I saw Rick Jones regularly while we were both employed at the courthouse. Sheriff Henry declared the mystery solved: "It was horribly tragic, a murder/suicide case."Three days later, Stacy woke up in intensive care. Civil War general Robert Kingston Scott is best known for his tenure as South Carolinas governor and his sensational murder trial. McCoy told police that he heard only three shots during the night. It is also of importance because it was a historical juncture in local television history as a Huntington television station WSAZ-TV received permits for installation of equipment that made it the most powerful television station in the world. He apparently didnt say what he did with Mansfield. Logan County authorities are ignoring the new information, facts, and evidence Ive brought forth in the Martin and Schneider cases. Investigators are still searching for the person or persons who killed eight members of the Rhoden family on April 22, 2016. Clear skies. Stojetz headed the Aryan Brotherhood at the prison, court records show. She is an Ohio native with a Bachelor of Science in Journalism from E.W. Harrison had been raped and strangled before investigators found her body six days later. Hoffman is incarcerated at the Allen Correctional Institution and is not eligible for parole. Investigators found 11 bodies buried at Herb Baumeisters farm outside Indianapolis in 1996. A Champaign County jury convicted Neal at trial in 2000. Jeffrey Risners page from the Unsolved Homicides Database. 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 White male total Rose 103 per cent the Black male total 83 per cent. There was also other evidence that suggested Cindy met with foul play, in spite of no sign of forced entry. During the last few weeks Ive written about the 1969 double murders of Justice of the Peace Ezra Butcher and a woman with him at the time of the shootings. 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. Kruegers lies have been exceptionally profound everything hes claimed about the T-shirt directly opposes established documented facts. The victims were Lisa Watters and Andy Hussey. John Dean was born in Akron and grew up in Marion before he served as counsel to President Richard Nixon. All rights reserved (About Us). Submitting this form below will send a message to your email with a link to change your password. 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. 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. 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. The greatest hindrance in 76 was that forensic capabilities were not what they are today, but there are other bothersome things that I cant explain. The resident of Weirton, West Virginia, had died from blunt force trauma to the head. When McClouds friends hadnt seen her for a few days, they grew worried and went to her apartment at 4996 Chatterton Road. 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. 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. What other infamous Ohio cold cases or unsolved mysteries do you know of that have yet to be explained? signal was a strong narrowband radio signal detected by Jerry R. Ehman on August 15, 1977, at the Big Ear radio telescope of Ohio State University, (then located at Ohio Wesleyan University's Perkins Observatory in Delaware.) Like the feud, it is a Logan County historical masterpiece. We set out to identify and answer the question: "Who is the most notorious person from each county?" 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. Mitch Henderson, who shot and killed his own son. The elderly couple suffered from physical attacks, strange phone calls that were sometimes threatening and other times only heavy breathing and robbery. Tyler concocted a plan to trick people into thinking he could use his "clairvoyant powers" to find the body. It was 69 years ago in 1952 when the news of three people being killed at a King Shoals logging camp spread like wildfire via the newspaper, WLOG radio, and gossipers. The evidence encircling the T-shirt also supports that the person(s) who tried to destroy the shirt had been inside the Martin Catalina. The facts and evidence support that Drabing did not act alone. He thought he had killed his 15-year-old sister, but she was life-flighted to a hospital in Columbus where she remained in critical condition. Travis Lee Fischer was just 17 years old when he raped and killed a woman authorities described as being like a mother to him. Lincoln resident Michael Edward Drabing, 21, was arrested and convicted for single-handedly murdering the Schneiders. 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. It turned out to be Herbert, half-dressed, likely sexually assaulted and beaten to death. Their possessions were quietly and mysteriously returned overtime with strange messages in jagged handwriting that police suspected was written with the non dominant hand in order to conceal his/her handwriting. These 12 Photos Of Ohio In The 50s Are Mesmerizing. Mundt's DNA linked him to the crime. On July 22, 1981, Herbert, 14, headed for the nearby Tag Market, at 9110 Dublin Road. Husband and wife Michael and Sharon Gravelle adopted 11 special needs children but kept them in cages at their Clarksfield Township home. Each served two years in prison. According to police, White had been living with Schoolcraft, who was found lying across the bed with one bullet hole in the left temple. 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. Their bodies were found days later in a field near a local cemetery. The murders occurred in Belmont, Coshocton, Muskingum, Noble and Tuscarawas counties. Frederick Mundt has been sentenced to death for the 2004 kidnapping, rape and murder of his girlfriend's 7-year-old daughter. No one knows for certain how many people died in that long-standing hostility. Lukens was caught on camera the previous year discussing sex with a 16-year-old girl. Federal agents captured Reese Bailey during a 1935 shootout at a Jackson County farmhouse. But Traficant was acquitted after he told a jury he had been conducting a secret sting operation. Mansfield signed the Deferral of Prosecution Agreement on Dec. 18th and then went home to spend the Christmas/New Years holidays with his family. Ruth disappeared on a weekday during morning hours, sometime around 9:15. 1976 Logan County murders and probable cover-up Lincoln, IL realtor Ruth Louise Martin, 51, has been missing from her home since the morning of Wednesday, June 2, 1976. I believe the cover-up began with the Martin case and then escalated and deepened with the event of the Schneider murders. 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. Someone saw him doing it and reported him to the student activities director. For those persons who, like myself, have been intrigued by the Mamie Thurman story perhaps even at one time or another trekking through Logan Memorial Park at McConnell searching for Mamies unmarked grave you might need to know that on your next trip to the once popular and now abandoned 20-acre cemetery, you might want to pay homage to the gravesites of two children (James and Kenneth) and their mother, Mrs., James Serey. She was going to live a great life. Donald Hoffman was sentenced to life in prison for the 2014 murders of four older men with health problems. Risners found the 50-year-old dead in the garage behind his home in Mach 2006. Wyoming East sends Lady Tigers home in regional final, 54-47, No. Neither Krueger nor the Lincoln PD will account for its whereabouts they are remaining silent. He is now serving a sentence of life in prison. (NewsNation) The murder clearance rate hit an all-time low in 2020, and data analyzed by a nonprofit shows that trend continued last year. Some of the counties were more difficult than others. I was on Russells visitors list and had tentative plans to meet with him at Menard. U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Geoffrey D. Miller served as commander of detention camps at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba and Abu Ghraib in Iraq. Name. I was seated in my car nearby and witnessed what happened. Each of the identified victims were suspected to be prostitutes, and each of those women were believed to work at truck stops. Name. Canadian businessman Ollie Mastronardi served nearly four years in prison for the drunken boating accident that killed Scott Brabander in 1995. Charles Manson, Jeffrey Dahmer and Ariel Castro are just a few of the criminals who've called Ohio home. Russ was a sociopath and a pathological liar who enjoyed leading people, especially police, on wildgoose chases. Stewart had been reported missing four days earlier by her estranged husband and had no known ties to Columbiana County. Sara Carruthers one of 22 Ohio House members censured for backing Iron Rose Mercantile opens expanded location in Middletown, New Ohio cold case unit looking into unsolved homicide of Fairfield 15-year-old. 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. 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. George D. Davis II, of Cincinnati, was sent to prison for drug trafficking, importuning, and having weapons under disability for attempting to exchange heroin for sex with Johnson, but was never charged in connection with her slaying. Drabing claimed he parked his car a mile to 2 miles from the Schneider residence and walked through fields to get to their house. The victims, Melvin Baisden, 74, Ervin Johnson Schoolcraft, 51, and 22-year-old Vicie Lucinda (Lilly) White, a widow from Varney in Mingo County, were found the morning of June 15 in a one-room cabin near the Pecks Mill location. The material used to soak up the blood was not found inside the Martin garage or the residence. 47 Years Since the Disappearance of Michael Mansfield why have authorities failed to investigate important new leads? Dowdel has been sentenced to 30 years to life in prison. 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. 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. Worley is scheduled to stand trial next year. Robert Anthony Buell abducted Krista Lea Harrison from a Marshallville park on July 17, 1982. This is perplexing and makes me wonder if my father was fully aware of all the evidence in the Schneider case. That night, Smrekar showed up at Mansfields dorm room with an armload of LPs wanting to store them there temporarily. The U.S. Supreme Court in 2010 refused to hear his appeal. The Murder of Joseph Kupchik. Then he and another man cut up their bodies and buried parts along the Hocking River. On New Years Eve, at approximately 2 PM, Michael answered the phone at his parents house. Ehman circled the signal on the computer printout and wrote the comment "Wow!" Larry Taylor died in a motorcycle crash in 1978. Scott claimed his gun accidentally fired and was acquitted at trial in 1881. Smrekar was arrested and charged with Theft Under $150, and Fry became a key witness in the case. Matthew Hoffman avoided the death penalty by pleading guilty to the 2010 murders of two women and an 11-year-old boy. CLEVELAND, Ohio -- As we showed you earlier this month, the Buckeye state has its share of famous natives. Former Law Enforcement Present Misleading Information in the 1976 Schneider Triple Homicide. During the struggle with the family in the confines of a hallway,left-handedDrabing sustained a deep, alleged self-inflicted slice wound on his outer right calf that bledprofusely.The three victims were stabbed sometime between 11:15 PM and 11:30 PM. The pair also shot six others during a drug-related robbery in Lima. Someone had shot the couple to death at Ohio's Berlin Reservoir. McGuires family filed a federal lawsuit after he gasped and choked throughout the 24-minute process. On Aug. 4, 2016, a property owner was mowing grass between a wooded area and Alderlick Road in Wayne Township when he came across the body of 26-year-old Samantha Jo Stewart. 46 Cause of Death. No one has seen him since that cold December day. Somehow, Drabing managed to return to his mothers house (where he also lived) within 10-15minutes of the killings, by 11:40 PM. Officers said Mrs. Serey had been despondent since the birth of her last child. 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. Jacob Nesbitt strangled his wife on Feb. 11, 1926. Randle Lee Roberts II shot and killed four family members, including an 11-year-old girl, in 2011 in West Union. The Berlin Reservoir killings: Two hunters in Deerfield County, Ohio came across a disturbing scene. 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. A jogger found her. Marysville native Nathan Gale killed Damageplan guitarist Dimebag Darrell Lance Albert who earlier founded Pantera and three others at a Dec. 8, 2004 concert in Columbus. He convinced an accomplice to lure a child into the woods and feed her arsenic laced-candy. But federal agents arrested the notorious madam during a 1971 raid at her Round the Clock Grille. beside of it, which became the unofficial name of the signal. February 20, 2020 at 2:07 pm EST. Mansfield, 19, was a somewhat shy, non-confrontational Lincoln College honor student from Rolling Meadows, IL. Anyone With A Heart Will Love The New Ohio Law That Just Went Into Effect, The 15 Downright Scariest Things To Ever Come Out Of Ohio, History Has Forgotten This Bizarre Ohio Event From 90 Years Ago. 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. Seven members of Morans gang were killed in the St. Valentines Day Massacre of 1929 in Chicago. He never told his mother who called, he just said he was going out for an hour or so and would be back. Her parents were both at their jobs. But the discovery of his plot led to his execution. More Jimmy Hoffa. Detectives said Roush had more than 1,000 marijuana plants growing behind his rural home. 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. 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. But she shot herself Oct. 2, 2000 as investigators arrived at her home, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette said. Davis disappearance garnered national attention before her body was found 10 days later in a Summit County park. Richard Clark Jr. has been sentenced to life in prison for killing his former girlfriend and another man in 2003. Former Gov. 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. 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. He also claimed he rested for a bit. The April 2016 murders of. Detectives found both bodies on McKnight's property in Vinton County. Chester McKnight shot and killed Todd Schultz and Annette Cooper in 1982 in Logan. . Juan Kinley hacked his girlfriend and her 12-year-old son to death with a machete on Jan. 10, 1989. She also conceded that she probably lied to police in 76 when I confronted her about her dramatic inconsistencies and contradictions. He spent two and a half years in prison and was released in 2008. A squirrel hunter in woods 3 miles from the Heberts' home and a mile south of Mitchell DeWitt Road (near where Franklin, Delaware and Union counties meet) stumbled across a partially decomposed body that fall. Roberts then drove to his mother's house in Columbus and got into a shootout with police. Russell Smrekar appeared in Thorntons court for his continued hearings on the two theft cases. Winds SW at 5 to 10 mph.. Clear skies. 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. Marie Poling is serving 20 years to life in prison for the 1987 murder of her husband in Howland. Trends Analytics. Welch conspired with Hand in the unsolved murders of Hands first two wives in 1976 and 1979, witnesses said at trial. 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.