[Beard]

''The Cleveland Torso Murders''- if you think these photos are horrific you should check out 'The Cleveland Steamer Murders'.....

[carkees]

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[LadyCPlum]

This is something that has always fascinated me in the annals of unsolved crime. I visit a website almost daily called the Doe Network, it's a missing/unidentified persons site, and they have about 15 or so unidentified bodies found in Ohio in the 1930's that they've attributed to the Torso Murderer.

[Yvesrow1]

the golden age of serial killers... try pulling that off today with video surveillance everywhere, dna testing, mass media...

[carkees]

Originally Posted by daveizgod ↗

This is something that has always fascinated me in the annals of unsolved crime. I visit a website almost daily called the Doe Network, it's a missing/unidentified persons site, and they have about 15 or so unidentified bodies found in Ohio in the 1930's that they've attributed to the Torso Murderer.

Doe Network is also a favorite of mine!

[DarkRainbow]

The Cleveland Torso Murderer (also known as the Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run) was an unidentified serial killer who killed and dismembered at least 12 victims in the Cleveland, Ohio, area in the 1930s.
The victims were usually drifters whose identities were never determined, although there were several exceptions. Victims numbers 2, 3, and 8 were identified as Edward Andrassy, Flo Polillo, and possibly Rose Wallace, respectively. Invariably, all the victims, male and female, appeared to be from the lower class of society - easy prey in Depression-era Cleveland. Many were known as "working poor," who had nowhere else to live but the ramshackle shanty towns in the area known as the Cleveland Flats.
The Torso Murderer always beheaded and often dismembered his victims, sometimes also cutting the torso in half; in many cases the cause of death was the decapitation itself. Most of the male victims were castrated, and some victims showed evidence of chemical treatment being applied to their bodies. Many of the victims were found after a considerable period of time following their deaths, sometimes a year or more. This made identification nearly impossible, especially since the heads were often not found.

[DarkRainbow]

Left one out:

[LadyCPlum]

Niiiiiiiiiiice. They brought in Elliot Ness to try and catch this guy.

[dEAD mICHAEL]

Elliot Ness spent the remainder of his life trying to find this killer. He also tried to find his sister that dissapeared.

Never solved either case.

Another fun fact about this case. Jack the Ripper stopped killing in England just a few months before the killings in Cleveland started. Some speculate it was Jack that came across the big pond to keep killing. But who knows?

[Jere]