Ohio 1991 cold case solved — arrest shocks community

Ohio 1991 cold case solved — arrest shocks community

The coffee cup on the desk was still warm when Ethan Mercer vanished from the town of Logan, Ohio, population 6,212. July 12, 1991, arrived with stifling heat blanketing the dirt roads that ran along the edge of Hocking Hills. At 6:15 p.m., Ethan's coworker, Ray Collins, saw him wearing a green shirt, climbing into his gray pickup truck, and saying he was heading to the Porter house to pick up his son for the weekend.

A resident in downtown Logan reported seeing that truck pass through the main street, the sunset reflecting off the windshield like a streak of fire. As night fell, the porch light at the Mercer home remained on, dinner grew cold on the table, and the phone rang repeatedly with no one answering. What happened in the hours that followed would haunt Logan for nearly a quarter of a century.

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