In Ohio, some residents are wondering if the same killer is targeting young women in and around the city of Columbus. Ohio city ranked second safest small city or town in U.S. 'The final straw;' Mikesell's . Marie Poling was denied parole in 2015. Someone had shot the couple to death at Ohio's Berlin Reservoir. Herman was found beaten to death inside. Investigators haven't named a suspect and won't tell whether they know why the murders happened. After Fry and two store managers apprehended Smrekar in the parking lot, Ruth pulled out of her space and drove off and Fry retrieved the meat package that had been under her car. He reportedly made adeathbed confession to killing Mansfield and Martin before expiring from a terminal illness at Menard Penitentiary. Risners found the 50-year-old dead in the garage behind his home in Mach 2006. In 2 hours, the Logan County Sheriff's department ruled the case a murder suicide and that Scott had killed his family before killing himself with a .22 caliber rifle. The Federal Bureau of Investigation released a report in 2019 that explained that 250,000 is the number of unsolved murders in U.S. 2019 or unsolved murders USA 2020, and that the number rises by around 6,000 each year that passes. The prisoners controlled the Lucasville facility for 11 days the longest prison uprising in U.S. history before authorities regained control. But the discovery of his plot led to his execution. Bruce stabbed and strangled the three women, all of whom were known prostitutes, according to court records. They were indicted in 2003 and later pleaded guilty to child abuse charges. She also conceded that she probably lied to police in 76 when I confronted her about her dramatic inconsistencies and contradictions. Authorities have said a grand jury did not return an indictment against a suspect in the case, despite a year-long investigation in which the Butler County Sheriffs Office took a fresh look. Russell Smrekar appeared in Thorntons court for his continued hearings on the two theft cases. the most comprehensive account and reveal of the facts concerning the 1976 Logan County murders. Logan County authorities are ignoring the new information, facts, and evidence Ive brought forth in the Martin and Schneider cases. True Facts & Findings Copyright 2004, 2015 By Bonnie J. Thompson. Fible said she believes the case was botched from the beginning because detectives placed blame on her. Worley had already been charged with abducting the. There's at least one county we believe the most notorious person still hasn't been identified and remains at large. But FBI agent Melvin Purvis pursued Floyd to a farm outside East Liverpool. Rick Jones was Judge Thorntons 21-year-old bailiffinthe courthouse the spring and summer of 76. That he had begun to beat me, and Mom eventually gave in and said, Do whatever you want to me, just leave my son alone.. Bloomingburg native and former Ohio State and NFL quarterback Art Schlichter is perhaps best known for throwing the decisive interception in the 1978 Gator Bowl. In a June interview, Vicky Fible, Johnsons mother, expressed frustration about the lack of progress in her daughters case and said she hasnt communicated with Fairfield police in years. Bonnie J. Thompson, Investigative Writer/Author(Copyright 2013, 2015, 2017). Of course, the 1800s also is the time period for the killings that took place during the world-renowned Hatfield-McCoy feud. Both women are still living, and one cant seem to keep her stories straight. Cepec became the first person to receive the death penalty in Medina County in 60 years, according to The Medina Gazette. She used arsenic to poison her husband shortly before he died Aug. 22, 1952 at their farm in Owensville. He dropped his KA-Bar knife because he was supposedly too tired to hold on to it; it was found three days after the crime alongside the winding lane leading to the home not far from the gravel road in front of the property. Cepec bludgeoned Munz with a hammer before he strangled him with a lamp cord, records show. It wasnt until early September 76 that Logan County learned that Mansfield was officially a missing person and his family hadnt seen him since December 31st. Dowdel has been sentenced to 30 years to life in prison. Bill and Dorothy Wacker lived in a small town in Stark County and despite being quiet, unassuming people, they were subject to a harsh series of harassment which began in 1984. The notorious bank robber Charles Arthur "Pretty Boy" Floyd committed crimes across the U.S. and became the FBI's Public Enemy No. Cecil Dowell Age. Moran spent most of the rest of his life in prison before dying in custody in 1957. Crime Map. Dahmer killed 16 others in Wisconsin before being arrested in 1991. Kori Glossetts page from the Missing Persons Database. Drabing claimed he parked his car a mile to 2 miles from the Schneider residence and walked through fields to get to their house. Lane and two other inmates escaped prison in Lima on Sept. 11, 2014 but he was found hours later a short distance from the facility. Ehman circled the signal on the computer printout and wrote the comment "Wow!" "She was an intelligent, attractive young woman. Kevin Neal has been sentenced to life in prison for the 1997 murders of his 11-year-old stepdaughter and his 4-year-old stepson. Gerald Hand remains on death row for the killing of his fourth wife Jill Hand and his friend Lonnie Welch in 2002. The 42-year-old sheriff has refused to resign after being indicted. The Toledo Blade's coverage of the Coingate scandal showed how Noe used cash and gifts to curry favor with state officials. Maurer, whos now unfortunately deceased, claimed in March of 2002 that he didnt know anything about a T-shirt. She . Castro pleaded guilty and was subsequently sentenced to life plus 1,000 years in prison. Jeffrey Risners page from the Unsolved Homicides Database. It wasnt until early September 76 that Logan County learned that Mansfield was officially a missing person and his family hadnt seen him since December 31, The bloody T-shirt was the most important evidence collected in the Ruth Martin case, . The 36-year-olds throat had been cut, her purse and a couple of drawers had been upended, and about $500 in cash was missing. Mansfield denied involvement in the burglary and said he knew nothing about the stolen guitar, but he was arrested and charged with Theft By Possession. Legendary coach Woody Hayes was fired for punching Clemson linebacker Charlie Bauman in the aftermath. Mansfield signed the Deferral of Prosecution Agreement on Dec. 18th and then went home to spend the Christmas/New Years holidays with his family. During the struggle with the family in the confines of a hallway. Cleveland.com reporter Patrick Cooley contributed to this story. Do they share the same killer? PLEASE NOTE: BURIED TRUTH The Unabridged Trilogy Copyright 2013, 2015, 2017 By Bonnie J. Thompson. I knew the whole family, and the Schneider triple homicide is what set me on this path for truth and justice. The letters were written in block style and contained vindictive, violent and vulgar material. He claimed the killings were a premeditated dry-run for his continued plan of a revolution to exterminate the rich. Clearly, these murders should be reinvestigated by agencies outside Logan County, for many obvious and warranted reasons. Welch conspired with Hand in the unsolved murders of Hands first two wives in 1976 and 1979, witnesses said at trial. Raymond Wells' page from the Unsolved Homicides Database. When McClouds friends hadnt seen her for a few days, they grew worried and went to her apartment at 4996 Chatterton Road. His alibi for the night of the Schneider murders was never fully corroborated. Name. Irwin said the Cold Case Unit is investigating the case at the request of Fairfield police. He apparently didnt say what he did with Mansfield. Buell received a death sentence and died by lethal injection in 2002. James Patrick Hanley was the Corporation Counsel for the Village of Skokie, IL (Cook County, Chicago) for some 13 years before he died in 2013, shortly before I released my trilogy. It turned out to be Herbert, half-dressed, likely sexually assaulted and beaten to death. She disappeared 6 days before she was to testify against defendant Russell Albin Smrekar, 21, in a Lincoln grocery store shoplifting case. The 18-year-old then killed himself. William A. Krueger and Thomas Maurer were the leading Lincoln PD detectives assigned to the Martin case in 76, and both men lied to me about the facts pertaining to the T-shirt. Lillian "Ginger" Tailford Belt spent nearly two decades overseeing a popular brothel in Ottawa County. Juan Kinley hacked his girlfriend and her 12-year-old son to death with a machete on Jan. 10, 1989. . Prior to 2002, not many people knew much, or anything, about it. Wesley Coonrod has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for the deaths of his two young sons in an April 7, 2010 house fire. Shane Roush has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for his role in a shootout that seriously injured a Morrow County Sheriff's deputy in 2010. McKnight was arrested in 2008 and subsequently confessed to the slayings. He writes a weekly column for HD Media. Dillinger robbed two-dozen banks and four police stations and twice escaped jail before being killed in a shootout outside a Chicago theater in 1934. I was 19 and a deputy circuit clerk at the Logan County courthouse in76 when Ruth Martin disappeared and the Schneiders were so horrifically slain. Forensic evidence from the scene, which still exists, excluded Larry Taylor as his wifes killer. Seven adults and a teenage boy were found shot to death at four homes in the southern Ohio community. Grate could face the death penalty if he is convicted. After Cincinnati police received a call saying Brown had not been seen in a long time, officers were dispatched to the 46-year-olds apartment at 2572 Sarvis Court. He claimed the killings were a premeditated dry-run for his continued plan of a revolution to exterminate the rich. His lies have demonstrated a clear intent to obstruct justice and cover-up critical information connected to vital blood evidence in an, A brutal triple homicide also occurred in the middle of all this. The finalconfrontation was the most heated, and it was an enraged Pat Hanley who threatened toget andkill Lloyd Schneider. He apparently didnt say what he did with Mansfield. Her body was found in a ditch days later, and investigators arrested Fox the next month. Drabing pled insanity, which prevented him from implicating others in the crime. Drabing lost his unloaded J.C. Higgins revolver in the struggle with Lloyd. Magnolia resident Thomas Lee Dillon shot and killed five men during a three-year period from 1989 to 1992. LOGAN Friday marked the 40th anniversary of a Logan murder that has long gone cold, but friends and family members of Gilbert "Andy" Anders Jr. are still holding out hope that the person. McAdams disappeared before the Civil War and is rumored to have joined the Confederate Army as a spy, according to The Star-Beacon. Two weeks later, on April 8, a state game warden looking to check the licenses of fishermen happened across Thompsons body on an embankment off the 260 block of East Kemper Road. According to . Milan, Ohio is best known for being the birthplace of Thomas Edison. Im asking the public and the media those of you reading this to take an interest in these unsolved/unresolved murders Ive been reinvestigating for nearly 20 years. James Serey, 26, And Children, Age, 4, and 1, Fatally Shot., The terribly sad story reads, A 26-year-old Hutchinson mother shot her two young sons to death in the living room of her home yesterday afternoon and then turned the .38 caliber revolver on herself, inflicting a head wound which resulted in her death several hours later., The wife of James Serey was described by The Logan Banner as an attractive brunette and former member of the Womens Army Corps.. Lane further incensed victims families and the community when he smirked and wore a shirt with the word killer written on it at his sentencing hearing. The Murder of Joseph Kupchik. But Ohio's Third District Court of Appeals ruled earlier this year that she should receive a new trial because her conviction had been largely based on the boy's testimony, according to The Toledo Blade. Ariel Castro's kidnapping of Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus attracted international attention when the women escaped his Cleveland house in 2013. Please SIGN THE PETITIONon this websitecalling for official reinvestigation and DNA testing of all applicable existing evidence in the Mansfield, Martin, and Schneider murder cases. Recent speculation suggests the Butcher may have traveled west and was also the murderer of Elizabeth Short, of the "Black Dahlia Murder Case.". She would be the only survivor. Their possessions were quietly and mysteriously returned overtime with strange messages in jagged handwriting that police suspected was written with the non dominant hand in order to conceal his/her handwriting. Pidock pleaded guilty to fatally shooting Suzanne Brown in her apartment. Our methodology was subjective, so if you think you have a better suggestion, please let us know in the comments section or by emailing [email protected]. Herbert Meeker, who went to the electric chair in 1933, is the last person executed from the Tuscarawas Valley, according to The Times-Reporter. Each of the identified victims were suspected to be prostitutes, and each of those women were believed to work at truck stops. An Auglaize County jury acquitted Kim Anderson after she claimed self-defense in the Sept. 2, 2001 shooting death of her second husband. The case was featured in a 2009 episode of the Investigation Discovery series "Forensics: You Decide," according to The Springfield News-Sun. To obtain these books by any other means than through the author or this website is copyright infringement and punishable by law. The 1986 murder of Theresa Ann Woods, the 1963 murder of Irene Wilson, the 1982 murder of LaRoy Earl Gorman, and the 2008 murder of Judith Lynn Petty are among the unsolved central West Virginia murders, in addition to the 1945 kidnapping and mysterious disappearance of the Sodder Children. I now regret having delayed meeting with him it was an opportunity lost. The biggest red flag was thatno blood or trace evidence was found in Drabings Ford Torinodespite the victims having been stabbed 90 times, despite Drabingsprofusely bleeding leg wound, and despite the dirt and blades of dead grass found on Drabings blood-soaked jeans. Someone had attempted to wipe up the blood on the Martins garage floor the day Ruth vanished, and it had been spread out over a larger area. Ahntastic Adventures in Silicon Valley Theresa Smith Unsolved homicide. The U.S. Supreme Court in 2010 refused to hear his appeal. Herman Browns page from the Unsolved Homicides Database. Someone saw him doing it and reported him to the student activities director. On New Years Eve, at approximately 2 PM, Michael answered the phone at his parents house. Bowling Green native Richard Edwin Fox lured Leslie Renae Keckler to a local motel where he strangled and stabbed the 18-year-old woman on Sept. 26, 1989.