One day in 1981, an editor asked then-Dispatch State Desk reporter Robin Yocum if he’d like to switch from covering rural Ohio and move to a coveted job on the newspaper’s City/Metro Desk.
"Everyone has a story to tell and these are lives — these people had relationships and friends and family, and I think it is important to never lose sight of the human tragedy of all this,” Yocum said of the victims."The stories aren’t just about a name. It's a real person." Police arrested an Ohio State University veterinary professor, James Snook, who was having an affair with Hix.
On Sept. 20, 1982, someone abducted 8-year-old Kelly Ann Prosser as she walked home from Indianola Elementary School. Her body was found in a field south of Plain City two days later. She had been beaten, sexually assaulted and strangled. Jarrell died in Las Vegas in 1996 at the age of 67. He would have been 53 at the time of Prosser's abduction. There is no forensic evidence tying him to any other crimes in Columbus, police said.This one had everything: Millions of dollars in play, fraud, sex, an international manhunt, even a man who went by an alias of Wolfgang Von Snowden. And that was just for starters.
However, the insurance company began to question the identity of the dead man. Eventually, all three men were caught.For nearly a year between 2002 and 2003, drivers on Interstate 270 were fearful of being shot while driving. Two dozen incidents were reported of vehicles being struck, along with buildings by bullets from a rifle.
Evidence showed that the two suspects, identified as 16-year-old Jordyn Wade and 27-year-old Robert Adams Jr., forced the victims into the basement of the home to rob them. The surviving victimWade's case was transferred to adult court and he was found guilty at trial in 2016. He was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for more than 170 years.
The second case, occurring almost exactly 10 years later, involved Joey LaBute, who disappeared after enjoying a night out at Union Cafe in the Short North. LaBute's body surfaced in the Scioto River several weeks later. A cause of death has not been determined.
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