On December 11, 1978, a ten-year-old elementary school student named Amy Renee Mihaljevic was kidnapped in Bat Village, Ohio, a western suburb of Cleveland. On February 8, 1990, her lifeless remains would be found off a county highway somewhere about forty miles south of there. Police at that time had no suspects as news footage slowly told her story and children all across the […]

Here is what we know, for certain. On July 30, 2002, police in Eastlake, Ohio (a short distance north-east of Cleveland) made a gruesome discovery – a man’s body lay on the floor of his apartment, dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. He’d been diseased for about a week. The days counting down to his suicide were clearly marked on his calendar. 

Unsolved mysteries come in all shapes and sizes. The ones that get the most attention tend to be things like unexplained murders or missing people, odd phenomena, maybe a robbery or two. Sometimes, you’ll find a type of unsolved mystery that stands on its own.  For this tale, we are headed to the city of Akron.   In May 2012, a young man called the

In 1982, the Indianapolis Police Department began to wonder if they were starting to deal with a serial killer situation. Before we continue, a correction. They noticed, most likely because some people brought it to their attention. The problem was that the victims were all gay. And in the early 1980s, this was actually an

In the early 1900s, the city of Dayton was marked by a period of innovation, industrial and commercial growth, and according to the 1900 census, with a population of over 85,000, it was one of the more successful cities in Ohio. But, along with all that modernization, there was a sinister evil lurking just below

According to some people, there was a serial killer operating in the Cumminsville area of Cincinnati in the early 1900s. Other people want to think it was the work of multiple killers. Either way, at the time the place was known as The Cumminsville Murder Zone – and it might not have been such a