Johnny S. Clarke & Lisa Straub- young Ohio couple murdered

[LoserCity]

Just a little something. I don't know if it sheds any light on the crime. About ten years ago a group of friends that had just graduated a couple of years before from Bowsher High School (same high school as a lot of these characters) murdered their friend for drugs. Shot him in the back of the head while they were riding in his car and broke all his bones and shoved him in a drain pipe. It took about a year for LE to get the whole case together but they did get a conviction. This was a robbery for drug money. Although, the method of murder is not the same it was still very brutal. I don't remember all the reports but I believe they also poured gasoline or acid on him. However, contrary to what several people want to harp on. Toledo is not a shithole filled in drug dealing criminals. We have problems like any other big city. (we are not a tiny honkey tonk town) But Toledo is not a shithole.

I guess that would depend on your definition of "shithole." If there is a nice part of toledo, I'd love to find it.

Ummm, quite a few. Crossgates area, Heatherdowns area, Beverly area, Harvard Area.

Don't be knockin' my city. I am not a thug but I am a 3^rd generation south ender and I take pride in where I am from. Not gang pride but we can't all be suburban snobs. Thats what they call "white flight". People get scared and leave and don't put anything back in.

Well this "white" family decided to "flight" when our business - located ON Western - was broken into weekly, the kids couldn't go outside and ride their bikes on the sidewalks withoutthem being stolen, and a family friend was murdered while working at KFC. If that makes me scared - F yes I'm scared. I will walk alone at night in the Heights for a year before I would do it once in the South End.
PS - I get what you're saying about pride in your area, but you are the exception, not the rule. In fact, I wish there were more like you to clean up the neighborhood. My parents and aunts/uncles went to Harvard and Bowsher and 3 of them ended up alcoholic drug addicts dying from heroin overdose. It's everywhere.