Podcast Episodes

The Cincinnati Strangler

Season 1 Episode 238

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 si…

Published on 2 years, 4 months ago

Rewind: The Toledo Clubber (Ep 16)

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 th…

Published on 2 years, 4 months ago

Albert Sabin and the polio vaccine

Season 1 Episode 237

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 medic…

Published on 2 years, 4 months ago

Rewind: More mysterious graves (10-Minute Mystery)

Season 1

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…

Published on 2 years, 4 months ago

A WWII story: Two enemy pilots and a German orphan

Season 1 Episode 236

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 th…

Published on 2 years, 4 months ago

Rewind: How old is Ohio? (10-Minute Mystery)

Season 1

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…

Published on 2 years, 4 months ago

Confidence without conviction: The murder of Barbara Ann Butler

Season 1

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,…

Published on 2 years, 4 months ago

Larry Abshier's desertion to North Korea

Season 1 Episode 234

In the early 1960s, four American soldiers patrolling the DMZ between South Korea and North Korea separately made an incomprehensible decision - to seek asylum in the communist country. Larry Abshier…

Published on 2 years, 5 months ago

Rewind: The missing crew of Ghost Blimp (Ep 110)

Season 1

In the 1942, in an Akron-built Goodyear blimp delivered to the Navy after the start of WWII, a two-man crew set out over the Pacific from San Francisco for a short four-hour patrol in search of Japan…

Published on 2 years, 5 months ago

The Independence Day mutant storm of 1969

Season 1 Episode 233

In a weather event Ohio had never before experienced, a powerful "derecho" thunderstorm formed as Fourth of July revelers gathered along the Lake Erie shoreline for a fireworks show. The storm capsiz…

Published on 2 years, 5 months ago