Kev,
Re your comment below:
> . . . TORSO, a drak,
> nightmarish fictionalization of a true crime
story
> investigated by
> Elliot Ness, et al, are all good reads, and
all
> have been collected
> in graphic novels.
Given that you go on to talk about Al Collins later in your
post, it's interesting to note that Al fictionalized this
case twice. In "The Strawberry Teardrop," the first Nate
Heller short story, Heller travels to Cleveland where Ness,
having left federal service, is the police chief (Director of
Public Safety to give him his official title) on a missing
persons case and finds that the person he's looking for is
one of the Mad Butcher's victims.
A few years later, he expanded the short story into the novel
BUTCHER'S DOZEN (one of his best, in my opinion), moving Ness
to center stage and cutting out Heller altogether.
There's a rumor that the script-writer of TORSO consulted Al
about research, then essentially ripped off Al's the
research, without attribution. I've also been told (but
haven't read the graphic novel so can't personally comment)
that TORSO is very deriviative of BUTCHER'S DOZEN.
I'm in the middle (or actually near the end) of a long
true-crime article about the case, so I've kind of got the
Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run on the brain right now.
JIM DOHERTY
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