Fischer killed Abi Matthews at her Malta home in 2009. Winds SW at 5 to 10 mph. 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. Investigators never disclosed a motive for the massacre, according to The Columbus Dispatch. Smrekar, a known thief from upstate Joliet, IL, had been expelled from Lincoln College on September 25, 75, just prior to the October 1, 75 shoplifting. Morans rival Al Capone likely ordered the killings. The woman later found the boy bludgeoned to death in her house. The facts and details relating to it are startling, and this monumental evidence seems to provide a highly probable link to the Schneider triple homicide. Dean later spent four years in prison for his role in the Watergate cover-up that ended in the president's resignation. 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. Fourteen-year-old Leslie Cross was murdered in a violent, vicious way on Oct. 29, 1984. t happened in an apartment building on Libby Road in Bedford Heights. For example, in 2002, former Logan County States Attorney Tim Huyett requested the handwritten Schneider crime lab report from the state crime lab archives; found on the clothes and under the Schneider victims fingernails were foreign fibers and two different colored foreign hairs that did not belong to them or Drabing. This is perplexing and makes me wonder if my father was fully aware of all the evidence in the Schneider case. As I look back, I can only assume that I was used as a bargaining chip by the murderer, Aaron Taylor wrote on a website dedicated to solving his mothers murder. 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. Joy Major Hoop hired Carl G. Lindsey to kill her husband on Feb. 10, 1997. He and five other inmates used shanks to threaten a guard during a break-in to the 17-year-old victim's cell on April 25, 1996. 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. He has been sentenced to life in prison. 1976 Logan County murders and probable cover-up Lincoln, IL realtor Ruth Louise Martin, 51, has been missing from her home since the morning of Wednesday, June 2, 1976. Juan Kinley hacked his girlfriend and her 12-year-old son to death with a machete on Jan. 10, 1989. James Litteral became the first Athens County convict to be executed in 1930. Willie McCloud' page from the Unsolved Homicides Database. Prohibition-era gangster Adelard Cunin better known as Bugs Moran rose to prominence in Chicago. Sorry, there are no recent results for popular commented articles. Vicki Riffle Dylewski, 25, was murdered on April 20, 1981. Dover-born Mark Dean Schwab relocated to Florida, where he raped a 13-year-old boy in 1987 and raped and murdered an 11-year-old boy in 1991. Following his conviction, Hanley and Jones pursued law degrees and became attorneys. For those persons who, like myself, have been intrigued by the Mamie Thurman story perhaps even at one time or another trekking through Logan Memorial Park at McConnell searching for Mamies unmarked grave you might need to know that on your next trip to the once popular and now abandoned 20-acre cemetery, you might want to pay homage to the gravesites of two children (James and Kenneth) and their mother, Mrs., James Serey. 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. The Ohio Attorney Generals Office has created a new cold case unit to investigate unsolved crimes, and it is looking at several area cases of note. But his undoing came after former secretary Elizabeth Ray told The Washington Post that she had been hired to be Hays mistress. The Lincoln PD regards the Martin case as closed because Smrekar allegedly confessed. In 1980, the FBI charged the then-Mahoning County sheriff of accepting bribes from mobsters. 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 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. Risners found the 50-year-old dead in the garage behind his home in Mach 2006. But the discovery of his plot led to his execution. A Franklin County civil jury later rejected the argument that she had been in imminent danger and ordered her to pay $540,000 to Brent Andersons family. The Mystery: Joe Kupchik's body was discovered on the pavement below a parking deck in downtown Cleveland, around 1 in the . Each served two years in prison. The police investigated several leads, including one that involved an unidentified man spray painting "I Love You Cindy" on a wall near her office, but she was never found. The signal has never been detected again. He spent two and a half years in prison and was released in 2008. Moran spent most of the rest of his life in prison before dying in custody in 1957. Submit a Crime Tip Square with arrow pointing upper right. Lillian "Ginger" Tailford Belt spent nearly two decades overseeing a popular brothel in Ottawa County. More than a decade later, the case of who killed 37-year-old Michael Williams of Rogers remains open. Ted Strickland cited a lack of physical evidence in the case when he commuted Spirko's death sentence in 2008, according to The Toledo Blade. Ence Day and thanksgiving. All rights reserved (About Us). The cult duct-taped the victims, tossed them into a grave and shot them, according to The Plain Dealer. He was never charged in either case but DNA evidence linked him to the older girl's death, according to The Independent. Bruce stabbed and strangled the three women, all of whom were known prostitutes, according to court records. Clearly, these murders should be reinvestigated by agencies outside Logan County, for many obvious and warranted reasons. 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. Cheryl Thompson' page from the Unsolved Homicides Database. Dean died two years later by electrocution, according to The Clermont Sun. Login; Logan County, OH Area Cold Cases. Brabander had been fishing with his parents near Kelleys Island when Mastronardi rammed their boat with his speedboat. The victims were Lisa Watters and Andy Hussey. Sara Carruthers one of 22 Ohio House members censured for backing Iron Rose Mercantile opens expanded location in Middletown, New Ohio cold case unit looking into unsolved homicide of Fairfield 15-year-old. Chester McKnight shot and killed Todd Schultz and Annette Cooper in 1982 in Logan. He was finally declared dead seven years later in 1982, though his body was never recovered, and speculations as to what happened abound to this day. Dahmer died in 1994 after a fellow inmate beat him to death in prison. Detectives arrested him the next week, but his 2006 escape from prison earned him a spot on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list. The U.S. Marine Corps veteran also wounded seven people before a security officer shot and killed him. For women the figures were or 140 per cent. He is currently serving nearly 11 years for his role in a million-dollar sports ticket fraud. She is an Ohio native with a Bachelor of Science in Journalism from E.W. Richard Clark Jr. has been sentenced to life in prison for killing his former girlfriend and another man in 2003. The writer was never revealed. Each of the identified victims were suspected to be prostitutes, and each of those women were believed to work at truck stops. Smrekar was arrested and charged with Theft Under $150, and Fry became a key witness in the case. Additionally, a man later came forward claiming that he was the reincarnation of Sandra's boyfriend and that he had several of the same memories that Georgia had. Her body was found in a ditch days later, and investigators arrested Fox the next month. He was released from prison in 2017, according to the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction. His crimes occurred in Ohio and West Virginia. 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. Parsons eluded authorities for 83 days before being captured in Chillicothe. Police are still searching for a serial killer who is suspected of murdering at least eight prostitutes throughout the state. Ted, who was studying engineering at Ohio State University at the time of Vicki's murder in 1981, said he and his sister were a lot alike. 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. Jacob Nesbitt strangled his wife on Feb. 11, 1926. But Traficant was acquitted after he told a jury he had been conducting a secret sting operation. 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. He committed suicide a month into his prison term. A jogger found her. Witnesses reported seeing her with a man who walked her through the parking lot. You have permission to edit this article. The self-described angel of death claims he killed terminally ill or mortally injured patients to end their suffering from 1970 to 1987. Chrishana Logan was 19 years old when. Cleveland.comcompiled what we believe is the definitive list of the most infamous person from each of Ohio's 88 counties. Unsolved Mysteries Of The 1970s That Still Keep Us Up At Night. Goff had delivered furniture to the house earlier that day and went back to commit a robbery, according to court records. It is also of importance because it was a historical juncture in local television history as a Huntington television station WSAZ-TV received permits for installation of equipment that made it the most powerful television station in the world. The finalconfrontation was the most heated, and it was an enraged Pat Hanley who threatened toget andkill Lloyd Schneider. 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. But the state's history also includes notorious figures such as bank robber John Dillinger and Watergate cover-up artist John Dean. Reese spent 11 years in a state asylum before he died in 1966, according to the New York Daily News. Co-defendant Timothy Mosley who stabbed Justin Back nearly two-dozen times while Myers watched avoided the death penalty by testifying against Myers. 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. 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. After being shot, Ruth was loaded into the trunk of her Pontiac Catalina, and the perpetrator(s) drove off with it and her body. THE MISSING BLOODY T-SHIRT IS THE SMOKING GUN. Johnson threatened the woman with a knife and forced her to give him $1,000, claiming her son had been kidnapped. Ehman circled the signal on the computer printout and wrote the comment "Wow!" The elderly couple suffered from physical attacks, strange phone calls that were sometimes threatening and other times only heavy breathing and robbery. Drabing lost his unloaded J.C. Higgins revolver in the struggle with Lloyd. That hole has been there since the murder of her sister, Linda Morris, 22, and niece, Angela Lynn, 4. She was presumed to be abducted from the legal office where she worked, despite the fact that all of the doors to the office were locked and there was an alarm to alert the store next door. Hays was stripped of his committee chairmanship and resigned months later. Hell be 91 years old when hes eligible for parole in 2043. Hoffman beat one man with a frying pan, strangled two others with an electrical cord and shoelaces and attacked a fourth with a pry bar. The signal lasted for a full 72 seconds and indicted a non-terrestrial and non-Solar System origin. According to investigators, on Sunday, May 29th 2005, the morning he was to graduate high school, Scott Moody walked across his family's failing dairy farm to his grandparents' farmhouse and shot them both dead with a .22-caliber rifle. Crime is ranked on a scale of 1 (low crime) to 100 (high crime) Logan County violent crime is 11.1. 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. In Ohio, some residents are wondering if the same killer is targeting young women in and around the city of Columbus. Like Mamie Thurman, their bodies were laid to rest there, too their resurrected stories being told again, decades after their lives were extinguished. Wyoming East sends Lady Tigers home in regional final, 54-47, No. Randle Lee Roberts II shot and killed four family members, including an 11-year-old girl, in 2011 in West Union. signal was a strong narrowband radio signal detected by Jerry R. Ehman on August 15, 1977, at the Big Ear radio telescope of Ohio State University, (then located at Ohio Wesleyan University's Perkins Observatory in Delaware.) Other murders come to mind, such as the death of Susie Fortuna, Alex Sayer, Barlow Ramey, and others. Some of the counties were more difficult than others. 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. Logan County authorities are ignoring the new information, facts, and evidence Ive brought forth in the Martin and Schneider cases. Russell Smrekar died in October 2011. Murder Mysteries: . Search for: View All Cold Cases. It's never been solved. But he was arrested in 1946 for his involvement in a Dayton robbery. Detectives arrested Reese a diagnosed schizophrenic released to his sisters care in 1954 while investigating the disappearance of a car salesman found buried at the farm. 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. Pidock pleaded guilty to fatally shooting Suzanne Brown in her apartment. 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 family, with Joe Hatfield serving as sheriff at the time of the killing at the Smoke House restaurant in Logan.