Tag: unsolved
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CRY BABY: THE DEATH OF CAROLYN WASILEWSKI
In November 1954, fourteen-year-old Carolyn Wasilewski left her Baltimore home saying she planned to meet a friend and register for a dance class that evening, something she intended to handle on her own. She was known in her neighborhood as a spirited teen with a rebellious streak and was a member of a local group…
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THE AUSTIN YOGURT SHOP MURDERS
December 7, 1991 residents of Austin, Texas awaken to the tragic news about four brutal murders at the “I Can’t Believe It’s Yogurt” shop. The horrific discovery was made after firefighters were dispatched to extinguish a structure fire at the ICBIY. It was after midnight when the bodies of Eliza Thomas, 17, Jennifer Harbinson, 17, Sarah Harbinson,…
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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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DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES: THE STORY OF EUGENE
On a balmy summer day in June of 1929 a man was discovered deceased in a ditch near the intersection of 3C Highway and Borum Road in rural Sabina, Ohio. He was taken to Littleton Funeral Home where he was examined and embalmed. It was estimated the man was between 50 to 80 years old.…
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THE HEAD AND HANDS MURDER
On this day back in 1936 the headline of The Cincinnati Enquirer proclaimed ‘Hicks Condemned to Death.’ Justice was swift as it would take a jury less than 15 minutes to convict Heber L. “Jimmie” Hicks. So what did he do? Hicks was the mastermind behind a murder that became to be known locally as…