✉️ A letter appears. Then another. Then hundreds.

This week’s Mini Mystery takes us to Circleville, Ohio, where in 1976 a small-town scandal erupted into one of the strangest unsolved cases in U.S. history.

Kristin & Seleena follow the trail of the anonymous Circleville Letter-Writer — a mysterious figure who sent thousands of threatening letters over two decades, implicated a school scandal, and possibly caused a man’s death.

The letters didn’t stop. Not even after someone was arrested. Not even when he was in solitary.

Was this a lone vigilante seeking justice? A clever frame job? Or something darker?

🎙️ File:006 – The Case That Wrote Itself is now open.

🕵️‍♀️ Plus: a mystery mini-game — can you solve the sabotage?

In This Episode:

· The 1976 arrival of the first Circleville letter

· The mysterious death of Ron Gillespie after a cryptic phone call

· Dozens of residents targeted with graphic threats

· A murder attempt using a booby-trapped sign and a gun

· The arrest and trial of Paul Freshour — and why many think he was framed

· The letters that kept coming, even after he was locked up

· A classic Beautiful Sunday game: Solve the Sabotage 🕵️‍♂️

⏱️ Episode Chapters:

· 00:00 – Welcome to Mini Mysteries

· 01:00 – The First Letter Arrives

· 05:33 – The Mysterious Death of Ron Gillespie

· 09:05 – A Gun in a Box: Attempted Murder

· 13:32 – The Trial of Paul Freshour

· 17:15 – Letters from Solitary

· 20:40 – Mini Mystery Game: “Solve the Sabotage”

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Resources & References

· CBS News – The Circleville Letters

· Crime Junkie Podcast – Circleville Letters

· All That’s Interesting – The Circleville Letter Writer

· Medium – The Eerie Case of the Circleville Letters

· Interview with Martin Yant