Richard Jones isn’t a journalist anymore, but he gets just as obsessed with a lead now as he did when was a young reporter back in the Nineties. “I think it even led to my divorce, to be honest with you,” the 56-year-old, now a tech business owner, tells me over a mocha at a Starbucks in the city of East Cleveland, an oasis of normalcy in a downtrodden area dotted with crumbling mansions and guys doing the junkie lean. A former military man with a solid build, a neat goatee, and a fade, the sugary drink looks incongruous in his hands.
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The latest story to get stuck in Jones’ craw? The mysterious murder of Frankie Little, an original member of storied R&B group the O’Jays, who went missing in East Cleveland in the late 1970s. Little wound up as an unidentified bag of bones behind a factory in a small town called Twinsburg years later. He was a John Doe until late 2021, when forensic genealogy revealed his identity. His murder, though, remains unsolved…