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Coburn Gunten

Case from Youngstown, OH dated Nov 28, 1934

Victim Details

Coburn Von Gunten

Male

Youngstown

OH

1934-11-28

40

Coburn

Gunten

06/25/2026

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On the night before Thanksgiving in November 1934, 40-year-old Coburn Von Gunten, an executive at the McNeil Machine & Engineering Company in Youngstown, Ohio, was returning home from an office party. As he approached his vehicle, he was confronted by Leroy Keith, a recently paroled convict with a history of violent crimes. Keith, accompanied by 27-year-old ex-convict Louis Johnson and 16-year-old Joseph Reinthaler, had been seeking a getaway vehicle for planned robberies in the Youngstown and A ...
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