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I’m like 99 percent sure that the check Dorothy Craig wrote to Ron wasn’t for...
Hi, how goes it? It’s been a while since we last chatted. I’m still researching a bunch of questions in Tammen world and beyond, but I thought…what the hey? Why not provide you with an update...
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When did Carl Knox stop looking for Ron Tammen?
You guys, I’ve had a serious change of heart about something pertaining to the Ron Tammen case. It has to do with the length of time that had transpired before Carl Knox, Miami’s dean of men who was...
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A deep dive into what Carl Knox, Doc Boone, H.H. Stephenson, and others said...
After my most recent blog post about when Carl Knox stopped investigating Ron Tammen’s disappearance, a reader and I were discussing the 1976 documentary produced and narrated by Ed Hart of Dayton’s...
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The tinderbox and the match, part 2: the REAL honest truth about the St....
Already read this post? If so, you can jump to quickie updates here: 3/26/2024 3/28/2024 A couple years ago, I took a detour from my Ronald Tammen research to investigate the July 12, 1973, fire that...
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In Memory of Robert Tammen
Readers, I am so sorry to announce the news that Robert Tammen passed away last week. Robert was Ronald Tammen’s youngest brother, and the last living member of Ron’s immediate family. He was only 7...
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The psychology majors
It’s April 19, 2024—71 years since Ronald Tammen disappeared from Miami University—and it’s wonderful to see you again. I’m truly honored that you’ve made a point to stop by this website on this day...
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Short post: Ron Tammen’s FBI docs have been stamped with ‘ST-102’. Here’s why...
We always knew that Ron Tammen’s case was a little different, right? The total runaround I’ve been getting from various parties tells you that there must be something inherently special about it,...
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Holy crap. Ronald Tammen’s FBI docs have the same identifying numbers stamped...
P.S. So far, they’re the only two people on the planet with this combination of identifying numbers P.P.S. And even though CIA dude is famous for something else, you won’t believe what he was doing in...
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I think Ron Tammen was one of the persons being investigated for JFK’s...
I can’t believe I just wrote that headline. One of the cardinal rules of writing a true crime blog is to not paint oneself into a corner. Present some new theory, sure, but remember to use words like...
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Ron Tammen was listed in the FBI’s infamous Security Index…
That means that the FBI has had all sorts of intel on him that they’ve been pretending not to know about For weeks, I’ve been going through Ronald Tammen’s missing person documents with a 2mm-aperture...
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Ronald Tammen’s FBI documents have been put in the same category as 1) an...
By now, I think we’ve all come to terms with the notion that Ronald Tammen in his adult years wasn’t the same person everyone had known when he was in his teens. Mind you, we still don’t know Ron’s...
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The official Ronald Tammen FBI doc walking tour —stop #1: Guess who else was...
OK, I think I’m ready. I’ve been reading and reading and OMG perusing so many FBI documents like crazy and comparing them to Ron Tammen’s missing person records, trying to make sense of it all. And...
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Walking tour stop #2: An unapologetic communist who was an obvious contender...
We’re still talking about the FBI Security Index, as denoted by the “See index” notation in the left margin of page one of both Ronald Tammen’s and Richard Cox’s case files. The first page of Ron...
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Walking tour stop #3: When was Ronald Tammen added to the FBI’s Security Index?
I think I’ve found a clever little way to tell us roughly when Ron—or whatever his new name turned out to be—was added to the FBI Security Index. Was it 1953? 1973? After that? I think we can tell by...
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Walking tour stop #4: You guys, I think we’ve been hacked (in a good way!)
Let’s see…so far, we’ve been discussing the FBI’s Security Index, the notorious list of so-called dangerous people whose rolls included Ronald Tammen and Richard Cox, but curiously enough, excluded...
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Walking tour stop #5: Pardon my French, but what the phuh is up with all the...
We’re going to take a break from the “see index”es for a little while—but, trust me, we’ll be circling back. There’s something I’m saving for the end of the tour that (in my view) is a rather big...
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Walking tour stop #6: 2-D or not 2-D; that’s the conundrum
As we’ve been going through the scribbles on Ron’s docs, it’s becoming clear that having one or two of them strategically placed on a document is one thing. But to have a whole menagerie of them,...
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Walking tour stop #7: Counting the lb’s
I know—this title is very lame and likely to attract perhaps the smallest number of visitors yet, but it’s all I could come up with, considering the scribble we’ll be addressing today. But if you do...
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Walking tour stop #8: A Korean War POW who worked at Jack Ruby’s Carousel...
Our last stop will take a little longer, since we’re going to need some background. This post has to do with Thomas Rodman Peasner, Jr., whom I’ve brought up before, most recently when we discussed...
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Walking tour stop #9: the afterparty
Hi there, and welcome to the Ronald Tammen walking tour after-party. You’ve waded through so many scribbly, scrawly FBI docs with me over the past several weeks that I thought we all deserved a little...
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