Podcast Episodes

The brutal death of Leslie Ann Barker

Season 1 Episode 48

Episode Notes:

In 1978, school teacher Leslie Barker went to a Akron nightclub to participate in what was that decades version of a computerized matchmaking program. She met a man and made plans for a…

Published on 6 years, 4 months ago

10-Minute Mystery: The first NFL champs

Season 1

Episode Notes:

In 1920, owners of semi-pro football teams throughout the Midwest met to form what became the National Football League. And the first NFL champs set a record that stands today. The Akr…

Published on 6 years, 4 months ago

John Dillinger's loot

Season 1 Episode 47

Episode Notes:

John Dillinger's career as America's most famous bank robber lasted less than a year. He died in a hail of bullets outside a movie theater in Chicago in 1934. A few months later, after…

Published on 6 years, 4 months ago

10-Minute Mystery: Mary Campbell Cave

Season 1

Episode Notes: In 1758, Delaware Indians kidnapped a Pennsylvania girl as a surrogate for a tribal chief's dead granddaughter, and brought her with them to live in the Ohio country. For nearly a cen…

Published on 6 years, 5 months ago

Ep. 46 - The case of Rebecca Seaburn

Season 1 Episode 46

Episode Notes: A suspect in the 1981 murder of Rebecca Seaburn in a Mt. Gilead laundry would be put on trial three times, with three different outcomes: a guilty conviction that was thrown out, a hun…

Published on 6 years, 5 months ago

10-Minute Mystery: Harry Beasley

Season 1

Episode Notes: Harry Beasley won the Medal of Honor for bravery and a Purple Heart for a 1914 battle between the US and Mexico, then went on to serve in World War I. But it was the streets of h…

Published on 6 years, 5 months ago

Ep. 45 - The disappearance of Beverly Potts

Season 1 Episode 45

n 1951, Beverly Potts was a happy 10-year-old Cleveland girl when she went to a neighborhood live arts performance with her best friend. But on the way back home, Beverly vanished without a tra…

Published on 6 years, 5 months ago

10-Minute Mystery: The car dealership murders

Season 1

Episode Notes:

Raymond Ogle and Arthur Works were well-loved and highly-respected men who worked at a Dayton used-car dealership. So who would walk into the lobby and shoot them dead? Twenty years af…

Published on 6 years, 5 months ago

Ep. 44 - The confounding death of Charles Roy Clark

Season 1 Episode 44

On Christmas Eve in 1959, a bullet shatters the kitchen window and the Norman Rockwell image of a family fixing dinner. Charles Roy Clark falls dead before his wife and daughter as they prepare a hol…

Published on 6 years, 5 months ago

10-Minute Mystery: Murder at Steve's Motel

In 1991, the day clerk at Steve's Motel in Green, Ohio wondered why the daughter of the motels owners didn't come out of their home to meet the school bus. As a matter of fact, the girl's fathe…

Published on 6 years, 5 months ago