On October 22, 1969, 27-year-old Patricia Dumler was found murdered in her home on Beverly Hills Drive in Cincinnati’s Mount Lookout neighborhood alongside her husband, Martin Dumler, and her mother, Mary Wilson. The three had been tied up, shot, and stabbed; the scene was discovered the next morning after the couple’s two young children, unable to wake their parents, went to neighbors for help.

Police described the killings as brutal and inexplicable; the family reportedly had no known enemies. Some observers have suggested the attack may have been targeted and may have involved torture, but motive and perpetrators remain unknown. The Cincinnati Police Department has kept the investigation open and cold case investigators have revisited the file in hopes that modern forensic methods could produce leads.

The murders shocked a suburban community and left two children without their parents. If anyone knew the Dumler family, lived in Mount Lookout in 1969, or has information that hasn’t been shared with investigators, please come forward.