OH OH - Search for human remains along Pine Creek Road, Apr 2025

[TwinkieDefense]

April 15, 2025 article - indicates search relates to cases in several counties.

Detectives search property for remains of people missing over 40 years after receiving tip

Authorities in Ohio are searching for remains connected to more than one missing person case dating back at least 40 years after they received a tip from a “reliable source.”

www.wabi.tv

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Authorities in Ohio are searching for remains connected to more than one missing person case dating back at least 40 years after they received a tip from a “reliable source.”

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[truthfinder2019]

The DoeNetwork lists missing men and women from the 1970/1980 missing in Ohio

Would be interesting to see if there are patterns (such as age, aspect, place of disappearance, distance to burial place)

https://www.doenetwork.org/cases/software/mp-geo-us-males.html#ohio

https://www.doenetwork.org/cases/software/mp-geo-us-females.html#ohio

 

[truthfinder2019]

Items of interest that will be tested for human remains and one bullet’ have been found by detectives who are combining through a property in Scioto County in connection to several missing persons cases, Scioto County Sheriff David Thoroughman confirmed on Tuesday.

Detectives searching property for remains of missing people find ‘items of interest’

“Items of interest that will be tested for human remains and one bullet’ has been found by detectives who are combining through a property in Scioto County.

www.wsaz.com

• a wooded area along Pine Creek Road near South Webster, Ohio.
• the location could be related to three people that have been reported missing from multiple counties.
• the most recent of the cases dates back more than 40 years.

Scioto County deputies investigating area that could be linked to multiple cold cases

Deputies were investigating possible human remains Monday in Scioto County, Ohio, that they said could involve multiple cold cases.The investigation was centere

wchstv.com

Meaning disappearances from before 1985.

Organized & Major Crimes Task Force Investigation on Pine Creek Road

Ohio Attorney General David Yost, Scioto County Sheriff David Thoroughman, Portsmouth Police Chief Debby Brewer, New Boston Police Chief Carl Compton, Scioto County Prosecuting Attorney ShaneTieman, Pike County Sheriff Tracy Evans and Lawrence County Sheriff Jeff Lawless announce that on April...

www.sciotocountysheriff.org

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A Single Bullet May Unravel a 40 Year Missing Persons Mystery in Scioto County - Scioto Post

SCIOTO COUNTY, OH — Law enforcement officials from multiple counties in southern Ohio have announced the recovery of potential evidence in a decades-old missing persons investigation. The Southern Ohio Organized and Major Crimes Task Force executed a search on Pine Creek Road near South Webster...

www.sciotopost.com

 

[Joe Friday]

“Reliable Source” What is that, a death bed confession of a serial killer???

 

[tatertot]

The distance is far and the counties from which LE are assisting don't match up, but my first thought with "40+ year-old disappearances," the general region and a possible link between the victims was the two remaining (suspected) Edward Surratt victims who have not been recovered, from Ohio and Pennsylvania. I've never believed his claims that they are "unrecoverable;" that sounds like someone who has every reason not to want them ever found would say. Hiding a third, unknown victim with them would be a strong reason.

News article from 2021: Police: Serial Killer Edward Surrat, Who Admitted to 6 Pennsylvania Murders, Spoke Of Others

 

[TwinkieDefense]

From the April 15, 2025 article Property searched for clues in 40-year missing persons case, it appears they began excavating a well.

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Among the law enforcement agencies involved are the Scioto County Sheriff's Office, Portsmouth Police, New Boston Police, PIke County Sheriff's Office, Lawrence County Sheriff's Office, Wayne National Forest rangers, and Columbus Police, as well as the office of Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost and the BCI.

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[thrasher_banks]

This is interesting. Last year I released a podcast called Lords of Death and one of the main subjects I interviewed details murdering his uncle on Halloween Night 1985 near South Webster and burying the remains. The area he described, along with his public defender, appears to be the same area that’s being searched. He claimed he buried the body somewhere off New Road, but when he aided investigators in locating the remains, he told them the body was in a well. The public defender said it was near what’s left of an old mining town called Roe. The victim’s body was never recovered and he’s not in the AG’s database to my knowledge.

 

[SluethinAway]

My first thought was that maybe they have some info on Lori Ann Blevins, missing from Scotio County since 1984.

There are currently 2 other ladies missing from Portsmouth from around that time period.

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

By bringing people, information, forensic science and technology together, NamUs helps resolve cases.

www.namus.gov

Hilda Marcum and Angela Holsinger