In October 1994, Tina Resch (now Christina Boyer) was living in Georgia, and she had a decision to make. It’s not an easy choice – and in a way, it’s a matter of life and death. She had three options. Her first option was to tell the judge that she was “Not Guilty” for the
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History, Myths and Legends, People, True Crime, Unsolved Unresolved
William Miller was born on February 15, 1782, and spent most of his early life in a place called Low Hampshire, which they put in the State of New York for some reason. He was mostly what we would call “homeschooled” today, and there is no evidence that he ever attended any colleges or received
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History, Myths and Legends
Hamilton, Ohio is a city with a long history, beginning as Fort Hamilton (named after the Broadway show that wouldn’t be staged for another two hundred and twenty-four years) when it was used as a supply and troop relay station during the Northwestern Indian Wars. The Fort was abandoned after the Greenville Treaty was signed,
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True Crime
As I sit down to write this, Halloween is approaching and that means one thing. Aunt Irma is going to be complaining that everything has suddenly gone “Pumpkin Spice’ because she is still bitter that all the companies rejected her idea for Pumpkin Spice Denture Cream. Okay, it also means that you can’t turn around
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History, Myths and Legends
Throughout most of the nineteenth century, Cincinnati was one of the more prominent (not to mention one of the largest) cities in America. By 1850, we only had a few “States” west of the Mississippi River, everything else was just a territory or some kind of unorganized lands that used to belong to someone else
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History, True Crime
The year is 1865 and the streets of Cincinnati have a problem. To be fair, they have lots of problems, between the rodents scurrying about and the number of drunks passed out and laying in their own … um … filth, let’s just say that residents certainly had a number of things they liked to
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History