Sometimes, the simplest cases can turn out to be the most complex.  The basic facts are surprisingly simple. On the evening of August 11, 2008, 24-year-old Sarah Widmer drew herself a bath in the suburban Cincinnati house she shared with her husband, Ryan. A short time later, he would make a 9-1-1 call, telling them “My wife fell asleep in the […]

Ohio is not lacking in unsolved mysteries just begging for answers. Sometimes, these mysteries fade from memory and become little more than just another statistic. Some, however, seem to get attention every few years, usually when there is some break in the outer edges of the case, or when new forensic technology has been developed that could lead investigators to new conclusions. 

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