A happy family with everything ahead of them and a city already gripped in fear. Hang out with Brad and I as we discuss this famous cold case out of Cincinnati, OH.
Warning: violent crime including the death of a child
Primary Sources & Official Records
Ohio Attorney General's Office. "Ohio Unsolved Homicides: The Bricca Family." Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost, March 2013. ohioattorneygeneral.gov
Hamilton County Sheriff's Office Criminal Investigation Section. Bricca Family Cold Case File. Green Township, Ohio. Case open since September 27, 1966.
News & Investigative Journalism
Monk, Janet. "Horrific Bricca Family Murders Still Unsolved 50 Years Later." WCPO Cincinnati, September 28, 2016. wcpo.com
WCPO Staff. "Who Killed the Bricca Family? One Name Stands Out." WCPO Cincinnati, January 25, 2020. wcpo.com
WCPO Staff. "Who Killed the Bricca Family? Local Historian Explores Cold Case in New Book." WCPO Cincinnati, December 14, 2018. wcpo.com
Fox 19 Staff. "Detectives Continue Investigating Brutal Bricca Family Murders Five Decades Later." Fox 19 Cincinnati, May 17, 2022. fox19.com
WLWT Staff. "Bricca Murders: A New Push to Solve Cincinnati's Infamous Cold Case." WLWT Cincinnati / Joe Deters, March 2020. wlwt.com
Books
Townsend, J.T. Summer's Almost Gone. Cincinnati, Ohio, 2018.
Townsend, J.T. Queen City Gothic: Cincinnati's Most Infamous Murder Mysteries. Bloomington: AuthorHouse, 2009.
Podcasts & Digital Media
"The Trail Went Cold — Episode 392: The Bricca Family Murders." The Trail Went Cold Podcast, August 14, 2024. trailwentcold.com
Hoover, Marc. "Unsolved Bricca Family Homicide." The Clermont Sun, January 17, 2019. clermontsun.com
"The Bricca Family Murders: Cincinnati's Lost Innocence." The Bloody Truth, 2025. thebloodytruth.net
Additional Research
Townsend, J.T. "Bricca Case File: The Unusual Suspects." JT Townsend True Crime Detective, jttownsend.com
"OH — Jerry, 28, Linda, 23, & Debbie Bricca, 4, Bridgetown, 25 Sept 1966." WebSleuths Forums, September 2016. websleuths.com
"Today in History: September 25 — The Bricca Murders 50+ Years Later." History's Story Blog, September 25, 2014. historysstory.blogspot.com
"The Bricca Family Murder." Dark Ideas, August 5, 2020. darkideas.net
📞 Tip Line
If you have information about the Bricca family murders, please contact:
Hamilton County Sheriff's Office — Criminal Investigation Section
📞 (513) 851-6000
All tips can be submitted anonymously.
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