For those of you who live in the Chicago or Milwaukee metro
areas, I'm giving a talk on Eliot Ness's real-life hunt for
the Depression-era serial killer known as the Mad Butcher of
Kingsbury Run. It's this Saturday, Sept 25, at the
Zion/Benton Public Library in Zion, IL, just south of the
Wisconsin border. The presentation starts at 2PM. More
information on the can be found here:
http://www.zblibrary.org/events/adult.html
In recent years, this case has been fictionalized in a number
of different mediums. Max Allan Collins and John Peyton Cooke
have written novels about it. Brian Michael Bendis wrote and
illustrated a graphic novel
(a comic book on steroids for those of you not up on the
latest publishing jargon). Peter Ullian wrote a stage play
about the case and later adapted that play into a musical.
Even the recent revived UNTOUCHABLES TV series, syndicated to
local station in the early
'90's, did a two-part episode loosely inspired by the
murders.
The case was never solved officially, but years after he
retired, Ness privately claimed that he'd successfully
identified the Butcher and, in fact, had put him out of
commission. This presentation will examine how much merit
there might have been to Ness's claims.
The library is located at 2400 Gabriel Ave in Zion. The phone
number for further information is
(847)872-4680, ext 4.
Hope to see some of you there.
JIM DOHERTY
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