Podcast Episodes

10-Minute Mystery: The Dumler-Wilson murders

Season 1

In October of 1969, one or more killers shot and stabbed a well-to-do Cincinnati couple and one of their mothers in their Mount Lookout neighborhood. Martin and Patricia Dumler were college sweethear…

Published on 3 years, 5 months ago

The spirit of Clarence Darrow

Season 1 Episode 190

At the turn of the last century, Ohio-born Clarence Darrow rose to prominence as a criminal defense attorney, taking cases and making eloquent closing arguments that changed America. A look at his li…

Published on 3 years, 5 months ago

10-Minute Mystery: Lina Reyes-Geddes

Season 1

10-Minute Mystery: Lina Reyes-Geddes

In June of 2022, detectives in Ohio and Utah said they were closing the case of a woman who went missing from the Youngstown suburb of Austintown, and the case of …

Published on 3 years, 5 months ago

Mob Mentality: Ghosts of the Licking County Jail

Season 1 Episode 189

Our Mob Mentality series continues with this tale of the historic Licking County Jail, a Newark facility said to be haunted by a young deputized temperance keeper named Carl Etherington, who was lync…

Published on 3 years, 5 months ago

10-Minute Mystery: Lori Jean Lloyd

Season 1

In 1976, 14-year-old Lori Jean Lloyd disappeared while walking to a store from her Kettering, Ohio home. After her family thought they spotted her in a documentary about runaways, they became convinc…

Published on 3 years, 5 months ago

UNRESOLVED Ep. 11. Part 2: Tommy Sumerix and Ruth Guthrie

Season 1

In May of 1964, 11-months after 15-year-old Tommy Sumerix of Green and 12-year-old Ruth Guthrie of Tallmadge disappeared from their community streets, their remains were found in different counties. …

Published on 3 years, 5 months ago

UNRESOLVED Ep. 11. Part 1: Tommy Sumerix and Ruth Guthrie

An Ohio Mysteries/Akron Beacon Journal crossoverIn 1963, 15-year-old Tommy Sumerix of Green and 12-year-old Ruth Guthrie of Tallmadge disappeared from their community streets within one week of each …

Published on 3 years, 5 months ago

The birth of baseball's biggest myth

Season 1 Episode 188

A myth started in Akron, Ohio led to Abner Doubleday getting credit for being baseball's inventor, and for the Baseball Hall of Fame being placed in Cooperstown, NY. How it happened - and why it took…

Published on 3 years, 5 months ago

Rewind: The Minerva Monster (Ep 8)

Season 1

What if you heard someone pelting your house with rocks, then investigated to find yourself face to face with a large hairy beast on two legs. In 1978, the Cayton family and several others living in …

Published on 3 years, 5 months ago

The life of Leiland Cannon

Season 1 Episode 187

In 2000, someone bludgeoned Leiland "Buster" Cannon in his home in Muskingum County's hamlet of East Fultonham. But our research showed there was so much more to know about the endearing grandfather …

Published on 3 years, 6 months ago