May 9, 2013. Bowling Green, Ohio. The body of 66-year old Dawn Glanz, a retired art professor from Bowling Green State University, is discovered inside her bathroom by her husband, Bob Brown, and the authorities initially believe that she suffered a fatal stroke and died of natural causes. However, before Dawn’s body can be cremated, police receive an anonymous tip expressing concern that Bob may have killed Dawn in order to inherit her $2 million estate and a new autopsy reveals that she received a stab wound to the head and the shock caused her to succumb to a heart attack. After Dawn’s death is reclassified as a homicide, investigators uncover some troubling holes in Bob’s original story, but there is not enough evidence to file charges and her murder officially remains unsolved.
November 22, 2009. Bowling Green, Kentucky. 54-year old Bettina Richmond, a mathematics professor at Western Kentucky University, leaves her home to play racquetball at the Bowling Green Parks and Recreation facility. When she fails to return home, Bettina’s husband goes to check the facility’s parking lot and discovers that Bettina has been fatally stabbed in the driver’s seat of her van. Bettina’s university identification badge is later found in a mailbox over two miles away and it is suspected that she was the victim of a robbery gone wrong, but no potential suspects are found for her murder.
On this week’s episode of the “Trail Went Cold”, we explore a pair of unsolved murders involving female university professors from Bowling Green in both Ohio and Kentucky. Special thanks to listener Rachel Adams for narrating the opening of this episode.
If you have any information about the murder of Dawn Glanz, please contact the Bowling Green Police Division at (419) 352-2571. If you have any information about the murder of Bettina Richmond, please contact the Bowling Green Police Department at (270) 393-4244.
Additional Reading:
https://www.wtol.com/article/news/bowling-green-cold-case-gets-national-attention/512-a2b34840-1737-45af-b2d3-0e9b77b9d12b
https://bgindependentmedia.org/investigation-into-dawn-glanzs-murder-continues/
https://www.13abc.com/content/news/Who-Murdered-Dawn-Glanz-A-Cold-Case-Murder--561465061.html
https://www.13abc.com/2022/02/15/case-files-murder-dawn-glanz/
https://www.newspapers.com/image/1193897273/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bettina_Richmond
https://www.kentuckynewera.com/web/news/article_6f58493e-1577-11e1-9853-001cc4c03286.html
https://bgdailynews.com/2011/11/22/richmonds-death-remains-mystery/
https://www.newspapers.com/image/664533225/
https://www.newspapers.com/image/663825900/
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