States Attorney Thompson and his assistant, John Foltz, offered to defer Mansfields charges if he would agree to turn states evidence and testify against Smrekar in the burglary case. Hedrick died by electrocution, according to The Athens Messenger. But it was his execution that attracted international attention. Daniel Petric was just 16 years old when he shot and killed his parents after they forbade him from playing Halo 3 on Oct. 20, 2007. 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. Nevertheless, as the days passed authorities investigating the triple slaying at King Shoals, despite police holding Ellis McCoy in jail for open questioning, as well as Tom Ratliff of King Shoals, authorities remained baffled as to how and why the trio was killed. He disappeared, 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. Dowdel has been sentenced to 30 years to life in prison. What other infamous Ohio cold cases or unsolved mysteries do you know of that have yet to be explained? PLEASE NOTE: BURIED TRUTH The Unabridged Trilogy Copyright 2013, 2015, 2017 By Bonnie J. Thompson. Former Canton police officer Bobby Lee Cutts killed his ex-girlfriend Jessie Davis and their unborn child in 2007. Sorry, there are no recent results for popular commented articles. Both women are still living, and one cant seem to keep her stories straight. Officers said Mrs. Serey had been despondent since the birth of her last child. LOGAN Friday marked the 40th anniversary of a Logan murder that has long gone cold, but friends and family members of Gilbert "Andy" Anders Jr. are still holding out hope that the person. 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. John C. Stojetz has been sentenced to death for masterminding the murder of a black inmate at the Madison Correction Facility. 1 after John Dillinger's death in 1934. Historians believe McAdams described as a peculiar girl with cold eyes poisoned their food. Detectives arrested Reese a diagnosed schizophrenic released to his sisters care in 1954 while investigating the disappearance of a car salesman found buried at the farm. He claimed the killings were a premeditated dry-run for his continued plan of a revolution to exterminate the rich. 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. Noting the pattern of the bullets and conditions of the bodies, according to police, it indicated that the killer was an excellent marksman.. Marie Poling was denied parole in 2015. Charles Manson, Jeffrey Dahmer and Ariel Castro are just a few of the criminals who've called Ohio home. Cepec bludgeoned Munz with a hammer before he strangled him with a lamp cord, records show. Canadian businessman Ollie Mastronardi served nearly four years in prison for the drunken boating accident that killed Scott Brabander in 1995. Russell Smrekar appeared in Thorntons court for his continued hearings on the two theft cases. The Lincoln PD regards the Martin case as closed because Smrekar allegedly confessed. Clear skies. But FBI agent Melvin Purvis pursued Floyd to a farm outside East Liverpool. Steubenville High School football players Ma'lik Richmond and Trent Mays both 16 at the time were convicted in juvenile court for the Aug. 11, 2012 rape of a West Virginia girl. The resulting gunfight ended in Floyds death on Oct. 22, 1934. The history of Logan County is vast, and its longtime existence is marked by numerous tales of murder, beginning as far back as the 1700s when Aracoma and her tribe were attacked at what is now Midelburg Island in Logan. Submitting this form below will send a message to your email with a link to change your password. Wyoming East sends Lady Tigers home in regional final, 54-47, No. His accomplice Eve Irene Kelley is serving more than 15 years in prison for her role in the murder. Joughin's murder has garnered attention from outlets such as People and The Daily Mail. The 1986 murder of Theresa Ann Woods, the 1963 murder of Irene Wilson, the 1982 murder of LaRoy Earl Gorman, and the 2008 murder of Judith Lynn Petty are among the unsolved central West Virginia murders, in addition to the 1945 kidnapping and mysterious disappearance of the Sodder Children. Both were shot in the back. February 20, 2020 at 2:07 pm EST. Lindsey has been sentenced to death and remains in custody at the Chillicothe Correctional Institution. (The US average is 35.4) NOTE: The city of Logan, Ohio does not have FBI Crime Statistics. 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. 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. The previous year he lured a 9-year-old boy and his 7-year-old sister into the woods. On April 1, 1968, a triple murder rocked the small farm town . Your purchase was successful, and you are now logged in. Brown was found beaten to death inside in February 2003. Hopedale resident Matthew Dowdel committed Harrison County's first murder in more than a decade when he killed Joe Strother in 2014. It is the right thing to do. Kruegers lies have been exceptionally, Back in 76, crime lab analysis was unable to determine the exact blood type on the T-shirt, but with todays technological advancements DNA testing could yield important findings with respect to the blood and possible perspiration that existed in the cotton material. Then he and another man cut up their bodies and buried parts along the Hocking River. But on this day, a family member had forgotten to close the garage door. With more than 10 years of writing experience and a background in news reporting for Ohio newspapers, she's published pieces in multiple print and online publications. Ehman circled the signal on the computer printout and wrote the comment "Wow!" Russell Smrekar died in October 2011. Angela Kilgore Age. In 2 hours, the Logan County Sheriff's department ruled the case a murder suicide and that Scott had killed his family before killing himself with a .22 caliber rifle. Her parents were both at their jobs. Bowling Green native Richard Edwin Fox lured Leslie Renae Keckler to a local motel where he strangled and stabbed the 18-year-old woman on Sept. 26, 1989. 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. Investigators say Overmyer was improperly taking drugs from the drop boxes. The biggest red flag was thatno blood or trace evidence was found in Drabings Ford Torinodespite the victims having been stabbed 90 times, despite Drabingsprofusely bleeding leg wound, and despite the dirt and blades of dead grass found on Drabings blood-soaked jeans. The Mystery: Joe Kupchik's body was discovered on the pavement below a parking deck in downtown Cleveland, around 1 in the . Hall, who suffered a brain injury as a child, was ruled incompetent to stand trial. Stewart had been reported missing four days earlier by her estranged husband and had no known ties to Columbiana County. Joy Hoop is also serving 25 years in prison for her role in the murder. Sandusky County Sheriff Kyle Overmyer pleaded not guilty to dozens of drug and theft charges Aug. 24, 2016. Taylors husband found her beaten and apparently raped at their home on Oct. 29, 1966. The Wellington resident claimed he had a video game addiction and that he had been playing the game 18 hours per day. Missing persons, signs of extra terrestrial life and thousands of anonymous, vindictive letters are just a few of the uncanny happenings in Ohio that have yet to be solved over the years in spite of ongoing investigations. 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. Following his conviction, Hanley and Jones pursued law degrees and became attorneys. 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. Eight women were found murdered in the late 80s and 90s along major interstates in Ohio. Georgia Rudolph of Macon, Georgia claims she is the reincarnated spirit of a Marietta woman named Sandra J. Jenkins, who commited suicide in 1911. Sheriff's deputies called in the guardsmen to protect Mitchell from a mob outside the jail, according to The New York Times. That hole has been there since the murder of her sister, Linda Morris, 22, and niece, Angela Lynn, 4. Fible said she believes the case was botched from the beginning because detectives placed blame on her. Somehow, Drabing managed to return to his mothers house (where he also lived) within 10-15minutes of the killings, by 11:40 PM. 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. James Goff has been sentenced to death for the Sept. 15, 1994 murder of 88-year-old Myrtle Rutledge at her house in Wilmington. 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. On October 18, Smrekar and three of his friends were at the Logan County Courthouse for a hearing on the Kroger case, and Russell was arrested for the Fry double homicide. Ruth wasnt called to testify in the first trial, which ended in a hung jury. 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. Two young women savagely murdered and dumped. 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. Jacob Nesbitt initially received a lifetime prison sentence but was released after 10 years, according to the New York Daily News. Wesley Coonrod has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for the deaths of his two young sons in an April 7, 2010 house fire. There were/are manyanomalies in the Schneider case, too many to bring out in this writing, but Ill mention a few. Incident location: Lockbourne, Ohio - Franklin County . Of course, the 1800s also is the time period for the killings that took place during the world-renowned Hatfield-McCoy feud. Magnolia resident Thomas Lee Dillon shot and killed five men during a three-year period from 1989 to 1992. Dean died two years later by electrocution, according to The Clermont Sun. Ence Day and thanksgiving. He didnt have a vehicle, so he was on foot. 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. Heres a look at cases the unit said it will be investigating (some descriptions come from the Ohio Attorney Generals Office): Johnson was a student at Fairfield Options Academy when she was killed in 2012. Harrison had been raped and strangled before investigators found her body six days later. We set out to identify and answer the question: "Who is the most notorious person from each county?" Hensley hanged himself in his cell in 2015. An email message containing instructions on how to reset your password has been sent to the e-mail address listed on your account. Our methodology was subjective, so if you think you have a better suggestion, please let us know in the comments section or by emailing crime@cleveland.com. Investigators found the body of Heskett who disappeared on Valentine's Day in 2015 in a burn barrel on Ash's property. The closest similar sized city with FBI crime data is the city . He was never charged in either case but DNA evidence linked him to the older girl's death, according to The Independent. On New Years Eve, at approximately 2 PM, Michael answered the phone at his parents house. 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. Larry Taylor died in a motorcycle crash in 1978. His lies have demonstrated a clear intent to obstruct justice and cover-up critical information connected to vital blood evidence in an, A brutal triple homicide also occurred in the middle of all this. Ariel Castro's kidnapping of Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus attracted international attention when the women escaped his Cleveland house in 2013. Davis was arrested in May in Hamilton County on a felony charge of promoting prostitution and is awaiting trial. Wells, 18, was found dead in the middle of a street in a retirement neighborhood that he had no known connection to, about 10 miles from his home in Bond Hill in June 1999. Smrekar was ultimately convicted for the Fry double homicide and sentenced to two consecutive terms of 100 to 300 years. 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. Dillon was arrested on weapons charges in 1992 and later pleaded guilty to the murders to avoid the death penalty. Drabing claimed he parked his car a mile to 2 miles from the Schneider residence and walked through fields to get to their house. Lane is now incarcerated at the maximum-security Southern Ohio Correctional Facility. Mansfield signed the Deferral of Prosecution Agreement on Dec. 18th and then went home to spend the Christmas/New Years holidays with his family. My father, Logan County States Attorney Roger W. Thompson (1972-1980), alerted authorities the morning of Oct. 10, States Attorney Thompson and his assistant, John Foltz, offered to defer Mansfields charges if he would agree to turn states evidence and testify against Smrekar in the burglary case. In 2009, a Lorain County judge sentenced him to at least 23 years in prison. During the struggle with the family in the confines of a hallway. Drabing lost his unloaded J.C. Higgins revolver in the struggle with Lloyd. Cutts is serving a sentence of life in prison. However, the dead bodies revealed otherwise. Fortune-teller Andrew F. Tyler committed the county's first murder and was executed in the county's only recorded hanging in 1849, according to The Bryan Times. The 1800s saw the killing of Ann Lawson by two of her own slaves in 1847 prior to the Civil War even before Logan was named Logan and before West Virginia existed as a state. Marie Poling is serving 20 years to life in prison for the 1987 murder of her husband in Howland. He claimed the girl went missing and even volunteered to help search for her before she was found dead in a well. 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. Gerald Hand remains on death row for the killing of his fourth wife Jill Hand and his friend Lonnie Welch in 2002. 04-17-94. Rich guitar out of the evidence room. The cult duct-taped the victims, tossed them into a grave and shot them, according to The Plain Dealer. But the state of Ohio did not execute anyone from 1963 to 1999, and Keaton is not listed in state Department of Rehabilitation and Correction execution records. It spurred a lot of debate, but we've come up with what we think is the most completelist of current and former Ohioans who are known for all the wrong reasons. Democrat Wayne Hays served in U.S. House of Representatives from 1949 to 1976 and was known for his firm rule of the Committee on House Administration. It is this documentation that allows people like me to relay to others those dark segments of our local past that some may wish to keep buried away. Commissioner Julius Shiskin reported wednesday that the number of Laid off men among the unemployed Rose 1.6 million or 150 per cent. 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. Create a password that only you will remember. She was alive, and her husband ran for help from friends who had just dropped him off from work. In Ohio, some residents are wondering if the same killer is targeting young women in and around the city of Columbus. Detectives found both bodies on McKnight's property in Vinton County. He was released from prison in 2017, according to the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction. 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. My father, Logan County States Attorney Roger W. Thompson (1972-1980), alerted authorities the morning of Oct. 10th that Jay Fry and Ruth Martin were witnesses in the Kroger shoplifting case. The small town of Circleville and the people of Pickaway County began to encounter what some might call a real-life-A -from-Pretty-Little-Liars-experience in the late 70s when thousands of individuals started receiving personal, mysterious letters about their lives. The evidence encircling the T-shirt also supports that the person(s) who tried to destroy the shirt had been inside the Martin Catalina. Dahmer killed 16 others in Wisconsin before being arrested in 1991. Mundt's DNA linked him to the crime. Submit a Crime Tip Square with arrow pointing upper right. 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. Raymond Wells' page from the Unsolved Homicides Database. 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. 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.. Lillian "Ginger" Tailford Belt spent nearly two decades overseeing a popular brothel in Ottawa County. Investigators haven't named a suspect and won't tell whether they know why the murders happened. However, to name but a very few, we should list the 1917 shooting death of young Frank Kazee by Don Chafin, former 1912 sheriff of Logan, who would again be elected in 1920 after sitting out the required four years prior and serving as county clerk at the time that he shot backseat passenger Kazee over what today would be described as road rage. Chafin, of course, was declared not guilty by a jury. Eight women were found murdered in the late 80s and 90s along major interstates in Ohio. Meeker killed his wife Gertrude Meeker the previous year with a tire pump while they were riding in his car. Map Browse By State. He also claimed he rested for a bit. I now regret having delayed meeting with him it was an opportunity lost. No part of these e-books may be copied, reproduced, sold, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author. Manson was initially sentenced to death before a 1972 ruling abolished capital punishment in California. The deaths took a heavy toll on their families as Baisden was survived by five daughters, two sons, one sister and three brothers. Manson later relocated to California and formed the cult responsible for nine murders in 1969. Scaggs the year before had killed a man during a poker game at Chapmanville. Search Unsolved Homicide Victims Search Ohio homicide victims by name, city or keywords. The Kirtland cult leader claimed God commanded him to kill the five members of the Avery family on April 17, 1989. The material used to soak up the blood was not found inside the Martin garage or the residence. He is currently serving nearly 11 years for his role in a million-dollar sports ticket fraud. 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. They are continuing to ignore the letters written by my fathers former assistants from 76, John Foltz and Pat Chesley, advising that reinvestigation of the Martin and Schneider cases is warranted and the right thing to do. Additionally, they are resisting my calls for official reinvestigation and DNA testing of evidence thats never been tested. Dover-born Mark Dean Schwab relocated to Florida, where he raped a 13-year-old boy in 1987 and raped and murdered an 11-year-old boy in 1991. Jerenique Cunningham and Cleveland Jackson, Former U.S. Rep. Donald Edgar "Buz" Lukens. 0:45 BELLEFONTAINE, Ohio -- Carl Stevenson apparently was blabbing to authorities about the unsolved disappearance and likely murder of 18-year-old Mike Lattimer in Logan County. Winds SW at 5 to 10 mph. He had a deep cut in his neck and and suffered further injuries to his head and one arm. According to police, White had been living with Schoolcraft, who was found lying across the bed with one bullet hole in the left temple. In 1980, the FBI charged the then-Mahoning County sheriff of accepting bribes from mobsters. Get even more stories delivered right to your email. He later became an investment banker and author. Welch conspired with Hand in the unsolved murders of Hands first two wives in 1976 and 1979, witnesses said at trial. unsolved murders in logan county ohio. Bruce stabbed and strangled the three women, all of whom were known prostitutes, according to court records. John Dean was born in Akron and grew up in Marion before he served as counsel to President Richard Nixon. "She was an intelligent, attractive young woman. On June 8th, 76, a family fishing in Kickapoo Creek Park (located a short distance across the highway from the Martin subdivision) found a partially burned, Ruth Martins remains have never been found. Prohibition-era gangster Adelard Cunin better known as Bugs Moran rose to prominence in Chicago. Fischer has been sentenced to life in prison for the murder. I knew the whole family, and the Schneider triple homicide is what set me on this path for truth and justice. That is an out-and-out LIE. To request that an unsolved homicide be included in BCI's statewide database and featured on this website, Ohio law enforcement agencies should contact BCI at 855-BCI-OHIO (224-6446) or e-mail OhioUnsolvedHomicides@OhioAttorneyGeneral.gov and reference Ohio Unsolved Homicides. Please SIGN THE PETITIONon this websitecalling for official reinvestigation and DNA testing of all applicable existing evidence in the Mansfield, Martin, and Schneider murder cases.