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A killer who understood human anatomy—and the lethal anatomy of a broken society
Ep 17 covers the Cleveland Torso Murders. We explore how the Mad Butcher weaponized 1930s homophobia to hunt in the shadows, outsmarting even Eliot Ness
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Episode 17 is out today. It's is a really interesting case from the 1930s and has some parallels to The Black Dahlia.
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During the investigation, Ness was convinced that a man he called "Dr. X" aka. Francis E. Sweeney was the killer and attempted to get a confession out of him during a week-long interrogation at a Cleveland hotel. Sweeney was a skilled surgeon who lived near Kingsbury Run. #ClevelandTorsoMurders
By September 1936, Public Safety Director Elliot Ness was put in charge of the investigation. Widely known for his battles against organized crime, Ness was now dealing with a different breed of criminal who was proving to be quite elusive. #ClevelandTorsoMurders #truecrime