Tag: missing
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A CHRISTMAS EVE TRAGEDY
It was a cold Christmas Eve in 1945 when the Sodder family began their holiday festivities. The large, close-knit clan from West Virginia was enjoying their Christmas lights, food, and holiday cheer but in the early morning hours, tragedy struck. By 1am the better part of the family home was engulfed in flames. Parents George…
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THE PHANTOM OF OXFORD
70 years ago today, Ron Tammen disappeared without a trace, this event remains an enduring local mystery here in southwest Ohio to this day. Ronald Henry Tammen, Jr. was a thriving college student residing in Fisher Hall at Miami University in the quaint college town of Oxford, Ohio. By all appearances he seemed like a…
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GIRL IN THE ’57 CHEVY: THE MURDER OF LINDA PIERSON
It was a cool, fall, Wednesday night around 9:30 p.m. on November 16th, 1966, when Linda Susan Pierson was last seen cruising along Fairfield Avenue in the passenger seat of a 1957 Chevrolet. She was totally unaware that in a matter of hours she would be brutally raped and murdered. Linda was just eighteen and…
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BEETHOVEN’S MISSING EARS
I ran across a newspaper clipping that detailed the exhumation of Ludwig van Beethoven. I wasn’t aware he was ever exhumed, so I read on. The article from 1888 detailed the events surrounding what was his second and final exhumation, he was going to be moved to an honorary grave at Vienna’s main cemetery, Zentralfriedhof.…
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THE DISAPPEARANCE OF PATRICIA ADKINS
It was on June 29, 2001, exactly 18 years ago today that 29-year-old Patricia ‘Patti’ Adkins packed her bag and headed to her job at the local Honda Plant in Marysville, Ohio. The single mother of one young daughter was looking forward to her last shift before what she thought would be a romantic getaway…
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CINCINNATI JOHN DOE: NAMUS #UP7739
Did you know that in the United states over 600,000 individuals go missing each year? Fortunately, the majority of these adults and children are found alive and well. However, tens of thousands of these individuals remain missing for more than one year, and when that much time elapses many law enforcement agencies begin to refer…
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THE FORGOTTEN ONES
On this day in 1981 the skeletal remains of nine unknown John Wayne Gacy victims were properly laid to rest. The service was held at a funeral chapel in a western suburb of Chicago. The unknown young men laid in matching copper-colored caskets, positioned in a half circle and adorned with flower arrangements. The caskets…
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THE CASE OF JOSHUA LEE WRIGHT | TIMELINE OF EVENTS
So a couple weeks ago I was contacted by a man named Kenny, he is the brother of a local, missing man named Joshua Wright. I had posted a couple articles about some unidentified skeletal remains that were found in the South Fairmount area of Cincinnati and Kenny had seen the posts. He contacted me…