The Troy resident claimed he found Frances Nesbitt dead in a bathtub but eventually confessed to the murder. the most comprehensive account and reveal of the facts concerning the 1976 Logan County murders. He then spent seven years in prison for taking bribes, racketeering and filing false tax returns. Georgia Rudolph of Macon, Georgia claims she is the reincarnated spirit of a Marietta woman named Sandra J. Jenkins, who commited suicide in 1911. Trends Analytics. Two days later, the Catalina was found abandoned in the parking lot of the Bloomington, IL Holiday Inn, 30-miles north of Lincoln. Former superintendent Mike McVey had also been accused of misleading authorities investigating the case. Mastronardi and his insurance company also paid $3 million to Brabanders family, according to The Plain Dealer. Dahmer killed his first victim, Steven Hicks, the same year and buried Hicks body behind his house. It turned out to be Herbert, half-dressed, likely sexually assaulted and beaten to death. Lundgren was executed in 2006. Roush was wearing a bulletproof vest and armed with an assault rifle when he opened fire on deputies, according to WBNS-10TV. Your purchase was successful, and you are now logged in. He later became an investment banker and author. True Facts & Findings Copyright 2004, 2015 By Bonnie J. Thompson. Harvey is in custody at the Chillicothe Correctional Institution after he pleaded guilty to avoid the death penalty. Federal agents captured Reese Bailey during a 1935 shootout at a Jackson County farmhouse. 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. Charles Manson, Jeffrey Dahmer and Ariel Castro are just a few of the criminals who've called Ohio home. Get Alerts Map; Browse By State; Submit a Crime Tip Square with arrow pointing upper right. But then it disappeared, as had Herbert. She even went as far as to travel to Marietta where she was able to find the house where she believed she lived during the past life as well as the gravesite of Sandra's grandmother. Magnolia resident Thomas Lee Dillon shot and killed five men during a three-year period from 1989 to 1992. The U.S. Marine Corps veteran also wounded seven people before a security officer shot and killed him. Bob Ney served six terms in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1995 to 2006 before resigning amid the investigation into the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal. Then there is the 1930 murder of Logan Police Chief Roy Knotts, who was shot and killed on his first day on the job by Enoch Scaggs, a former Logan deputy and close ally of the Hatfield family, with Joe Hatfield serving as sheriff at the time of the killing at the Smoke House restaurant in Logan. Dahmer died in 1994 after a fellow inmate beat him to death in prison. The state of Ohio later paid $4.1 million to inmate victims who said overcrowding and mismanagement led to the uprising, according to The Cincinnati Enquirer. When Carols son got sick at school, her husband picked him up and took his step-son home where they found Carol dead in her daughters room. He is currently serving nearly 11 years for his role in a million-dollar sports ticket fraud. Dennis McGuire's 1989 rape and murder of Joy Stewart earned him a death sentence. Notorious bank robber John Dillinger and his gang hit a Fostoria bank in 1933 and evaded capture, according to the Tiffin Police Department. White, whose husband had been killed at Delbarton the year before, was clad only in underclothes and was found just inside the cabin door with three bullet holes in her head one above each eye and one high on the forehead, forming a triangle. To obtain these books by any other means than through the author or this website is copyright infringement and punishable bylaw. Thompson, 19, was a University of Cincinnati freshman on spring break when she disappeared in the spring of 1978. YouTubes privacy policy is available here and YouTubes terms of service is available here. Hays was stripped of his committee chairmanship and resigned months later. Quattlebaum was arrested after investigators found her body bound and wrapped in a blanket at their house. He never told his mother who called, he just said he was going out for an hour or so and would be back. 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. For example, in 2002, former Logan County States Attorney Tim Huyett requested the handwritten Schneider crime lab report from the state crime lab archives; found on the clothes and under the Schneider victims fingernails were foreign fibers and two different colored foreign hairs that did not belong to them or Drabing. There were/are manyanomalies in the Schneider case, too many to bring out in this writing, but Ill mention a few. Surveillance video showed him shoot both at a sportsman's association clubhouse in Carey, according to The Courier of Findlay. Jacob Nesbitt strangled his wife on Feb. 11, 1926. Buell received a death sentence and died by lethal injection in 2002. The Toledo Blade's coverage of the Coingate scandal showed how Noe used cash and gifts to curry favor with state officials. Investigators never disclosed a motive for the massacre, according to The Columbus Dispatch. The self-described angel of death claims he killed terminally ill or mortally injured patients to end their suffering from 1970 to 1987. Wyoming East sends Lady Tigers home in regional final, 54-47, No. Dean died two years later by electrocution, according to The Clermont Sun. Baumeister escaped to Ontario, Canada and committed suicide before police could take him into custody, according to The New York Times. The resulting gunfight ended in Floyds death on Oct. 22, 1934. Then he and another man cut up their bodies and buried parts along the Hocking River. On Thursday, August 19, 76, wealthy Lincoln farmer Lloyd Schneider, his wife, Phyllis, and their daughter, Terri, 17, were murdered in their home stabbed a total of 90 TIMES. Fischer killed Abi Matthews at her Malta home in 2009. Invalid password or account does not exist. Clearly, these murders should be reinvestigated by agencies outside Logan County, for many obvious and warranted reasons. His alibi for the night of the Schneider murders was never fully corroborated. The prisoners controlled the Lucasville facility for 11 days the longest prison uprising in U.S. history before authorities regained control. Farmhand Louis Hand executed at 17 years old in 1944 is among the youngest people executed in state history. Trends Analytics. Brabander had been fishing with his parents near Kelleys Island when Mastronardi rammed their boat with his speedboat. The unit offers new forensic analysis and investigative resources, according to Steve Irwin, BCI spokesman. Historians are divided as to whether Floyd participated in the Kansas City massacre that killed four law enforcement officers in 1933. Castro kidnapped the three women from 2002 to 2004 and imprisoned them in his basement. Former U.S. Rep. Jim Traficant saw his career end in disgrace in 2002. The Lincoln PD regards the Martin case as closed because Smrekar allegedly confessed. Pidock pleaded guilty to fatally shooting Suzanne Brown in her apartment. According to the reports filed that day, and later, the county sheriff's office received a report at 10:30 a.m. Aug. 30, 2005, that the patrol responded to a traffic crash . Jones is still living, and so is Drabing. 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. On April 1, 1968, a triple murder rocked the small farm town . Newton strangled the 27-year-old man with a cloth after the two fought over a chess match. He pleaded guilty to her murder and was sentenced to 15 years to life in prison. That information was/is remarkably compelling, yet it was not spelled out in detail in the typewritten lab report, the only crime lab report that existed in my fathers old files in 2001/2002. 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. Kevin Neal has been sentenced to life in prison for the 1997 murders of his 11-year-old stepdaughter and his 4-year-old stepson. The resident of Weirton, West Virginia, had died from blunt force trauma to the head. Crime is ranked on a scale of 1 (low crime) to 100 (high crime) Logan County violent crime is 11.1. A brutal triple homicide also occurred in the middle of all this. Baisden, a former Peach Creek railroader, was found just inside the cabin with a bullet hole squarely between his eyes, the bullet exiting the back of his head. She was alive, and her husband ran for help from friends who had just dropped him off from work. Map Browse By State. The cars right front tire was completely flat and a substantial amount of blood was found on the trunk mat, but Ruth remained missing. 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. Morans rival Al Capone likely ordered the killings. They were indicted in 2003 and later pleaded guilty to child abuse charges. The Murder of Joseph Kupchik. Cleveland.com has assembled a list of notorious figures from each of Ohio's 88 counties. Cutts is serving a sentence of life in prison. Mundt's DNA linked him to the crime. Eight women were found murdered in the late 80s and 90s along major interstates in Ohio. Also known as the Cleveland Torso Murderer, this unidentified serial killer murdered and dismembered at least twelve victims from among the homeless in Clevelandmany of whom remain unidentified to this day. Russell Smrekar appeared in Thorntons court for his continued hearings on the two theft cases. Cold cases and unsolved crimes in Meigs County, OH. After Fry and two store managers apprehended Smrekar in the parking lot, Ruth pulled out of her space and drove off and Fry retrieved the meat package that had been under her car. That night, Smrekar showed up at Mansfields dorm room with an armload of LPs wanting to store them there temporarily. Police said it appeared the older child had been holding a bottle of milk for his brother when the mother shot them both in their heads. Incident location: Cincinnati, Ohio. Nine people died and 11 others were injured after Todd Hall tossed a lit cigarette into a fireworks store on July 3, 1996. The Republican and former chairman of the House Administration Committee had been known as Mayor of Capitol Hill before he pleaded guilty to corruption charges. The family relocated twice more before moving to Littleton, Colorado in 1993. They also say he was deceiving doctors and pharmacists to obtain pain medications such as Percocet, and that he misused money for the department and altered records. In 2007, he accepted a plea bargain that led to his release from prison and return to his native Scotland. Milan, Ohio is best known for being the birthplace of Thomas Edison. Mansfield reluctantly accommodated Smrekar, but after Smrekar left campus and hitchhiked to Joliet (with the guitar) Mansfield got scared and dumped the records under a stairwell near a trash chute in his dormitory. Kori Glossetts page from the Missing Persons Database. He apparently didnt say what he did with Mansfield. According to police, White had been living with Schoolcraft, who was found lying across the bed with one bullet hole in the left temple. William A. Krueger and Thomas Maurer were the leading Lincoln PD detectives assigned to the Martin case in 76, and both men lied to me about the facts pertaining to the T-shirt. A jogger found her. Matthew Hoffman avoided the death penalty by pleading guilty to the 2010 murders of two women and an 11-year-old boy. He died in 2015 after spending nearly two decades in a behavioral health facility in Athens, according to The Daily Independent. There's actors, businessmen, philanthropists, war heroes and industrialists, but there's another side, a seedier side that includes criminals, mass murderers, crooked politicians and cult leaders. 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. The Mystery: Joe Kupchik's body was discovered on the pavement below a parking deck in downtown Cleveland, around 1 in the . Months later, on Oct. 9, 76, Jay Fry and his 3-months-pregnant wife, Robin, both 24, were shot-gunned to death in their home just 9 days prior to a scheduled hearing on the Kroger case. The 36-year-olds throat had been cut, her purse and a couple of drawers had been upended, and about $500 in cash was missing. Her parents were both at their jobs. Traficant died in 2014 of injuries from a tractor accident at his daughters farm. What other infamous Ohio cold cases or unsolved mysteries do you know of that have yet to be explained? Nancy Schneider, the eldest of the three Schneider daughters,had a huge outdoor party at the Schneider farm one monthprior to the stabbings. Joy Major Hoop hired Carl G. Lindsey to kill her husband on Feb. 10, 1997. 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. Submitting this form below will send a message to your email with a link to change your password. 37 True Facts & Findings Copyright 2004, 2015 By Bonnie J. Thompson. Worley had already been charged with abducting the 20-year-old girl when officials found her body. Additional evidence collected with the white T-shirt linked to similar evidence inside the Martin Catalina in Bloomington. Goff had delivered furniture to the house earlier that day and went back to commit a robbery, according to court records. If you forget it, you'll be able to recover it using your email address. The pair served time in juvenile detention centers and have since been released. That is an out-and-out LIE. Herman was found beaten to death inside. Theresa Smith Unsolved homicide. The case was featured in a 2009 episode of the Investigation Discovery series "Forensics: You Decide," according to The Springfield News-Sun. It's never been solved. Michelle Bica kidnapped the pregnant Theresa Andrews, shot her and cut her baby from her womb on Sept. 27, 2000 in Ravenna. 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.. Marvin Johnson is awaiting execution on Ohio's death row for the Aug. 15, 2003 rape and robbery of his ex-girlfriend and the murder of her son. Donald Hoffman was sentenced to life in prison for the 2014 murders of four older men with health problems. Id previously met with Drabing at Menard in August 2004, but after the life-threatening, suspicious circumstances that unfolded on that day, I was in no hurry to meet with Smrekar. 1984 Leslie Cross. The bodies were found by Ellis McCoy, who was said to have lived near the cabin. Vicki Riffle Dylewski, 25, was murdered on April 20, 1981. On July 22, 1981, Herbert, 14, headed for the nearby Tag Market, at 9110 Dublin Road. Danielle Greene was born on the Fourth of July. For locals, the town of 1,300 is also known for its dark past. Hoffman beat one man with a frying pan, strangled two others with an electrical cord and shoelaces and attacked a fourth with a pry bar. Investigators say Overmyer was improperly taking drugs from the drop boxes. McCoy told police that he heard only three shots during the night. Scott Moody shot and killed his mother, his grandparents and two friends at his family's Bellefontaine farmhouse on May 29, 2005. 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. Moran spent most of the rest of his life in prison before dying in custody in 1957. Marie Poling was denied parole in 2015. Use of and/or registration on any portion of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement, Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement, and Your Privacy Choices and Rights (each updated 1/26/2023). More than a decade later, the case of who killed 37-year-old Michael Williams of Rogers remains open. Columbine High School shooter Eric David Harris attended first and second grade at Valley Elementary School in Beavercreek while his father worked at the Wright Air Force Base, according to The Denver Post. CLEVELAND A couple from Canton has been desperate for answers after their elderly loved one was brutally murdered in a small Ohio town.