CLEVELAND, Ohio -- As we showed you earlier this month, the Buckeye state has its share of famous natives. There's actors, businessmen, philanthropists, war heroes and industrialists, but there's another side, a seedier side that includes criminals, mass murderers, crooked politicians and cult leaders.

We set out to identify and answer the question: "Who is the most notorious person from each county?" Cleveland.com compiled what we believe is the definitive list of the most infamous person from each of Ohio's 88 counties.

It wasn't easy. It spurred a lot of debate, but we've come up with what we think is the most complete list of current and former Ohioans who are known for all the wrong reasons.

We didn't simply focus on convicted criminals (although the list has its share), instead we decided to focus on people who were noteworthy for nefarious reasons, but who were not necessarily found guilty of a crime.

Some of the counties were more difficult than others. There's at least one county we believe the most notorious person still hasn't been identified and remains at large.

Our methodology was subjective, so if you think you have a better suggestion, please let us know in the comments section or by emailing crime@cleveland.com.

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The most notorious person from each of Ohio's 88 counties

By Evan Macdonald

Cleveland.com

Sept. 28, 2016

Charles Manson, Jeffrey Dahmer and Ariel Castro are just a few of the criminals who've called Ohio home. But the state's history also includes notorious figures such as bank robber John Dillinger and Watergate cover-up artist John Dean.

Cleveland.com has assembled a list of notorious figures from each of Ohio's 88 counties. The list includes people who were born in, lived in or committed a notable act in each county.

Cleveland.com reporter Patrick Cooley contributed to this story.

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Adams County

Randle Lee Roberts II shot and killed four family members, including an 11-year-old girl, in 2011 in West Union. Roberts then drove to his mother's house in Columbus and got into a shootout with police. The shootout left three police officers and a civilian injured and ended in Roberts' death, according to The Associated Press.

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Allen County

Jerenique Cunningham and Cleveland Jackson have been sentenced to death for the execution-style killings of a 17-year-old girl and a 3-year-old girl in 2002. The pair also shot six others during a drug-related robbery in Lima.

Cunningham and Jackson are in custody at the Chillicothe Correctional Institution.

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Ashland County

The 40-year-old Shawn Grate was arrested in September 2016 and is charged with aggravated murder in the deaths of two women. He is also a suspect in several other deaths, officials said. Grate could face the death penalty if he is convicted.

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Ashtabula County

Ashtabula County

Six members of the Jeanette McAdams’ family mysteriously fell ill and died from 1848 to 1851. Historians believe McAdams — described as a peculiar girl with cold eyes — poisoned their food.

McAdams disappeared before the Civil War and is rumored to have joined the Confederate Army as a spy, according to The Star-Beacon.

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Athens County

James Litteral became the first Athens County convict to be executed in 1930. Litteral killed and robbed a former World War I veteran the previous year. Litteral then relocated to Oregon, but investigators tracked him down and he confessed to the killing, according to a 1929 edition of The Athens Messenger.

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Auglaize County

An Auglaize County jury acquitted Kim Anderson after she claimed self-defense in the Sept. 2, 2001 shooting death of her second husband. She testified that Brent Anderson attacked her after she accused him of molesting their son, according to The Toledo Blade.

A Franklin County civil jury later rejected the argument that she had been in imminent danger and ordered her to pay $540,000 to Brent Anderson’s family.

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Belmont County

Democrat Wayne Hays served in U.S. House of Representatives from 1949 to 1976 and was known for his firm rule of the Committee on House Administration. But his undoing came after former secretary Elizabeth Ray told The Washington Post that she had been hired to be Hays’ mistress. Hays was stripped of his committee chairmanship and resigned months later.

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Brown County

Joy Major Hoop hired Carl G. Lindsey to kill her husband on Feb. 10, 1997. Lindsey shot Donald Hoop twice in the head outside the Mount Orab bar owned by Hoop and her husband.

Lindsey has been sentenced to death and remains in custody at the Chillicothe Correctional Institution. Joy Hoop is also serving 25 years in prison for her role in the murder.

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Butler County

Butler County native and former hospital orderly Donald Harvey killed at least 37 people with cyanide, arsenic and suffocation in Kentucky and Ohio, according to The New York Times. The self-described “angel of death” claims he killed terminally ill or mortally injured patients to end their suffering from 1970 to 1987.

Harvey is in custody at the Chillicothe Correctional Institution after he pleaded guilty to avoid the death penalty. He’ll be 91 years old when he’s eligible for parole in 2043.

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Carroll County

In 1897, the Ohio National Guard shot and killed two men and wounded seven others while defending Charles Mitchell, a black man sentenced to 20 years in prison for assaulting a white woman in Urbana. Sheriff's deputies called in the guardsmen to protect Mitchell from a mob outside the jail, according to The New York Times.

The mob eventually overwhelmed deputies and guardsmen and lynched Mitchell outside the jail.

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Champaign County

Kevin Neal has been sentenced to life in prison for the 1997 murders of his 11-year-old stepdaughter and his 4-year-old stepson. Their bodies were found days later in a field near a local cemetery. A Champaign County jury convicted Neal at trial in 2000.

The case was featured in a 2009 episode of the Investigation Discovery series "Forensics: You Decide," according to The Springfield News-Sun.

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Clark County

Juan Kinley hacked his girlfriend and her 12-year-old son to death with a machete on Jan. 10, 1989. Kinley remains on Ohio's death row following his 1991 conviction.

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Clermont County

Dovie Blanche Dean — along with "Arsenic" Anna Marie Hahn and Betty Butler — is one of three women executed in Ohio since 1900. She used arsenic to poison her husband shortly before he died Aug. 22, 1952 at their farm in Owensville. Dean died two years later by electrocution, according to The Clermont Sun.

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Clinton County

James Goff has been sentenced to death for the Sept. 15, 1994 murder of 88-year-old Myrtle Rutledge at her house in Wilmington. Goff had delivered furniture to the house earlier that day and went back to commit a robbery, according to court records.

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Columbiana County

The notorious bank robber Charles Arthur "Pretty Boy" Floyd committed crimes across the U.S. and became the FBI's Public Enemy No. 1 after John Dillinger's death in 1934. Historians are divided as to whether Floyd participated in the Kansas City massacre that killed four law enforcement officers in 1933.

But FBI agent Melvin Purvis pursued Floyd to a farm outside East Liverpool. The resulting gunfight ended in Floyd’s death on Oct. 22, 1934.

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Coshocton County

The Coshocton farm where Cletus Reese buried the bodies of three men he killed became known as “Murder Ridge.”

Detectives arrested Reese — a diagnosed schizophrenic released to his sister’s care — in 1954 while investigating the disappearance of a car salesman found buried at the farm. Reese spent 11 years in a state asylum before he died in 1966, according to the New York Daily News.

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Crawford County

Donald Hoffman was sentenced to life in prison for the 2014 murders of four older men with health problems. Hoffman beat one man with a frying pan, strangled two others with an electrical cord and shoelaces and attacked a fourth with a pry bar. The motive was a robbery to pay for cocaine, prosecutors said.

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Cuyahoga County

Ariel Castro's kidnapping of Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus attracted international attention when the women escaped his Cleveland house in 2013. Castro kidnapped the three women from 2002 to 2004 and imprisoned them in his basement.

Castro pleaded guilty and was subsequently sentenced to life plus 1,000 years in prison.

He committed suicide a month into his prison term.

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Darke County

Investigators found 11 bodies buried at Herb Baumeister’s farm outside Indianapolis in 1996. Baumeister is also suspected of killing approximately 10 others and leaving their bodies along the Interstate 70 corridor to Columbus — including in Darke and Preble counties.

Baumeister escaped to Ontario, Canada and committed suicide before police could take him into custody, according to The New York Times.

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Defiance County

Oakwood resident Judith Hawkey was sentenced to life in prison for ordering her then-10-year-old stepson to shoot her husband in 2003. But Ohio's Third District Court of Appeals ruled earlier this year that she should receive a new trial because her conviction had been largely based on the boy's testimony, according to The Toledo Blade.

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Delaware County

Gerald Hand remains on death row for the killing of his fourth wife Jill Hand and his friend Lonnie Welch in 2002. Hand claimed he shot Welch in self-defense after Welch broke into his house and shot his wife.

Welch conspired with Hand in the unsolved murders of Hand’s first two wives in 1976 and 1979, witnesses said at trial.

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Erie County

Canadian businessman Ollie Mastronardi served nearly four years in prison for the drunken boating accident that killed Scott Brabander in 1995.

Brabander had been fishing with his parents near Kelley’s Island when Mastronardi rammed their boat with his speedboat. Mastronardi and his insurance company also paid $3 million to Brabander’s family, according to The Plain Dealer.

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Fairfield County

David Lance Bruce is serving a lifetime prison sentence for the murders of three women in Fairfield and Delaware counties during a three-month span in 2004 and 2005. Bruce stabbed and strangled the three women, all of whom were known prostitutes, according to court records.

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Fayette County

Bloomingburg native and former Ohio State and NFL quarterback Art Schlichter is perhaps best known for throwing the decisive interception in the 1978 Gator Bowl. Legendary coach Woody Hayes was fired for punching Clemson linebacker Charlie Bauman in the aftermath.

Schlichter’s gambling addiction dogged him throughout his life and led to multiple stints in prison. He is currently serving nearly 11 years for his role in a million-dollar sports ticket fraud.

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Franklin County

Former U.S. Rep. Donald Edgar "Buz" Lukens served two terms before a sex scandal ended his career in 1990. Lukens was caught on camera the previous year discussing sex with a 16-year-old girl. A Franklin County jury convicted him of contributing to the delinquency of a minor, a misdemeanor, and he served nine days of a 30-day jail sentence.

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Fulton County

James Worley is charged with murder in the death of college student Sierah Joughin, who was found in a shallow grave on July 22, 2016. Worley had already been charged with abducting the 20-year-old girl when officials found her body.

Joughin's murder has garnered attention from outlets such as People and The Daily Mail. Worley is scheduled to stand trial next year.

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Gallia Couty

U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Geoffrey D. Miller served as commander of detention camps at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba and Abu Ghraib in Iraq. The Gallipolis native refused to testify in court marshal cases from the Abu Ghraib scandal and retired in 2006.

In 2006, a German attorney filed a complaint accusing Miller of crimes against humanity, but he was never charged.

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Geauga County

Chardon High School shooter T.J. Lane killed three students and wounded three others when he opened fire at the school on Feb. 27, 2012. Lane further incensed victims’ families and the community when he smirked and wore a shirt with the word “killer” written on it at his sentencing hearing.

Lane and two other inmates escaped prison in Lima on Sept. 11, 2014 but he was found hours later a short distance from the facility. Lane is now incarcerated at the maximum-security Southern Ohio Correctional Facility.

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Greene County

Columbine High School shooter Eric David Harris attended first and second grade at Valley Elementary School in Beavercreek while his father worked at the Wright Air Force Base, according to The Denver Post.

The family relocated twice more before moving to Littleton, Colorado in 1993.

Harris and Dylan Klebold opened fire at their high school on April 20, 1999, killing 13 people and wounding two-dozen others before committing suicide.

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Guernsey County

Marvin Johnson is awaiting execution on Ohio's death row for the Aug. 15, 2003 rape and robbery of his ex-girlfriend and the murder of her son. Johnson threatened the woman with a knife and forced her to give him $1,000, claiming her son had been kidnapped. The woman later found the boy bludgeoned to death in her house.

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Hamilton County

Charles Manson was born in Cincinnati but spent the better part of his childhood in West Virginia and various correctional institutions. Manson later relocated to California and formed the cult responsible for nine murders in 1969.

Manson was initially sentenced to death before a 1972 ruling abolished capital punishment in California. He is now serving nine consecutive life sentences at Corcoran State Prison.

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Hancock County

Daniel Bixler has been sentenced to 40 years to life in prison for the 2011 murder of a Findlay woman. Bixler and his girlfriend — who has also been convicted in the killing — lured the victim to a set of railroad tracks before Bixler stabbed her, according to Toledo's WTOL-11.

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Hardin County

Hardin County resident Terry D. Shepherd is serving three life sentences for the 2008 murders of two women there and one in adjacent Wyandot County. Shepherd previously served 21 years in prison for a 1985 rape conviction, according to The Columbus Dispatch.

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Harrison County

Hopedale resident Matthew Dowdel committed Harrison County's first murder in more than a decade when he killed Joe Strother in 2014. Dowdel has been sentenced to 30 years to life in prison.

His accomplice Eve Irene Kelley is serving more than 15 years in prison for her role in the murder.

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Henry County

Civil War general Robert Kingston Scott is best known for his tenure as South Carolina’s governor and his sensational murder trial. Scott grew up in Henry County and later returned to Ohio, where he was charged with killing a man believed to be harboring his teenage son. Scott claimed his gun accidentally fired and was acquitted at trial in 1881.

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Highland County

Wesley Coonrod has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for the deaths of his two young sons in an April 7, 2010 house fire. Prosecutors said the Greenfield man set the fire that killed the 4- and 3-year-old boys, but a jury was hung on aggravated murder and arson charges.

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Hocking County

Chester McKnight shot and killed Todd Schultz and Annette Cooper in 1982 in Logan. Then he and another man cut up their bodies and buried parts along the Hocking River.

McKnight was arrested in 2008 and subsequently confessed to the slayings. He has been sentenced to life in prison.

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Holmes County

Herbert Meeker, who went to the electric chair in 1933, is the last person executed from the Tuscarawas Valley, according to The Times-Reporter. Meeker killed his wife Gertrude Meeker the previous year with a tire pump while they were riding in his car.

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Huron County

Husband and wife Michael and Sharon Gravelle adopted 11 special needs children but kept them in cages at their Clarksfield Township home. They were indicted in 2003 and later pleaded guilty to child abuse charges. Each served two years in prison.

The incident led Ohio legislatures to make changes to the state’s adoption laws.

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Jackson County

Jackson County

Federal agents captured Reese Bailey during a 1935 shootout at a Jackson County farmhouse. Bailey had previously been linked to the murder of a U.S. marshal, a bank robbery in the state of Washington and an escape from a prison in North Carolina.

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Jefferson County

Steubenville High School football players Ma'lik Richmond and Trent Mays — both 16 at the time — were convicted in juvenile court for the Aug. 11, 2012 rape of a West Virginia girl. The pair served time in juvenile detention centers and have since been released.

Former superintendent Mike McVey had also been accused of misleading authorities investigating the case. But the Ohio Attorney General’s Office dropped the charges in exchange for his resignation.

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Knox County

Matthew Hoffman avoided the death penalty by pleading guilty to the 2010 murders of two women and an 11-year-old boy. Hoffman hid their bodies inside a tree in the Kokosing Lake Wildlife Area, according to The Columbus Dispatch.

Hoffman is incarcerated at the Allen Correctional Institution and is not eligible for parole.

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Lake County

The Kirtland cult leader claimed God commanded him to kill the five members of the Avery family on April 17, 1989. The cult duct-taped the victims, tossed them into a grave and shot them, according to The Plain Dealer.

Jeffrey Lundgren and nine others were the subject of a nationwide manhunt that ended in their arrests near the California border to Mexico. Lundgren was executed in 2006.

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Lawrence County

Nine people died and 11 others were injured after Todd Hall tossed a lit cigarette into a fireworks store on July 3, 1996. Hall, who suffered a brain injury as a child, was ruled incompetent to stand trial. He died in 2015 after spending nearly two decades in a behavioral health facility in Athens, according to The Daily Independent.

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Licking County

Bob Ney served six terms in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1995 to 2006 before resigning amid the investigation into the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal. The Republican and former chairman of the House Administration Committee had been known as “Mayor of Capitol Hill” before he pleaded guilty to corruption charges. He spent two and a half years in prison and was released in 2008.

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Logan County

Scott Moody shot and killed his mother, his grandparents and two friends at his family's Bellefontaine farmhouse on May 29, 2005. The 18-year-old then killed himself. Investigators never disclosed a motive for the massacre, according to The Columbus Dispatch.

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Lorain County

Daniel Petric was just 16 years old when he shot and killed his parents after they forbade him from playing Halo 3 on Oct. 20, 2007. The Wellington resident claimed he had a video game addiction and that he had been playing the game 18 hours per day. In 2009, a Lorain County judge sentenced him to at least 23 years in prison.

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Lucas County

Former Lucas County Republican Party chairman Tom Noe is serving 18 years in prison for taking $13.7 million from $50 million the state's Bureau of Worker's Compensation invested in rare-coin funds. The Toledo Blade's coverage of the Coingate scandal showed how Noe used cash and gifts to curry favor with state officials.

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Madison County

John C. Stojetz has been sentenced to death for masterminding the murder of a black inmate at the Madison Correction Facility. Stojetz headed the Aryan Brotherhood at the prison, court records show. He and five other inmates used shanks to threaten a guard during a break-in to the 17-year-old victim's cell on April 25, 1996.

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Mahoning County

Former U.S. Rep. Jim Traficant saw his career end in disgrace in 2002. He then spent seven years in prison for taking bribes, racketeering and filing false tax returns.

In 1980, the FBI charged the then-Mahoning County sheriff of accepting bribes from mobsters. But Traficant was acquitted after he told a jury he had been conducting a secret sting operation.

Traficant died in 2014 of injuries from a tractor accident at his daughter’s farm.

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Marion County

John Dean was born in Akron and grew up in Marion before he served as counsel to President Richard Nixon. Dean later spent four years in prison for his role in the Watergate cover-up that ended in the president's resignation. He later became an investment banker and author.

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Medina County

Steven Cepec has been sentenced to death for the June 3, 2010 murder of Paul Munz in Chatham Township. Cepec became the first person to receive the death penalty in Medina County in 60 years, according to The Medina Gazette.

Cepec bludgeoned Munz with a hammer before he strangled him with a lamp cord, records show. Cepec has appealed the death sentence to the Ohio Supreme Court.

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Meigs County

John Hedrick killed seven people before being executed in 1926 for the murder of James McCumber of Meigs County. His crimes occurred in Ohio and West Virginia.

Hedrick died by electrocution, according to The Athens Messenger.

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Mercer County

Farmhand Louis Hand — executed at 17 years old in 1944 — is among the youngest people executed in state history. Hand received the death penalty for killing a 7-year-old boy with a hammer in Rockford.

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Miami County

Jacob Nesbitt strangled his wife on Feb. 11, 1926. The Troy resident claimed he found Frances Nesbitt dead in a bathtub but eventually confessed to the murder. Jacob Nesbitt initially received a lifetime prison sentence but was released after 10 years, according to the New York Daily News.

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Monroe County

Ralph Ash has been sentenced to 22 years to life in prison for the murder of his ex-wife Tracy Heskett of Lewisville. Investigators found the body of Heskett — who disappeared on Valentine's Day in 2015 — in a burn barrel on Ash's property. A Monroe County jury convicted Ash at trial and a judge handed down his sentence in January 2016.

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Montgomery County

Prohibition-era gangster Adelard Cunin — better known as Bugs Moran — rose to prominence in Chicago. But he was arrested in 1946 for his involvement in a Dayton robbery. Moran spent most of the rest of his life in prison before dying in custody in 1957.

Seven members of Moran’s gang were killed in the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre of 1929 in Chicago. Moran’s rival Al Capone likely ordered the killings.

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Morgan County

Travis Lee Fischer was just 17 years old when he raped and killed a woman authorities described as being like a mother to him. Fischer killed Abi Matthews at her Malta home in 2009.

Fischer has been sentenced to life in prison for the murder.

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Morrow County

Shane Roush has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for his role in a shootout that seriously injured a Morrow County Sheriff's deputy in 2010. Detectives said Roush had more than 1,000 marijuana plants growing behind his rural home. Roush was wearing a bulletproof vest and armed with an assault rifle when he opened fire on deputies, according to WBNS-10TV.

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Muskingum County

Magnolia resident Thomas Lee Dillon shot and killed five men during a three-year period from 1989 to 1992. The murders occurred in Belmont, Coshocton, Muskingum, Noble and Tuscarawas counties. Dillon was arrested on weapons charges in 1992 and later pleaded guilty to the murders to avoid the death penalty.

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Noble County

Frederick Mundt has been sentenced to death for the 2004 kidnapping, rape and murder of his girlfriend's 7-year-old daughter. He claimed the girl went missing and even volunteered to help search for her before she was found dead in a well. Mundt's DNA linked him to the crime.

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Ottawa County

Ottawa County

Lillian "Ginger" Tailford Belt spent nearly two decades overseeing a popular brothel in Ottawa County. But federal agents arrested the notorious madam during a 1971 raid at her Round the Clock Grille. Belt pleaded guilty to tax evasion and prostitution charges and spent four years in a federal prison in Arizona, according to The Toledo Gazette.

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Paulding County

Charles Hart became one of Paulding County's earliest recorded executions when he hanged in 1895. The previous year he lured a 9-year-old boy and his 7-year-old sister into the woods. He then raped the girl before beheading both of the children, according to the website Forgotten Ohio.

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Perry County

Patrick Pidock has been sentenced to 18 years to life in prison for the 2012 murder of his girlfriend in New Lexington. Pidock pleaded guilty to fatally shooting Suzanne Brown in her apartment. He offered no reason for the murder, according to the Perry County Tribune.

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Pickaway County

Cleo Vernon Keaton was sentenced to death for the 1965 killing of a Williamsport man while he was fleeing charges related to the slaying of two men in a Dayton bar, according to a 1967 edition of The Ottumwa Courier.

But the state of Ohio did not execute anyone from 1963 to 1999, and Keaton is not listed in state Department of Rehabilitation and Correction execution records.

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Pike County

Investigators are still searching for the person or persons who killed eight members of the Rhoden family on April 22, 2016. Seven adults and a teenage boy were found shot to death at four homes in the southern Ohio community.

The FBI, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and U.S. Department of Homeland Security have worked with the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation and other agencies on the investigation.

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Portage County

Michelle Bica kidnapped the pregnant Theresa Andrews, shot her and cut her baby from her womb on Sept. 27, 2000 in Ravenna.

Bica had for months told others she was pregnant and claimed the baby as her own. But she shot herself Oct. 2, 2000 as investigators arrived at her home, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette said.

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Preble County

Dennis McGuire's 1989 rape and murder of Joy Stewart earned him a death sentence. But it was his execution that attracted international attention.

McGuire’s family filed a federal lawsuit after he gasped and choked throughout the 24-minute process. The family dropped the lawsuit after Ohio announced it would stop using the two drugs used in the execution.

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Putnam County

Kenneth Richey spent more than two decades on Ohio's death row for setting a fire that killed a 2-year-old girl in 1987. In 2007, he accepted a plea bargain that led to his release from prison and return to his native Scotland. Richey returned to prison in 2012 when, after moving to Mississippi, he drunkenly phoned and threatened a common pleas judge, according to The Toledo Blade.

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Richland County

Christopher Newton died by lethal injection for the 2003 murder of his cellmate at the Mansfield Correctional Institution. Newton strangled the 27-year-old man with a cloth after the two fought over a chess match. Newton wrote a detailed confession letter and claimed he drank the cellmate’s blood, according to The Sandusky Register.

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Ross County

John Warren Parsons shot and killed Chillicothe police officer Larry R. Cox while fleeing a gas station robbery in 2005. Detectives arrested him the next week, but his 2006 escape from prison earned him a spot on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list. Parsons eluded authorities for 83 days before being captured in Chillicothe. He is now serving a sentence of life in prison.

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Sandusky County

Sandusky County Sheriff Kyle Overmyer pleaded not guilty to dozens of drug and theft charges Aug. 24, 2016. The 42-year-old sheriff has refused to resign after being indicted.

Investigators say Overmyer was improperly taking drugs from the drop boxes. They also say he was deceiving doctors and pharmacists to obtain pain medications such as Percocet, and that he misused money for the department and altered records. His trial is set for March 6, 2017.

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Scioto County

Nine inmates and one corrections officer died after 450 inmates rioted and took control of the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility on Easter Sunday in 1993. The prisoners controlled the Lucasville facility for 11 days — the longest prison uprising in U.S. history — before authorities regained control.

The state of Ohio later paid $4.1 million to inmate victims who said overcrowding and mismanagement led to the uprising, according to The Cincinnati Enquirer.

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Seneca County

Notorious bank robber John Dillinger and his gang hit a Fostoria bank in 1933 and evaded capture, according to the Tiffin Police Department. Dillinger robbed two-dozen banks and four police stations and twice escaped jail before being killed in a shootout outside a Chicago theater in 1934.

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Shelby County

Lawrence Hensley killed three teenage girls and a Bible studies teacher in 1999. He was sentenced to life in prison for those crimes. Hensley later strangled a fellow prison inmate in 2002, according to the Associated Press.

Hensley hanged himself in his cell in 2015.

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Stark County

Former Canton police officer Bobby Lee Cutts killed his ex-girlfriend Jessie Davis and their unborn child in 2007. Davis’ disappearance garnered national attention before her body was found 10 days later in a Summit County park.

Cutts is serving a sentence of life in prison. The U.S. Supreme Court in 2010 refused to hear his appeal.

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Summit County

Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer lived in Bath and graduated in 1978 from Revere High School. Dahmer killed his first victim, Steven Hicks, the same year and buried Hicks’ body behind his house. Dahmer killed 16 others in Wisconsin before being arrested in 1991. Dahmer died in 1994 after a fellow inmate beat him to death in prison.

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Trumbull County

Marie Poling is serving 20 years to life in prison for the 1987 murder of her husband in Howland. Poling and her lover chopped off Richard Poling's head before scattering his body parts across Ohio and Pennsylvania. Marie Poling was denied parole in 2015.

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Tuscarawas County

Dover-born Mark Dean Schwab relocated to Florida, where he raped a 13-year-old boy in 1987 and raped and murdered an 11-year-old boy in 1991. A Florida jury convicted him in 1992 and he died by lethal injection in 2008.

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Union County

Marysville native Nathan Gale killed Damageplan guitarist “Dimebag” Darrell Lance Albert — who earlier founded Pantera — and three others at a Dec. 8, 2004 concert in Columbus. The U.S. Marine Corps veteran also wounded seven people before a security officer shot and killed him.

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Van Wert County

John Spirko Jr. has been sentenced to life in prison for the 1982 murder of Elgin postmaster Betty Jane Mottinger. Former Gov. Ted Strickland cited a lack of physical evidence in the case when he commuted Spirko's death sentence in 2008, according to The Toledo Blade.

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Vinton County

Gregory McKnight has been sentenced to death for the 2000 murder of Kenyon College student Emily Murray. He's also been sentenced to life in prison for the murder of his friend Gregory Julious. Detectives found both bodies on McKnight's property in Vinton County.

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Warren County

Austin Myers became Ohio’s youngest death row inmate when a judge sentenced the 19-year-old to death for the 2014 murder of a childhood friend. Co-defendant Timothy Mosley — who stabbed Justin Back nearly two-dozen times while Myers watched — avoided the death penalty by testifying against Myers. Detectives said Myers planned the murder and robbery.

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Washington County

Warren Township resident Noal Quattlebaum strangled his girlfriend to death in 2008. Quattlebaum was arrested after investigators found her body bound and wrapped in a blanket at their house.

He pleaded guilty to her murder and was sentenced to 15 years to life in prison. Quattlebaum committed suicide in prison in 2013, according to The Marietta Times.

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Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction

Wayne County

Robert Anthony Buell abducted Krista Lea Harrison from a Marshallville park on July 17, 1982. Harrison had been raped and strangled before investigators found her body six days later. Buell received a death sentence and died by lethal injection in 2002.

Buell had also been suspected of killing a 12-year-old girl in 1981 and a 10-year-old girl in 1983. He was never charged in either case but DNA evidence linked him to the older girl's death, according to The Independent.

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Williams County

Fortune-teller Andrew F. Tyler committed the county's first murder and was executed in the county's only recorded hanging in 1849, according to The Bryan Times. He convinced an accomplice to lure a child into the woods and feed her arsenic laced-candy. Tyler concocted a plan to trick people into thinking he could use his "clairvoyant powers" to find the body. But the discovery of his plot led to his execution.

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Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction

Wood County

Bowling Green native Richard Edwin Fox lured Leslie Renae Keckler to a local motel where he strangled and stabbed the 18-year-old woman on Sept. 26, 1989. Her body was found in a ditch days later, and investigators arrested Fox the next month.

Fox received a death sentence and died by lethal injection in 2003.

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Wyandot County Sheriff's Office

Wyandot County

Richard Clark Jr. has been sentenced to life in prison for killing his former girlfriend and another man in 2003. Surveillance video showed him shoot both at a sportsman's association clubhouse in Carey, according to The Courier of Findlay.

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