"MAD KILLER"
HORRIFYING CRIMES Eight fantastic murders by a "mad killer" in two years and a-hal£ oiler Cleveland police a problem which they are so far unable to solve. Some weeks ago portions of the body of a woman, the eighth victim, were found. The rest of her torso was found floating in Lake Erie some time later. Women killed have been thrown into the lake, but the men hay* been tossed into a stream running through the city In all cases me neacis are missing. The medical theory is that they were cut off while the victims were still alive. Coroner Gerber says the murderer has expert knowledge of anatomy, and adds: " There are no marks of violence, suggesting that the victims probably knew the murderer well." Only three bodies have been identified. Police believe the murderer is a sex-crazed madman. A woman was first slain on September 5, 1934. After a year the bodies of two men, headless and nude, were found in the same stream. Four months later a woman's body was found floating in the lake. Five months passed and a man's body was found. The sixth victim was murdered two months later.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23224, 23 June 1937, Page 3
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