Media Kit
About the Publication
Unsolved Ohio is an investigative publication covering cold cases, missing women, and unsolved murders across the state of Ohio. Using Social Network Analysis, Artificial Intelligence, and a victimology-first methodology, investigators Beth Donahue and Jimmy Steward pursue cases that law enforcement has left behind.
Every case begins with the victim — her life, her relationships, her world — and moves outward through her social network to the people, places, and institutional failures that surrounded her disappearance or death.
Unsolved Ohio is not true crime entertainment. It is investigative journalism built from court records, FOIA requests, official registries, on-record interviews, and forensic analysis. Every named individual is included because the public record places them within the investigative scope of the case.
Publication
Substack, hosted at unsolvedohio.com Founded: 2026 Tagline: Dispatches from the Killing Fields Primary geography: Ohio, with cases spanning multiple counties and regions
Press Assets
Publication Logo
The Unsolved Ohio logo is available for use in press coverage, podcast show notes, and cross-promotional content. Standard usage guidelines apply — do not alter the logo, do not place it on backgrounds that reduce legibility, do not use it in contexts that imply endorsement.
Approved logo usage: For press coverage and editorial use — permitted with attribution. For podcast show notes and episode art — permitted. For cross-promotional Substack content — permitted with link to unsolvedohio.com. For commercial or sponsored use — contact us first.
Investigator Headshots
Professional photographs of Beth Donahue and Jimmy Steward are available on request. To receive high-resolution headshots for press use, please contact us at the address below.
The Investigators
Beth Donahue is a survivor of 24 years of domestic violence, a researcher, and a nationally recognized expert on Serial Domestic Violence Offenders. She is the founder of the Springfield Domestic Violence Coalition and the author of four books including Bloodlines & Bullets. She has presented groundbreaking research at the Midwestern Criminal Justice Association in 2024 and 2025. Her work connects the behavioral signatures of serial domestic abusers to the patterns of serial killers, serial rapists, and serial pedophiles — research that has direct application to the cold cases Unsolved Ohio investigates.
Beth brings to this work something no academic credential can replicate: 24 years of lived experience inside a system that failed to protect her, which gives her an unmatched ability to recognize the patterns of predation, institutional failure, and community silence that define every case in the publication.
Jimmy Steward is a retired U.S. Army Reserve Captain, a criminologist, and a former contractor for the DEA who spent decades tracking drug kingpins and dismantling criminal networks using Social Network Analysis. He developed the Steward Crime Network Analysis technique — adopted by law enforcement agencies across the Midwest — and worked with over 45 county drug task forces and the Illinois Attorney General’s Office. He carries a Top Secret clearance and has published and presented research at the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences.
Jimmy uses Natural Language Processing, data extraction, and social network mapping to surface the hidden connections in cold case files that traditional investigation overlooked.
Podcast Guest Topics
Beth Donahue and Jimmy Steward are available for podcast appearances. Combined, they offer:
Beth Donahue — Available to discuss:
Surviving serial domestic violence and the institutional failures that enabled it
How survivor experience informs investigative methodology
The Springfield Domestic Violence Coalition and policy reform in Ohio
The mob attack and press freedom in small-city America
The Nikki Forrest case and what it reveals about how vulnerable women are treated by the justice system
Jimmy Steward — Available to discuss:
Social Network Analysis applied to cold case investigation
How AI and Natural Language Processing are changing investigative journalism
The DEA contractor experience and tracking criminal networks
The Steward Crime Network Analysis methodology
What law enforcement gets wrong about cold cases and how citizen investigators fill the gap
Together — Available to discuss:
The full Nikki Forrest case and its seven persons of interest
The Killing Fields of Ohio and the pattern of unsolved women’s cases
The methodology behind Unsolved Ohio and what makes it different from true crime entertainment
What it looks like to investigate a case that law enforcement has actively resisted for fifteen years
To book Beth and Jimmy for a podcast appearance, contact us.
Unsolved Ohio is an independent investigative publication. It is not affiliated with any law enforcement agency, government body, or media organization. All investigative findings are the work of Beth Donahue and Jimmy Steward and are sourced from public records, official registries, and on-record interviews.