1801
In 1801 the resident heads of households in neighbouring Vienna Township included Isaac Flower, Levi Foot, James Foster, Samuel Hutchins, Samuel Daniel Humason, Dan Dennis Palmer and Epenetus Rogers.
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Tammy Engstrom was twenty-two years old in February 1991. She was married to Andy Engstrom, had a one-year-old son named Casey and worked at the Clover Bar in Hubbard, Ohio, where her mother, Mary Jane Hess, also worked. The family lived in the Brookfield Township area of Trumbull County in north-eastern Ohio, close to the Pennsylvania border and about an hour and a quarter from both Cleveland and Pittsburgh.
On the evening of 7 February 1991 Tammy left Casey with her friend Sharon King at about half past five and began her shift at the Clover Bar at half past six. She left at about half past nine, saying she was not feeling well, and drove to the Nickelodeon Lounge in Masury, Ohio, where her uncle, Daniel Hivner, was a regular and was waiting for her. She arrived at about ten o'clock, had a couple of drinks and sat with him. He was a regular at the bar and knew Hivner, but he had never met Tammy. He had come from a drinking contest sponsored by the Nickelodeon and other bars, and he carried on drinking with the pair. By midnight Tammy was unconscious.
At about one o'clock the bar was closing and the two men helped her out to the car park. She came round enough to insist on driving herself home, but Hivner took her keys.
Earlier that night Andy Engstrom had gone to the Clover Bar at half past eleven with a present for his wife and was told she had gone home sick. He drove home, found the house empty, asked Sharon King to keep watching Casey and went looking for her. Just after one o'clock he telephoned the Nickelodeon and was told that Tammy and Daniel had already left. He assumed she was with her uncle and went to bed.
The next morning, 8 February, she was still missing. At about noon Andy and Sharon King went to the Nickelodeon and saw Tammy's car still in the car park. Andy told him he had already contacted the police in Sharon and would file a missing persons report with the Brookfield Township police, and warned him that if Tammy did not turn up it would be his arse. Tammy's brother, an uncle and her mother all threatened him as well. He said he had cut his hands breaking into his own house after locking himself out and had cut his eye chopping wood.
His mother pointed out that it was good gold, marked 18 carat, and he said he would take it back to the Nickelodeon and give it to her uncle. He did not. He hid it in a ceiling tile.
He told Kerry he was watching the stars. In fact he was loading Tammy's dismembered body into his car and driving it to Pennsylvania, where he left parts of her in two separate places.
On 9 February the police left a message asking him to come to the station. He repeated his story, now adding that he had driven her to Sharon, Pennsylvania, for coffee and food and had stopped at an ATM, and that she had demanded to be taken back to the Nickelodeon before jumping out on Davis Street. Clark suggested that perhaps he had made a pass at her, that she had fallen or hit her head, and that he had panicked. He asked to speak to Clark alone and then said that he had touched her leg, that she had pushed his hand away, that she had opened the door while the car was still moving, fallen out and struck her head on the railroad tracks. He said her body was in Pennsylvania. He then asked for a lawyer. After speaking to the lawyer he agreed to say where the body was.
On 10 February the Ohio authorities found several of Tammy's body parts scattered in a wooded area of Butler County, Pennsylvania, and other portions in a desolate wooded area of Venango County, about thirty miles north. Her head, right breast and right leg above the knee had been severed. Her torso had been cut open and partially eviscerated. Her head, right breast, right leg and intestines were found in a swampy area in Ohio, near the railroad tracks by Kingsgrave Road, where investigators also found a large area of bloodstained gravel, blood spatter on a steel rail, part of her intestines, her black leather coat partly buried with slash marks near the collar, her house keys and a tube of lipstick in a shallow hole, and one of her black leather shoes.
Her ring was found in a ceiling tile. A search of his car found bloodstains consistent with both of them and a piece of Tammy's liver in the trunk. The autopsy found that she had died of asphyxia from strangulation, that she had been strangled for four or five minutes, and that she had suffered ninety-one injuries, including five blunt force injuries to the head, knife wounds near the right nipple and a knife laceration along her face, as well as defensive wounds on her hands. The pathologist found no evidence that she had been struck by a car. Her head, right breast, rectum, bladder and reproductive organs had been removed; the missing organs were never found.
He said she grabbed the knife, that he cut his hand, that he held his hand over her mouth until she stopped struggling and that he then realised she was dead. He admitted stabbing her because he was angry, returning to the body, cutting off her head and leg because they would not fit in the shallow grave, cutting out her vagina and rectum, taking her ring and burning her purse.
He drank twelve cups of water beforehand to make it easier to find a vein. His last meal was cheese pizza, onion rings, fried mushrooms, chips with French onion dip, cherry pie, blueberry ice cream and a Dr Pepper. He was pronounced dead and Tammy's family applauded; her sister Debbie said, 'Rock on, that was too easy.'
Tammy's husband Andy died of a heart attack in 2005 at the age of forty-five, when Casey was fifteen, leaving the boy without either parent.