Lola Celli
Missing since February 1946 from Grandview Heights, Franklin County, Ohio
Classification: Missing
Vital Statistics
Date Of Birth: about 1922
Age at Time of Disappearance: 24 years old
Distinguishing Characteristics: White female. She was conversant in five languages at the time of her disappearance.
Clothing: Celli had been wearing a pair of red suede Cuban heels.
Other: She was a Logan County teacher at the time of her disappearance.
Circumstances of Disappearance
Celli was last seen leaving the home of her parents in Grandview Heights, Ohio in February 1946 to go shopping.
Some would come to know the case as "The Red Shoe Mystery" after a motorist claimed to have seen Celli arguing with a man in a car along Olentangy River Road shortly after she disappeared from Grandview Heights. During the spat, a red shoe was tossed or fell out of the vehicle, the motorist said. That piqued police curiosity; Celli had been wearing a pair of red suede Cuban heels. But no shoe was ever found.
Celli had been gone only a year when a cryptic missive suggested she might have been the first of a serial killer’s victims. The note, created with mismatched type styles cut from magazine headlines, warned: "You dumb fools, I want a corpse, a girl’s blood cadaver to kiss and cut up. Get to me before it is too late."
Among the items in the Grandview Heights file is a Dispatch society-page clipping from several years after the Celli case broke. The new-bride photos include the picture of a woman said to be "Miss Bernice Scherr." Yet, it was Lola Celli, the very image newspapers across Ohio ran after her disappearance. When that picture was published it stirred up the case all over again.
The Celli file is now as thick as the Columbus White Pages, and is still an open case at The Grandview Heights Police Department.
Investigators
If you have any information concerning this case, please contact:
Grandview Heights Police Department Detective Carol Harper 614-488-7901
Source Information:
The Columbus Dispatch
The Doe Network: Case File 1900DFOH
Link:
http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/1900dfoh.html
Missing since February 1946 from Grandview Heights, Franklin County, Ohio
Classification: Missing
Vital Statistics
Date Of Birth: about 1922
Age at Time of Disappearance: 24 years old
Distinguishing Characteristics: White female. She was conversant in five languages at the time of her disappearance.
Clothing: Celli had been wearing a pair of red suede Cuban heels.
Other: She was a Logan County teacher at the time of her disappearance.
Circumstances of Disappearance
Celli was last seen leaving the home of her parents in Grandview Heights, Ohio in February 1946 to go shopping.
Some would come to know the case as "The Red Shoe Mystery" after a motorist claimed to have seen Celli arguing with a man in a car along Olentangy River Road shortly after she disappeared from Grandview Heights. During the spat, a red shoe was tossed or fell out of the vehicle, the motorist said. That piqued police curiosity; Celli had been wearing a pair of red suede Cuban heels. But no shoe was ever found.
Celli had been gone only a year when a cryptic missive suggested she might have been the first of a serial killer’s victims. The note, created with mismatched type styles cut from magazine headlines, warned: "You dumb fools, I want a corpse, a girl’s blood cadaver to kiss and cut up. Get to me before it is too late."
Among the items in the Grandview Heights file is a Dispatch society-page clipping from several years after the Celli case broke. The new-bride photos include the picture of a woman said to be "Miss Bernice Scherr." Yet, it was Lola Celli, the very image newspapers across Ohio ran after her disappearance. When that picture was published it stirred up the case all over again.
The Celli file is now as thick as the Columbus White Pages, and is still an open case at The Grandview Heights Police Department.
Investigators
If you have any information concerning this case, please contact:
Grandview Heights Police Department Detective Carol Harper 614-488-7901
Source Information:
The Columbus Dispatch
The Doe Network: Case File 1900DFOH
Link:
http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/1900dfoh.html