Larry Dillon sat by a window at the new Pride resource center on Saturday filling out a message for a 10-year time capsule. He reflected on how much has changed for LGBTQIA+ individuals in Battle Creek.
“More and more people are not afraid to display the fact they are LGBT,” Dillon said. “In my day, I had to hide who I was in order to keep my job.”
In 2010, Dillon noticed a need for LGBTQIA+ unity in Battle Creek. He gathered his friends for dinner.
“It ended up 26 of us got together,” Dillon said. “There were ministers, there were men, women, businessmen, so forth. All of whom in those days were pretty much in the closet.”
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3News Investigates unveils a new ongoing series called Someone Knows, taking a fresh look at unsolved and often forgotten cold cases in Northeast Ohio. Author: Rachel Polansky (WKYC), Phil Trexler Published: 10:27 PM EDT May 7, 2021 Updated: 1:53 AM EDT May 8, 2021
CLEVELAND 3News Investigates is unveiling a new ongoing series, taking a fresh look at unsolved and often forgotten cold cases in Northeast Ohio.
We call it Someone Knows, because most often, someone does know the key to unlocking the mystery that eludes police and deprives so many families of the answers they desperately want.
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The Porchlight Project takes on mystery of dismembered body in barrel and potential Black Panther Party ties. Author: Phil Trexler Updated: 7:05 PM EDT March 15, 2021
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State-of-the-art forensic testing will the used in an effort to unravel the shooting death of a man whose partially dismembered body was found stuffed in a barrel over 50 years ago in Cleveland.
The man’s death, authorities believe, may have ties to the Black Panther Party, which was active in the 1960s in Cleveland.
The victim was a young, black man who had been shot nine times. His body was found inside a 55-gallon barrel in the 3100 block of East 82nd Street.
His body was dismembered and stuffed in a barrel.
Cleveland investigators weren’t able to determine the identity of this young Black man whose life met such a gruesome end in August 1969, though they thought his death might have been tied to the Black Panthers or Black nationalist movement.
The Porchlight Project, an Akron group that tries to shine new light on cold cases, has taken on this case as its next mystery.
“This is a piece of Cleveland history that remains untold,” said James Renner, the Akron author who heads the Porchlight Project. “We’re excited to provide the means to finally give a name to this man so that we can learn how he came to be here and who may have wanted him dead.”