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Click here for our first investigation at Austin manorWe have previously investigated Austin Manor and have wanted to go back to learn more information on the entity we contacted named Ruthie. Ruthie disappeared from OWU in 1937 without a trace. During out EVP sessions we gathered a lot of information regarding her cold case. We decided to go back to Austin Manor to see if we could contact Ruthie again and get more information about her disappearance.
During the investigation we once again had a male entity that tried to dominate the session. We believe it is the cook that people felt is there. It made it hard for Ruthie to come through with such an over bearing spirit. It seemed to our team that he wasn't interested in telling us anything as much as he was interested in blocking Ruthie from talking. |
One of the people with us during the investigation has a mother that is psychic. He told her that we were investigating Austin Manor and asked her what she thought about Ruthie's disappearance. She told him that she believed Ruthie's killer was one of the cooks, and that he killed and raped her in the old tunnel that connected Austin Manor to the now demolished Monnett Hall. She also told her son that the cook was "a liitle slow" (having the mental capacity of a 13-15 year old). He was trained to be a cook while incarcerated in Mansfield prior to being employed at Austin Manor. She added that her throat was slashed and that she was buried nearby.
During our first investigation one of our EVP's had the word "Mansfield" in it, but it seemed out of context at the time. Now it seems to make more sense. It seems to us that the cook is still trying to cover up what actually happened by interupting Ruthie during our session.
Since everything in Ruthie's room and her belongings indicate that she would be coming back, we suspect that whatever happened to her took her completely by surprise. Foul play seems to be involved. How else can one explain why a coed about to graduate would leave her family and fiancee behind for no good reason. Some new evidence has come to light during our investigation of the circumstances surrounding what may have happened to Ruthie.
In still another scenario, (this one substantiated by court records from the murder of a Ohio State Highway Patrol officer in Sept of 1937) Ruthie may have been kidnapped and sold into the white slavery market at the time. Some of the gaps in this scenario still need to be verified and others are actual court records.
The testimony from one of the suspects in the patrolman's murder goes something like this. Ruthie may have been pregnant. In an attempt to have an abortion she made plans to meet someone in the wee hours of the morning away from Austin Manor. According to local witnesses, Ruthie had received 4 separate phone calls from an unidentified man in the days leading up to her disappearance. She actually talked to "the male" on the 4th call and her disappearance happened shortly there after. The sorority girls that did answer the phone said the voice on the other end did not sound like Ruthie's then fiancee. No one saw Ruthie leave and her alarm clock had run down. (meaning to me that it had run its course, but was not turned off) She had barely taken anything with her making it seem as though where ever she was going she wasn't planning on staying long. She did not tell any of her sorority sisters about her plans and in those days the last thing she would have wanted was to ruin her reputation. (in other witness statements one of her aquaintances said that Ruthie had "dated around" up until Feb of that year. Her disappearance seems to coincide with the amount of time it would take to realize she was preganat and arrange to do something about it with telling anyone. I can only imagine what her parents or fiancee, or family friends would have thought if they found out she pregnant by someone other than her fiancee.
She reported made arrangement to meet a man that would take her to get the abortion. How she knew this person or got his name is unknown. When that person arrived he was not alone. He was accompanied by 3 other men. One man got out to talk to her and after 2-3 minutes she apparently changed her mind. She was taken by force into a vehicle were she was given a sedative or drug of some kind and driven out of the area to Stubenville Ohio.
In the testimony given under oath, the suspect stated that he and his friends were on the east side of the state when one of them said he had to drive to Delaware to meet a woman. the 4 men drove to Delaware and met with Ruthie. After abducting her she was taken to a house of prostitution in Stubenville Ohio and dragged into the house by 2 of the men in the car. The reason this came out at all during the trial is that she was alleged to having been in the car with the suspects when they killed the patrolman in Sept of that same year. Although she was identified by an alias at the time, the suspect positively identified Ruthie's picture as the woman they had abducted in Delaware.
During the missing persons investigation conducted by local authorities, the Baumgardner family hired their own detectives to find Ruthie. They used the Pinkertons Detective Agency. Through their investigation they were able to locate Ruthie and pass the info along to her family.
An FBI agent at the time asked why it was not public knowledge that she was located and he was told not to talk about the case. Approximately 2 years after her abduction the family asked the local authorities to stop the investigation of her disappearance. Normally that wouldn't happen in this day and age unless she found or dead. Since the family isn't talking... its assumed that the repercussions of having a daughter that may have been hooked on drugs, let alone a prostitute would have caused considerable embarrassment for an upper middle class family, (especially in that day and age) so she was silently committed to a mental institution. That was common practice in those days for all sorts of problems. As of yet, her death certificate can't be found, but she was not buried with her parents.
With three cops on our team you can bet we will get to the bottom of this cold case. More research needs to be done, but hopefully the facts will emerge and we can put this case to rest once and for all. Ruthie deserves that much. In the listed EVP's you will hear some of the clues and words we heard that will lead us to believe that there may be merit to this abduction theory. It would certainly explain how someone could disappear from the area without a trace if no one but Ruthie knew the circumstances.
During our first investigation one of our EVP's had the word "Mansfield" in it, but it seemed out of context at the time. Now it seems to make more sense. It seems to us that the cook is still trying to cover up what actually happened by interupting Ruthie during our session.
Since everything in Ruthie's room and her belongings indicate that she would be coming back, we suspect that whatever happened to her took her completely by surprise. Foul play seems to be involved. How else can one explain why a coed about to graduate would leave her family and fiancee behind for no good reason. Some new evidence has come to light during our investigation of the circumstances surrounding what may have happened to Ruthie.
In still another scenario, (this one substantiated by court records from the murder of a Ohio State Highway Patrol officer in Sept of 1937) Ruthie may have been kidnapped and sold into the white slavery market at the time. Some of the gaps in this scenario still need to be verified and others are actual court records.
The testimony from one of the suspects in the patrolman's murder goes something like this. Ruthie may have been pregnant. In an attempt to have an abortion she made plans to meet someone in the wee hours of the morning away from Austin Manor. According to local witnesses, Ruthie had received 4 separate phone calls from an unidentified man in the days leading up to her disappearance. She actually talked to "the male" on the 4th call and her disappearance happened shortly there after. The sorority girls that did answer the phone said the voice on the other end did not sound like Ruthie's then fiancee. No one saw Ruthie leave and her alarm clock had run down. (meaning to me that it had run its course, but was not turned off) She had barely taken anything with her making it seem as though where ever she was going she wasn't planning on staying long. She did not tell any of her sorority sisters about her plans and in those days the last thing she would have wanted was to ruin her reputation. (in other witness statements one of her aquaintances said that Ruthie had "dated around" up until Feb of that year. Her disappearance seems to coincide with the amount of time it would take to realize she was preganat and arrange to do something about it with telling anyone. I can only imagine what her parents or fiancee, or family friends would have thought if they found out she pregnant by someone other than her fiancee.
She reported made arrangement to meet a man that would take her to get the abortion. How she knew this person or got his name is unknown. When that person arrived he was not alone. He was accompanied by 3 other men. One man got out to talk to her and after 2-3 minutes she apparently changed her mind. She was taken by force into a vehicle were she was given a sedative or drug of some kind and driven out of the area to Stubenville Ohio.
In the testimony given under oath, the suspect stated that he and his friends were on the east side of the state when one of them said he had to drive to Delaware to meet a woman. the 4 men drove to Delaware and met with Ruthie. After abducting her she was taken to a house of prostitution in Stubenville Ohio and dragged into the house by 2 of the men in the car. The reason this came out at all during the trial is that she was alleged to having been in the car with the suspects when they killed the patrolman in Sept of that same year. Although she was identified by an alias at the time, the suspect positively identified Ruthie's picture as the woman they had abducted in Delaware.
During the missing persons investigation conducted by local authorities, the Baumgardner family hired their own detectives to find Ruthie. They used the Pinkertons Detective Agency. Through their investigation they were able to locate Ruthie and pass the info along to her family.
An FBI agent at the time asked why it was not public knowledge that she was located and he was told not to talk about the case. Approximately 2 years after her abduction the family asked the local authorities to stop the investigation of her disappearance. Normally that wouldn't happen in this day and age unless she found or dead. Since the family isn't talking... its assumed that the repercussions of having a daughter that may have been hooked on drugs, let alone a prostitute would have caused considerable embarrassment for an upper middle class family, (especially in that day and age) so she was silently committed to a mental institution. That was common practice in those days for all sorts of problems. As of yet, her death certificate can't be found, but she was not buried with her parents.
With three cops on our team you can bet we will get to the bottom of this cold case. More research needs to be done, but hopefully the facts will emerge and we can put this case to rest once and for all. Ruthie deserves that much. In the listed EVP's you will hear some of the clues and words we heard that will lead us to believe that there may be merit to this abduction theory. It would certainly explain how someone could disappear from the area without a trace if no one but Ruthie knew the circumstances.
session #1
This is a sampling of 1 of 4 sessions we conducted that night. (For Session 2 and 3 click HERE)
This name came up more than once.
In this EVP she asked to tell us what year it is. We didn't get "37, but we did get the right century of her disappearance.
I apologize if this EVP is hard to hear, but with good media speakers can hear "kidnapped".
As usual, Sean endeared himself to another male spirit.
This name came up in at least 4 separate EVP's. (Chet is short for Chester) Going through the OWU yearbook from 1937 I can only find one Chester in the whole school and he was the French teacher.
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We took many photos during the investigation. This is the only one where we believe we caught 2 orbs. There is one in front of the left side of the door and another smaller blue ord near the left corner of the photo. The first orb is interesting because this is where we had seen a very tall black mass earlier in the investigation.
The investigator asking the question is in fact a sergeant at our local department.
Apparently the male spirit doesn't believe that our investigator can protect her.
The last name of our investigator asking the question is Bobb.
This is a long exchange and a little hard to make out, but here is what was said. "Mansfield, Chet is in prison with us, are talking about me, or ask Chet, bitch".
Is this Ruthie trying to discribe what she did when she as she was being assaulted...
Chet seems to imply that in that lifetime his name was Chet.
Sean volunteered to leave the session so that the male spirit would feel so challenged.
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