Nellie Kampmann
Description
Long forgotten tales of crime and chaos from Ohio's capital city
Every city's history has its dark underbelly of crime. Columbus is no exception. Fro
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m the turn of the century to the dawn of World War I, scandals involving an opium den and a sadistic murderer rocked a respectable downtown community. Around the same time, a cop killer masterminded a plot to free himself from the Franklin County jail by having his gang attempt to blow the place up with nitroglycerin. In 1946, dead bodies kept popping up after a prim, young teacher disappeared from a quiet Grandview Heights neighborhood. Two years later, a middle-aged housewife was killed with a butcher knife the same day that a tattooed mystery woman was found knifed to death in a downtown hotel.
Join Nellie Kampmann as she explores the back alleys of Arch City history.
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