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American Demon: Eliot Ness and the Hunt for America's Jack the Ripper
2022
True crime account of Eliot Ness hunting Cleveland’s Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run amid Depression-era corruption and grisly unsolved murders.
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True crime account of Eliot Ness hunting Cleveland’s Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run amid Depression-era corruption and grisly unsolved murders.
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New York Times bestselling author and Edgar Award-winner Daniel Stashower returns with American Demon, a historical true crime starring legendary lawman Eliot Ness. Boston had its Strangler. California had the Zodiac Killer. And in the depths of the Great Depression, Cleveland had the Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run. On September 5th, 1934, a young beachcomber made a gruesome discovery on the shores of Cleveland’s Lake Erie: the lower half of a female torso, neatly severed at the waist. The victim,...
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Graphic torso murders, dismemberment, body horror, blood, and injury detail
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Recurring alcohol use and alcoholism themes, including Ness’s drinking
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Depression-era civic politics, police corruption, and reform efforts
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