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🗓️ 10 June 2024
⏱️ 48 minutes
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This is an unusual episode. We cover the 1953 disappearance of Ronald Tammen. We also have an interview with my friend, David Findlay, who has a unique perspective on how a missing person case can impact the community.
Written by Nina Innsted. Audio production by Bill Bert.
#missing #ohio #missingperson #MiamiUniversity
Sources - The Ghost of Oxford, www.RonaldTammen.com , The Charley Project
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0:00.0 | Jennifer vanished sometime in the overnight hours. |
0:04.4 | Right now there is no trace. |
0:06.0 | Investigators say evidence leaves them to believe that she's dead. |
0:09.6 | Stick my nose back on the trail. |
0:11.6 | That's all I can do. This is already gone. |
0:17.0 | All right. For this episode we're going back, way back 70 some years ago to the 1950s, to a missing person's case that has intrigued and |
0:35.3 | tantalized mystery lovers for decades, to a college campus in Western Ohio. Ronald Henry Tammon Jr. was born July 23, |
0:55.0 | 1933. He grew up in Maple Heights, Ohio, a Cleveland suburb. |
1:03.4 | He was the second of five children. |
1:05.8 | His two younger siblings came along much later, |
1:08.6 | so Ron, as he was known, grew up the middle child. |
1:13.0 | His childhood was largely uneventful, |
1:16.0 | and he was known as a nice kid. |
1:18.0 | He was also known for his good looks, |
1:20.0 | looks that were slightly yet endearingly flawed by a crooked front tooth and a |
1:24.9 | cauliflower ear developed after years of wrestling. When Ron got to college |
1:31.6 | he was tall, handsome, athletic, and musically inclined, playing the stand-up bass. |
1:38.0 | It's in college where the mystery develops, because tall, handsome, athletic, and musical Ron was last seen in Old |
1:46.1 | Fisher Hall, a former Victorian-era mental asylum, converted to a dormitory at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio on April 19th, |
1:57.0 | 1953. |
1:59.0 | Not only did Ron live at Fisher Hall, He was also a resident hall advisor. For that |
2:05.1 | school year Ron and his dorm mate Chuck Finley resided in room 225. Room |
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