Podcast Ep 184
The Cleveland Torso Murders
Eliot Ness, twelve bodies, and the case that quietly broke him.
Between 1935 and 1938, at least twelve bodies — most of them dismembered, most of them never identified — turned up in the Kingsbury Run district of Cleveland. The lead investigator was Eliot Ness, fresh off Chicago. He never closed it.
Show notes
We walk through the timeline body by body, the suspect Ness privately believed did it (and the political reasons he could never charge him), the Sweeney connection, and what the 1997 partial DNA testing on the surviving evidence actually showed. Sources at the bottom of the page.
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