Ohio Mysteries

Episode Notes: The tragic end of Charles CollinsCharles Collins, a renowned railroad builder from Cleveland and the man for whom the city's Collinwood neighborhood was named, was found dead in his home in 1877. For a century, people believed he'd killed himself, profoundly disturbed by a train accident that took the lives of nearly 100 people. But in 1975, a man in Geauga County discovered records that showed a second secret autopsy revealed that was not the case at all.The story of an experimental bridge, a horrific rail disaster, and the mystery behind the death of a man who knew too much. www.ohiomysteries.com [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Smoke and Fire, by Cory Breth. Follow him at https://www.facebook.com/corybrethmusic The Great Unknown. Audionautix Rise of the Phospher. Daniel Birch   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Berlin Reservoir murders Over a 12-month period in the early 1990s, a half-mile portion of the Berlin Reservoir became the killing grounds for at least two murderers, possibly three, with a crazy connection to even a fourth. Nearly three decades later, authorities have yet to solve the seemingly unconnected homicides of Andy Hussey and Lisa Watters, Kathryn Menendez and Sarah Rae Boehm. www.ohiomysteries.com [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Love My Mess, by Steel Ivory. Find more of their music at www.steelivory.com Audionautix- The Great Unknown Rise of the Phospher- Daniel Birch Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Georgia Rudolph was just 5 years old when she started dreaming about the life of another girl. Then dreams became waking visions that led her to an Ohio river town she never knew existed, but one whose streets she was able to navigate with ease. www.ohiomysteries.com [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Something to Lose, by Harold Stewart and the Blues Hounds. Find their music at http://www.theblueshounds.com Rise OF the Phosopher Daniel Birch The Great Unknown: Audionautix   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode Notes: Bank Heist: The Ted Conrad story Ted Conrad was obsessed with the movie, The Thomas Crown Affair, when it was released in 1968. It inspired the 20-year-old bank teller to pull off his own bank heist. But where did he go with his fortune? www.ohiomysteries.com [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Trouble, by Lisa Biales. Find her music at www.lisabiales.com Audionautix The Great Unknown Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Nebraska town named him Matthew - "gift from God" - when they found his frozen body in a snow-filled ditch. But as authorities spent the next two years trying to find the identity of the little dead boy in the blue pajamas, many simply began referring to him as Little Boy Blue. When they finally learned the child in that Nebraska grave was 9-year-old Danny Stutzman, their search would take them to an Ohio Amish community, where a whole new mystery awaited. www.ohiomysteries.com [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: That's the Way, by Tyrone Hornbuckle of Garrettsville, Ohio. The Great Unknown - Audionautix Sad cinematic by Until Morning   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode Notes The 1963 disappearance of Ruth Guthrie, Tommy Sumerix and Joe Kulesza Over a period of 10 days in June of 1963, three Summit County children disappeared. For months, three communities held their collective breath as investigators and families searched, then ultimately waited. The next year, one by one, their fates would be revealed. www.ohiomysteries.com [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Scared of Heights, by Micah Schnabel. Find his music at micahschnabel.bandcamp.com Audionautix The Great Unknown Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode Notes: In 1985, Mel Wiley, the police chief in Medina County's Hinckley Township, tells his girlfriend he's meeting an old friend for a dip in Lake Erie. Three days later, park rangers find his abandoned car at Edgewater Park with his clothes, money and police ID inside - but no chief. While townsfolk wonder if he met with foul play, was lost in a drowning accident or committed suicide, the lead investigator settles on a completely different theory: That Wiley, who loved writing mystery novels in his spare time, had simply walked away from his life to start anew somewhere else. >www.ohiomysteries.com >[email protected] >www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries >www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio >www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries > >Music: Chasing Trains, by Joe Joyce Band. Find their music at joejoyce.bandcamp.com  The Great Unknown Audioaunix       Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Imagine reading a Mother's Day story in your local newspaper, and finding clues that suggest you may have been sold as a baby out the back door of a small clinic in the Appalachian Mountains of Georgia. Now imagine dozens of Northeast Ohio residents waking that day to the same revelation. The amazing story of the black-market "Hicks babies" and the 20-year effort of one baby to understand the doctor who sold him, the saga of how he ended up in Akron, and how technology helped him find his biological family. Special guest Mark Cravens Eckenrode. www.ohiomysteries.com [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Gravity, by Taylor Lamborn. Find her music at http://www.taylorlamborn.com  The Great Unknown- Audionautix Rise of the Phospher- Daniel Birch   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode Notes: For more than 50 years, the country accepted without question that Wooster, Ohio immigrant August Imgard was the first to decorate a Christmas tree in America. His charming story was told and retold by newspapers from coast to coast every December. But was Imgard really the first? Ninety-nine years after he spruced up a fir and enchanted his neighbors, a Wooster professor would go looking for the answer. www.ohiomysteries.com [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries  lkson- Christmas Bass Rebels on youtube Ashamaluev Music on youtube for opening and closing   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On March 15, 1971, sheep rancher Clifford Badger is returning from a morning business trip when he stops to pick up the mail outside his farmhouse in West Salem. He finds a box of homemade chocolates, and a simple handwritten message that reads "To Our Good Neighbor." A few minutes later, Clifford would be lying dead on his kitchen floor. His wife, who had sampled the candy as well, had time to call for help before falling unconscious. Who poisoned the couple? And why? www.ohiomysteries.com [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Western Dawn, by Victor Samalot. Find more at https://victorsamalot.com Audionautix-The Great Unknown Deep Thoughts Aderin- New Horizon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices