Podcast Episodes

10-Minute Mystery: Edison and the first electric chair

Season 1

When Alfred Southwick invented the electric chair in Buffalo NY, Ohio's favorite son, Thomas Edison, was eager to design the procedure for using it but with nefarious motivation. He was in the middle…

Published on 2 years, 6 months ago

Rewind: What Happened to Judy Martins (Ep 41)

Season 1

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 Ken…

Published on 2 years, 6 months ago

10-Minute Mystery: Harry Andrews and Castle La Roche

Season 1

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 Andr…

Published on 2 years, 6 months ago

Tyrone Noling: Guilty or not?

Season 1 Episode 227

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…

Published on 2 years, 7 months ago

10-Minute Mystery: The Delta Queen's Ghost Captain

Season 1

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 Mississip…

Published on 2 years, 7 months ago

EP. 227: Anti-hero Thomas Midgley Jr.

Season 1

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 knock…

Published on 2 years, 7 months ago

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

Season 1

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 cam…

Published on 2 years, 7 months ago

The indefinable Victoria Claflin Woodhull

Season 1 Episode 206

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…

Published on 2 years, 7 months ago

10-Minute Mystery: The Golden Age Nursing Home fire

Season 1

In Nov. 22 1963, Ohioans went to bed mourning the assassination of President John F Kennedy, and woke to the news of a different kind of disaster. Overnight, a fire at the Golden Age Nursing Home in …

Published on 2 years, 7 months ago

How did Lt. Col. George Custer really die?

Season 1 Episode 225

In 1876, Ohio native Lt. Col. George Custer led the 7th Cavalry into a battle with the Cheyenne at the Battle of the Little Bighorn - and died alongside every soldier of the five companies that he co…

Published on 2 years, 7 months ago