Russell Smrekar appeared in Thorntons court for his continued hearings on the two theft cases. To obtain these books by any other means than through the author or this website is copyright infringement and punishable by law. A Franklin County jury convicted him of contributing to the delinquency of a minor, a misdemeanor, and he served nine days of a 30-day jail sentence. He offered no reason for the murder, according to the Perry County Tribune. The cult duct-taped the victims, tossed them into a grave and shot them, according to The Plain Dealer. An Auglaize County jury acquitted Kim Anderson after she claimed self-defense in the Sept. 2, 2001 shooting death of her second husband. Map Browse By State. She was last seen at 1:15 a.m. near Fifth and Madison in Covington, Kentucky, attempting to obtain a ride to her home in Latonia, Kentucky. On July 22, 1981, Herbert, 14, headed for the nearby Tag Market, at 9110 Dublin Road. After working a 48-hour shift at the hospital, the nurse anesthetist told her mother around 4 p.m. that she was going out for a jog. He's also been sentenced to life in prison for the murder of his friend Gregory Julious. He later became an investment banker and author. The Gallipolis native refused to testify in court marshal cases from the Abu Ghraib scandal and retired in 2006. We set out to identify and answer the question: "Who is the most notorious person from each county?" Risners found the 50-year-old dead in the garage behind his home in Mach 2006. Winds SW at 5 to 10 mph.. Clear skies. 46 Cause of Death. Patrick Pidock has been sentenced to 18 years to life in prison for the 2012 murder of his girlfriend in New Lexington. The bloody T-shirt found in the secluded location of the park was more than likely used to wipe up the blood on the garage floor. Chester McKnight shot and killed Todd Schultz and Annette Cooper in 1982 in Logan. She disappeared 6 days before she was to testify against defendant Russell Albin Smrekar, 21, in a Lincoln grocery store shoplifting case. I was 19 and a deputy circuit clerk at the Logan County courthouse in76 when Ruth Martin disappeared and the Schneiders were so horrifically slain. Ralph Ash has been sentenced to 22 years to life in prison for the murder of his ex-wife Tracy Heskett of Lewisville. Hensley hanged himself in his cell in 2015. Butler County native and former hospital orderly Donald Harvey killed at least 37 people with cyanide, arsenic and suffocation in Kentucky and Ohio, according to The New York Times. He claimed the girl went missing and even volunteered to help search for her before she was found dead in a well. McCoy told police that he heard only three shots during the night. She had been strangled. We didn't simply focus on convicted criminals (although the list has its share), instead we decided to focus on people who were noteworthy for nefarious reasons, but who were not necessarily found guilty of a crime. Glossett, a lifelong Van Wert resident, had recently turned 25 years old when he was last seen in 2016. The following are what we consider to be some of the creepiest, strangest and most unsettling unsolved mysteries that have taken place in the state. Investigators say Overmyer was improperly taking drugs from the drop boxes. PLEASE NOTE: BURIED TRUTH The Unabridged Trilogy Copyright 2013, 2015, 2017 By Bonnie J. Thompson. One of her coworkers was surprised to find that Cindy's book that she was reading was opened to the only violent part of the book. The direction he ran was in the opposite direction from where he claimed he parked his car. Low 37F. Wyoming East sends Lady Tigers home in regional final, 54-47, No. Pidock pleaded guilty to fatally shooting Suzanne Brown in her apartment. Two young women savagely murdered and dumped. When Smrekar returned to campus from Joliet, he was also arrested for felony Theft Over $150. What other infamous Ohio cold cases or unsolved mysteries do you know of that have yet to be explained? Theres no doubt he was involved in the murders of Mansfield and Martin, but the facts and evidence in those cases support that he used accomplices. A few months later, in early March, a cunning cat burglar climbed a ladder to a second floor rear window of the Lincoln PD and stole the recovered B.C. Jeffrey Lundgren and nine others were the subject of a nationwide manhunt that ended in their arrests near the California border to Mexico. James Goff has been sentenced to death for the Sept. 15, 1994 murder of 88-year-old Myrtle Rutledge at her house in Wilmington. Raymond Wells' page from the Unsolved Homicides Database. Officers said Mrs. Serey had been despondent since the birth of her last child. Like the feud, it is a Logan County historical masterpiece. He and five other inmates used shanks to threaten a guard during a break-in to the 17-year-old victim's cell on April 25, 1996. In 1897, the Ohio National Guard shot and killed two men and wounded seven others while defending Charles Mitchell, a black man sentenced to 20 years in prison for assaulting a white woman in Urbana. Ive devoted much of my life and financial resources to uncovering the truth in the hope of achieving complete justice for the murdered victims and their families some have never received justice of any kind. But on this day, a family member had forgotten to close the garage door. Ted, who was studying engineering at Ohio State University at the time of Vicki's murder in 1981, said he and his sister were a lot alike. Dahmer killed 16 others in Wisconsin before being arrested in 1991. The deaths took a heavy toll on their families as Baisden was survived by five daughters, two sons, one sister and three brothers. Although several friends and relatives of the victims were questioned concerning the shooting, no definite clues were ever discovered, and the deaths were never solved. James Litteral became the first Athens County convict to be executed in 1930. Former Law Enforcement Present Misleading Information in the 1976 Schneider Triple Homicide. February 20, 2020 at 2:07 pm EST. It was a hair-raising experience, and I told my father and others about what I witnessed before the murders occurred. It wasnt until early September 76 that Logan County learned that Mansfield was officially a missing person and his family hadnt seen him since December 31, The bloody T-shirt was the most important evidence collected in the Ruth Martin case, . Marie Poling is serving 20 years to life in prison for the 1987 murder of her husband in Howland. Legendary coach Woody Hayes was fired for punching Clemson linebacker Charlie Bauman in the aftermath. Following the incident, Hanley tried to run me off the road and then he blocked a one-lane bridge with his truck, preventing me from crossing it. He apparently didnt say what he did with Mansfield. The car showed signs of having been driven off the beaten track, and it was later learned that Ruth had the right front tire filled on June 1st because of a slow leak. Commissioner Julius Shiskin reported wednesday that the number of Laid off men among the unemployed Rose 1.6 million or 150 per cent. The bodies were found by Ellis McCoy, who was said to have lived near the cabin. The signal has never been detected again. The Wellington resident claimed he had a video game addiction and that he had been playing the game 18 hours per day. Meeker killed his wife Gertrude Meeker the previous year with a tire pump while they were riding in his car. He spent two and a half years in prison and was released in 2008. Six members of the Jeanette McAdams family mysteriously fell ill and died from 1848 to 1851. You have permission to edit this article. Hensley later strangled a fellow prison inmate in 2002, according to the Associated Press. These searches took additional time. The case is still unsolved and the Pike County Sheriff's Office and. Search for: View All Cold Cases. Create a password that only you will remember. Bixler and his girlfriend who has also been convicted in the killing lured the victim to a set of railroad tracks before Bixler stabbed her, according to Toledo's WTOL-11. Hardin County resident Terry D. Shepherd is serving three life sentences for the 2008 murders of two women there and one in adjacent Wyandot County. Prohibition-era gangster Adelard Cunin better known as Bugs Moran rose to prominence in Chicago. Former U.S. Rep. Donald Edgar "Buz" Lukens served two terms before a sex scandal ended his career in 1990. Community Rules apply to all content you upload or otherwise submit to this site. He then spent seven years in prison for taking bribes, racketeering and filing false tax returns. While we don't know the exact number of how many Marion County murders have occurred in recent years, the Federal Bureau of Investigation's annual Uniform Crime Reports can at least provide some reliable information. Name. 1984 Leslie Cross. Castro kidnapped the three women from 2002 to 2004 and imprisoned them in his basement. James Serey, 26, And Children, Age, 4, and 1, Fatally Shot., The terribly sad story reads, A 26-year-old Hutchinson mother shot her two young sons to death in the living room of her home yesterday afternoon and then turned the .38 caliber revolver on herself, inflicting a head wound which resulted in her death several hours later., The wife of James Serey was described by The Logan Banner as an attractive brunette and former member of the Womens Army Corps.. He dropped his KA-Bar knife because he was supposedly too tired to hold on to it; it was found three days after the crime alongside the winding lane leading to the home not far from the gravel road in front of the property. Milan, Ohio is best known for being the birthplace of Thomas Edison. Christopher Newton died by lethal injection for the 2003 murder of his cellmate at the Mansfield Correctional Institution. I never heard Drabing or Jones say a word, but they were right beside Hanley, in Hanleys Chevy pickup, when the exchange took place. Dwight Williamson: Logan County history filled with unsolved murders. In 2007, he accepted a plea bargain that led to his release from prison and return to his native Scotland. Mansfield signed the Deferral of Prosecution Agreement on Dec. 18th and then went home to spend the Christmas/New Years holidays with his family. John Warren Parsons shot and killed Chillicothe police officer Larry R. Cox while fleeing a gas station robbery in 2005. The U.S. Supreme Court in 2010 refused to hear his appeal. Moran spent most of the rest of his life in prison before dying in custody in 1957. The harasser has never been seen and the police have no leads on who he or she may be, though it's possible a neighbor, "friend," or family member is the cause, given the degree of knowledge of the Wacker's that he or she had. The same day Mansfield disappeared, the burglary matter was continued to March (unbeknownst to Mansfield and Smrekar) because the two female students whose dorm room had been burgled were still on their European vacation. Frederick Mundt has been sentenced to death for the 2004 kidnapping, rape and murder of his girlfriend's 7-year-old daughter. Baumeister escaped to Ontario, Canada and committed suicide before police could take him into custody, according to The New York Times. And, while it took three years and some peculiar circumstances to resolve those murders, there has been one triple murder in Logan County that has never been solved. The closest similar sized city with FBI crime data is the city . During this passage of time, Krueger should have been investigated and interrogated about the bloody T-shirt and his blatant lies to former States Attorney Thompson and to me. Dennis McGuire's 1989 rape and murder of Joy Stewart earned him a death sentence. Follow-up interrogation is in order. That hole has been there since the murder of her sister, Linda Morris, 22, and niece, Angela Lynn, 4. It was a 10-minute drive, alone,to the Drabing house from the Schneiders. Marie Poling was denied parole in 2015. Lukens was caught on camera the previous year discussing sex with a 16-year-old girl. Hall, who suffered a brain injury as a child, was ruled incompetent to stand trial. Someone had attempted to wipe up the blood on the Martins garage floor the day Ruth vanished, and it had been spread out over a larger area. Each victim leaves two young daughters behind. BURIED TRUTH The Unabridged Trilogy Copyright 2013, 2015, 2017 By Bonnie J. Thompson. James Worley is charged with murder in the death of college student Sierah Joughin, who was found in a shallow grave on July 22, 2016. Willie McCloud' page from the Unsolved Homicides Database. As if the triple murder wasnt enough to shock people at the time, it was the even worse news that came the very next day following the King Shoals deaths that spread sorrow throughout the coal camps of Logan County and beyond The Banner headline proclaimed: Mrs. This is the name that will be displayed next to your photo for comments, blog posts, and more. Russell Smrekar died in October 2011. In 2009, a Lorain County judge sentenced him to at least 23 years in prison. Jones is still living, and so is Drabing. Love Ohio? Prosecutors said the Greenfield man set the fire that killed the 4- and 3-year-old boys, but a jury was hung on aggravated murder and arson charges. Ruth Martin was shopping at Kroger and returning to her vehicle when Smrekar ran by her with a package of stolen ribeyes and ditched them under her car. Sheriff's deputies called in the guardsmen to protect Mitchell from a mob outside the jail, according to The New York Times. Witnesses reported seeing her with a man who walked her through the parking lot. According to police, White had been living with Schoolcraft, who was found lying across the bed with one bullet hole in the left temple. Get Alerts Map; Browse By State; Submit a Crime Tip Square with arrow pointing upper right. Kenneth Richey spent more than two decades on Ohio's death row for setting a fire that killed a 2-year-old girl in 1987. As I look back, I can only assume that I was used as a bargaining chip by the murderer, Aaron Taylor wrote on a website dedicated to solving his mothers murder. Maurer, whos now unfortunately deceased, claimed in March of 2002 that he didnt know anything about a T-shirt. You will receive your first email soon. A Franklin County civil jury later rejected the argument that she had been in imminent danger and ordered her to pay $540,000 to Brent Andersons family. Mansfield failed to appear in court for the March hearing, and the matter was continued and a warrant was issued for his arrest. No part of these e-books may be copied, reproduced, sold, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author. Former Lucas County Republican Party chairman Tom Noe is serving 18 years in prison for taking $13.7 million from $50 million the state's Bureau of Worker's Compensation invested in rare-coin funds. The resulting gunfight ended in Floyds death on Oct. 22, 1934. She was presumed to be abducted from the legal office where she worked, despite the fact that all of the doors to the office were locked and there was an alarm to alert the store next door. Lincoln resident Michael Edward Drabing, 21, was arrested and convicted for single-handedly murdering the Schneiders. Gregory McKnight has been sentenced to death for the 2000 murder of Kenyon College student Emily Murray. Cleo Vernon Keaton was sentenced to death for the 1965 killing of a Williamsport man while he was fleeing charges related to the slaying of two men in a Dayton bar, according to a 1967 edition of The Ottumwa Courier. On New Years Eve, at approximately 2 PM, Michael answered the phone at his parents house. A 40-year-old unsolved homicide is getting a new look from police, and a local mother hopes her efforts will bring in tips for other cold cases like it. Lundgren was executed in 2006. Ence Day and thanksgiving. McAdams disappeared before the Civil War and is rumored to have joined the Confederate Army as a spy, according to The Star-Beacon. But Ohio's Third District Court of Appeals ruled earlier this year that she should receive a new trial because her conviction had been largely based on the boy's testimony, according to The Toledo Blade. Mastronardi and his insurance company also paid $3 million to Brabanders family, according to The Plain Dealer. Grate could face the death penalty if he is convicted. Her 16-year-old brother reported Cheryl in March 1978. Worley had already been charged with abducting the. Vicki Riffle Dylewski, 25, was murdered on April 20, 1981. Trends Analytics. All rights reserved (About Us). Each of the identified victims were suspected to be prostitutes, and each of those women were believed to work at truck stops. Interestingly, the T-shirt is the only item of evidence in the Martin case thats allegedly MISSING from the Lincoln PD, without explanation. He is now serving nine consecutive life sentences at Corcoran State Prison. Sheriff Henry declared the mystery solved: "It was horribly tragic, a murder/suicide case."Three days later, Stacy woke up in intensive care. The most notorious person from each of Ohio's 88 counties. He died in 2015 after spending nearly two decades in a behavioral health facility in Athens, according to The Daily Independent. Both were shot in the back. Tyler concocted a plan to trick people into thinking he could use his "clairvoyant powers" to find the body. We won't share it with anyone else. It's never been solved. On Dec. 21, 1983, her husband, Richard Zastudil, left for work about 7:15 a.m. and her kids got on the school bus an hour later. On April 1, 1968, a triple murder rocked the small farm town . Bruce stabbed and strangled the three women, all of whom were known prostitutes, according to court records. Hoffman is incarcerated at the Allen Correctional Institution and is not eligible for parole. Two weeks later, on April 8, a state game warden looking to check the licenses of fishermen happened across Thompsons body on an embankment off the 260 block of East Kemper Road. The incident led Ohio legislatures to make changes to the states adoption laws. Mitch Henderson, who shot and killed his own son. As for Mansfield, there was very little evidence in his case, which has made his murder the toughest one to solve. Buell had also been suspected of killing a 12-year-old girl in 1981 and a 10-year-old girl in 1983. Lincoln, IL realtorRuth Louise Martin, 51, has been missing from her home since the morning of Wednesday, June 2, 1976. Fox received a death sentence and died by lethal injection in 2003. County officials were notified and an investigation was launched. Herman was found beaten to death inside. Cutts is serving a sentence of life in prison. Brown was found beaten to death inside in February 2003. He never told his mother who called, he just said he was going out for an hour or so and would be back. I saw Rick Jones regularly while we were both employed at the courthouse. Theres no doubt he was involved in the murders of Mansfield and Martin, but the facts and evidence in those cases support that he used accomplices. I now regret having delayed meeting with him it was an opportunity lost. Its interesting that the officer who arrested Henderson would along with Hibbard Hatfield one year later be charged with a Dingess Street murder and later commit suicide during a break in his trial. Im asking the public and the media those of you reading this to take an interest in these unsolved/unresolved murders Ive been reinvestigating for nearly 20 years. Lane further incensed victims families and the community when he smirked and wore a shirt with the word killer written on it at his sentencing hearing. Castro pleaded guilty and was subsequently sentenced to life plus 1,000 years in prison. Autopsy reports released Wednesday in one of Ohio's most-notorious unsolved mass murders revealed the mysterious massacre was systematically executed - and brutal.
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