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Donald Harvey Angel of Death Serial Killer and Toledo Prison Murder

CINCINNATI|TOLEDO • OHIO

Donald Harvey was one of the most prolific convicted serial killers in American history. Working primarily as a hospital orderly and nurse’s aide in Kentucky and Ohio, he used access to seriously ill patients to...

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Edgewood Cemetery McAdams Family Graves

ASHTABULA • OHIO

In the oldest section of Edgewood Cemetery lies a row of weathered McAdams family graves connected to one of Ashtabula's darkest nineteenth-century mysteries. Between 1848 and 1851, five McAdams children and their mother Rebecca died...

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Matthew Hoffman Mount Vernon Triple Murder, Kidnapping and the Leaf House

MOUNT VERNON | TOLEDO • OHIO

Matthew J. Hoffman is not a serial killer in the usual criminological sense. He is a convicted triple murderer, kidnapper and rapist whose crimes unfolded during one November 2010 attack in Knox County. Three victims...

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Ohio Medical Body Snatching and Grave Robbing

STATEWIDE • OHIO

For much of the nineteenth century, Ohio medical training had a problem that could not be solved politely: students needed human bodies to learn anatomy, while the law supplied almost none. The result was a...

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Ohio State Reformatory Helen Glattke Death and Ghost Tradition

MANSFIELD • OHIO

Helen Glattke, wife of Ohio State Reformatory superintendent Arthur Lewis Glattke, died in 1950 after suffering a gunshot wound inside the superintendent's residence. Her death was an actual tragedy, not an invented ghost-story origin. Over...

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Ohio’s First Serial Killer Return Jonathan Meigs Ward

SYLVANIA • OHIO

Return Jonathan Meigs Ward is frequently called Ohio’s first serial killer, but the evidence supports the more careful description first presumed or suspected serial killer. Ward was convicted of murdering his wife, Olive Davis Ward,...

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Summit Lake Drowned Children and Clown Legend

AKRON • OHIO

Akron's Summit Lake has accumulated dark local stories involving drowned children and, in a stranger modern variation, a frightening clown associated with the water or nearby parkland. Summit Lake has a genuine history of recreation,...

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Donald Harvey Angel of Death Serial Killer and Toledo Prison Murder

Edgewood Cemetery McAdams Family Graves

Matthew Hoffman Mount Vernon Triple Murder, Kidnapping and the Leaf House

Ohio Medical Body Snatching and Grave Robbing

Ohio State Reformatory Helen Glattke Death and Ghost Tradition

Ohio’s First Serial Killer Return Jonathan Meigs Ward

Summit Lake Drowned Children and Clown Legend