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Here are 13 more incredible but true crime stories from the streets of Cleveland, Ohioand from the author of They Died Crawling And Other Tales of Cleveland Woe. Included are northeast Ohio's most terrifying unsolved cases: the Torso Murders, which stumped Eliot Ness and dozens of... read more
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Cast of Characters/Important People
- Beverly Potts: figure of myth and speculation
- Martha Wise: most famous woman in Hardscrabble, OH
- Eliot Ness: former "Untouchable" and Cleveland security director
- Ethel Phillips: star witness
- Janet Blood: a girl with more than her share of hard luck
- Blinky Morgan: rogue
- Fritz Hirter: elementary-school custodian
- The Tattooed Man: a mysterious and badly-damaged figure
Memorable Quotes
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“No man could look twice at a woman. The Fiend was everyplace. A drunk would try to pick up a woman and wind up in a cell being grilled like a sausage in deep fat.”
Don Robertson of the Cleveland Plain Dealer
First Sentence
With the possible exception of the 1954 Marilyn Sheppard murder, Cleveland boasts no bigger or better "signature" crime phenomenon than the baker's dozen of "Kingsbury Run Torso slayings" that terrified Clevelanders and puzzled lawmen during the latter part of the 1930s.
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Authors & Contributors
- John Stark Bellamy II (Author)
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