Jared Klaus, Author at Cleveland Scene

The Pest

Elsebeth Baumgartner is the biggest pain in the ass you’d never want to meet. But does she deserve 112 years in prison?

He pioneered his own martial-arts style. You’re probably not man enough.

Hayden Gill found a way to turn videogame gold into real-world cash.

An internet site promised easy money. It was a high-tech take on an age-old scam.

By day, he was a popular law student. By night, a bank robber with blood on his hands.

Under dark of night, stealing cars with the city’s finest.

For $400,000, insurers bought the right to take your injury settlement.

A band of nomadic locksmiths finds fertile scamming in Cleveland.

A convicted child molester finds an unlikely ally in an eccentric playboy with his own sordid secret.

Evening falls and the good times roll at Nelson Ledges, party heaven.

Anthony Hodel was a shooting star of Cleveland business — until he was torched by the heat.

Their new house seemed perfect — until they found the void.