Mark Heck

Four Mile Lock Inn Double Murder

Former employees have been known to disgruntled after being fired, Mark Heck was no different--except for the murders, of course. A previous employee of the Four Mile Lock Inn near Hebron, Ohio, Heck returned to his old place of employment on November 3rd, 1938.

He was greeted warmly by his previous employer, Mattie Nies. She fed Heck dinner and the two had polite conversation, but when she made a move for the cash register, he made one of his own. Heck fired off rounds into Mattie's head and chest. She wasn't the only victim, Donald Hatfield was fatally wounded as a stray bullet entered his liver.

When Sheriff Hague and Deputies arrived on the scene, they began an immediate manhunt only to discover Heck close by in a field. He had already disposed of the gun in a muddy creek but he had forgotten about the empty .22 casings in his pockets.

If you see him around Old Licking County Jail it will likely be in solitary confinement

where Judge Slabaugh ordered him to placed every November 3rd to reflect upon what he had done.