Time & Tales Podcast

Eliot Ness and The Mad Butcher: PART THREE


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In the final chapter of this three-part series, Time and Tales examines the leading suspects in the Cleveland Torso Murders, including Dr. Francis Sweeney, Frank Dolezal, and Willie Johnson. LaNae and CJ break down Eliot Ness’ investigation into the Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run, the evidence tied to the murders, the links between victims Florence Polillo and Rose Wallace, theories involving morphine trafficking and organized crime, and why the case remains one of Cleveland’s most infamous unsolved serial killer mysteries.

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Sources:

Cleveland Police Museum. Torso Murders.

Encyclopedia of Cleveland History. Torso Murders.

Encyclopedia of Cleveland History. Ness, Eliot.

Federal Bureau of Investigation. A Byte Out of History: Eliot Ness and the FBI.

Cleveland Historical. Ness’ Burning of Kingsbury Run.

Collins, Max Allan, and A. Brad Schwartz. Eliot Ness and the Mad Butcher: Hunting America's Deadliest Unidentified Serial Killer at the Dawn of Modern Criminology. William Morrow, 2020.

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