First, let us examine the reign of terror carried out in the
city of
Cleveland by
America=92s first modern serial killer. This cunning
psychopath,
known as the "Torso
Killer," can be linked to dozens of slayings. Many of his
victims
were found
dismembered and neatly wrapped in newspaper along a stretch
of
industrial wasteland
called Kingsbury Run. He was never apprehended despite
an
intense--even
eerie--manhunt carried out by some of the day=92s top
law
enforcement officers, including
the famous "Untouchable" Eliot Ness. The killer=92s
activities
mysteriously ceased just
before the outbreak of the Second World War.
Many who were familiar with prior events in Cleveland were
convinced the
Torso Killer had struck again. Like the perpetrator of the
Torso
killings, the slayer of
Elizabeth Short was never apprehended. He may still be
alive, at
large, today.
---which would make him a tad long in the tooth.
Dick
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