aka Mariann Colby

Daughter of Edwin Morgan Kautz & Ada Adams.

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Mariann Colby was a Shaker Heights homemaker who had fallen in love with another man. In 1952, the 27-year-old woman obsessively took an interest in a man named John Young, even following him on a date. It got so bad that Young asked Mariann's husband, Robert Colby, to step in and put an end to this unrequited love. He did, and all seemed to be well.

Six years later, the Colby's moved to a house just down the street from the now-married John Young. The two couples’ sons became buddies. Over time, the Youngs didn’t want their son to spend so much time with little Dane Colby. Tension grew as Mariann wanted to remain friends.

On Aug. 24, 1965, Mariann Colby called and spoke to John Young, the man she used to love. She said she believed his son's jacket was left at her house, so he sent John Cremer Young, Jr. to go collect it.

She shot the boy in the head and hid the gun in three pounds of ground beef in her freezer.

She was found not guilty by reason on insanity on March 25, 1966; she was committed to the Lima State Hospital for the Criminally Insane before being released in 1972.

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CORDLE Mariann K. Cordle, age 82, of Dublin, died Monday, March 26, 2007, Riverside Methodist Hospital. Born January 2, 1925, in Dayton, Ohio. Member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Dublin. She graduated from Minnesota College with a music degree and dearly loved her family including her dogs: Akeeta, Spunky, Belinda, Corky. Preceded in death by parents Morgan and Ada (Adams) Kautz. Survived by husband, Russell Cordle, whom she married in 1977; son, Dane Colby of Hilliard; brother, John Kautz; sisters-in-law, Helen Orsban and Alma McManer. Graveside service 10 a.m. Monday, April 2, 2007, Jerome Township Cemetery.

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Marriages:
1) Robert Young; 1946-1966, divorced
2) Russell Cordle; ?-2007, her death
(note: Mariann legally changed her name to Cordle but was in a common-law marriage to Russell; no actual legal marriage took place.)

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Cause of Death: Cerebral Aneurism

aka Mariann Colby

Daughter of Edwin Morgan Kautz & Ada Adams.

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Mariann Colby was a Shaker Heights homemaker who had fallen in love with another man. In 1952, the 27-year-old woman obsessively took an interest in a man named John Young, even following him on a date. It got so bad that Young asked Mariann's husband, Robert Colby, to step in and put an end to this unrequited love. He did, and all seemed to be well.

Six years later, the Colby's moved to a house just down the street from the now-married John Young. The two couples’ sons became buddies. Over time, the Youngs didn’t want their son to spend so much time with little Dane Colby. Tension grew as Mariann wanted to remain friends.

On Aug. 24, 1965, Mariann Colby called and spoke to John Young, the man she used to love. She said she believed his son's jacket was left at her house, so he sent John Cremer Young, Jr. to go collect it.

She shot the boy in the head and hid the gun in three pounds of ground beef in her freezer.

She was found not guilty by reason on insanity on March 25, 1966; she was committed to the Lima State Hospital for the Criminally Insane before being released in 1972.

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CORDLE Mariann K. Cordle, age 82, of Dublin, died Monday, March 26, 2007, Riverside Methodist Hospital. Born January 2, 1925, in Dayton, Ohio. Member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Dublin. She graduated from Minnesota College with a music degree and dearly loved her family including her dogs: Akeeta, Spunky, Belinda, Corky. Preceded in death by parents Morgan and Ada (Adams) Kautz. Survived by husband, Russell Cordle, whom she married in 1977; son, Dane Colby of Hilliard; brother, John Kautz; sisters-in-law, Helen Orsban and Alma McManer. Graveside service 10 a.m. Monday, April 2, 2007, Jerome Township Cemetery.

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Marriages:
1) Robert Young; 1946-1966, divorced
2) Russell Cordle; ?-2007, her death
(note: Mariann legally changed her name to Cordle but was in a common-law marriage to Russell; no actual legal marriage took place.)

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Cause of Death: Cerebral Aneurism