NOTE: The following post deals with a legal subject matter, and as I am not a lawyer, do not seek legal advise here. The information presented here is purely for educational and historical purposes. On Halloween in 1963, a police officer named Martin McFadden was doing his thing in Downtown Cleveland when he noticed two […]
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History, Landmark Cases
Today we have for you a special treat, a double feature – Two Ohioans You Should Know for the price of one. Meet Jim Springer James Springer was born in 1940. Growing up, most people described Jim as a good boy. He showed some skill in mathematics, but his handwriting teachers felt his spelling needed
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Ohioans You Should Know, People
Columbus Ohio, 1929 In some ways, 1929 was a very strange year. It marked the end of the “Roaring Twenties”, a period of economic prosperity that touched nearly every aspect of modern life. It was truly a time of change. New technologies, from radios to automobiles, would revolutionize the world in new and interesting ways.
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History, True Crime
Welcome To Circleville, Ohio… I Guess Most people tend to describe Circleville, Ohio as a calm and peaceful place. For the most part, it’s just another typical small town in Ohio, located halfway between Chillicothe and Columbus. People who live in the area might tell you about a few restaurants they particularly enjoy, if you
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True Crime, Unsolved Unresolved
(Continued from Part I) I decided to split the Circleville mystery into two parts for a couple of reasons. First off, if I included everything I wanted to, the article would have become much larger than I had wanted it to. Secondly, because there has been so much reported on this, through traditional news sources,
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True Crime, Unsolved Unresolved
If I were to ask you a question like, “Who was the first woman to work in the aviation industry?” would you have any idea who I was talking about? You might assume the answer would be someone like Katherine Wright, sister or Orville and Wilbur, but that’s not it. It was nobody related to
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Ohioans You Should Know, People
When it was first settled in the mid-1880s, many people had thought or hoped the village would soon prosper. And, for a short time, it did. The town’s first settlers, Simon and Elizabeth Clouser moved in and set up a mill, which was in demand at the time for there weren’t any other mills in
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Ghost Towns and Lost Places, Places
For today’s outing, we’re going to step just outside the limits of the State of Ohio and visit a place … well, the place doesn’t exactly have a name, so we’ll just say it’s near Petersburg, Kentucky. Lawrenceburg, Indiana is, technically, a bit closer, but it’s on the other side of the Ohio river. If
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History
I know, I know … talking about Cryptids usually causes people to roll their eyes and start thinking about more pleasant topics, like the best ways to watch paint dry. We’ve all had to sit through one too many stories about someone seeing “Bigfoot” but by the time they grabbed their cellphone to take a
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History, Myths and Legends, Places
What makes a person legally insane? That is a question that has plagued our courts for as long as anyone can remember. The unfortunate reality is that sometimes, it’s not always an easy question to answer. Not only is it a legal question, but an emotional one, a moral (or maybe even religious) one, but
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History, Myths and Legends, People