• Ralph Romohr was found hacked to death in his mobile home Sept. 2, 1986. The divorced 73-year-old was a live-in caretaker at Watson Gravel Inc. on Bunnell Road in Union Township near Lebanon. Police said they thought he had been attacked with a hatchet. No weapon was found at the scene. Police interviewed a man who was seen in Romohr's driveway the night before, and even polygraphed him, but the results were inconclusive. A relative said Romohr liked to bet on horses and often frequented Lebanon Raceway.

• Richard Woods, 41, a wealthy furniture salesman from Dublin, Ohio, disappeared Oct. 8, 1992, after a sales call at the former Just Living Rooms store at the Colony Square Shopping Center in Lebanon. Two days later, his 1990 green Lexus was found at a rest stop on Interstate 71 near Lebanon. His wallet was found empty on Nixon Camp Road a few days later. On Nov. 9, his body was found near Middleboro Road in Washington Township, not far from an Interstate 71 exit ramp about 8 miles from Lebanon. He had been shot twice in the head. A gold necklace still hung from his neck.

• Vickie Barton, 40, was a nursing supervisor at Sycamore Hospital near Dayton and the wife of Springboro Lt. Jim Barton. She was found shot to death April 11, 1995, in the bedroom of their Locust Knoll Farm on Tewart Road, adjacent to Interstate 75 in Franklin Township. No weapon was recovered. Her husband found her three hours after the couple met for lunch at Springboro North Park. At the time she mentioned that she had earlier filled a gas can for a man who had come to her door saying his car had broken down.

• Troy Temar, 30, a single, self-employed contractor from Deer Park in Hamilton County, was found shot to death at 4:30 a.m. July 4, 1999, in the locked trunk of his brother's burning black 1998 Mustang GT. The car was in front of an abandoned farmhouse on Mason Morrow Milgrove Road in South Lebanon. He was last seen by his brother 12 hours before his death.