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The Hopper Road murders
Season 1 Episode 130
In 2006, Curtis Francis and Jenny Burgette were found dead, shot in the head while sleeping in their bed on Hopper Road in Pike County's Newton Township. No arrests have ever been made in this case, …
Published on 4 years, 8 months ago
10-Minute Mystery: The murder of William Legg
Season 1
In 1907, William Legg, owner of a meat market in the Shelby County seat of Sidney, was shot to death by two robbers who took his money and fled. Two railroad tramps arrested the next day pointed the …
Published on 4 years, 8 months ago
The embezzler's plane crash
Season 1 Episode 129
In 1982 - in the largest single-day loss-of-life for the FBI in its history - a Cessna carrying four agents and their handcuffed Chicago bank embezzler fell out of the sky over Montgomery, Ohio. The …
Published on 4 years, 8 months ago
10-Minute Mystery: The Counterfeit House
Season 1
In the 1840s, Oliver Tompkins built a large farmhouse in Adams County, but neighbors soon began to wonder what was up with the occasional lantern flickering in the attic window. Years later, after To…
Published on 4 years, 8 months ago
The incomparable Shep Tinker, horse thief extraordinaire
Season 1 Episode 128
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 4 years, 8 months ago
10-Minute Mystery: Cletus Reese and Murder RIdge
Season 1
When Cletus Reese's sister became worried when the Coshocton County farmer took a test drive in a new car and returned without the salesman, she called authorities. What searchers found on Reese's fa…
Published on 4 years, 8 months ago
Mob Story: The Youngstown Naples brothers
Season 1 Episode 127
Sandy, Billy, Jimmy and Joey Naples were some of Youngstown's most infamous racketeers. But like a plot line from a Godfather movie, three met untimely - and officially unsolved - ends. www.ohiomyst…
Published on 4 years, 8 months ago
10-Minute Mystery: Brady's Leap
Season 1
Capt. Samuel Brady was often called the Daniel Boone of the Ohio Valley, and a hero who worked to protect settlers from Indian marauders in the late 1700s. But his legend, they say, was cemented by …
Published on 4 years, 8 months ago
The conviction of Charles Hart
Season 1 Episode 126
In 1894, searchers in Paulding, Ohio found the gruesome charred and mutilated remains of two children that had gone missing the day before. Within two hours, the sheriff arrested a slow-witted boy wh…
Published on 4 years, 8 months ago
10-Minute Mystery: Barrel Doe
Season 1
In 1969, a Cleveland teen who wanted to burn some trash rolled an abandoned barrel from a vacant lot to his yard to help do the deed. But when he opened the metal drum, he found a dismembered body in…
Published on 4 years, 9 months ago