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Unsolved Murders & Disappearances in Northeast Ohio

The Agatha Award–nominated account of Northeast Ohio’s most chilling unsolved crimes from the author of Wicked Women of Ohio.

Cold case files litter the desks of authorities all across Northeast Ohio. Louise Wolf and Mabel Foote, Parma teachers, were on their way to school one winter morning when a maniac sprang from the bushes and bludgeoned them to death. When young Melvin Horst went missing on his way home from playing with friends in 1928, many thought he was kidnapped or accidentally killed by a bootlegger’s car. Charles Collins’s death looked like suicide but was proved otherwise by two preeminent surgeons and has remained a mystery for more than one hundred years. Author Jane Ann Turzillo recounts eight unsolved murders and two chilling disappearances in Northeast Ohio’s history.

Includes photos!

Jane Ann Turzillo

Jane Ann Turzillo is a local history and true crime writer. Her book Ohio Train Disasters was a national winner in the nonfiction book category of the 2015 National Federation of Press Women contest. She is also the author of Wicked Women of Northeast Ohio, Murder & Mayhem on Ohio’s Rails, Hudson, Ohio, and Bath Township, Ohio. Turzillo is a former owner of the weekly West Side Leader newspaper and a member of Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, and National Federation of Press.

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