The day is Christmas Eve, 1959. The place is Mentor, Ohio, a distant suburb of Cleveland. The time is approximately 6:40 in the evening. Charles Roy Clark is standing in the kitchen wearing his Boy Scouts uniform. Later in the evening, he is planning to meet his troop to go Christmas Caroling. His wife, Lois, […]
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True Crime, Unsolved Unresolved
Alliance, Ohio is a small town with a population somewhere slightly above 20,000 according to the last few censuses, that most people consider to be a part of the Canton-Massillon Metropolitan area. The city had once been a major player in the construction of the railroad system, but today it’s mostly known as the home
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True Crime, Unsolved Unresolved
Heather Walker was only eighteen years old when she disappeared on February 9, 2008 from the Dayton area. Earlier in the day, she had attended her brother’s birthday party, a small affair for family and close friends. Everyone was glad to see her there because a couple weeks prior, she had undergone a surgical procedure
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True Crime, Unsolved Unresolved
On April 1, 2006, 27-year-old Brian Shaffer was ready for Spring Break. Life for a medical student is never easy and most students will tell you that finals weeks can be particularly brutal with students cramming for important exams and pulling all-night study sessions. Brian wasn’t one to complain, but when he met his father,
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True Crime, Unsolved Unresolved
In 1884, there were riots in the streets of Cincinnati unlike anything they had ever seen before. Sure, there had been riots in the past, but nothing like this. People had been upset before – Cincinnati was changing (and expanding) and not everyone liked the direction it was heading. But now, people were starting to
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History, True Crime
When I was reading the story of Thomas D. Carr, what struck me the most was the idea that if these events were to have played out today, as opposed to 1869, things would have been played out very differently. Then again, that can be said about a lot of nineteenth century events. Louisa Fox
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History, True Crime, Unsolved Unresolved
In 1996, Jenifer Lee Barrett McCrady was living in Belpre, Ohio (a short way downriver from Marietta) and living a decent life, according to friends. After she graduated from college, she worked as a nurse and seemed to truly enjoy her job. Her husband was a State Trooper, and the couple were raising two kids.
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People, True Crime, Unsolved Unresolved
Doctor Sam Sheppard of Cleveland, Ohio, was convicted of killing his pregnant wife, Marilyn Sheppard, in 1954. Before long, however, his conviction was overturned by the US Supreme Court. He was tired again, but this time he was acquitted. Then David Janssen played (a fictional version of) him on television, and later Harrison Ford did
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History, True Crime, Unsolved Unresolved
In case you are unfamiliar with the concept, Amnesia is a defect in memory which can be caused by any number of things from trauma to brain diseases, even certain medications or drugs. There are two main forms of amnesia: Retrograde Amnesia, in which all memories before a particular point cannot be remembered; and Anterograde
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True Crime
Ruth Baumgardner was, according to the vast majority of newspaper and magazine articles written about her, a very pretty young woman. In 1937, Ruthie was a senior at Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware, Ohio (otherwise, her home was in the Lakewood suburb of Cleveland). Most people found Ruthie to be personable, friendly even, and there
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History, True Crime, Unsolved Unresolved