Ohio Mysteries

Beard and Leonard: Waiting for Justice, Part 2 In Part 1, 17-year-old Mary Leonard and 19-year-old Ricky Beard of Akron vanish after a date night to a drive-in movie theater. Their whereabouts are unknown for nearly six years, their families helpless but to follow every lead and tip, alternating between despair and hope. In this episode, learn about the discovery in 1985 that ended one mystery while launching another. Special guests: Mary's brother, Jerry Leonard, and Ricky's sister, Luanne Beard Eddy. www.ohiomysteries.com [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Waiting for the Lightning, by Ryan Humbert. For more on on Ryan, visit https://www.ryanhumbert.com www.ohiomysteries.com [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries   Other Music The Great Unknown Audionautix Rise of the Philosopher Daniel Birch deep thoughts sad cinematic- Ender Gurney     Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode Notes: At 5 a.m. in the pre-dawn darkness of Portage County, a police chief in northern Portage County and two sheriff deputies in southern Portage County are calling in reports of a saucer-shaped object plowing through the sky. Two deputies will even give chase, soon joined by a patrolman in another county as they follow the object all the way into Pennsylvania - and into history. The event will ruin lives and careers after the U.S. military dismisses the encounter. We go straight to the transcript of interviews with Wright Patterson Air Force Base and law enforcement witnesses to find out exactly what happened that fateful night. www.ohiomysteries.com [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Never Look Back, by Guy Randall. For more on Guy Randall, visit www.guyrandallartist.com Aero Chord Feat DDark-Shooting Stars Audionautix- Great Unknown Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode Notes What if you heard someone pelting your house with rocks, then investigated to find yourself face to face with a large hairy beast on two legs. In 1978, the Cayton family and several others living in and around Minerva reported seeing a manlike creature they couldn't identify lurking in the woods, something that has come to be known simply as "the Minerva Monster." Akron Beacon Journal reporter Barb Galloway was the first journalist to document their stories, which - as it turned out - went back a generation. She accompanied local sheriff deputies as they found what appeared to be bedding pressed into tall grass, a tuft of fur snagged on a thorny bush, scratch marks on wood, and the strong odor of ammonia. Hear what Galloway has to say about that unnerving summer. www.ohiomysteries.com [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: Right Now, by Daniel Rylander. For more on Daniel Rylander, visit www.danielrylander.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode Notes: Phil Trexler joins us to discuss the mystery of Raymond Timbrook! Raymond Timbrook of Mentor was a successful businessman, engineer and father of two teenage sons when someone coldly executed him as he sat in his car on the side of the road in a vacant development in Kirtland Hills. More than 25 years later, his unsolved murder still haunts Phil Trexler, who spent his career covering crime for print media before moving into an Emmy-award-winning broadcast role with WKYC in Cleveland. Trexler shares why this case still nags at him after all this time. www.ohiomysteries.com [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Featured Artist: Zach www.zachmusic.net twitter.com/Zachmusic facebook.com/Zachmusic Youtube Search Zachmusic   The Great Unknown-Audionautix Ocean Burn -Sarin Darker Lakes   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode Notes: On Dec. 8, 1909, the train ferry SS Marquette & Bessemer No. 2 sank during a winter storm on Lake Erie as it made its daily run between Conneaut, Ohio, and Port Stanley, Ontario. More than 30 lives were lost, and residents on both shores reported hearing the haunting wail of its horn as it desperately searched for a port before slipping beneath the waves. More than a century later, the location of its watery grave is still unknown. www.ohiomysteries.com [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music DustinH https://www.youtube.com/user/dustinhaj Music DustinH https://www.reverbnation.com/artist/1541765  Music by https://www.soundcloud.com/ikson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode Notes: In 1974, 17-year-old Linda Pagano reportedly stormed out of the apartment she shared with her stepfather and was never seen again. Many presumed her to be a runaway. In 2015, a Cleveland woman became curious about a cemetery index that mentioned the interred bones of an unknown young woman with a bullet hole in her skull, buried in 1975. How Internet web sleuths turned Linda Pagano from a missing persons case into an unsolved murder. www.ohiomysteries.com [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries The Great Unknown Audionautix Music New Horizon Aderin Music Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode Notes In 1758, the British took Fort Duquesne in Pittsburgh from the French who had established it. But before their arrival, the French spared 10 men to whisk away their army's payroll. They loaded 16 packhorses with gold and silver and headed for Fort Detroit. They never made it. The British intercepted the small detail, killing eight of the 10 Frenchmen. But not before the French soldiers buried the treasure to keep it out of the hands of their enemy. Years later, a nephew of one of the surviving French soldiers found his uncle's journal about the special assignment, along with specific details on how to find the treasure near present-day Minerva in Stark County, Ohio. The nephew's attempt to locate the booty failed, as has every other attempt these past 200 years. The podcast also features a second tale - the legend of a Minerva-area treasure left behind by the Civil War's infamous Morgan's Raid. ohiomysteries.com [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode Notes  The 1987 Holiday season was a tense one in the Akron area. Over an 18-week period, four area women, all doing absolutely average activities, were snatched from the streets, raped and murdered. While evidence suggests the timing was a coincidence and the homicides  were work of at least three different men, fear of a serial killer kept residents on edge from August through Christmas and into the new year. More than 30 years later, all four murders remain unsolved. [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: New Horizon-Aderin Music: The Great Unknown- Audionautix Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode Notes For a century, Northeast Ohio teens have made trips to Rogues Hollow in the dead of night to look for its ghost train, headless horse, and listen for weeping at Crybaby Bridge. We'll share the real history of this once-lawless frontier. www.ohiomysteries.com [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode Notes Join us as we tell the story of Marion Brubaker, a 12-year-old Akron area girl whose life was suddenly snuffed out as se rode her bike home from the library in 1962.  Fifty-Six years later, her killer has never been brought to justice. Who is Marion, and what do we know about the day her life ended? www.ohiomysteries.com [email protected] www.patreon.com/ohiomysteries www.twitter.com/mysteriesohio www.facebook.com/ohiomysteries Music: New Horizon-Aderin Music: The Great Unknown- Audionautix Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices