Daya daga cikin manyan laifuka a arewa maso gabashin Ohio sune kisan kai na "Torso" a tsakiyar shekarun 1930, wanda aka fi sani da kisan "Kingsbury Run". Duk da haka ba a warware wannan ba, laifuka masu ban tsoro sune magana na shekaru goma kuma sun kalubalanci Eliot Ness mai kula da tsaro da kuma 'yan sanda Cleveland shekaru.
Farawa
Kisan farko da aka danganta ga "Torso Murderer" ta hanyar mafi yawan masoya ita ce mace wadda ba a san shi ba, wanda ake kira "Lady of the Lake," wanda aka gano a gefen tafkin Lake Erie, ba mai nisa da filin Euclid Beach a ranar 5 ga Satumba, 1934.
Ba a gano ta ba.
Kingsbury Run
Yawancin wadanda aka kashe sun mutu ne a wani wuri da ake kira Kingsbury Run, wani ramin da ke tafiya daga Warrensville Heights ta hanyar Maple Heights da South Cleveland zuwa Kogin Cuyahoga, a kudancin Flats, ta hanyar Broadway da E 55th.
A cikin shekarun 1930, an gina yankin tare da gidaje da gidaje marasa kyau kuma sun kasance sananne ne a matsayin "hangen nesa" ga masu karuwanci, pimps, masu sayar da magungunan miyagun ƙwayoyi, da kuma marasa gagarumin abubuwa na al'umma.
Wadanda aka Sami
Bugu da ƙari, "Lady of the Lady," da goma sha biyu "Torso Murder" wadanda aka cutar sun kasance:
- Man ba a sani ba, an sami 9/23/1935
- Edward W. Andrassy, ya sami 9/23/1935
- Florence Polillo, ta sami 1/26/1936
- Man ba a sani ba, an sami 6/5/1935
- Man ba a san shi ba, an sami 7/22/1936
- Man ba a san shi ba, aka samu 7/10/1936
- Mace ba a sani ba, ta sami 2/23/1937
- Mata ba a sani ba, ta sami 6/6/1937
- Ba a san namiji ba, an samu 7/6/1937
- Mace ba a sani ba, ta sami 4/8/1938
- Mata ba a sani ba, ta sami 8/16/1938
- Man ba a sani ba, ta sami 8/16/1938
Profile of mai kisan kai
Yawancin ra'ayoyin da aka samu da yawa sun kasance game da dabi'ar mai kisan kai. Yawancin yarda cewa shi (ko ta) yana da wasu bayanan jiki, ko dai a matsayin mai buƙa, likita, likita, ko kuma asibiti.
Suspects
Babu wanda aka yi kokarin gwada laifin laifuka na "Torso Murder".
An kama mutane biyu. Frank Dolezal, an kama shi a ranar 8/24/1939. Mista Dolezal ya yi ikirarin kashe Florence Polillo, amma daga bisani ya koma, ya ce an yi masa kullun a yayin da aka tambayi shi. Dolezal ya mutu a gidan yari, bisa hukuma na kashe kansa, kodayake ƙididdigar 'yan shekarun nan sun ce an kashe shi da' yan gidan yarinya.
Dokta Francis Sweeney an kama shi saboda 'yan bindigar' 'Torso' 'a 1939. Ya kasa yin gwajin gwadawa na farko, amma an sake shi, saboda rashin shaidar. Kwanan baya, Sweeney, wanda ke cikin memba mai suna Cleveland, ya shiga kansa ga wani jami'in tunani, inda ya kasance har ya rasu a 1965.
Ka'idoji
Akwai ra'ayoyi daban-daban dangane da ainihin mai kisan kan. Marubucin, John Stark Bellamy II, wanda mahaifinsa ya keta laifukan da dama ga jaridu a cikin shekarun 1930, ya tabbatar da cewa akwai fiye da mutum guda. Litattafan Eliot Ness sun nuna cewa ya san wanda ya kashe shi, amma bai iya tabbatar da hakan ba.
Wata ka'ida ta baya ta haɗu da Cleveland "Murders" da kisan kai dan Black Dahlia a Los Angeles a 1947.