WEBVTT - Cold Case 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:03.120 Just a heads up. The epilogue to this episode contains 0:00:03.160 --> 0:00:06.080 discussion of sexual violence that may be disturbing to some. 0:00:06.760 --> 0:00:13.600 Please take care while listening. You're listening to American Shadows, 0:00:13.800 --> 0:00:17.360 a production of iHeartRadio and Grim and Mild from Aaron Mankey. 0:00:25.640 --> 0:00:30.200 Edward Joseph O'Hare, often called EJ, knew what he wanted 0:00:30.200 --> 0:00:34.120 in life. In nineteen twelve, the nineteen year old married 0:00:34.240 --> 0:00:38.600 Selma Laut and they had three children, daughters Patricia and Marylyn, 0:00:38.760 --> 0:00:42.920 and son Edward Junior, whom they called Butch. Selma's father 0:00:43.040 --> 0:00:45.199 allowed the family to live in the apartment above the 0:00:45.240 --> 0:00:49.680 family grocery store. Realizing hard work alone wouldn't give him 0:00:49.720 --> 0:00:52.839 and his family the best in life, EJ studied to 0:00:52.840 --> 0:00:56.480 become a lawyer. In nineteen twenty three, he passed the 0:00:56.520 --> 0:01:00.160 bar and found work at a law firm. Through the years, 0:01:00.160 --> 0:01:04.160 he worked tirelessly. He eventually bought a new home, complete 0:01:04.160 --> 0:01:06.880 with a swimming pool and skating rink, in the affluent 0:01:06.920 --> 0:01:12.080 neighborhood of Holly Hills. But EJ's ambition was insatiable. He 0:01:12.280 --> 0:01:15.720 wanted only the best for his son. Believing Busch was 0:01:15.920 --> 0:01:19.920 somewhat lazy, EJ. Enrolled him at the Western Military Academy. 0:01:20.760 --> 0:01:23.479 Most of EJ's wealth had come from his client, Owen 0:01:23.520 --> 0:01:28.319 Patrick Smith, the commissioner of the International Greyhound Association. Smith 0:01:28.319 --> 0:01:31.800 had created a mechanical rabbit that greyhounds chased on the track, 0:01:32.120 --> 0:01:35.240 and when Smith died, EJ bought the rights from his 0:01:35.280 --> 0:01:39.800 widow a Sensing an opportunity, EJ took his mechanical rabbit 0:01:39.880 --> 0:01:45.240 concept to Chicago's most influential resident, Al Capone. It didn't 0:01:45.240 --> 0:01:48.440 take long for Capone to determine EJ's talent and hire 0:01:48.520 --> 0:01:52.240 him on as one of his lawyers. With his influence, money, 0:01:52.360 --> 0:01:56.480 and team of attorneys, it seemed as though Capone was untouchable. 0:01:57.320 --> 0:02:00.600 The government had tried countless times to find something to 0:02:00.640 --> 0:02:04.760 stick on Capone, but his lawyers, including EJ, always got 0:02:04.800 --> 0:02:08.280 him out of it. Capone and EJ made considerable money 0:02:08.360 --> 0:02:12.840 by operating greyhound tracks in Chicago, Boston, and Miami. Soon, 0:02:13.160 --> 0:02:16.320 EJ moved his family into a large mansion that filled 0:02:16.320 --> 0:02:20.320 an entire block. For security, the whole estate was fenced. 0:02:20.600 --> 0:02:24.600 They even had living help. Though he was directly involved 0:02:24.639 --> 0:02:28.360 with one of America's most notorious gangsters, EJ tried to 0:02:28.400 --> 0:02:32.400 teach Butch right from wrong. Despite his own career path, 0:02:32.720 --> 0:02:34.920 EJ wanted a better way of life for his son. 0:02:35.680 --> 0:02:38.760 A Butch accompanied his father on many trips, and the 0:02:38.800 --> 0:02:42.320 two shared their love of planes. When EJ flew, he 0:02:42.440 --> 0:02:45.079 looked for opportunities to allow his son a few minutes 0:02:45.120 --> 0:02:49.560 behind the controls. In nineteen twenty seven, EJ divorced Selma 0:02:49.720 --> 0:02:53.000 and left her and his daughters in Saint Louis, he 0:02:53.080 --> 0:02:56.639 met Ursula Granada, a sister to a state representative with 0:02:56.760 --> 0:03:01.160 strong mob ties. For seven years, the will remained engaged 0:03:01.919 --> 0:03:05.320 devout Catholics. The two couldn't marry since the Church didn't 0:03:05.320 --> 0:03:10.360 recognize EJ's divorce. By nineteen thirty, EJ worried about the 0:03:10.400 --> 0:03:13.640 influence his mob ties might have on his son's reputation 0:03:13.919 --> 0:03:17.760 and his application to the Naval Academy. The only way 0:03:17.760 --> 0:03:21.160 out was to turn on Capone. EJ worked with the 0:03:21.200 --> 0:03:24.840 IRS and with a rising talent at the Justice Department, 0:03:25.160 --> 0:03:29.120 Elliott ness Ness, headed a group that was finally able 0:03:29.120 --> 0:03:32.600 to get Capone on tax evasion and thousands of violations 0:03:32.600 --> 0:03:35.800 of the Volstead Act. EJ informed to the government the 0:03:35.840 --> 0:03:39.440 Campone had fixed the jury. After his conviction, Capone was 0:03:39.480 --> 0:03:43.400 sentenced to Alcatraz for tax evasion. He was released in 0:03:43.480 --> 0:03:47.320 nineteen thirty nine. That November, a car sped past Ej 0:03:47.680 --> 0:03:50.880 and gunned him down, though he never lived to see it. 0:03:51.200 --> 0:03:54.080 EJ's effort allowed his son to join the Naval Academy 0:03:54.360 --> 0:03:56.800 and go on to become a World War Two hero. 0:03:57.600 --> 0:04:01.520 Butch O'Hare single handedly shot down own five Japanese bombers, 0:04:01.680 --> 0:04:04.880 saving the USS Lexington, for which he received the Medal 0:04:04.920 --> 0:04:08.720 of Honor. In nineteen forty nine, Chicago changed the name 0:04:08.760 --> 0:04:12.720 of Orchard Depot Airport to O'Hare International in his honor 0:04:13.360 --> 0:04:16.680 and elliot Ness, the young agent who helped bring down 0:04:16.680 --> 0:04:21.599 Capone also rose to fame. But sometimes fame has a 0:04:21.680 --> 0:04:34.680 dark side. I'm Lauren Vogelbaum. Welcome to American Shadows. We 0:04:35.080 --> 0:04:39.640 are fascinated with true crime. We have news reports, books, 0:04:39.720 --> 0:04:43.680 and whole streaming channels devoted to it, and no category 0:04:43.760 --> 0:04:46.680 of crime seems to capture our attention as much as 0:04:46.720 --> 0:04:52.039 serial killers. Today, we have advancements in forensics technology and 0:04:52.240 --> 0:04:56.360 specialized profilers to solve murders. In the nineteen thirties, though 0:04:56.720 --> 0:05:01.159 law enforcement had to rely on other methods September twenty 0:05:01.200 --> 0:05:04.400 third of nineteen thirty five was a perfect day for 0:05:04.520 --> 0:05:08.240 kids to spend on the perhaps quaintly named Jackass Hill, 0:05:08.560 --> 0:05:11.560 a slope near East forty Night Street in the Kingsbury 0:05:11.640 --> 0:05:15.640 Run area of Cleveland, Ohio. In the winter, the kids 0:05:15.760 --> 0:05:19.719 used the sixty foot slope for sledding, but on autumn days, 0:05:19.760 --> 0:05:22.680 when the temperature hovered at a mild seventy one degrees 0:05:22.880 --> 0:05:26.039 and the sky was a cloudless blue, kids took to 0:05:26.080 --> 0:05:30.000 the hill for games. Sixteen year old James Wagner and 0:05:30.120 --> 0:05:33.880 twelve year old Peter Costora took turns catching and tossing 0:05:33.920 --> 0:05:37.000 a ball. One of them missed, and the ball rolled 0:05:37.040 --> 0:05:39.760 down the slope into the bushes at the bottom. The 0:05:39.839 --> 0:05:43.359 boys chased after. Near By, two other boys watched the 0:05:43.400 --> 0:05:46.400 ball sailed down the hill with James and Peter in pursuit, 0:05:46.880 --> 0:05:50.440 and at the same time both sets of boys came 0:05:50.480 --> 0:05:55.560 across something unexpected. Instead of the ball, Peter and James 0:05:55.600 --> 0:05:59.520 found a man's decapitated head in the bushes. The other 0:05:59.560 --> 0:06:03.440 two boys is found a headless body. All four ran 0:06:03.520 --> 0:06:07.279 back home, neither group realizing the head and body belonged 0:06:07.320 --> 0:06:10.680 to two different men. Other kids gathered at the top 0:06:10.720 --> 0:06:14.000 of the hill as police searched the area. After a 0:06:14.000 --> 0:06:16.800 search of the bushes, police found another head and body, 0:06:16.960 --> 0:06:20.840 making it a double homicide. Aside from decapitating the men, 0:06:21.200 --> 0:06:24.360 the killer had drained the bodies of blood and removed 0:06:24.360 --> 0:06:28.599 their genitals. Afterward, the killer had cleaned and washed the 0:06:28.640 --> 0:06:31.560 corpses and dumped them in the park where they would 0:06:31.560 --> 0:06:36.320 be easily found. One, Edward Andresy, was identified as one 0:06:36.320 --> 0:06:40.320 of the victims. The second remained, a John Doe. Reports 0:06:40.400 --> 0:06:43.040 estimated that Andressy had been dead for a few days. 0:06:43.600 --> 0:06:46.200 The John Doe had been dead for over three weeks. 0:06:47.120 --> 0:06:52.080 For months, the investigation went nowhere. People had no clues, 0:06:52.279 --> 0:06:57.240 no suspects, no witnesses. A mild September gave way to 0:06:57.360 --> 0:07:01.200 a bitter and cold January. The sound of a dog 0:07:01.279 --> 0:07:04.720 barking relentlessly urged one resident to bundle up and head 0:07:04.760 --> 0:07:07.920 to her neighbor's house to complain. Two baskets sat in 0:07:07.960 --> 0:07:11.960 a snowbank outside the home. Inside were packages neatly wrapped 0:07:11.960 --> 0:07:15.880 in newspapers. Assuming they were hams from the size and shape, 0:07:16.040 --> 0:07:19.040 she knocked on the door to notify the neighbor. Charles 0:07:19.080 --> 0:07:24.600 Page followed his neighbor outside, he unwrapped the packages. Inside 0:07:24.680 --> 0:07:29.880 were frozen human body parts. Not long after, police converged 0:07:29.880 --> 0:07:33.160 on the scene without taking care to preserve it for evidence. 0:07:34.000 --> 0:07:37.880 Even though they never found her head, police identified the 0:07:37.960 --> 0:07:42.960 victim as Florence Pollillo, a waitress, barkeep, and occasional sex worker. 0:07:43.520 --> 0:07:47.040 According to the Corner, Florence died after her throat had 0:07:47.080 --> 0:07:50.720 been split. While the community worried about the murders in 0:07:50.760 --> 0:07:56.000 their safety, the police took an unbelievable stance. Since they 0:07:56.040 --> 0:07:59.680 couldn't find Florence's head, they questioned whether her death had 0:07:59.680 --> 0:08:05.040 been homicide. Their lack of investigation only fueled residents growing 0:08:05.120 --> 0:08:09.760 distrust of the police force. During Prohibition, news of crooked 0:08:09.800 --> 0:08:15.320 cops surfaced frequently. Complaints of incompetency and laziness filled Mayor 0:08:15.480 --> 0:08:19.920 Harold Burton's office. Dealing with a serial killer on top 0:08:19.920 --> 0:08:24.520 of extensive corruption overwhelmed Burton. While he dedicated his detectives 0:08:24.560 --> 0:08:27.400 to the murders, he called the one person he thought 0:08:27.480 --> 0:08:31.960 could clean up corruption within the force, Elliott Ness. The 0:08:32.040 --> 0:08:35.680 public loved Ness reporters had dubbed him and his group 0:08:35.720 --> 0:08:39.360 of agents the untouchables because capone couldn't buy them off. 0:08:40.000 --> 0:08:43.560 Dark haired and square jawed, Ness was the perfect example 0:08:43.679 --> 0:08:47.080 of what law enforcement should be. He took the job. 0:08:47.600 --> 0:08:50.200 Instead of sitting behind a desk, he took to the streets. 0:08:50.920 --> 0:08:54.120 Daily headlines were marked on his efforts, from taking down 0:08:54.160 --> 0:08:58.360 crooked politicians and cops, to midnight raids on gambling parlors 0:08:58.360 --> 0:09:03.600 and busting extortion ring His exploits were legendary. America had 0:09:03.679 --> 0:09:08.360 a real life superhero. Not only was Ness untouchable, he 0:09:08.480 --> 0:09:13.400 also seemed unstoppable. Yet someone else in the city also 0:09:13.480 --> 0:09:17.600 shared those two traits with Ness, the serial killer who 0:09:17.600 --> 0:09:21.800 the press began calling the Butcher of Kingsbury Run. And 0:09:22.200 --> 0:09:25.079 while the mayor hadn't hired Ness to work on the case, 0:09:25.640 --> 0:09:40.800 the two would soon collide. The day was too sunny, 0:09:41.000 --> 0:09:44.559 too pleasant to sit in a classroom. It was June 0:09:44.600 --> 0:09:47.760 fifth of nineteen thirty six, and with summer vacation just 0:09:47.880 --> 0:09:51.079 around the corner, thirteen year old Gomez Ivy and the 0:09:51.040 --> 0:09:54.920 eleven year old Lewis Chile decided to skip school. At 0:09:54.920 --> 0:09:57.520 eight thirty that morning, the two friends left home with 0:09:57.559 --> 0:10:00.320 their fishing poles. The lake erie had a couple of 0:10:00.320 --> 0:10:02.640 great fishing spots and They might even get in a 0:10:02.679 --> 0:10:05.520 quick swim before heading home if they had time to 0:10:05.600 --> 0:10:08.600 avoid being seen. They walked along the railroad tracks for 0:10:08.640 --> 0:10:11.040 a while and then cut through the east side of 0:10:11.120 --> 0:10:14.520 Kingsbury Run. The strip of land had once been a 0:10:14.559 --> 0:10:18.360 boomtown with businesses and refineries owned by the likes of J. D. 0:10:18.520 --> 0:10:23.200 Rockefeller and William Halsey. Down prosperity turned into poverty during 0:10:23.240 --> 0:10:27.560 the Depression. Instead of people hustling to and from businesses, 0:10:27.760 --> 0:10:30.880 they now camped out in doorways and lived in cardboard 0:10:30.880 --> 0:10:35.480 boxes in the alleys. Despite lost jobs and banks demanding 0:10:35.480 --> 0:10:39.079 that mortgages be paid in full, President Hoover didn't believe 0:10:39.080 --> 0:10:43.240 Americans needed the government's help. The unemployment rate reached twenty 0:10:43.240 --> 0:10:46.600 five percent. Although people attempted to help each other, and 0:10:46.679 --> 0:10:49.720 most families barely had enough to get by, much less 0:10:49.720 --> 0:10:52.920 to give aid. People lined up for blocks for soup 0:10:52.960 --> 0:10:57.320 and bread. Officials chased the houseless out of the surviving cities. 0:10:58.080 --> 0:11:01.480 The east side of Kingsbury Run haven for those without 0:11:01.520 --> 0:11:06.160 anywhere to go, often referred to as Hoovervilles, Areas like 0:11:06.280 --> 0:11:09.480 these had cropped up across the country. The boys passed 0:11:09.520 --> 0:11:13.520 shanty after shanty and some made from scrap lumber, others 0:11:13.600 --> 0:11:17.439 from brick and tar. Paper. People lay in covered doorways 0:11:17.800 --> 0:11:22.359 for warmth. They used newspapers, often referred to as hoover blankets. 0:11:23.120 --> 0:11:25.800 A man in one doorway busied himself with bidding the 0:11:25.840 --> 0:11:29.560 worn out soles of his shoes with cardboard. The boys 0:11:29.600 --> 0:11:32.800 continued through to a barren stretch of property. Along the tracks, 0:11:33.320 --> 0:11:37.360 a ball of fabric under a willow tree caught their attention. Curious, 0:11:37.400 --> 0:11:40.160 they decided to take a look. The fabric turned out 0:11:40.160 --> 0:11:43.600 to be a pair of discarded pants. Lewis suggested they 0:11:43.679 --> 0:11:45.800 rummage through the pockets in case there was a coin 0:11:45.920 --> 0:11:48.280 or two. They would likely turn out the pockets and 0:11:48.320 --> 0:11:50.800 find nothing more than lint, but didn't hurt to check. 0:11:51.600 --> 0:11:55.520 Gomez shrugged and picked up a nearby stick. He prodded 0:11:55.520 --> 0:11:57.920 the lump of fabric to be sure a family of 0:11:58.000 --> 0:12:01.360 rats hadn't taken up residency in their own hoover shack, 0:12:02.120 --> 0:12:05.160 and while nothing stirred or shot out of a pant leg, 0:12:05.720 --> 0:12:10.080 the ball of fabric rolled away. More curious than ever, 0:12:10.400 --> 0:12:14.520 the boys unfurled the fabric. A man's head rolled out 0:12:14.880 --> 0:12:18.040 on to the patch of dirt and grass, Horrified, the 0:12:18.080 --> 0:12:21.440 boys grabbed their fishing poles and ran. They took no 0:12:21.600 --> 0:12:24.280 notice of the men in the doorways or the families 0:12:24.360 --> 0:12:27.920 peeking out of their lean tubes. Gomez and Lewis didn't 0:12:27.920 --> 0:12:30.720 stop running until they got back home. The two friends 0:12:30.760 --> 0:12:34.360 headed straight to Gomez's house. They no longer cared about 0:12:34.400 --> 0:12:37.960 how much trouble they'd be in for ditching school. Unfortunately, 0:12:38.080 --> 0:12:41.160 his mother wasn't home. Too afraid to leave the house, 0:12:41.400 --> 0:12:45.440 the boys huddled together until she arrived hours later. She 0:12:45.559 --> 0:12:48.160 no sooner walked in the door than boat boys began 0:12:48.240 --> 0:12:51.840 to blurt out what they'd found. Missus Ivy calmed the 0:12:51.880 --> 0:12:55.760 boys down and listened to the story again, as calm 0:12:55.760 --> 0:12:58.320 as she could manage. She'd left the boys long enough 0:12:58.400 --> 0:13:02.440 to summon a nearby patrolment and relay her son's story. 0:13:02.600 --> 0:13:06.120 Patrolman Hendrix asked the boys for the exact location, but 0:13:06.200 --> 0:13:09.560 they were so upset that they couldn't recall the precise spot. 0:13:09.760 --> 0:13:13.839 Hendrix called for backup. It didn't take officers long to 0:13:13.840 --> 0:13:17.080 find the head, along with a white shirt, a striped 0:13:17.160 --> 0:13:20.880 dress shirt, underwear, and a belt. Most of the clothing 0:13:21.000 --> 0:13:24.480 was torn and bloody, and nearby. They found a pair 0:13:24.520 --> 0:13:29.240 of Oxford shoes, still neatly tied and socks stuffed inside. 0:13:29.760 --> 0:13:32.400 Further down the tracks, they found the man's naked body. 0:13:33.240 --> 0:13:36.959 The newspapers reported the murder the next morning. The coroner 0:13:37.040 --> 0:13:40.560 determined capitation as the cause of death, and that the 0:13:40.640 --> 0:13:44.800 victim was alive when his killer started to cut into him. 0:13:44.960 --> 0:13:48.359 No one knew who the man was, despite six tattoos 0:13:48.400 --> 0:13:51.520 they thought might help to identify him. A cast was 0:13:51.559 --> 0:13:54.280 made of his face and sent to the Great Lake's Exposition. 0:13:55.000 --> 0:13:59.040 Certainly some one there had to recognize him. Sadly, though 0:13:59.120 --> 0:14:02.920 many passed through the gates, not one person came forward 0:14:03.080 --> 0:14:14.880 with a single clue. A month later, another man's body 0:14:15.000 --> 0:14:18.200 and severed head were found in the Big Creek area, 0:14:18.440 --> 0:14:22.920 a bit further south of Cleveland. Due to the advanced decomposition, 0:14:23.200 --> 0:14:26.680 the corner determined that this victim had been killed sometime 0:14:26.720 --> 0:14:31.320 in May. The police had no suspects and few clues. 0:14:32.080 --> 0:14:34.600 The killer didn't have a preference when it came to gender. 0:14:35.320 --> 0:14:38.040 They had only one clue. The manner in which the 0:14:38.160 --> 0:14:41.560 victims were cut suggested a great deal of knowledge about 0:14:41.600 --> 0:14:45.200 the human body. Mayor Burton was under pressure once again. 0:14:46.080 --> 0:14:48.920 The detectives assigned to the case began leaning on people 0:14:49.000 --> 0:14:52.600 living in Hooverville's Those who offered up possible clues were 0:14:52.680 --> 0:14:56.520 frequently arrested. Soon no one wanted to talk to the police. 0:14:57.280 --> 0:15:00.400 In June, a boy found human remains ball walked under 0:15:00.400 --> 0:15:05.760 a bridge. In September, another body was found in Kingsbury Run. 0:15:05.800 --> 0:15:08.960 Eliot Ness was finally assigned to the case. In September 0:15:09.080 --> 0:15:12.920 of nineteen thirty six, a Ness had detectives bring in suspects. 0:15:13.440 --> 0:15:15.800 They ranged from a man living under a bridge who 0:15:15.840 --> 0:15:20.080 collected women's shoes to a tightrope walker. Ness came up 0:15:20.080 --> 0:15:24.840 with his own suspect, doctor Francis Sweeney. A Ness had 0:15:24.880 --> 0:15:28.560 a problem. Though Sweeney was from a prominent family and 0:15:28.680 --> 0:15:31.760 his cousin was a congressman in Ohio's twelfth district and 0:15:32.000 --> 0:15:35.880 a political rival of Mayor Burton's, Sweeney had once had 0:15:35.880 --> 0:15:39.880 addictions to alcohol and barbiturates. According to his ex wife, 0:15:39.960 --> 0:15:43.200 his violent outbursts had caused her to question his sanity. 0:15:43.960 --> 0:15:47.520 The papers reported that Sweeney had a reputation for being sadistic, 0:15:48.320 --> 0:15:52.080 but Ness couldn't find any evidence against him, and Sweeney's 0:15:52.080 --> 0:15:56.840 family and connections only made the investigation more difficult. Sweeney 0:15:56.920 --> 0:16:00.000 often mocked the detectives assigned to follow him in frequently 0:16:00.200 --> 0:16:03.440 managed to ditch them. Once he jumped off a moving 0:16:03.480 --> 0:16:06.760 street car onto another passing in the opposite direction, leaving 0:16:06.760 --> 0:16:11.920 the detective behind. The department began receiving strange phone calls 0:16:12.120 --> 0:16:16.480 and envelopes filled with newspaper clippings about the slayings. They 0:16:16.520 --> 0:16:19.120 also received a note with a drawing of the morgue's 0:16:19.120 --> 0:16:22.920 front door, and Ness received a letter with a photo 0:16:22.960 --> 0:16:26.240 of a tree in an open field. The message read 0:16:26.760 --> 0:16:32.000 dig here. In February of nineteen thirty seven, a man 0:16:32.040 --> 0:16:35.640 came across a woman's torso on Lake Erie's Euclid Beach. 0:16:36.440 --> 0:16:39.960 Her limbs and head were never found. The corner stated 0:16:40.000 --> 0:16:42.800 that the killer had begun taking his victim apart while 0:16:42.840 --> 0:16:46.920 she was still alive. In August, Ness and the detectives 0:16:46.920 --> 0:16:50.480 had had enough without being able to pin anything on Sweeney. 0:16:50.760 --> 0:16:55.320 Police raided the Hoovervilles, arresting a few dozen men. Then 0:16:55.320 --> 0:16:59.360 Ness ordered the camps burned to the ground. Ness later 0:16:59.400 --> 0:17:02.040 said that he destroyed the camps to force the houseless 0:17:02.040 --> 0:17:05.680 to move elsewhere. He believed the killer mainly targeted those 0:17:05.720 --> 0:17:10.680 living in Kingsbury run shanties. Regardless, the public criticized his 0:17:10.760 --> 0:17:14.919 actions and the killer was still on the loose. Ness 0:17:14.920 --> 0:17:18.720 felt confident that Sweeney was the killer, but without a break, 0:17:18.960 --> 0:17:21.680 he could only watch the body count continue to rise. 0:17:22.200 --> 0:17:26.439 He began to drink heavily. Friends recounted the cruel jokes 0:17:26.480 --> 0:17:29.679 he played on them. His wife divorced him after finding 0:17:29.680 --> 0:17:34.000 out about several affairs. For a short while in nineteen 0:17:34.040 --> 0:17:38.280 thirty seven, the murders seemed to stop, but in April 0:17:38.320 --> 0:17:41.639 of nineteen thirty eight, a construction worker found part of 0:17:41.680 --> 0:17:45.040 a woman's leg on the Cuyahoga River bank. In July, 0:17:45.400 --> 0:17:48.840 the head and torso, believed to belong to Rose Wallace, 0:17:49.000 --> 0:17:52.880 were found under a bridge. A month later, police recovered 0:17:52.880 --> 0:17:55.439 body parts from a male victim found floating in the 0:17:55.440 --> 0:17:59.919 Cuyahoga River. In August, scrap collectors found another woman's torso. 0:18:00.480 --> 0:18:03.600 They found her head, legs, and arms near by. All 0:18:03.720 --> 0:18:07.359 were wrapped neatly in butcher paper. Police found a second 0:18:07.359 --> 0:18:11.560 body not far away. Both were in sight of Ness's 0:18:11.600 --> 0:18:17.240 office window. The killer was taunting them. Ness's reputation lay 0:18:17.280 --> 0:18:21.399 in ruin. He sat down with Sweeney one last time 0:18:22.560 --> 0:18:26.119 after failing a polygraph, and Sweeney had himself admitted to 0:18:26.160 --> 0:18:30.320 a mental institution. He re entered society in nineteen thirty 0:18:30.400 --> 0:18:34.359 nine for a short period before admitting himself again. He 0:18:34.520 --> 0:18:38.280 would die in an institution in nineteen sixty four. The 0:18:38.359 --> 0:18:42.880 Kingsbury Run murders stopped in nineteen thirty nine. That year, 0:18:43.000 --> 0:18:46.159 a letter arrived at the police department. The killer stated 0:18:46.160 --> 0:18:48.639 that he had moved out to California, where Pid already 0:18:48.720 --> 0:18:51.919 killed a woman and buried her long Century Boulevard, but 0:18:52.040 --> 0:18:56.040 police never found a body. A reporter asked Ness about 0:18:56.080 --> 0:19:00.720 the murders. Ness, no longer the city's hero, replied that 0:19:00.760 --> 0:19:04.119 the case, as far as he was concerned, was closed. 0:19:05.119 --> 0:19:09.679 Closed maybe, but to this day the case has never 0:19:09.800 --> 0:19:22.160 been solved. Ness and his career never recovered. He worked 0:19:22.160 --> 0:19:24.840 as a vice detective for the government on US Bass 0:19:24.920 --> 0:19:28.040 during World War Two. After the war, he started a 0:19:28.080 --> 0:19:32.280 couple of businesses, but both failed. He unsuccessfully ran for 0:19:32.359 --> 0:19:35.879 mayor in nineteen forty seven. His second marriage failed for 0:19:35.920 --> 0:19:40.480 the same reason his first did. Ness continued drinking and philandering. 0:19:41.480 --> 0:19:44.919 He died penniless in nineteen fifty seven, at the age 0:19:44.920 --> 0:19:49.119 of fifty four. Six months after his death, his memoirs 0:19:49.160 --> 0:19:52.840 were published, spurring the hit TV show The Untouchables. A 0:19:52.960 --> 0:19:57.080 year later, after the murders stopped, the residence of Kingsbury 0:19:57.160 --> 0:20:00.119 Run returned to their lives, celebrating the end of the 0:20:00.119 --> 0:20:03.960 Great Depression. Cleveland and the rest of America soon forgot 0:20:04.160 --> 0:20:07.840 about the butcher of Kingsbury Run. A police estimated there 0:20:07.840 --> 0:20:13.000 were twelve victims. However, there's speculation there may have been more. 0:20:14.040 --> 0:20:18.200 One hot day in July nineteen thirty six, two railway 0:20:18.200 --> 0:20:23.600 workers in Newcastle, Pennsylvania noticed an open box car. They 0:20:23.600 --> 0:20:26.240 were positive of the car, which hadn't been in service 0:20:26.280 --> 0:20:29.320 since nineteen thirty one, had been closed just a few 0:20:29.320 --> 0:20:34.560 weeks prior. Inside, they discovered a grizzly murder scene. A 0:20:34.560 --> 0:20:37.920 man's naked body lay on the floor. The amount of 0:20:37.960 --> 0:20:41.280 blood splatter indicated his heart had been beating when someone 0:20:41.359 --> 0:20:46.000 decapitated him. Reporters referred to the scene as the Bloody 0:20:46.000 --> 0:20:51.240 box Car, and as gruesome as it was, investigators revealed 0:20:51.280 --> 0:20:55.960 another horrific detail. Three newspapers had been found with the body. 0:20:56.600 --> 0:20:59.920 One of those papers was the Cleveland Plane Dealer, dated 0:21:00.119 --> 0:21:04.000 July nineteen thirty three to investigators. This meant that the 0:21:04.080 --> 0:21:06.520 killer had returned to the scene between the time of 0:21:06.600 --> 0:21:11.000 death and when the workers discovered the open car. Four 0:21:11.080 --> 0:21:14.760 years later, in May of nineteen forty three, more headless 0:21:14.800 --> 0:21:18.440 bodies were found on a box car, but the murders 0:21:18.520 --> 0:21:21.920 in the rural area of Pennsylvania, referred to as the 0:21:22.040 --> 0:21:26.600 Murder marsh had started much earlier. The body of an 0:21:26.680 --> 0:21:30.200 unidentified man was found in West Pittsburgh one October sixth 0:21:30.200 --> 0:21:34.000 of nineteen twenty five. The cause of death had been decapitation, 0:21:34.480 --> 0:21:37.919 and the coroner estimated had been deceased for about three weeks. 0:21:38.760 --> 0:21:42.040 Eleven days later, the skeletal remains of another male victim 0:21:42.040 --> 0:21:45.400 were found not far from the first. He had also 0:21:45.480 --> 0:21:51.000 been decapitated. A woman's joalous skull was also found. Then, 0:21:51.200 --> 0:21:55.359 as suddenly as they had started, the murders in Newcastle stopped, 0:21:55.840 --> 0:22:00.679 and the killings in Kingsbury began. Nests never stopped. Believing 0:22:00.680 --> 0:22:04.480 that Sweeney was the butcher of Kingsbury, run and Detective 0:22:04.520 --> 0:22:07.240 Peter Marlowe thought that the killer in Cleveland and the 0:22:07.240 --> 0:22:10.879 one in Pennsylvania were the same. Not only were the 0:22:10.960 --> 0:22:14.000 victims killed in the same manner, but they were also 0:22:14.080 --> 0:22:18.240 people living on society's fringes. Marlowe also noted that the 0:22:18.240 --> 0:22:21.720 Baltimore and Ohio Railroad connected the two cities and had 0:22:21.760 --> 0:22:26.680 two scheduled routes per day. Over eighty years later, we're 0:22:26.840 --> 0:22:30.520 no closer to solving the two cases. It seems the 0:22:30.600 --> 0:22:35.520 murderer managed to slip into the shadows. There's more to 0:22:35.600 --> 0:22:38.919 this story. Stick around after this brief sponsor break to 0:22:39.000 --> 0:22:49.000 hear all about it. The terror began in nineteen seventy four. 0:22:50.000 --> 0:22:54.199 At first, they were burglaries. Between nineteen seventy four and 0:22:54.280 --> 0:22:58.560 seventy five, roughly a hundred homes in Visalia, California were robbed. 0:22:59.000 --> 0:23:03.920 The burglar left behind valuables and took small personal items instead. 0:23:05.359 --> 0:23:09.239 What made it more unsettling was the thief's signature. He 0:23:09.320 --> 0:23:13.320 rummaged through drawers and scattered any women's laundry he found 0:23:13.359 --> 0:23:16.760 around the house, and he often killed any dogs in 0:23:16.800 --> 0:23:21.840 the house. The press nicknamed him the Vizalea Ransacker. After 0:23:21.960 --> 0:23:24.439 one murder was suspected of having been the work of 0:23:24.440 --> 0:23:28.480 the Ransacker. The break in stopped not far away. A 0:23:28.600 --> 0:23:32.960 rapist began terrorizing the residence of Carmichael Citrus Heights and 0:23:33.200 --> 0:23:36.040 Rancho Cordova. No one knew at the time it was 0:23:36.040 --> 0:23:39.480 the work of the same man. Initially, he seemed to 0:23:39.520 --> 0:23:43.000 stalk women who lived alone, and preferably those who lived 0:23:43.000 --> 0:23:46.520 in one story houses near open spaces, making it easy 0:23:46.560 --> 0:23:49.639 for him to escape. In the days leading up to 0:23:49.640 --> 0:23:53.920 the assault, victims noticed a prowler in the area. Often 0:23:54.000 --> 0:23:57.560 he would enter the home quietly. He'd unload any guns 0:23:57.560 --> 0:24:00.960 he found and leave ligatures to use on his victims. Later, 0:24:01.920 --> 0:24:05.040 the police believed he staked out his victims in advance, 0:24:05.440 --> 0:24:09.359 choosing women home alone or with small children. He broke 0:24:09.400 --> 0:24:12.120 in at night, waking his victims by shining a bright 0:24:12.160 --> 0:24:16.000 flashlight in their eyes, temporarily blinding them, and then he 0:24:16.080 --> 0:24:19.520 bound the women and raped them. The press dubbed him 0:24:19.640 --> 0:24:23.120 the East Side rapist. When an article pointed out that 0:24:23.160 --> 0:24:25.959 none of the attacks happened in homes where men were present, 0:24:26.280 --> 0:24:29.240 the attacker took it as a challenge. He'd broken to 0:24:29.359 --> 0:24:32.320 homes and bound the men and women. Had leave the 0:24:32.320 --> 0:24:34.159 men in the living room with a stack of dishes 0:24:34.200 --> 0:24:37.040 on his back while he assaulted the woman, warning the 0:24:37.080 --> 0:24:39.560 couple that if he heard plates fall to the floor, 0:24:39.840 --> 0:24:43.200 he had killed them. Both In nineteen seventy eight, he 0:24:43.240 --> 0:24:45.800 attacked and shot a couple while they were walking their dog. 0:24:46.480 --> 0:24:50.320 He also shot and killed the dog. In nineteen seventy nine, 0:24:50.359 --> 0:24:53.919 the attacker moved south, but this time after binding a 0:24:53.920 --> 0:24:56.760 couple and raping the woman, he had bludgeon or shoot 0:24:56.800 --> 0:25:01.040 the couple. Without realizing the same person was emitting the attacks, 0:25:01.080 --> 0:25:05.960 a new nickname emerged, Original night Stalker. It's estimated the 0:25:06.000 --> 0:25:09.960 between nineteen seventy six and nineteen eighty six, he raped 0:25:10.080 --> 0:25:14.119 fifty women and killed twelve people. Often he raped the 0:25:14.200 --> 0:25:17.800 victim repeatedly while other family members were bound and gagged nearby, 0:25:18.760 --> 0:25:21.800 and sometimes he killed the whole family, including the dog. 0:25:22.800 --> 0:25:25.960 Investigators determined that he had planned each attack to the 0:25:26.040 --> 0:25:29.960 smallest detail. He also never stayed in one area, choosing 0:25:29.960 --> 0:25:34.040 a territory from Sacramento to Irvine. He took a five 0:25:34.119 --> 0:25:36.520 year break from nineteen eighty one to nineteen eighty six, 0:25:37.359 --> 0:25:41.080 and while the attacks stopped, he continued tormenting one of 0:25:41.080 --> 0:25:45.959 his surviving victims, calling her several times. With no leads 0:25:46.000 --> 0:25:49.720 and no further attacks, the case went cold. In two 0:25:49.720 --> 0:25:53.120 thousand and one, DNA evidence linked the East Area rapist 0:25:53.200 --> 0:25:57.359 to the original night stalker. A law enforcement had new information, 0:25:57.600 --> 0:26:02.760 but still no suspects and no leads. Then author Michelle 0:26:02.840 --> 0:26:06.040 McNamara wrote the best selling novel All be Gone in 0:26:06.080 --> 0:26:10.159 the Dark. She poured over the evidence in reports and 0:26:10.320 --> 0:26:14.640 named the suspect the Golden State Killer. McNamara's premature death 0:26:14.800 --> 0:26:18.479 pushed the case back into the news. Using evidence from 0:26:18.480 --> 0:26:20.800 a rape kit, the FBI was able to link the 0:26:20.880 --> 0:26:24.960 killer's DNA to a family on an ancestry site. The 0:26:25.040 --> 0:26:28.200 FBI contacted a relative who helped in breaking the case 0:26:28.280 --> 0:26:33.000 in twenty seventeen. In twenty eighteen, police arrested seventy two 0:26:33.080 --> 0:26:36.560 year old James to Angelo. As the tale of the 0:26:36.560 --> 0:26:40.840 Golden State Killer emerged, investigators learned through a former girlfriend 0:26:40.960 --> 0:26:44.080