Fortunately, 98% of missing children in Ohio are recovered within a year. But there’s one missing boy whose disappearance has puzzled authorities for nearly 100 years. Melvin Horst went missing two days after Christmas in 1928. The four-year-old Orrville, Ohio boy was last seen carrying a small red toy truck or wagon and was on […]
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