Ohio Mysteries

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Rewind! Episode 20: The disappearance of Mel Wiley Aug 24, 2023

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In 1985, Mel Wiley, the police chief in Medina County's Hinckley Township, tells his girlfriend he's meeting an old friend for a dip in Lake Erie. Three days later, park rangers find his abandoned car at Edgewater Park with his clothes, money and police ID inside - but no chief. While townsfolk wonder if he met with foul play, was lost in a drowning accident or committed suicide, the lead investigator settles on a completely different theory: That Wiley, who loved writing mystery novels in his spare time, had simply walked away from his life to start anew somewhere else.

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Ep. 239 - The journey of The Success Aug 21, 2023

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In 1840, a merchant ship was built in Burma for trading throughout India. But over the next century, it would be reinvented many times - as an immigrant ship from Britain to Australia, as a jail for convicts in Melbourne, as a tourist attraction throughout the western world. Her last chapter was written in Ohio, where someone lit it on fire on the Fourth of July in 1946.

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Rewind: Mysterious Gravesites (Ep 63) Aug 17, 2023

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Five mysteries in Ohio that involve the gravesite of notable Ohioans. We explore the strange habits of the granite ball over the Charles Merchant Family plot, why Chief Joc-O-Sot might be haunting the Joining us is Michael Bonano, administrator of the Facebook page "Too Late For Autographs, Ohio," who has visited each of the featured sites.

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Additional music: Audionautix- The Great Unknown, and The Great Phospher- Daniel Birch

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Ep. 238 - The Cincinnati Strangler Aug 14, 2023

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Cincinnati arrested and convicted Posteal Laskey Jr. for running over and stabbing to death a woman he picked up in a stolen cab. But was Laskey also responsible for the rape and choking deaths of six other women in 1966? Officials believe he was the "Cincinnati Strangler," though he was never convicted in those deaths. The story was made more complicated because Laskey was black, during a height of racial tensions in the country, and his conviction led to volatile unrest in the Queen City.

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Rewind: The Toledo Clubber (Ep 16) Aug 10, 2023

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In 1925-26, a man with a face painted red and a maniacal laugh stalked the west end of Toledo, randomly selecting women and clubbing them - many, to the death.

A serial killer still unidentified to this date had this city on the edge of hysteria, and with good reason.

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Ep. 237 - Albert Sabin and the polio vaccine Aug 07, 2023

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When Albert Sabin graduated from medical school in New York, his mentor encouraged him to focus his career on a killer that had terrorized a generation: Polio. So when Sabin accepted a job as a medical researcher at the University of Cincinnati, he did just that. After solving the mysteries of the virus, he made Cincinnati the first American city immune to the illness.

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Rewind: More mysterious graves (10-Minute Mystery) Aug 03, 2023

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Why does the Painesville, Ohio tombstone of Joseph Linhart proclaim him to be "Not Guilty." Why did thousands of people visit the McMorran family plot in a small St. Paris, Ohio cemetery in 1975? Why does Jessica Lyn Keen have markers in two different cemeteries in West Jefferson, Ohio? www.ohiomysteries.comfeedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Audionautix- The Great Unknown The Great Phospher- Daniel Birch

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Ep. 236 - A WWII story: Two enemy pilots and a German orphan Jul 31, 2023

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In 1945, Jim Heckman of Akron, Ohio was knocked out of the sky over Germany by an enemy pilot. More than 40 years later, a German man who had been made an orphan by American bombers works to bring the two pilots together in a unique friendship.

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Rewind: How old is Ohio? (10-Minute Mystery) Jul 27, 2023

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10-Minute Mystery: How old is Ohio?

Ohio has been treated like a state since 1803, when Congress extended federal laws to the land. But in 1953, researchers preparing for Ohio's 150th birthday learned something stunning: Congress had never actually declared Ohio a state. So how old is Ohio, and what does it mean for the eight presidents Ohio gave the country in its first 150 years? www.ohiomysteries.comfeedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Audionautix- The Great Unknown The Great Phospher- Daniel Birch

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Ep. 235 - Confidence without conviction: The murder of Barbara Ann Butler Jul 24, 2023

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In 1968, Barbara Ann Butler, a 23-year-old schoolteacher, went to a store in Kettering in the middle of the afternoon. The next day, she was discovered dead on the floor of her car. Four years later, police named their top suspect as Jimmy Wayne Howard and closed her case, saying they were unable to pursue a conviction but were confident of his guilt.

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