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OhiopassedawaySaturday, CancerCenterfollowingayear longbattlewithbreastcancer. ArrangementsincareofSecor FuneralHomeinWillard. KarenJeanWeatherbie the FBI for help before body was ound, discounted the possibility of a serial iller, it the only avenue they are pursuing, oss County Prosecutor Matt Schmidt explained at a June 2 press conference about the discovery body. this point, smoking gun that says, got a serial killer on the Schmidt said. have issing people and we ave a homicide.

There a re certainly people talking in the community and people that are upset and understandably concerned about that. When there are those concerns, we rule that out. We have to keep an open mind to the possibilities, but the evidence is going to dictate where we go with the Year of fear The troubling trend of issing women in Chillicothe, located in Ross County about an hour outh of Columbus, began a little more than a year ago. Officials have aid the women are connected through a common history of drug use, possible prostitution and connections to the same social circle. A kayaker found the naked body of Tameka ynch, 30, in Paint Creek, about a 30-minute drive from Chillicothe, on May 2 4 last year.

Four days before investigators found her body, husband reported her missing. He told police he had not seen her since May 16. Although a coroner etermined Lynch likely ied from a multiple drug overdose, her manner of death was the result of After finding Lynch, law enforcement searched along Paint Creek and into the Scioto River for any signs of an- ther missing woman 2 9-year-old Charlotte Trego.Her mother rep orted her missing two days after Lynch was reported missing. Trego been seen in two eeks, which Yvonne Boggs said was atypical or her daughter. According to the ini- ial police report, Trego left her home on the east ide of Chillicothe on foot after she was evicted by er roommate.

No signs of her was found during he search of the creek and river and law en- orcement have indicated been unable to earn much more. Next came Wanda Lemons, 38, who was last seen by her mother Oct. 2 a nd reported missing Dec. 28. A friend of Lemo ns told Chillicothe police last seen her on Nov.

3 and talked about possibly going with a truck driver to Texas here Lemons has fam- i ly. mother told police it is not uncommon for her to go for lengthy periods without speaking to her daughter but it was unusual for her not to call or visit during the holidays. At about the same time Lemons mother went to police, a pregnant 2 0-year-old, Shasta missing. Her family last saw her hristmas night and quickly reported her missing. She was cap- ured on film by a Chillicothe gas station surveillance system the morn- i ng after Christmas and her car was found abandoned, the doors open and battery drained, about 20 minutes south near the Scioto River.

er body was found in the river on Jan. 2. Alt hough the coroner ruled death a suicide by drowning, her amily and friends have their doubts, saying Himelrick was happy about being pregnant. think if she (Himelrick) did do what they say, I think someone may have forced her to do er grandmother, Janice immons, told the Chillicothe Gazette in March. disappearance heightened awareness among Chillicothe residents of the missing, but theories that aserial killer is in their midst picked up steam when Tiffany Sayre went issing on May 11.

ayre had been at the Chillicothe Inn with two en that night and told a friend she was going to stop by again before go- i ng home. As the commu- ity came together in the park for a vigil for ayre and the other women on May 29, a woman found a body in some eeds a few hundred ards from U.S. 23 a ighway known as a primary route for drug trafficking about six miles south of Chillicothe. The body was Timberly Claytor a woman who had not yet been reported missing. She had been shot three times in the head and law enforcement quickly closed in on alocal suspect, 36-year- ld Jason A.

McCrary, who was convicted of unlawful sexual conduct ith a minor over a decade ago. He has not been charged with urder, but remains in the Ross County Jail on a charge he failed to regis- er his address. Investigators are waiting for results of DNA collected in a vehicle seized during a search warrant of home be- ore filing charges. On Saturday, just three eeks after Claytor was found shot, a couple of hikers found body i a culvert on June 20 not far from where Lynch was found just more than ayear ago. While results of an autopsy are pending, officials have confirmed her body had been wrapped in a white cloth a nd duct tape was found earby.

They are investigating her death as a homicide. Ramping up the i nvestigation After body was found, Chillicothe Police Chief Keith Washburn asked the FBI for elp and a task force, hich includes the Ross County Office, as created. The task force is working in an undisclosed loca- ion with members from ocal, state and federal agencies, and have creat- a dedicated tip line and email. aunt, Shelly Hehr, this week encour- a ged people with informa- ion to report it. Somebody did this.

Somebody is responsible, and somebody knows who is responsible. I know, if you are scared, you might not want to come forward, but you should be scared if you come forward because, if somebody come forward and help stop this, you know who could be ehr said. In a recent interview with the Chillicothe Gaz ette, Washburn said detectives assigned to the cases drop whatever they a re doing when tips are given for any of the missing women to follow up. he problem is, many of the tips turn out to be false. checked land, air and water for any signs of (the ashburn said.

the problem is, trying find a needle in a haystack, unless you have the information. The inform ation we have is running dry on some of these Investigators have een throughout southern Ohio and Kentucky trying get information on Sayre, in addition to inter- iewing subjects and administering polygraph ests. On May 23, police also did something it rare- does when it arrested three alleged prostitutes i hopes of getting information about the missing omen. Washburn said prostitution in the Chillicothe area appears to be driven a need for quick money to purchase drugs. One of the things that people have said is we treat these people differently because of their life- Washburn said.

That is totally untrue. hese ladies are daughter, mother, sister, aunt. These are human beings. We are going to give it 110 percent to try to find As investigators continue pounding the pavement, residents in Chillicothe also have been coming together in various ays, online and in the community. There have been marches, vigils, and a Facebook page was created to spread the missing information a cross social media.

A GoFundMehas been created to help fam- i ly pay for her burial. And two weeks ago, sisters-in-law Samantha and Mary Green began a weekly community protest No Dope, Just ope. be out here every aturday, even if Samantha Green told the Chillicothe Gazette. eed to protest. no future for our children if it keeps going this Missing Continued from Page 1A Still missing and sought Charlotte Trego Described as a 5-foot-4-inch white woman who weighs 160 ounds and has dark hair and blue eyes.

Trego has a tattoo of on her chest and a Playboy bunny on her upper arm. Wanda Lemons Described as a white woman, 38 years old, about 5 feet 7 inches tall and weighs 135 pounds with shoulder-length brown hair and blue eyes. Lemons has a tattoo of dolphins making a eart on her lower back and a few other unknown tattoos. She has been known to frequent the Galveston, Texas, area. Diaz Brinton, who presented data on gender differences at a meeting of the National Institutes of ealth this year.

ut, she said, aver- a ge, women live four or ive years longer than men, and we know that is a disease that starts 20 years before the how early cellular damage can quietly begin. Brinton researches if menopause can be a tipping point that leaves certain women vulnerable. However it starts brewing, some evidence that once is diagnosed, women may worsen faster; scans show more rapid shrinkage of certain brain areas. Stark genetic evidence But gene research off ers the most startling ev- i dence of a sex difference. Stanford University researchers analyzed records of more than 8,000 eople for a form of a ene named ApoE-4, long nown to increase risk.

Women who carry a copy of that gene variant ere about twice as likely eventually develop Alz- ast month, the associ- a tion brought 15 leading scientists together to ask known about risk. Later this summer, Carrillo said it plans to begin funding research to address some of the gaps. is a lot that is not understood and not known. time we did something about she added. The odds after age 65 Arecent Association report estimates that at age 65, women have about a 1in 6 chance of developing during the rest of their lives, compared ith a 1in 11chance for en.

The tricky part is determining how much of the disparity is due to longevity or oth- factors. It is true that age is the greatest risk factor for developing said Univer- ity of Southern Califor- ia professor Roberta as women without the gene, while risk was only slightly increased, Dr. Michael Greicius reported last year. not clear why. It may be in how the gene interacts with estrogen, rinton said.

A my Shives, 57, of Spokane, Washington, recalls when her mother began showing symptoms of A But it ntil after her own diag- osis a few years ago that Shives looked up the gender statistics. was aid Shives, who is in the arly stages of Alzheim- which struck at a younger-than-usual age and forced her retirement as a college counselor. impact on our lives and that of our families is Data from the long- running Framingham, assachusetts, health tudy suggests that because more men die from heart disease in middle age, those who survive ast 65 may have healthi- hearts that in turn pro- ide some brain protection. Many of the same factors obesity, high cholesterol, diabetes hat damage arteries also a re risks. Hormone data mixed What about hormones? been hard to pin own.

Years ago, a major tudy found that estrogen herapy after 65 might inc rease risk of dementia, although later research showed hormone replace- ent around the onset of menopause a problem. Brinton studies how menopause changes the brain. Estrogen helps regulate the metabolism, how it produces the energy for proper cognitive function, and it must switch to a less efficient ackup method as estrogen plummets, she explained. like the brain is a little bit said Brinton, who is studying whether that may relate to menopausal symptoms in women who later expe- ience cognitive problems. Carrillo notes that 40 years ago, heart disease as studied mainly in en, with little under- tanding of how heart risks can differ.

do we make sure not making that istake when it comes to she said. Women Continued from Page 1A YOUNG Amy Shives of Spokane, was diagnosed with early onset disease in 2011. impact on our lives and that of our families is she said. Recently discovered, century- old paintings and other artifacts from a historic building in Cleveland have been unveiled as art of the celebration of he 125th anniversary of downtown ranch. leveland-based Key- Corp last week unveiled the paintings that appear to be rough drafts of mu- als done for the Ameri- trust building by painter Francis Davis Millet, The Plain Dealer in Cleveland reported.

Millet died in the Titanic sinking in 1912. KeyCorp bought Ame- ritrust in 1991, but appar- ntly open crates a nd boxes that came with he building. They were tored in a bank vault and eyCorp officials only discovered what they contained within the last six months, the newspaper eported. KeyCorp is considering ways of displaying the paintings to the public and is working with the Western Reserve Historical Society to determine what will happen next to the ural drafts that are be- ieved to have been done etween 1900 and 1905. he paintings are only a bout 18 inches tall and around 4 feet wide, much smaller than the murals in the rotunda of the Ameri- rust building.

Bank manuals from around 1900 and reel-to- reel films that were shot in the late 1940s or early 1950s are among other artifacts that were found in the boxes and crates. ost are believed to be rom a period of about 1 890 to 1905. Cleveland arket president, Kip Clarke, said the anniversary was a good time to showthe items. Bank unveils century-old paintings ASSOCIATED PRESS NUMBERS Pick 3 (D): 1-2-1 Pick 4 (D): 1-8-4-5 Pick 5 (D): 5-6-5-9-3 olling Cash 5: 7-8-28-36-38 Pick 3 5-9-7 ick 4: 4-7-5-2 Pick 5: 6-0-7-3-3 LOTTERIES.