Ohio Penitentiary
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The Ohio Penitentiary, also known as the Ohio State Penitentiary, was a prison operated from 1834 to 1984 in downtown Columbus, Ohio, in what is now known as the Arena District. The state had built a
The prison c. 1897
A postcard depicting the Ohio Penitentiary
James H. Snook arriving at the Ohio Penitentiary in 1929 to be held prior to his execution
A cell block in the abandoned prison, shortly before demolition
Anna Marie Hahn
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Anna Marie Hahn was a German-born American serial killer. She murdered 5 elderly men from Cincinnati by poison between 1933 and 1937. She was convicted of murder and executed by electric chair in 1938
Ohio Penitentiary
…music singer. Lester Eubanks Wanted fugitive who escaped from the prison on December 7, 1973, on the U.S. Marshals' 15 Most Wanted Fugitives as of 2022. Anna Marie Hahn Serial killer; after her conviction in November 1937, she was housed at the Ohio Penitentiary for 371 days until her execution at the prison on December…
Mugshot of Anna Marie Hahn