On the evening of September 13, 1981, Janice Beidleman was driving her 1974 Chevrolet Vega with her 18-month-old son, Brandon, in the back seat after visiting relatives in the Myrtle Avenue and Marcia Drive area of Columbus, Ohio. She told family she planned to stop at a grocery store before returning to her home on Beechwold Drive and was last seen driving away from the relative’s house.

Both Janice and Brandon were found dead the next day, September 14, 1981. Their bodies were recovered in Alum Creek near the Agler Road Bridge, just west of Sunbury Road, and Janice’s vehicle was located abandoned beneath that bridge. Janice had been beaten and strangled; Brandon appeared to have been suffocated. The Columbus Police Department classified the deaths as homicides and the case remains unsolved.

Anyone with information about Janice or Brandon’s killings is asked to contact Crime Stoppers or the Ohio Attorney General’s office with tips. Did anyone in the area at the time see the Vega or notice anything unusual that night?