The filing cabinets of most large law enforcement agencies in the nation are packed with folders that are marked under the label of cold cases. These are the unsolved murder mysteries that keep survivors and detectives awake at night. They may be cold, and often forgotten, but they aren’t quiet. They call out to those who remember the victims and those who tried to find answers where answers were few.
The 1974 calendar year was one of those periods in the Toledo area that recorded a larger than usual number of such homicides. In our April 27 issue, The Press reported on three such murders, one in Ottawa County and two in Sandusky County that appear to be linked — the deaths of Richard Simmons, found in Allen Township, and the deaths of Gilda Paschall and Peggy Townsend, whose killer left their bodies along a rural roadside near Fremont.
This week, we take a look at three other potentially related deaths around that same time…