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Mob Mentality: Springfield
Season 1 Episode 138
This is the first in an occasional series looking at the mystery of mob mentality. This episode: In 1904, thousands of Springfield citizens attacked the Clark County jail, murdered a black man who ha…
Published on 4 years, 5 months ago
10-Minute Mystery: William Sproat and Mary Petry
Season 1
In 1970, 6 months after the infamous Charles Manson cult killings in California, southwest Ohio was rocked by its own gruesome crime scene. OSU grad student William Sproat and his girlfriend Mary Pet…
Published on 4 years, 5 months ago
The Ice Bridge Disaster
Season 1 Episode 137
A century ago, Niagara Falls tourists enjoyed a winter attraction - ice forming a bridge over the river beneath the falls. When the ice broke free in 1912, a Cleveland youth turned from safety to hel…
Published on 4 years, 6 months ago
Part 2: The assassination of Donald Mellett
Season 1 Episode 136
When Don Mellett became publisher of the Canton Daily News, he vowed to take on the city's underworld and corruption in the Canton Police Department. He was killed for it. In the second of this two-p…
Published on 4 years, 6 months ago
Part 1: The assassination of Donald Mellett
Season 1 Episode 136
When Don Mellett was hired as editor, and then publisher, of the Canton Daily News, he vowed to take on the city's underworld and corruption in the Canton Police Department. He was killed for it. In …
Published on 4 years, 6 months ago
Part 2: The mystery of Pretty Boy Floyd's death
Season 1 Episode 135
In the second of this two-part episode, Floyd's ascension to "Public Enemy No. 1" and the multi-day manhunt in Northeast Ohio that led to his death in a cornfield near East Liverpool in Columbiana Co…
Published on 4 years, 6 months ago
The mystery of Pretty Boy Floyd's death
Season 1 Episode 135
In the first of this two-part episode, the story of three Ohio towns who had experience with Floyd's gang. Sylvania in Lucas County, and Floyd's very first bank robbery. Akron in Summit County, and h…
Published on 4 years, 6 months ago
10-Minute Mystery: Dr. Ellis W. List
Season 1
In 1986, prominent Trumbull County physician Dr. Ellis List disappeared while attending a medical convention in Arizona, Ohio. An exhaustive search by air, foot and car could turn up no sign of an ac…
Published on 4 years, 6 months ago
10-Minute Mystery: Angel's Glow and the Battle of Shiloh
Season 1
In 1862, 18,000 Ohioans participated in one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War. And the wounded who lay in the muddy Tennessee fields afterward found that their wounds began to glow. In 2001, …
Published on 4 years, 6 months ago
UNRESOLVED Ep. 2: Melissa and Jasmine Collins
Season 1
In 1991, 17-year-old mom Melissa Collins and her 8-month old baby girl Jasmine vanished from their West Akron apartment. In the decades since, police have torn up a local park, searched abandoned hou…
Published on 4 years, 6 months ago