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Unsolved homicide

Killing of Ruth Guthrie

Year
1963
Where
Tallmadge, Portage County, Ohio
Source
Ohio Attorney General
Evidence
1
What the record says

Ruth Guthrie was killed in Tallmadge, Portage County, Ohio, on June 12, 1963. The Ohio Attorney General lists this as an unsolved homicide, case number 3919.

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

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