02032cam a2200313 i 4500 1499016745 TxAuBib 20240809120000.0 220303s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2022009070 9781250041166 hardcover 1250041163 hardcover TxAuBib rda Stashower, Daniel, author. American Demon : Eliot Ness and the hunt for America's Jack the Ripper / Daniel Stashower. First edition. New York : Minotaur Books, 2022. ©2022. viii, 342 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier 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 5, 1934, a young beach-comber 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, dubbed " The Lady of the Lake," was only the first of a butcher's dozen. Over the next four years, twelve more bodies would be scattered across the city. The bodies were dismembered with surgical precision and drained of blood. Some had been beheaded while still alive. Terror gripped the city. Amid the growing uproar, Cleveland's besieged mayor turned to his newly appointed director of public safety: Eliot Ness. Ness had come to Cleveland fresh from his headline-grabbing exploits in Chicago, where he and hi band of "Untouchables" led the frontline assault on Al Capone's bootlegging empire. Now he would confront a case that would redefine his storied career. 20240809. Ness, Eliot. Serial murders Ohio Cleveland Case studies. Homicide investigation Ohio Cleveland Case studies. TXJOU