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The Cleveland Torso Murderer, also known as the Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run, was an unidentified serial killer who was active in Cleveland, Ohio, United States, in the 1930s.
Between 1935 and 1938, a serial killer murdered and dismembered at least 12 victims - only 2 of which were ever positively identified. This killer is officially unidentified, yet researchers of today are quite certain who committed these horrible crimes.
On June 5, 1936, two boys who had cut school to go fishing found a rumpled pair of pants under a tree on the city’s east side. Tied up in the pants was a man’s severed head. The nude,...
Cleveland's infamous Torso Murders: 80 years later, the fascination endures (vintage photos) CLEVELAND, Ohio – More than 80 years after the Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run cut a swath of terror...
For 18 years, Badal, 71, has researched the Torso Murders, the spree of decapitation killings that terrified Cleveland during the Great Depression. The torso murderer killed seven men and five or six women.
In four years, the Cleveland Torso Murderer killed, dismembered and castrated 12 different victims, and was never identified.
The biggest serial killer in Cleveland’s history is a case left unsolved. This case has haunted many people: the ones who found the bodies, the ones who knew the victims, the city who read about the story every day for two years, but, most of all, it haunted Eliot Ness.
