Thursday, September 10, 2026

Crimes That Have a Long Time Line

Harrison Township, O. (1973)

01/13/1973: At first, the babysitter, 17, reported a triple murder. Then police charged her with the murders of the mother and her two children. A trial eventually exonerated her. The gun used to murder the mother was later linked to another murder that took place while the babysitter was in jail. Motive remains uncertain, but the mother was naked, and the other person murdered with that gun was also female. In 1979, police hypothesized that these deaths, as well as four others, were the work of “a multipersonality person.” It remains an open case to this day.

Category: family non-resident

Suicide: no

Cause: mental illness

Weapon: knife, firearm[1]



[1] "Woman, Children Slain," [Springfield, O.] Springfield News-Sun, Jan. 14, 1973 14; “Girl, 17, Held in Triple Murder,” [Washington Court House, O.] Record Herald, Jan. 24, 1973, 2; “Buck Slayings Remain No. 1 Case a Year Later,” Dayton Daily News, Jan. 13, 1974 , 2; “.Two Six-Year-Old Slayings Get New Probes,:” Dayton Daily News, Oct. 21, 1979, A-16; Unsolved Homicides: Gloria Buck,” https://ohioattorneygeneral.gov/Files/Law-Enforcement/Investigator/Cold-Case/Homicides/Buck-1.


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