It was just after Christmas in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1964, when a teenage girl went to her friend’s home. They had made arrangements for that day but when she knocked on the front door, she received no reply. She stood at the door for a moment, and then heard something peculiar coming from upstairs…
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Sources:
The Evening Independent, 29 December, 1964 – “Garfield Heights Girl Slain”
The Cincinnati Enquirer, 29 December, 1964 – “Cleveland Police Seek Girl’s Slayer”
The Sandusky Register, 29 December, 1964 – “16-Year-old Cleveland Girl Found Stabbed”
The Sandusky Register, 30 December, 1964 – “Admirer Sought”
Chillicoth Gazette, 30 December, 1964 – “Slaying of Girl, 16, Mystifies Police”
The Oil City Derrick, 30 December, 1964 – “Slayer Unknown”
The Akron Beacon Journal, 30 December, 1964 – “Pieces of Rope Key Clues in Girl’s Slaying”
The Journal Herald, 30 December, 1964 – “Probe Begins for Girl’s Killer”
The Cincinnati Enquirer, 30 December, 1964 – “Slaying Victim, 16, Stabbed 41 Times”
News-Journal, 31 December, 1964 – “Check Rope Used to Kill Teenage Girl”
Dayton Daily News, 2 January, 1965 – “Suspect Held in Girl’s Death”
Chillicothe Gazette, 2 January, 1965 – “Suspect Arrested in Killing of Girl”
The Daily Times, 2 January, 1965 – “Man Held in Loraine to be Questioned in Slaying”
News-Journal, 3 January, 1965 – “1,000 at Rites for Slain Girl”
The Akron Beacon Journal, 3 January, 1965 – “Suspect is Cleared in Girl’s Slaying”
The Sandusky Register, 4 January, 1965 – “Trio Cleared in Cleveland Murder”
The Akron Beacon Journal, 5 January, 1965 – “Woman Could Have Murdered Beverly”
Telegraph-Forum, 5 January, 1965 – “Summit Meet Set on Clues in O. Slaying”
The Daily Times, 6 January, 1965 – “Officials Hold Summit Meet in Girl’s Murder”
The Times Recorder, 6 January, 1965 – “Progress Seen in Slaying of Teenage Girl”
The Sandusky Register, 5 January, 1965 – “Police Think Woman May Have Killed Girl”
The Sandusky Register, 7 January, 1965 – “Killer Only Thing Missing in Cleveland Girl’s Death”
News-Journal, 8 January, 1965 – “Turn Seen on Murder”
The Akron Beacon Journal, 8 January, 1965 – “Report Arrest of 36-Year-Old Suspect Near”
The Akron Beacon Journal, 9 January, 1965 – “Clear Three Suspects in Jarosz Case”
Telegraph-Forum, 11 January, 1965 – “Tiffin Girl, 16, Found Strangled”
News-Journal, 11 January, 1965 – “OSR Inmate Gives Data in Slaying”
The Akron Beacon Journal, 12 January, 1965 – “Boy’s Suicide Not Linked to Slaying”
The Akron Beacon Journal, 13 January, 1965 – “Trace Murder Rope to Maryland Firm”
Lancaster Eagle-Gazette, 14 January, 1965 – “Reward Raised $5,000 for Killer of Girl”
The Akron Beacon Journal, 14 January, 1965 – “Burned Auto Not Linked to Beverly’s Murder”
The Akron Beacon Journal, 17 January, 1965 – “Seek Man With Cut in Jarosz Case”
The Sandusky Register, 22 January, 1965 – “Question Pair in Murder”
The Marion Star, 17 February, 1965 – “Book Seller Faces Quiz in Jarosz Case”
The Daily Reporter, 18 February, 1965 – “Youth Admits Leedy Stabbing”
The Akron Beacon Journal, 26 December, 1989 – “Strangulation-Stabbing Still Haunting”
The Plain Dealer, 26 December, 2014 – “Beverly Jarosz Murder, 50 Years Later”
The Plain Dealer, 23 January, 2005 – “New Tale Adds Twist to 1960s Murder Case”
