Articles About murder

• Bleything pleads guilty to murder, sentenced to life in prison

  By Reilly DixonNovember 18, 2024

  

  On Monday, Nov. 18, Jackson Isaiah Bleything, 22, pleaded guilty to the March 14 murder of Yellow Springs resident Connie Vang. Judge Michael Buckwalter sentenced Bleything to life in prison without the possibility of parole for 30 years. 

• EXTENDED COVERAGE | March 14 homicide upheaves Yellow Springs

  By Reilly DixonMarch 24, 2024

  

  Following a four-day manhunt, and amid an ongoing investigation by the Ohio Attorney General’s Bureau of Criminal Investigation, or BCI, Jackson Isaiah Bleything, a Springfield resident and 2020 graduate of Yellow Springs High School, was taken into custody Sunday, March 17.

• Anthrotech takes expertise to courtroom

  By Lauren ShowsJanuary 26, 2023

  

  Last year, Anthrotech collected data and provided expert testimony for a criminal trial, in which the events detailed spanned thousands of miles, from the United States to Zambia and back again.

• Plea change scheduled in Clark murder case

  By Carol SimmonsJuly 19, 2021

  

  The former classmate and friend accused of murder in the 2019 stabbing death of Leonid “Lonya” Clark is scheduled for a plea change hearing on Wednesday, July 21.

• Suspect faces new charges

  By Carol SimmonsApril 21, 2021

  

  New charges have been filed against the former classmate and friend accused of murder in the 2019 stabbing death of Leonid “Lonya” Clark. But the additional charges, which involve possible child pornography, appear to be separate from the homicide case.

• Murder suspect pleads not guilty

  By Carol SimmonsDecember 5, 2019

  

  In arraignment proceedings Thursday afternoon, Nov. 21, at the Greene County courthouse in Xenia, defense counsel for area resident Zyrian Atha-Arnett entered a plea of not guilty to two counts of murder and one count of felonious assault in the stabbing death earlier this year of local man Leonid “Lonya” Clark.

• Lonya Clark murder case moves forward

  By Carol SimmonsNovember 28, 2019

  

  Area resident Zyrian Atha-Arnett is expected to be in court Thursday afternoon, Nov. 21, to plead to charges related to the stabbing death earlier this year of Yellow Springs resident Leonid “Lonya” Clark.

• Still no answers in Clark case

  By Carol SimmonsAugust 8, 2019

  

  Authorities investigating the homicide of villager Leonid “Lonya” Clark remain close-lipped about the cause and circumstances around his death earlier this year, leaving his loved ones growing increasingly distressed at the lack of resolution in the case.

• Body in Glen identified—Villager’s death investigated as homicide 

  By Carol SimmonsApril 25, 2019

  

  A body found Friday afternoon, April 12, in Glen Helen Nature Preserve has been identified by  authorities as missing Yellow Springs resident Leonid “Lonya” Clark.

• Alleged killers’ rights were violated, attorneys state

  By Diane ChiddisterAugust 10, 2017

  

  Judges in the upcoming murder trial of the alleged killers of Yellow Springs roofer Skip Brown and his friend and neighbor Sherri Mendenhall must first decide whether critical evidence should be allowed.