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
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True Crime, Unsolved Unresolved
The Lorain Head Start Scandal was a series of events beginning in the 1990s and in some ways, continues to this day. On the surface, it was about a small group of children that claimed to have been sexually abused, but over time it expanded to be about so much more. So … Much …
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True Crime
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
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True Crime, Unsolved Unresolved
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
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True Crime, Unsolved Unresolved
In 1978, most people would have described Donald Harvey as a shy or unassuming 35 year old nurse’s aide. There was nothing all that special about the guy, nothing about the way he looked demanded anybody’s attention. In nearly every way, he was about as common as you could possibly get. Well, except for the
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People, True Crime
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
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
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 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