Hi, Grime junkies. I'm your host Ashley Flowers and I'm Brett and this episode is part two of our monsters of Ohio

Series. So if you haven't listened to part one yet, please go back and do so. It's important to understand a

CNTH DoCOT story for you to know why almost a dozen other cases grabbed my attention and

convinced me that there was something unusual

happening in Ohio in the early 80s. One or more monsters lurking in very specific areas and praying on young girls.

Brett, this rabbit hole I got into actually started from the very first time I tried to start my research on a CNTH. Now I had heard about her case kind of in passing and just like

tucked it away in the back of my brain for the next time I could start research on a new case and by the time I got around to it like her very unique name was escaping me. So I googled girl, murder, unsolved Ohio

80s and something popped up for a young girl named Kelly Prosser. Now I didn't think that that was the right name but as I started to read the details, I honestly started questioning

myself. You see Kelly was a third grader who on September 20th 1982 went missing while walking home from school in Columbus, Ohio, which for those of you who are

familiar with the area, you'll know that upper Arlington where Sini lived is basically a suburb of Columbus. Like in Sini's case, it was Kelly's mother who got worried when she didn't make it home and by that

evening she had called police who launched a massive search for the young girl that same night. Well, yes, she's like what eight or nine they have to. Well, yes, so she's actually eight just like Sini was but there was

another reason they went so hard so fast. Just like in Sini's case, there was actually an attempted abduction or attack on another girl just a few days before. So everyone in the area was already on high alert. In this previous

attempted attack, there was a guy in a red truck who tried to abduct another eight year old girl, but he fled with another person drove by. Now the first night passed with no sign of Kelly, but the next day the Columbus

dispatch reported that police got their first clue. Dogs were able to track Kelly's scent from the elementary school to the intersection of North High Street and Main Art Avenue. Now North High Street is really close to Ohio State University and it's

always super, super busy. So in fact, when they start looking for witnesses, they even find two patrol officers who may have spotted Kelly the same day she went missing, but the thing is they spotted someone who looked like her much, much later in the evening at like nine o'clock at night. And the officers

were seeing a young girl that looked a lot like Kelly with an older man, but at the time they didn't stop to question them. Wait, they know she's missing by nine. Yeah, here's the thing. I don't know if these two guys didn't know about the search again. Their patrol officers maybe they had nothing to do with it. All I know is that they said that they see this girl. She looked like she knew the guy so they never stopped them.

The next clue that they got was actually on the same day, a local lawyer came forward and said, hey, I found something in the middle of the road and I kind of just threw it in my car. I didn't really think anything of it until my daughter saw it and she'd been watching the news and made the connection. What do they find? He found a blue raincoat which matched the description put out by police of one that Kelly would have had with her when she went missing.

Now it's interesting because most news reports just say that a jacket was found and he puts it in his car and didn't give it a second thought. But the Akron Beacon journal actually reported back in 82 the time this is going on that one of the sleeves had blood on it, which to me is strange because like that's something you would remember and not something that I would just throw in the back of my seat and never think of again.

Though again, I don't know how accurate this is. It was only reported in one place and I have no idea what police thought of that at the time.

So at this point they have what they believe is Kelly's coat and they are going to start searching in that area. But in the meantime, police actually start making a connection to another local man who right around the same time of Kelly's disappearance had been accused of molesting an 11 year old girl in the same area close to where Kelly went missing from.

But when they go to talk to this guy, he flees the area which is never a good look. And so police put out a notice that they're looking for this man who they believe to be in West Virginia now.

While they search for him, they keep their search going close to where her jacket was found and it didn't take long before they actually found Kelly.

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