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Edward Joseph Leonski (12 December 1917 – 9 November 1942) was a United States Army soldier and serial killer responsible for the strangling murders of three women in Melbourne, Australia in 1942. Leonski was dubbed The Brownout Strangler, after Melbourne's wartime practice of dropping the electricity voltage to conserve energy.
- The Brownout Strangler, The Singing Strangler
- Execution by hanging
- 3
- Death
Oct 21, 2019 · Born into an abusive New Jersey family with a history of mental illness, Eddie Leonski was a bodybuilder, a boxer and an alcoholic. Already, in San Antonio, he’d attacked a woman in...
Private Edward Joseph Leonski of the United States Army, a heavy drinker, raped and strangled to death with his own hands three women in Melbourne: about 3 May 1942, he killed 40-year-old Mrs. Ivy Violet McLeod, about 9 May 31-year-old Mrs. Pauline Thompson, and on about 18 May 41-year-old Miss Gladys Lilian Hosking.
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Edward Joseph Leonski, 24 years, a private in the United States army, was hanged in Pentridge prison at 6 am yesterday. He had been convicted before a United States military court-martial on July 17, and sentenced to death for the murder of Mrs Ivy McLeod, Mrs Pauline Thompson and Miss Gladys Hosking.
Aug 10, 2017 · On May 17 or 18, 1942, Edward Leonski committed his third and final murder, earning him his macabre badge as a serial killer. This time, his victim was forty-one-year-old Gladys Hosking. Maddened by her voice, Edward Leonski strangled Hosking and left her stripped body in a muddy pit near Camp Pell.
Private Edward Joseph Leonski, 24, the American soldier who was found guilty of the murder of three women in Melbourne last May, was executed in Melbourne yesterday morning.
Edward Joseph Leonski (1917-1942), soldier and murderer, was born on 12 December 1917 at Kenvil, New Jersey, United States of America, sixth child of Russian-born parents John Leonski, labourer, and his wife Amelia, née Harkavitz.
