Marc Hoover
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Marc Hoover is a Hooper award winning columnist for the Clermont Sun newspaper in Ohio. Contact him at [email protected]. Marc also has a podcast called Catch my Killer.
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Julia Wallace: England's most infamous whodunit
This week, I will tell you about one of England’s most baffling cold cases. Although it happened nearly 100 years ago, it hasn’t stopped people from researching the case. For this story, we must go back to 1931 in Liverpool, England. If you’re not familiar with Liverpool, it’s where the legendary Beatles started their musical careers.
By Marc Hoover5 years ago in Criminal
The ghost of Flight 401
According to statistics from the National Safety Council, you have a 1 in 114 chance of meeting your maker in a car crash and a 1 in 9,821 chance of dying in a plane crash. This makes senses since most of us drive in a car daily and may only fly a few times a year if at all.
By Marc Hoover5 years ago in Horror
The unsolved Parma school teacher murders
On Thursday, February 17, 1921, three school-aged children uncovered a grisly site. While walking to school in Parma, Ohio, they came across two bundles of clothing near the road. The curious children approached the bundles for a closer look. What they saw probably haunted them forever. They had just stumbled upon two dead bodies.
By Marc Hoover5 years ago in Criminal
Murdered in Delphi, Indiana
Over three years have passed since best friends Liberty "Libby" German and Abigail "Abby" Williams were murdered. The girls were enjoying themselves and hanging around an old bridge. It's what youngsters do. They love to explore and spend time with friends. Unfortunately, some unknown evil monster abducted and murdered the two teenage girls. I regularly check on the status of this case. Like many others familiar with this case, I want to see justice for these two beautiful girls. Their killer doesn't deserve to be enjoying his life.
By Marc Hoover5 years ago in Criminal
Fireflies
George Moore, Greg “Sparky” Knighten and Richard Goeglein had taken a trip just south of Midlothian, Texas. The three teenagers had just turned off FM875 and into a secluded field. George had driven Knighten and Goeglein to meet an acquaintance to buy some weed. The teenagers put down the back of George’s red pickup truck and sat on the tailgate.
By Marc Hoover5 years ago in Criminal
The stolen life of Bobby Dunbar
If the police took your son and gave him away to another family to appease them, how would you react? How far would you go to get your child returned? Over 100 years ago, a true miscarriage of justice would permanently separate a mother from her child. In April 1913, authorities arrested a traveling handyman named William Cantrell Walters in Mississippi for kidnapping a four-year-old boy named Bobby Dunbar.
By Marc Hoover5 years ago in Criminal
Death in an onion field
On the evening of March 9, 1963, Los Angeles police officer Karl Hettinger and his partner Ian Campbell pulled over a 1946 Ford automobile occupied by two men in dark clothing and caps. The men were ex-convicts Gregory Ulas Powell and Jimmy Lee Smith. Before Hettinger and Campbell could react, Smith stuck a pistol in Officer Campbell’s back. He then ordered Hettinger to turn over his service pistol.
By Marc Hoover5 years ago in Criminal
The spooky legend of Mandy the doll
In 1991, a woman donated an old doll to the Quesnel and District Museum in British Columbia, Canada. She told the museum’s curator the doll was old, and she didn’t want her daughter to play with it. It’s believed the doll is at least a century old.
By Marc Hoover5 years ago in Horror
That's not my son!
Single mother Christine Collins lived in Los Angeles during the 1920s with her nine-year-old son, Walter. His father was incarcerated and not involved in their lives. On March 10, 1928, Walter asked his mother for money to see a movie. During the 1920s, children regularly went to the local theaters during the weekend.
By Marc Hoover5 years ago in Criminal
Robert the doll: Florida's creepiest celebrity
Robert the Doll is considered the scariest doll in the world. If you have never seen him before then I suggest you do a Google search. Robert currently resides in a museum in the Fort East Martello Museum Key West, Florida. He is open to visitors. For this article, I will refer to him as “He” since legend has it that Robert’s alive. He is so popular that he has fans who come from all over the world to visit him. He even has even received more than 1,000 letters and emails from his adoring fans.
By Marc Hoover5 years ago in Horror
The eyes of a killer
According to Shakespeare, “Hell is empty and all the devils are here.” Today, those infamous words still apply. The world is full of evil monsters. If you don’t believe me, then pick up a newspaper or do a Google search and you will find it all over the planet. Since the dawn of time, people have committed heinous acts against one another for the sake of greed, lust and many other reasons. Most people, however, will spend their entire life without knowing anyone on death row.
By Marc Hoover5 years ago in Criminal
