Cleveland Butcher

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Cleveland Butcher

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Who is it?
«Cleveland Butcher» - an
unidentified serial killer who
committed his crimes in
Cleveland, Ohio, in the 1930s.
The official number of murders
attributed to the Cleveland
Butcher is twelve, although
recent research has shown that
there were about forty.

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The dismemberment killer always decapitated
and often dismembered his victims, sometimes
cutting the torso in half; in many cases death was
caused by decapitation.
The Cleveland Butcher case was handled by Eliot
Ness, at the time head of Cleveland security.

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Many of the victims were found a
considerable time after death,
sometimes a year or later. This made
identification almost impossible,
especially if no heads were found.
The biography of the maniac added
new victims, the murders stopped,
and then several bodies were found
again. All the while, the investigation
was practically at a standstill.

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All of the victims belonged to the lowest
social level, and were therefore easy prey in
Cleveland. Many of them were members of
the "working poor" who lived in the Cleveland
Flats neighborhood.
The two main suspects are most often
associated with the dismemberment
murderer, although there were many more
during the investigation. But in the end the
real murderer was never found.