Davis was arrested in May in Hamilton County on a felony charge of promoting prostitution and is awaiting trial. 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 finalconfrontation was the most heated, and it was an enraged Pat Hanley who threatened toget andkill Lloyd Schneider. Hardin County resident Terry D. Shepherd is serving three life sentences for the 2008 murders of two women there and one in adjacent Wyandot County. Mansfield failed to appear in court for the March hearing, and the matter was continued and a warrant was issued for his arrest. 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. An email message containing instructions on how to reset your password has been sent to the e-mail address listed on your account. (The US average is 22.7) Logan County property crime is 32.7. Nine people died and 11 others were injured after Todd Hall tossed a lit cigarette into a fireworks store on July 3, 1996. The murders occurred in Belmont, Coshocton, Muskingum, Noble and Tuscarawas counties. Investigators found the body of Heskett who disappeared on Valentine's Day in 2015 in a burn barrel on Ash's property. Somehow, Drabing managed to return to his mothers house (where he also lived) within 10-15minutes of the killings, by 11:40 PM. She disappeared, Months later, on Oct. 9, 76, Jay Fry and his 3-months-pregnant wife, Robin, both 24, were shot-gunned to death in their home just 9 days prior to a scheduled hearing on the Kroger case. He's also been sentenced to life in prison for the murder of his friend Gregory Julious. Former superintendent Mike McVey had also been accused of misleading authorities investigating the case. There is really no mistaking the link it provides. Dahmer died in 1994 after a fellow inmate beat him to death in prison. There were/are manyanomalies in the Schneider case, too many to bring out in this writing, but Ill mention a few. The signal has never been detected again. Dean later spent four years in prison for his role in the Watergate cover-up that ended in the president's resignation. His accomplice Eve Irene Kelley is serving more than 15 years in prison for her role in the murder. I witnessed suspicious events and circumstances surrounding the Schneider murders that caused me to believe Drabing, The finalconfrontation was the most heated, and it was an enraged Pat Hanley who threatened toget and. YouTubes privacy policy is available here and YouTubes terms of service is available here. She was subpoenaed for the second trial, but it was declared a mistrial before she testified. Angela Kilgore Age. Charles Hart became one of Paulding County's earliest recorded executions when he hanged in 1895. On New Years Eve, at approximately 2 PM, Michael answered the phone at his parents house. He put on his buckskin coat and walked out the front door, leaving his wallet behind. All Rights Reserved. Ruth disappeared on a weekday during morning hours, sometime around 9:15. The Republican and former chairman of the House Administration Committee had been known as Mayor of Capitol Hill before he pleaded guilty to corruption charges. Name. Warren Township resident Noal Quattlebaum strangled his girlfriend to death in 2008. Former Law Enforcement Present Misleading Information in the 1976 Schneider Triple Homicide. Then there is the 1930 murder of Logan Police Chief Roy Knotts, who was shot and killed on his first day on the job by Enoch Scaggs, a former Logan deputy and close ally of the Hatfield. The 18-year-old then killed himself. Winds SW at 5 to 10 mph.. Clear skies. Since Ruths remains have never been found, I have serious questions about the LPDs haste to close the Martin case, particularly when the Lincoln PD has suspiciously claimed the bloody T-shirt is missing and facts prove detectives have lied about it. 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. The Mystery: Joe Kupchik's body was discovered on the pavement below a parking deck in downtown Cleveland, around 1 in the . Fairfield Detective Doug Day said the department investigates all leads. The letters were written in block style and contained vindictive, violent and vulgar material. Notorious bank robber John Dillinger and his gang hit a Fostoria bank in 1933 and evaded capture, according to the Tiffin Police Department. Dennis McGuire's 1989 rape and murder of Joy Stewart earned him a death sentence. Belt pleaded guilty to tax evasion and prostitution charges and spent four years in a federal prison in Arizona, according to The Toledo Gazette. But it was his execution that attracted international attention. The pair also shot six others during a drug-related robbery in Lima. Search Unsolved Homicide Victims Search Ohio homicide victims by name, city or keywords. The U.S. Marine Corps veteran also wounded seven people before a security officer shot and killed him. Her body was found in a ditch days later, and investigators arrested Fox the next month. Lillian "Ginger" Tailford Belt spent nearly two decades overseeing a popular brothel in Ottawa County. He has been sentenced to life in prison. Investigators never disclosed a motive for the massacre, according to The Columbus Dispatch. That information was/is remarkably compelling, yet it was not spelled out in detail in the typewritten lab report, the only crime lab report that existed in my fathers old files in 2001/2002. Hensley later strangled a fellow prison inmate in 2002, according to the Associated Press. The bodies were found by Ellis McCoy, who was said to have lived near the cabin. The Lincoln PD regards the Martin case as closed because Smrekar allegedly confessed. Joy Hoop is also serving 25 years in prison for her role in the murder. The Coshocton farm where Cletus Reese buried the bodies of three men he killed became known as Murder Ridge.. A 40-year-old unsolved homicide is getting a new look from police, and a local mother hopes her efforts will bring in tips for other cold cases like it. Ruth Martin was shopping at Kroger and returning to her vehicle when Smrekar ran by her with a package of stolen ribeyes and ditched them under her car. Ive devoted much of my life and financial resources to uncovering the truth in the hope of achieving complete justice for the murdered victims and their families some have never received justice of any kind. The greatest hindrance in 76 was that forensic capabilities were not what they are today, but there are other bothersome things that I cant explain. My father, Logan County States Attorney Roger W. Thompson (1972-1980), alerted authorities the morning of Oct. 10th that Jay Fry and Ruth Martin were witnesses in the Kroger shoplifting case. Marie Poling is serving 20 years to life in prison for the 1987 murder of her husband in Howland. Roberts then drove to his mother's house in Columbus and got into a shootout with police. Actually, though, it was not until The Logan Banner, then called the The Logan County Banner, came into existence in 1888 that news, including many murders, were documented in the form of newsprint. As if the triple murder wasnt enough to shock people at the time, it was the even worse news that came the very next day following the King Shoals deaths that spread sorrow throughout the coal camps of Logan County and beyond The Banner headline proclaimed: Mrs. John Warren Parsons shot and killed Chillicothe police officer Larry R. Cox while fleeing a gas station robbery in 2005. Nine inmates and one corrections officer died after 450 inmates rioted and took control of the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility on Easter Sunday in 1993. Danielle Greene was born on the Fourth of July. For locals, the town of 1,300 is also known for its dark past. No one has seen him since that cold December day. In 2009, a Lorain County judge sentenced him to at least 23 years in prison. Its interesting that the officer who arrested Henderson would along with Hibbard Hatfield one year later be charged with a Dingess Street murder and later commit suicide during a break in his trial. Former U.S. Rep. Jim Traficant saw his career end in disgrace in 2002. The facts and evidence support that Drabing did not act alone. James Litteral became the first Athens County convict to be executed in 1930. She used arsenic to poison her husband shortly before he died Aug. 22, 1952 at their farm in Owensville. He thought he had killed his 15-year-old sister, but she was life-flighted to a hospital in Columbus where she remained in critical condition. During the struggle with the family in the confines of a hallway,left-handedDrabing sustained a deep, alleged self-inflicted slice wound on his outer right calf that bledprofusely.The three victims were stabbed sometime between 11:15 PM and 11:30 PM. Search for: View All Cold Cases. Christopher Newton died by lethal injection for the 2003 murder of his cellmate at the Mansfield Correctional Institution. On July 22, 1981, Herbert, 14, headed for the nearby Tag Market, at 9110 Dublin Road. Sheriff's deputies called in the guardsmen to protect Mitchell from a mob outside the jail, according to The New York Times. Two days later, the Catalina was found abandoned in the parking lot of the Bloomington, IL Holiday Inn, 30-miles north of Lincoln. Bixler and his girlfriend who has also been convicted in the killing lured the victim to a set of railroad tracks before Bixler stabbed her, according to Toledo's WTOL-11. Crime in Logan County, Ohio. Raymond Wells' page from the Unsolved Homicides Database. I could go on and on, and I do in my trilogy,BURIED TRUTH, the most comprehensive account and reveal of the facts concerning the 1976 Logan County murders. Meeker killed his wife Gertrude Meeker the previous year with a tire pump while they were riding in his car. The FBI, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and U.S. Department of Homeland Security have worked with the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation and other agencies on the investigation. Missing persons, signs of extra terrestrial life and thousands of anonymous, vindictive letters are just a few of the uncanny happenings in Ohio that have yet to be solved over the years in spite of ongoing investigations. 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. Commissioner Julius Shiskin reported wednesday that the number of Laid off men among the unemployed Rose 1.6 million or 150 per cent. the most comprehensive account and reveal of the facts concerning the 1976 Logan County murders. Bailey had previously been linked to the murder of a U.S. marshal, a bank robbery in the state of Washington and an escape from a prison in North Carolina. It's never been solved. The case is still unsolved and the Pike County Sheriff's Office and. She testified that Brent Anderson attacked her after she accused him of molesting their son, according to The Toledo Blade. CLEVELAND, Ohio -- As we showed you earlier this month, the Buckeye state has its share of famous natives. Murder Mysteries: . Legendary coach Woody Hayes was fired for punching Clemson linebacker Charlie Bauman in the aftermath. The Gallipolis native refused to testify in court marshal cases from the Abu Ghraib scandal and retired in 2006. Randle Lee Roberts II shot and killed four family members, including an 11-year-old girl, in 2011 in West Union. Lindsey shot Donald Hoop twice in the head outside the Mount Orab bar owned by Hoop and her husband. The state of Ohio later paid $4.1 million to inmate victims who said overcrowding and mismanagement led to the uprising, according to The Cincinnati Enquirer. Rick Jones was Judge Thorntons 21-year-old bailiffinthe courthouse the spring and summer of 76. But there was a problem. Marvin Johnson is awaiting execution on Ohio's death row for the Aug. 15, 2003 rape and robbery of his ex-girlfriend and the murder of her son. Each of the identified victims were suspected to be prostitutes, and each of those women were believed to work at truck stops. He fled before Richard could get his gun loaded. Richard Clark Jr. has been sentenced to life in prison for killing his former girlfriend and another man in 2003. Donald Hoffman was sentenced to life in prison for the 2014 murders of four older men with health problems. The 42-year-old sheriff has refused to resign after being indicted. Both were shot in the back. On June 8th, 76, a family fishing in Kickapoo Creek Park (located a short distance across the highway from the Martin subdivision) found a partially burned, bloody T-shirt lying on a sandbar in the creek. Cookie Settings/Do Not Sell My Personal Information. The resident of Weirton, West Virginia, had died from blunt force trauma to the head. Her dismembered body was found in Miami County, Clark County, and Champaign County, over a 15-mile radius. Castro kidnapped the three women from 2002 to 2004 and imprisoned them in his basement. Vicki Riffle Dylewski, 25, was murdered on April 20, 1981. The harasser has never been seen and the police have no leads on who he or she may be, though it's possible a neighbor, "friend," or family member is the cause, given the degree of knowledge of the Wacker's that he or she had. Investigators are still searching for the person or persons who killed eight members of the Rhoden family on April 22, 2016. In 1980, the FBI charged the then-Mahoning County sheriff of accepting bribes from mobsters. Cleo Vernon Keaton was sentenced to death for the 1965 killing of a Williamsport man while he was fleeing charges related to the slaying of two men in a Dayton bar, according to a 1967 edition of The Ottumwa Courier. To obtain these books by any other means than through the author or this website is copyright infringement and punishable by law. The Wow! 1 after John Dillinger's death in 1934. 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. Each victim leaves two young daughters behind. Krueger admitted in an email to me that he told my father during the time Dad was preparing for the Fry murder trial (and the Schneider triple murder trial), which would have been sometime after Oct. 9, 76, that the T-shirt evidence was never returned by the state crime lab. However, the dead bodies revealed otherwise. I believe the cover-up began with the Martin case and then escalated and deepened with the event of the Schneider murders. He died in 2015 after spending nearly two decades in a behavioral health facility in Athens, according to The Daily Independent. He didnt have a vehicle, so he was on foot. That was a complete falsehood, for he wrote the report on that evidence and submitted the T-shirt to the Illinois State Crime Lab for testing. Federal agents captured Reese Bailey during a 1935 shootout at a Jackson County farmhouse. The 1800s saw the killing of Ann Lawson by two of her own slaves in 1847 prior to the Civil War even before Logan was named Logan and before West Virginia existed as a state. Detectives said Myers planned the murder and robbery. Fischer has been sentenced to life in prison for the murder. Fortune-teller Andrew F. Tyler committed the county's first murder and was executed in the county's only recorded hanging in 1849, according to The Bryan Times. The same day Mansfield disappeared, the burglary matter was continued to March (unbeknownst to Mansfield and Smrekar) because the two female students whose dorm room had been burgled were still on their European vacation. Hays was stripped of his committee chairmanship and resigned months later. But the discovery of his plot led to his execution. (NewsNation) The murder clearance rate hit an all-time low in 2020, and data analyzed by a nonprofit shows that trend continued last year. Poling and her lover chopped off Richard Poling's head before scattering his body parts across Ohio and Pennsylvania. Police said it appeared the older child had been holding a bottle of milk for his brother when the mother shot them both in their heads. Sorry, there are no recent results for popular commented articles. After working a 48-hour shift at the hospital, the nurse anesthetist told her mother around 4 p.m. that she was going out for a jog. Their bodies were found days later in a field near a local cemetery. She would be the only survivor. But the state of Ohio did not execute anyone from 1963 to 1999, and Keaton is not listed in state Department of Rehabilitation and Correction execution records. She even went as far as to travel to Marietta where she was able to find the house where she believed she lived during the past life as well as the gravesite of Sandra's grandmother. The Kirtland cult leader claimed God commanded him to kill the five members of the Avery family on April 17, 1989. Russ was a sociopath and a pathological liar who enjoyed leading people, especially police, on wildgoose chases. Clearly, these murders should be reinvestigated by agencies, Bonnie J. Thompson, Investigative Writer/Author, (These books are available in eBook format only -. . Clearly, these murders should be reinvestigated by agencies outside Logan County, for many obvious and warranted reasons. On Aug. 4, 2016, a property owner was mowing grass between a wooded area and Alderlick Road in Wayne Township when he came across the body of 26-year-old Samantha Jo Stewart. It was a hair-raising experience, and I told my father and others about what I witnessed before the murders occurred. He is currently serving nearly 11 years for his role in a million-dollar sports ticket fraud. Daniel Petric was just 16 years old when he shot and killed his parents after they forbade him from playing Halo 3 on Oct. 20, 2007. Someone saw him doing it and reported him to the student activities director. The history of Logan County is vast, and its longtime existence is marked by numerous tales of murder, beginning as far back as the 1700s when Aracoma and her tribe were attacked at what is now Midelburg Island in Logan. Stojetz headed the Aryan Brotherhood at the prison, court records show. But the Ohio Attorney Generals Office dropped the charges in exchange for his resignation. Cold Cases Missing Persons Daily Archive. Quattlebaum committed suicide in prison in 2013, according to The Marietta Times. Jerenique Cunningham and Cleveland Jackson have been sentenced to death for the execution-style killings of a 17-year-old girl and a 3-year-old girl in 2002. Nevertheless, as the days passed authorities investigating the triple slaying at King Shoals, despite police holding Ellis McCoy in jail for open questioning, as well as Tom Ratliff of King Shoals, authorities remained baffled as to how and why the trio was killed. According to police, White had been living with Schoolcraft, who was found lying across the bed with one bullet hole in the left temple. Ashland County Sheriff's Office via The Times Gazette via AP. Our methodology was subjective, so if you think you have a better suggestion, please let us know in the comments section or by emailing crime@cleveland.com. 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. 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. Wells, 18, was found dead in the middle of a street in a retirement neighborhood that he had no known connection to, about 10 miles from his home in Bond Hill in June 1999. Pidock pleaded guilty to fatally shooting Suzanne Brown in her apartment. 46 Cause of Death. Then he and another man cut up their bodies and buried parts along the Hocking River. Follow-up interrogation is in order. The letters continued to arrive in residents' mailboxesboth city officials and average citizens alike until the late 90s. When Drabing fled the bloodbath, he ran across the Schneiders recently mowed, expansive front lawn toward the gravel road in front of their property. Lindsey has been sentenced to death and remains in custody at the Chillicothe Correctional Institution. Ariel Castro's kidnapping of Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus attracted international attention when the women escaped his Cleveland house in 2013.
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