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Summer’s Almost Gone, Prelude
Prelude: A Memory of the Future Wednesday, September 21, 1966 She is late, terrified and drunk. At nearly 10:30 PM, Linda knows she’s in trouble. Jerry’s car sits in the driveway – she can’t believe he’s home early from that stag party. Why? He was with his boss, who always stays for last call. Linda […]
Bricca Case File: The Unusual Suspects
As I continue forward with my Bricca case opus (Author’s note: just released!), I remain amazed at the number of West Side veterinarians pulled into the investigation. The most notorious suspect (both then and now), was of course, Fred Leininger. Linda Bricca’s recent employer, with whom she had reportedly been seen on Lover’s Lanes in the […]
Ted Bundy’s First Victim? The Vanishing of Ann Marie Burr
(This article was previously published in Snitch Magazine and the Clews historic true crime website.) She was an innocent blond child who got into the wind, snatched from her home in the dead of night and carried off into oblivion. He was a handsome stranger spinning a web, hiding a wicked serial killer who […]
The Bricca Mystery… And Nobody Is Talking
49 years ago this month, the Gerald Bricca family was murdered in what would become the most notorious and obsessive cold case in Queen City history. Jerry Bricca, wife Linda, and daughter Debbie were found stabbed to death on Greenway Avenue in the Bridgetown neighborhood of Cincinnati. Going down between the 4th and 5th murders […]