Caucasian/White, female, age 35. On June 10, 2008, in Springfield, Ohio, a passerby spotted a body in the Mad River near the 2300 block of Dayton Road. The woman—Angela Lee “Angie” Hanaway, age 35—had been missing from the city of Springfield, and when she was pulled from the water she was partially clothed and badly decomposed, a bleak hint at how long the river had held her. Dental and medical records confirmed the identity that heartbreak had already suggested.
The date she died could not be fixed with certainty, only that she was found on June 10, 2008, and had been in the water “for some time.”
The autopsy told investigators that the female victim, age 35, suffered a violent death. There were no quick answers in the condition of her remains, only the grim confirmation that what happened to her did not happen by chance. With the recovery site just west of the U.S. Route 68 overpass, the river became both the scene and the shroud, and the investigation moved forward with the stubborn limits imposed by time and water.
Behind the case file was a life: a Springfield native born on October 31, 1972, remembered by family and friends who spoke her name in funeral notices and condolences. Obituaries marked the passing of Angela Hanaway, age 35, noting her roots in Clark County and the family who survived her, while community remembrances and memorial pages kept her story from slipping entirely beneath the surface.
The investigation has endured for years without resolution. Authorities have stated that, to date, there have been no arrests and no viable suspects publicly identified in the killing of the female victim, age 35, whose life ended violently and whose body surfaced in the Mad River. The Ohio Attorney General’s cold case listing continues to seek information, urging anyone who knows what happened to come forward so that the currents of that day can finally be stilled by answers.
