Podcast Episodes

Unresolved Ep 18: Alex Wells

In 2005, Alex Wells, an Akron drug dealer and father of 10, was ambushed in his West Akron driveway and shot 10 times by two assailants. His killers have never been identified. In this collaborative …

Published on 1 year, 6 months ago

OM Backroads Ep: 34. The Bootlegger Pirates of Lake Erie

Season 1 Episode 34

Hello and welcome to the latest episode of Ohio Mysteries; backroads. The bootlegging era provided America with a new breed of criminal; the mobster. Organized crime took hold in Northern Ohio in a b…

Published on 1 year, 6 months ago

Ep 272 - America's first train robbery

Season 1 Episode 272

In May of 1865, something happened that had never happened before. Twenty bandits derailed a train for the purpose of robbing its passengers and stealing bonds from its safe. The event, which happene…

Published on 1 year, 7 months ago

OM Backroads Ep: 33. Hey Bill! Your legs on fire again!: The Bill Veeck Story

Season 1 Episode 33

Hello and welcome to another edition of Ohio Mysteries: Backroads. In today's episode, we discuss the trailblazing, firebrand owner of the Cleveland Indians Baseball team. This charismatic owner saw …

Published on 1 year, 7 months ago

Ep 271 - The murder of Barbara Anne Barnes

Season 1 Episode 271

In 1995,13-year-old Barbie Barnes disappeared on her walk to school in Steubenville. Her remains weren't found for another three months. In the months that followed, three different persons of intere…

Published on 1 year, 7 months ago

Rewind: Ep. 128 - The incomparable Shep Tinker, horse thief extraordinaire

Season 1

Throughout the mid-1800s, Southeast Ohio newspapers followed the criminal exploits of their incorrigible and infamous horse thief and counterfeiter, Shep Tinker. The site of his grave is a mystery, b…

Published on 1 year, 7 months ago

OM Backroads Ep: 31.I'm going to have to ask you to leave: Rattlesnake Island, Lake Erie

Season 1 Episode 31

Hello and welcome to another episode of Ohio Mysteries: Backroads. Today we wade out into Lake Erie and explore a little known hideaway with a dark history. Just below the popular Lake Erie island, P…

Published on 1 year, 7 months ago

Ep 270 - The Symmes Park graves

Season 1 Episode 270

This year, 2024, a high school Eagle scout candidate named Zach Kramer began a search for the final resting place of an American Revolutionary War private and his wife - both of whom Zach suspected w…

Published on 1 year, 7 months ago

OM Backroads Ep: 30. Part 2. Outlaws, Scoundrels and Bootleggers. Hell's Half Acre in East Liverpool, Ohio

Season 1 Episode 30

Hello an welcome to another episode of Ohio Mysteries: Backroads. In Part 2 of today's episode we travel down to the sleepy little river town of East Liverpool, Ohio and learn about what some people …

Published on 1 year, 7 months ago

Ep 269 - Akron porch murders

Season 1 Episode 269

In 2009, an Akron woman was shot dead by a man who stood on her porch and knocked on her door. The next year, a second woman was killed when she answered the door. And in 2015, Akron police found a t…

Published on 1 year, 8 months ago