LOVELAND FROGMAN
Ohio river road at night. Empty bank, no figure.
Illustration, not a period photograph.
Opening
In March 1972 a Loveland, Ohio, police officer reported a small standing figure by the road that would not stay to be held. A second officer sat in some tellings. No specimen sat in a Hamilton County case as an unknown. Known animals and a later joke sit in the competing drawer. The road is first. The figure that would not stay is the gap.
Loveland Frogman is a police-road file without a type. Keep it lean.
The spine of the file is a road and a figure that left. Loveland is March 1972. It is not a jar in a Cincinnati drawer.
Timeline
March 1972 police road report. Figure does not stay.
Later lists keep the frog name. No specimen.
Those lists are later life. The road is first.
The river sits nearby as colour, not as a type.
March 1972 put a Loveland officer on a road with a standing figure that would not stay. A second officer sits in some tellings. No jar took a type. Later lists hung a frog name on the berm.
A badge on a night road is already a file. The missing jar is the long second half.
A figure that will not stay cannot be bagged. That sentence is the whole cheap object of Loveland.
Key figures
The reporting officer owns the road.
A second officer owns a thinner look in some tellings.
Later compilers own the frogman name.
The county owns the empty jar.
Physical and documentary trail
On the paper, March 1972 gives you four hard objects and no type.
One: a police report of a standing figure near Loveland.
Two: a figure that would not stay.
Three: later frogman lists.
Four: the absence of a specimen. Loveland police-road account, March 1972, is the originating tray.
There is no jar. There is no photograph a lab will sign. There is no later type series.
A police-road report and no specimen are the stay-behinds. A hide with a chain would finish the figure. A photograph a lab will sign would finish the other door.
Would-not-stay as a police fact is the extra stay-behind.
It was by the road and it would not stay.
Competing explanations
An unknown small hominid. This is the later name. It has a road. It has no jar.
A known animal, a joke, a mis-seen otter. The mundane door. Has to carry a badge on a night road.
A later myth hung on a river town. Weak against a dated officer line.
Hybrid caution. An officer logged a figure. Morning had no jar.
Later life of the case
Later frog lists. I keep those on the later-life shelf. The road stays first.
Finding
A Loveland officer reported a standing figure by the road in March 1972 that would not stay, and no jar took a type. Believe the road. A police night does not invent a berm for a later list.
What still will not resolve: a specimen with a chain, or a photograph a lab will sign. Either one would pin the figure. The proving object is still that shape by the asphalt, held as animal or as other by more than a frog name.