance. In two thousand
and eight, two sheriff's departments,one in Walker County Georgia, and the
(10:33):
other in Butler County, Ohio,where Miami University is located, teamed up
to see if they might solve eachother's cold cases. Back in July nineteen
fifty three, a dead body hadbeen discovered in a ravine outside Lafayette,
Georgia, but the body had neverbeen identified. Wondering if the dead man
(10:54):
might have been Ron since it wasright around the time he disappeared, authorities
exhumed his remains and compared the unknownman's DNA to the DNA of Ron's sister
Marcia, but no luck, itwas not Ron. Two years later,
in twenty ten, that former Miamistudent Jennifer Wenger decided to seriously research Ron's
(11:15):
disappearance. According to her blog,which is called A Good Man Is Hard
to Find, Jennifer was going througha rough patch in her life and wanted
to find a project to work on. Specifically, she wanted to write a
book. That's when the disappearance ofRon Tamman came to mind. Determined to
find out what happened to Ron,Jennifer left her job in twenty fourteen and
(11:37):
started working on the case full time. Her very thorough research has brought forth
more clues and uncovered previously unknown andconflicting information regarding Ron and his disappearance.
After spending nine years looking into it, Jennifer believes that Ron did not die
on the night of his disappearance.She actually believed he may have lived as
(12:01):
long as forty two years after thefact. Jennifer apparently came to this conclusion
after finding several discrepancies in information thatMiami University had released and information that she
had found in her investigation. Accordingto one source's first hand account, Ron
had attended music practice later that nightthat he disappeared well after eight pm,
(12:24):
and had walked back to Fisher Hallsome time after ten pm with two freshmen
fraternity brothers. After reaching their dorm, the two younger men said good night
to Ron as he continued walking theshort distance to Fisher Hall. When the
young men told Dan Knox about theirwalk home that night, he told him
that they may have been the lastones to have seen Ron before he disappeared,
(12:46):
and if this is true, itseems to conflict with the narrative that
Ron said he was going straight tobed by eight thirty that evening. Another
detail that came to light is thatRon was reportedly seen late that night sitting
in a car outside Fisher Hall witha woman and then being driven away,
but that lead seems to not havebeen looked into by authorities. Jennifer also
(13:13):
goes into hypnosis studies that were beingcarried out by the CIA during that time,
and there is some evidence that leadsher to believe that Ron may have
been involved with that effort. Accordingto this theory, it was his involvement
with the CIA that led to Ron'sdisappearance and later absence from public life.
(13:33):
I won't go further into that becauseit gets pretty detailed, and I tend
to think that likelihood of that israther low. Jennifer's blog, however,
which is again called a Good Manis Hard to Find, has much more
information on this CIA theory. Ifyou're interested in following up with it,
a link to the blog can befound in the show notes. It's now
(13:54):
twenty twenty four and both of Ron'sparents have passed away. His brother,
Richard, who was a first yearstudent at Miami the same year Ron disappeared,
later graduated from the university. Tragically, he died five years later in
a fire at his apartment. Ron'ssister Marcia, who was ten years old
(14:15):
when her brother went missing, passedaway in August twenty twenty. She lived
the rest of her life wondering whathappened to Ron and hoping that the mystery
would one day be solved. Sowhat happened to Ron? Can someone just
disappear into thin air? And whatdo you think happened to Ron? Hit
me up on our Facebook page orTwitter, just search for Great Lakes True
(14:37):
Crime and let me know if youhave any thoughts on this case. But
before we go, I did havea quick streaming recommendation. I just finished
the series Fool Me Once on Netflix, which is a British series based on
a Harlan Coben novel, so youknow it's probably good. It is about
a woman who witnessed the brutal murderof her hu husband and also had her
(15:01):
sister murdered in the not too distantpast, and then she sees her husband
on her nanny cam after the supposedmurder, So it's a pretty interesting psychological
crime drama. I would recommend youcheck it out if you're interested in these
type of shows. Again, andit's called Fool Me Once and it's currently
on Netflix in the United States,and that is all for this episode of
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Great Lakes True Crime. You canemail me at Great Lakes true Crime at
gmail dot com with any thoughts orcase suggestions for Great Lakes True Crime.
This has been Steve, your hostand producer. Thanks for listening. Buys
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