Searchers found Clyde Patton's head crushed to a pulp, with a bloody oak club lying nearby.
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A patient Ohio true-crime story where local detail carries the dread.
Ohio Mysteries Backroads turns a rural Ohio murder story into a slow walk through place, memory, and evidence. It opens with church songs and cemetery silence, then follows the trail as the sheriff, Cletus Reese, and Clyde Patton's family piece together what happened.
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Follow an Ohio murder trail from a church stage to a farmhouse search.
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