Weekly Columns

Since September 2015, I have written a weekly true crime/paranormal newspaper column for the The Clermont Sun. My column is in print form and online. For nearly 200 years, the Clermont Sun has published weekly news, sports and columns. It's a staple of Clermont County Ohio. Here are links to my columns: 

• The legacy of Marcus Fiesel
• Who killed Russell and Shirley Dermond? 
• The house that bled
• The disappearance of Karen Spencer
• The evil monster known as Jeffrey Hubbard
• ​​​​Baseball, murder and an act of bravery
• The unsolved murder of Nancy Theobald 
• How DNA solved the MIchelle Martinko cold case
• ​The unsolved murder of Dayton, police officer Kevin Brame
• The wall 
  
• The eerie Gurdon light 
• Finding Andrea
• The abduction of Jessica Gutierrez 
• The mysterious disappearance of singer Jim Sullivan  
• The ice queen
• ​The Ouija board murder
• A Cincinnati miracle
  
• The Bessie Little homicide
  
• Murder in a Cemetery
  
• ​Unsolved in Ohio: Ericka Weems
• Brandon Embry: Left for dead
  
• Jessica Masker: Have you seen me?
  
• Voices from beyond the grave
  
• Unsolved in Ohio: George Gibson
  
• Unsolved in Ohio: Alicia Jackson
  
• The battle over Ellen Greenberg’s death certificate ruling
  
• Mildred Bolton: The first woman to escape Chicago’s electric chair
  
• Media coverage in homicides and missing persons cases
  
• Does ethnicity have an impact on missing people cases and homicides?
  
• The strange disappearance of Patricia "Patti" Adkins
  
• Justice Denied: Christy Mullins
• ​Military Injustice: Part 3 of 3
  
• Military Injustice: Part 2 of 3
  
• Military Injustice: Part 1 of 3
• Ohio’s strangest unsolved homicides
  
• The lost sister: Where is Jessica Masker? 
• The mysterious disappearance of Dorothy Forstein
• ​The mama's boy
  
• ​Deadly sisters
• The unsolved murder of teenager Beverly Jarosz
  
• The infamous walk of death
  
• The Atlanta Ripper
  
• ​When a homicidal gorilla man came knocking
• Who killed the wealthy socialite? 
• Dead weight in the water
• The unsolved murders of Harry and Harriette Moore
  
• The mysterious Bennington Triangle
• Wrath of the Kentucky cannibal
• The disappearances of Felipe Santos and Terrance Williams
  
• What happened to Erica Baker? 
• The lost boys
• How DNA captured its first monster
• A boy named Steven
• The man who loved his mother to death 
• ​Somewhere in the Twilight Zone
• The disappearance of MSU student Henry Louis Baltimore Jr.
• The cold-blooded Delhi massacre
• The mysterious murders of Mary Morris and Mary Morris
  
• The Loss of innocence
• The disappearance of Suzy Lamplugh
  
• ​The unusual death of Agneta Westlund
• The lonely heart killers 
• Missing: Rachel Trlica, Lisa Wilson and Julie Moseley
  
• The disappearance of Beverly Potts 
  
• Looking back on 2020 in true crime: The less traveled road to justice
  
• Merry Christmas; goodbye to 2020
• The beautiful stranger 
  
• America's first insanity plea 
  
• Did Bigfoot kidnap a missing California teenager in 1987?
• The unsolved LaSalle Street murders
  
• Justice for Paige Johnson
  
• ​Halloween's most evil monster
• The black-eyed children of Cannock Chase
• A deadly Halloween night in 1982
• Murder in Dead Women Crossing, Oklahoma
  
• Australia's infamous 'shark arm' mystery
  
• ​​Death and dishonor: The murder of soldier Richard Davis
  
• ​The tragic death of David 'Stringbean' Akeman
• Unsolved: The Lane Bryant Killings in Tinley Park, Illinois
• Julia Wallace: Britain's most baffling whodunit 
  
• What happened to Lauren Dumolo? 
• That's not my son 
• The unsolved killing of God’s self-proclaimed prophet Benny Evangelist
• ​A horrible way to die
• ​Adrienne Miranda: A mother's journey to get justice for her son
• The perilous life of Cynthia Ann Parker
• Annie George: A woman scorned
  
• ​Fireflies
• Actress Jean Harlow's cursed house
• The disappearance of Jean Spangler
• The Ceely Rose murder house
• Who killed Brittany Stykes in 2013
• The unsolved murder of Aliza Sherman
• The disappearance of Cynthia Anderson
  
• Come on in, we are dead
• The Lucinda Strange cold case in Bardstown, Kentucky
  
• The madness of Doctor Oliver Haugh
• The peculiar disappearance of Anita Drake
  
• ​The Ruppert family massacre of 1975
• The alleged murder of England's William Harrison
• A meeting in the woods turns to murder
  
• Unsolved, missing and presumed dead 
• Did someone put mama in the furnace? 
• The day Ellen killed Mary with an axe
  
• ​The peculiar case of Jeannette McAdams
• The unsolved deaths of Liberty German and Abigail Williams 
  
• ​The deaths of David Keller and Candice Kyser
• ​The killer who wore Olympic gold
• The unsolved death of Patrolman Harry Beasley
• The disappearance of Melvin Horst
• Looking out for lost and abused children
• The deadly sins of "Arsenic Annie"
• Christmas at the cabin in the woods
• No justice for Jody LeCornu
• The haunted (part 2 of 2)
  
• The haunted (part 1 of 2)
  
• The unsolved murder of Brittany Phillips
• Gary Plauche: Brutal vengeance
  
• Eric Holmes: My encounter with a monster on death row
• The not-so-ordinary housewife
• Unsolved: The murder of the Grimes sisters
• ​The murder of childhood star Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer
• Dead and Unsolved: Families without justice
• Richard Parker and the custom of the sea
  
• Who killed Mary Phagan? (Part 3 of 3)
  
• ​Who killed Mary Phagan? (Part 2 of 3)
• Who killed Mary Phagan? (Part 1 of 3)
• Bridget Deignan: The monster of Newmarket New Jersey
  
• ​The restless ghost of Grace Brown
• The Ma’nene death ritual: the cleansing of the dead
  
• ​Serial killer Joseph Briggen and his Berkshire hogs
• The miracle that saved a convicted killer (Part 3 of 3)
• The miracle that saved a convicted killer (Part 2 of 3)
• The miracle that saved a convicted killer (part 1 of 3)
• Six Mile Wayfarer House of death
  
• Six bullets for two cops (part 2 of 2)
• Six bullets for two cops (part 1 of 2)
• Who murdered Sister Mary? (Part 3 of 3)
  
• ​Who murdered Sister Mary? (Part 2 of 3) 
  
• Who murdered Sister Mary? (Part 1 of 3) 
  
• The unsolved Amber Hagerman homicide case
• Guilty until proven innocent
• A father's revenge
• Soldier involved in love triangle loses his head​
  
• ​Death of the wasp woman
• ​The alligator man from Elmendorf
  
• The nurse who sees dead people
  
• Ed and Lorraine Warren: Investigating the terrors that frightened us
  
• ​Last call for Brian Shaffer
  
• Murder at the Red Barn
  
• The dead woman who returned to help find her killer
  
• Spirits of the old west and the haunted whorehouse
• The unsolved Parma, Ohio school teacher murders​
  
• ​Psychic vision leads to dead woman
• Mary Roff returns from the dead
• The ghost of the Gray lady
• Probed by aliens
  
• ​The eBay haunted painting
• The haunted clippers of Wizard's Clip
• The ghost of Sir Walter Raleigh
• The onion field
• Whatever happened to Ada Constance Kent? 
• ​Tom Allen and the haunted hotel
• Haunted boots
• Cincinnati's Bricca murders remain unsolved
• The Vanished podcast
  
• ​The ghost of Nell Cropsey still haunts her old Elizabeth City, NC home
  
• The survivor
• The doctor with a murderous bedside
• The ghost of the infamous "witch hunter" George Corwin
• Mandy the creepy doll
• ​The restless spirit of Redd Foxx
  
• Thomas "Boston" Corbett: The Lincoln avenger
• The ghost of George Sullivan
• Seth Bullock is the most famous ghost in Deadwood, South Dakota
• ​Is Dorothy home?
  
• The mysterious UFO siting at Falcon Lake 
  
• Did Zona Heaster return from the grave to catch her killer? 
• Interview with Dianna Bedwell: The only surviving sister of Sylvia Likens
• ​The ghost of Mary Surratt still roams
• Bigfoot
  
• The reincarnation of the Pollock sisters
• The mysterious ghost blimp
• Robert the doll
  
• The bully of Skidmore, Missouri
  
• ​The unsolved mystery of the murdered boy in the box
  
• The ghost of flight 401
• H.H. Holmes and his infamous murder castle
  
• The murder of Sylvia Likens
  
• The curse of Kentucky's conjured chest
• The ghost of actor George Reeves: Did he really commit suicide or was he murdered? 
• The legend of the S.S. Ourang Medan
• The Texarkana moonlight killer
• Jim Jones: The false prophet of death
  
• The psychic who solved a murder
  
• ​The mysterious Patomisky crater
  
• The ghost of Virginia Rappe
  
• Jaws and Megaladon: Two of nature's deadliest killing machines
  
• The scandals that followed former President Warren Harding
  
• ​Teresita Basa returns from the grave to catch her killer
  
• The forgotten life of Henry Rathbone
  
• Imogene Remus still haunts Eden Park in Cincinnati
  
• Whatever happened to the Sodder children? 
• ​​Rosewood: The town destroyed by a lie
  
• Was Charles Lindbergh involved in killing his own son?
  
• Huffington Post: Removal of the ugly Lucy monster piece statue
  
• Huffington Post: Would you live in a home where someone was murdered?  
  
• Huffington Post: Ghosts of Gettsyburg
  
• Huffington Post: Seven bodies dug up in the middle of an Indiana roadside

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