Ohio Mysteries

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Ep. 230 - The Muskingum County Animal Farm tragedy Jun 12, 2023

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In 2011, the owner of nearly 60 exotic animals released them in one final act before taking his own life, setting up a massacre as local law enforcement raced to stop lions, tigers, wolves and bears from fleeing into the wild. Why would a man who spent more than 30 years caring for the animals doom them to such a tragic end?

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10-Minute Mystery: Willoughby and Lost Nation Road Jun 08, 2023

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A hometown mystery: The unique way Willoughby residents came up with their town name, and the century-long obsession the town has with trying to figure out the origin behind Lost Nation Road. We offer two popular theories, and a third that is long forgotten but might be closer to the truth.

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Ep. 229 - Kate Chase: First Lady of Washington DC Jun 05, 2023

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Cincinnati's Kate Chase was groomed to be a society lady, but the Civil War-era "Belle of the North" adopted her father's ambition for the White House and became a political strategist that made her the most influential woman in the nation's capital. Yet her end read like a tragic Victorian novel.

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Rewind: What Happened to Judy Martins (Ep 41) May 29, 2023

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Episode Notes: One of the most confounding disappearances in Ohio history happened in May of 1978, when Judy Martins vanished on a late night walk between a friend's dorm room and her own room at Kent State Engleman Hall. With no evidence of foul play, the police eventually destroyed their file on her and there is no active investigation to find out what happened. But those who know her say she had no reason to walk away - and stay away for 41 years. www.ohiomysteries.comfeedback@ohiomysteries.com www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Too Much, by Larry Elefante. Find more at https://www.facebook.com/Larryelefante Audionautix the great Unknown Rise of the Pospher Daniel Birch

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10-Minute Mystery: Harry Andrews and Castle La Roche May 25, 2023

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In Loveland, Ohio, a medieval castle rises above the Little Miami River. It was built by stones hauled up from the river by a World War I vet obsessed with the era of knights and chivalry. Harry Andrews was one-of-a-kind, and the Knights group he found still operates the castle as a museum.

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Ep. 228 - Tyrone Noling: Guilty or not? May 22, 2023

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In 1990, Bearnhardt and Cora Hartig were brutally murdered in their Portage County home during a burglary. A few years later, four men were named as their assailants, with one sentenced to death. But with no physical evidence putting any of them at the site, and confessions determined by an expert as having been coerced, did the real killer get away?

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10-Minute Mystery: The Delta Queen's Ghost Captain May 18, 2023

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In 1897, Cincinnati's own Mary Becker Greene became the first woman to receive a steamboat pilot's license, and she and her husband spent the next 50 years plying the rivers of Ohio and the Mississippi. She later joined her son Tom aboard his Delta Queen. But after she died in her stateroom, some folks became convinced Captain Mary never left the ship.

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EP. 227: Anti-hero Thomas Midgley Jr. May 15, 2023

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Thomas Midgley Jr., a brilliant scientist working for Dayton, Ohio research companies in the 1920, invented two world-changing products. He discovered a lead additive could stop the destructing knocking noise prevalent in early auto engines. And he discovered a supergas that allowed average homes to safely have refrigerators and air conditioners. It wasn't until decades after Midgley's death that his revolutionary creations were destroying the planet, and the life upon it.

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UPDATE! Rewind: BCI Cold Cases: Zastudil, Thompson, Hebert (Ep 112) May 11, 2023

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So tonight we're doing a rewind of our 2020 episode about three cases that were getting new attention from the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation.

In at least one of those cases, DNA technology came through. A few months ago, Hamilton County authorities announced they tied a serial killer to the death of Cheryl Thompson -- a 19-year-old University of Cincinnati student killed in 1978.

Robert Howell was a Cincinnati truck driver who died in a 1985 car accident, so he can't be questioned.

But authorities are pretty firm in their belief that not only did he kill Cheryl, he may well be responsible for the deaths of three other women in Hamilton and Butler counties in that period.

Unfortunately, there isn't DNA to compare from those other cases. But it sounds like the case of Cheryl Thompson is as closed as it can possibly get with a dead suspect.

So here's the episode we did on Cheryl and two other cases the BCI had on their radar - and come back Sunday for a brand new story.

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Ep. 226 - The indefinable Victoria Claflin Woodhull May 08, 2023

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Born in Licking County when it was America's western frontier, Victoria Claflin was born into poverty and grew up the daughter of a conman who groomed her to be a child preacher and spiritualist. She ran away just after turning 15, becoming a child bride and mother. Her "spirit guides" promised her she'd grow up to be wealthy and powerful, but nobody could have predicted what was to come.

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