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Unsolved homicide

Killing of Martha Oelman

Year
1997
Where
Sugarcreek Township, Greene County, Ohio
Source
Ohio Attorney General
Evidence
1
What the record says

Martha Oelman was killed in Sugarcreek Township, Greene County, Ohio, on September 7, 1997. The Ohio Attorney General lists this as an unsolved homicide, case number 14.

From the Ohio Attorney General’s unsolved homicide database. Records change. The source is the authority.

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