I went through this forum and gathered details on as many of the potential victims as I could find. I will keep looking, but here are my notes so far:
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KENNETH ROTH TIMELINE
- April, 1968, @ 18 years old, ran away from Ohio farm
- 5/15/1968, Murdered taxi driver James E. Long with Dale Albert Chase (18) & Douglas Mark DeWit (19) by shooting. Robbed $27.11
- 1968, Prison, life sentence in KS.
- 1981, District Judge Fred Jackson found that the welfare of the general public would not be jeopardized if Roth's sentence were reduced
- 1985, Paroled, moved to Ohio
- 1988, Discharged from parole
- Lived on farm in Osnaburg, OH
- 20 acres of land
- Big hole that he threw trash into
- Sold leather @ Hartville Flea Market
- Drove pink 1963 Mercury
- Drove Honda Gold Wing motorcycle
- Biker name “Cona”
- 1998-2002, prison
- 2015-2017 (?) prison @ Elkton Correctional Facility in Lisbon OH.
- 2017-present, prison @ Lorain Correctional Facility
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POTENTIAL VICTIMS
[] = unknown
[x] = not possible/very unlikely
[?] = unlikely
[~] = worth further consideration
[!] = likely
[*] = charged
[*] 5/15/1968: James Long
- Shot & robbed
- Topeka KS, 1968
- Taxi Driver
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1968-1985 KENNETH ROTH IN PRISON
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[~] 1/2/1985: Patricia Ann Stichler
- Violent assault & murder
- Age 30
- Sylvania, Ohio
- The thirty year old victim's mostly nude body was found by responding units on the floor of her bedroom with numerous stab wounds
- 5000 block of Brinthaven Road
[~] 8/10/1985: Clara J. Socha
- Stabbed
- Age 63
- Stark County
[!] 9/19/1985: Kay Gulosh
- Raped, strangled & stabbed
- Harmont Ave near Columbus Dr
[?] 11/18/1985: Princess Doll Murdock
- Found murdered in the bathtub, she was beaten and her throat was cut.
- Age 23
- Whitehall, Ohio
- 3574 East Main Street
- Murdock worked for a local escort service.
[~] 11/29/1985: Angelina Matthews:
- Very violent altercation and murder
- Age 33
- Columbus, Ohio
- was talking on the phone to a family member and an altercation was overheard. The phone went dead and Matthews was found deceased inside her residence.
[] 1/2/1986: Alfreida Lidowski
[?] 1/19/1986: Pamela Montgomery
- Stabbed
- Age 27
- Apartment on Granada Blvd
- Warrensville heights
[~] 4/4/1986: Karen Moore
- Stabbed
- Age 26
- Columbus, Ohio
- 719 S. Ohio Avenue
[~] 4/7/1987: Nadine Frank:
- Stabbed
- Age 38
- Thurman and Wilson, Columbus, Ohio
- Suffered stab wounds to her leg, arm, back and chest.
[~] 4/7/1987: Flora Jackson
- Strangled & Stabbed
- Age 26
- Stark County
[x] 6/26/1987: Anna Florence:
- Stabbed
- Age 77
- Columbus, Ohio
- Linda Cook confessed to the murder
[~] 7/5/1987: Carrie Pearl Shelton
- Stabbed
- Age 37
- Stark County
[~] 8/10/1987: Janice Christensen,
- Stabbed & raped
- 37 years old
- Found on hiking trail in Hudson Township near Cuyahoga Falls
- Being investigated by Hudson Detective Kaija Jeante
[] 10/15/1987: Carrie Walker
- Stabbed
- Age 85
- Columbus, Ohio (Franklin County)
[~] 10/21/1987: JoAnn Bartholomew
- Raped & stabbed
- 47 years old
- Found in woods behind Chapel Hill Mall
[~] 11/7/1987: Peggy Benton
- Stabbed
- Age 59
- Stark County
[?] 12/14/1987: Marcia Piotter, 36
- Stabbed, not raped
- Apartment complex in Northwest Akron
[?] 12/20/1987: Barbara Blatnik, 17
- Raped & strangled
- Found @ Blossom music ctr
- nude body was found dumped alongside of the road near Blossom Music Center, Cuyahoga Falls. Blatnik was last seen alive shortly after midnight on 12/20/1987 at Warner Road and Grand Division in Garfield Heights, Ohio.
- Her injuries were consistent with being strangled.
[] 1/26/1988: Eileen Faye Zarlenga
- Abducted from home (?) and then raped & stabbed
- Age 29
- Girard, OH
[] 6/8/1988: Rosalee Auskings
- Stabbed
- Age 39
- Columbus, Ohio
[] 10/25/1988: Claudette Brown
- Stabbed
- Age 26
- Stark County
[~] 4/21/1989: Helen Stuart
- Age 72
- S.R. 16 near S.R. 668
- found nude and deceased in the back seat of her silver four-door 1981 Ford Fairmont.
- abduction and homicide potentially occurred at the victim's residence in Newark and her body was then transported to the dump sight.
- Stuart was sexually assaulted and strangled to death.
[x] 10/27/1989: Amy Mihaljevic
- Bay Village
- Age 10
- Kidnapped, raped(?), stabbed
[] 12/18/1989: Shirley Pearson-Divens
- Stabbed in the neck and throat
- Age 51
- Columbus, Ohio
[!] Easter, 1991: Patricia Murphy
- Raped & strangled
- Fulton & Wertz, Apt 4
- Worked at Solid Gold Tanning Salon and Cronie's
[] 11/?/1992: Tracy R. Harkness
- Robbed, raped, bludgeoned > 40 times
- Violent homicide in home
- No signs of forced entry
- Age 24
- Grove City, OH
[~] 6/8/1993: Felita Farr
- Throat cut
- Age 26
- Stark County
[!] 8/23/1993: Julia Harbourt
- Raped & shot
- Downing St SW in Pike Township on
- worked at Rold Gold
- Ran Short Stop Inn on Navarre Rd
[] 8/20/1994: Kathryn Menendez
[~] 8/22/1995: Helen Yvonne Durette
- Stabbed
- Age 28
- Stark County
[~] 8/25/1996: Angela Hamilton
- Stabbed
- Age 35
- Stark County
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1998 KENNETH ROTH GOES TO PRISON
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[x] 2/3/2000: Betty Mosley
- COD not disclosed
- 56 years old
- Found @ home on Burbank Ave.
[x] 10/4/2000: Dorothy Jean Grant
- COD not disclosed
- 79 years old
- Decomposed body was discovered by her brother in her Mount View Ave home, Akron
[x] 10/5/2001: Jean Zienka (45)
- Strangled?
- Found in home on Akers Ave.
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2002 KENNETH ROTH LEAVES PRISON
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[] 7/8/2003: Dana Oates
- Stabbed
- Age 41
- Stark County
[] 7/17/2003: Sharon Litchfield
- “Not an obvious homicide”
- 59 years old
- Found @ home on Merton Ave, Akron
[~] 3/13/2004: Naomi Fails
- Stabbed
- Age 40
- Stark County
[] 11/19/2004: Jeanice Galliher:
- Stabbed and house was set on fire
- Age 45
[] 3/23/2006: Nancy Belew
- Stabbed to death in her home
- Age 33
- Cincinnati, Ohio
[] 11/27/2006: Dorothy Jervis
- COD not disclosed
- Fire in apartment after death
- 70 years old
[] 5/4/2007: Eveline D. Ashbaugh
- Found stabbed to death in her home
- Age 51
- Delaware, OH
[x] ?/?/2007 Bennie Angelo
- Age 87
- Male victim
- Robbed and beaten to death
- Chester R. Crank convicted on “drunken confession” as only evidence.
[] ?/?/2007: Angela M. Kilgore
[] ?/?/2007: Cecelia Hann:
- This one is interesting... her and her husband both died in a fire
- Summit, Ohio
[] 6/10/2008: Angela Lee Hanaway
- Mad River (found floating)
- Near Springfield (Clark County)
- Age 35
- Homicide, very violent death
[?] 1/1/2009: Barbara Chillious
- found dead in her home (COD not stated)
- 394 Douglas Ave. Akron, Ohio
- Age 53
[] 1/18/2009: Priscilla Dawn Hickman
- Strangled, hidden in closet
- age 46
- Heath, Ohio
- Detailed description of a potential suspect listed on the Ohio Attorney General Site. Check it on out
- The man also has several tattoos, including a skeleton on his arm, spider web on his elbow, and a woodpecker with a cigar in its mouth on his chest.
[?] 4/26/2009: Diane Mitchell-McMillan
- shot dead through her open front door.
- Age 55
- Jessie Avenue North Akron
- Does not match MO at all.
[*] 12/11/2009: Linda Van Voorhis Smith
- Strangled & raped
- orchard view dr SE
[?] 12/23/2009: Grace S. Kennedy
- Found in bed beaten to death.
- Age 91
- Not sexually assaulted
- Murder weapon left behind
- 407 John St., Bryan, OH
- POI failed lie detector
- James Robert Engle lives in same town, murdered a librarian in 1946 because he was overcome with a desire to kill.
[] 3/12/2010: Rebecca Lynn Carroll
- Found floating, death ruled homicide
- Hillard, OH (Franklin County)
- Age 32
[x] 8/5/2010: Gwendolyn Hoisten
- shot in her home after opening the front door.
- Age 48
- Akron, Ohio
- According to police reports, Hoisten stabbed a 23-year-old man who lived just doors away from her. The incident occurred July 29 at about 1:45 a.m. No charges had been filed.
- Hoisten and the neighbor were arguing outside her home. As Hoisten went inside, the man followed her, forced open the front door and threatened to harm her.
[] 11/8/2010: Peggy Kline
- Cheviot, Oh (Hamilton County)
- Found on the floor next to her bed with several stab wounds.
[x] ?/?/2012: Celeste Fronsman
- Raped, Strangled, & burned
- sister of Sarah Gulosh
- prostitute
- daughter of K. Gulosh
- raped, Strangled, and burned in Zanesville, OH
- Katrina Marie Culberson & Monica Washington confessed, LaFonse Dixon (male) convicted
[] Summer, 2013: “A few other jobs”
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?/?/2015 KENNETH ROTH IN PRISON
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8/30/2016 KENNETH ROTH TRANSFERRED PRISONS
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2/16/2017 KENNETH ROTH STARTS SERVING LIFE SENTENCE
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[] ?/?/?: Sarah Scott
- found shot inside her home.
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LINKS
Appeal ruling:
http://www.starkcountyohio.gov/StarkCounty/media/Fifth-District/RecentOpinionis/roth.pdf?ext=.pdf
Celeste Fronsman:
5 years later: Celeste Fronsman murder case stays with officials
5 years later: Celeste Fronsman murder case stays with officials
Info on death of James Long and parole of Roth:
https://www.google.com/amp/www.cjon...ying-faces-murder-charge-ohio?template=ampart
Son remembers Father Ken Roth:
https://www.google.com/amp/www.colu...remembers-dads-troubling-past?template=ampart
Newspaper JoAnn Bartholomew death:
The Bryan Times - Google News Archive Search
Find a federal inmate 1982 > Present:
BOP: Federal Inmates By Number
Ohio inmate Search
Offender Search
Priscilla Dawn offender tattoos
Best Of the Class 2018 | WHIZ News
Bennie Angelo
https://www.google.com/amp/www.cantonrep.com/article/20140725/News/140729509?template=ampart
Gwendolyn Hoisten
Akron woman shot to death on her porch after knock at door
James Robert Engle
https://www.google.com/amp/adeadlyi...-evening-of-september-19-1946-21-year-old/amp
Grace S. Kennedy
https://www.bryantimes.com/kennedy-...cle_909d0f5e-5c0c-5974-b705-fa53a8033fc2.html
Patricia Ann Stichler.
https://www.ohioattorneygeneral.gov/Files/Law-Enforcement/Investigator/Cold-Case/Homicides/Stichler
Patricia Stichler body location
http://www.toledoblade.com/Police-F...ered-for-tips-on-5-unsolved-area-murders.html