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The hazing of Stuart Pierson
Season 1 Episode 57
In the first case to bring the fraternity tradition of hazing to national consciousness, 18-year-old Stuart Pierson is found decapitated next to train tracks where he was instructed to wait as part o…
Published on 6 years, 2 months ago
10-Minute Mystery: The Ohio Witchcraft Trial
Season 1
Ohio became a state more than 100 years after all the witchcraft frenzy that made Salem, Mass. famous. And yet superstitions lingered into the 19th century. We recount three witch stories from Ohio: …
Published on 6 years, 2 months ago
The unsolved murder of Michael Klitch
Season 1 Episode 56
12-year-old Michael Klitch left home one summer day to go practice his tennis serve at the municipal courts in Grandview Heights. A single tennis ball was all he left behind when he vanished from the…
Published on 6 years, 2 months ago
10-Minute Mystery: Knockemstiff
Season 1
How did the hamlet of Knockemstiff, Ohio get it's name? It's a mystery, but the historical record suggests its a name that is well-earned. We explore the kinds of things that kept Knockemstiff in the…
Published on 6 years, 2 months ago
What happened to Sharon Pretorius
Season 1 Episode 55
Sharon Lynn Pretorius was 13 years old when she left her Dayton home in 1973 to collect from customers on her newspaper route. She never even made it to her first house. She vanished that day in a ca…
Published on 6 years, 2 months ago
10-Minute Mystery: Lincoln Ellsworth and the North Pole controversy
Season 1
In 1926, Rear Admiral Richard Byrd became a household name after being the first to fly over the North Pole. But after his diary from the trip was re-discovered in the 1990s, experts disputed his cl…
Published on 6 years, 2 months ago
The Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run
Season 1 Episode 54
In the 1930s, Cleveland had its own gruesome version of Jack the Ripper. The Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run - also known as the Torso Murderer - targeted men and women living on the fringes of society…
Published on 6 years, 2 months ago
10-Minute Mystery: The disappearance of the tug Cornell
Season 1
Lake Erie has a reputation for swallowing ships whole in a storm, but what reason did it have for taking the tug Cornell? The boat left Cleveland for Buffalo four days before Christmas, under fair s…
Published on 6 years, 2 months ago
The Athens Lunatic Asylum
Season 1 Episode 53
Some say Athens is one of the most haunted places in the world. If true, much of it is owed to an old asylum that spent a century using barbaric practices on its patients, and features the infamous c…
Published on 6 years, 3 months ago
10-Minute Mystery: The mysterious death of a Titanic survivor
Season 1
Elizabeth Hocking, a British mother who was relocating her entire family to Ohio from Cornwall, England, boarded the Titanic for the move. Six family members survived the sinking of the "unsinkable" …
Published on 6 years, 3 months ago