Chalkboard Thoughts

    Jane McGuire grew up in East Washington, Pennsylvania. She had a big family with lots of siblings.     On September 20th of 1972, Jane was heading back to college. First she was going to visit her sister in Wheeling, West Virginia and then head to Columbus, Ohio to begin classes at Ohio State University. (One early article stated that she was headed to Athens, Ohio to begin classes at Ohio University.) She had previously attended Windham College. (I believe this may have been located in Vermont.)   On September 21st when she hadn’t made it to her sister in Wheeling, West Virginia, her family reported her missing. Later that same day her orange and white van was found at a rest stop off state highway Ohio 8, near Boston Heights. (A later report described the site as near the community of Cuyahoga Falls.)That’s a small community near the Cuyahoga Valley National Park. It’s southeast of Cleveland. It’s nowhere near any logical route tha...

       Patrice Lynnet Calvin was born in 1955. She attended Julienne High School in Dayton. I believe that was a Catholic school there in Dayton.    In 1973 she was 18 and lived at 426 Groveland Avenue in Dayton.  On Thursday July 12th, 1973, Patrice was in a tavern at 1726 West 5th Street. It was 4:30 in the morning.    Patrice was sitting on the juke box waiting for her boyfriend who was an employee of the tavern. It was closing time. Her boyfriend might have been helping to clean up, turning the chairs and barstools upside down on the tables. Maybe he was washing dishes, taking out the trash or mopping.     Patrice was waiting and sitting on the jukebox when she was shot in the head with a .38 caliber weapon.    This was first investigated and reported as a homicide. It was said to be the 60th homicide in Dayton that year. But, the man who shot her managed to convince the authorities tha...