The Cleveland Torso murderer also known as the mad butcher of Kingsbury Run killed 12 people (at least) during the early 1930s. He sometimes wrapped the body parts in paper and string like parcels. Most were decapitated (while still alive) it was determined by post mortem. All the victims were indigents living in a hobo village in Cleveland. At the Worlds Fair of 1934? plaster casts of some of the heads were put on display in a special tent at the fair with notes about other marks found on their bodies, such as tattoos, in the hopes someone would see and positively identify one of the victims, but no one ever did. The chief suspect was a local doctor Francis E. Sweeney. He was related to a local congressman so his case was not as vigorously persued as it could have been due to political pressure on the police. Eliot Ness had charge of the case and eventually ordered the hobo village to be burned down and then the killings stopped. Dr. Sweeney ended up in a mental institution, but no one was ever formally charged in the case. It remains a cold case to this day. Very interesting story.
