Who Killed Cleveland Ohio

Author : Jack Swint
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1600080308
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Who Killed...? Cleveland, Ohio written by Jack Swint and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2007-03 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who Killed...? depicts fifteen of Cleveland's most notorious, heinous, and mysterious unsolved murders. Through laborious research and interviews with investigators and families of the victims, Jack Swint has laid out particulars of these unsolved murders: from frustrations of law enforcement officials, to grieving family members, to the coping of local communities trying to make sense of the random acts of madness. As a whole, Who Killed...? reveals the dark underbelly of a city still struggling to diffuse the rage and brutality that so many of its inhabitants possess.

Author : James Jessen Badal
Publisher : True Crime History
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Though Murder Has No Tongue written by James Jessen Badal and published by True Crime History. This book was released on 2010 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The unfortunate victim of a frightened city desperately in need of a scapegoat. Though Murder Has No Tongue tells the story of Frank Dolezal, the only man actually arrested and charged with the infamous "Torso Murders" in Cleveland, Ohio, during the late 1930s. Dolezal, a fifty-two-year-old Slav immigrant, came to the attention of sheriff 's investigators because of his reputation as a strange man who possessed a stockpile of butcher knives. According to rumors, he threatened imagined transgressors and had a penchant for frequenting bars in the seedy neighborhood where the dismembered bodies of victims had been discovered. Dolezal was arrested in July 1939 and never saw freedom again. Convinced that they had captured the "Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run," sheriff's deputies interrogated Dolezal for two days under harsh conditions. Sheriff Martin O'Donnell called a press conference and announced that the long hoped-for break in the torso killings had finally come: Dolezal had admitted to the January 1936 murder and dismemberment of Flo Polillo, one of the early victims of the Mad Butcher. During the next six days, Dolezal was questioned further, given a lie detector test, beaten, and generally mistreated. Ultimately he was arraigned on firstdegree murder charges that were quickly dropped because he was denied legal representation. At his second arraignment in July, Dolezal was bound over on manslaughter charges. Within a month, he was dead--found hanged in his cell. His mysterious death was ruled a suicide. But was it? In Though Murder Has No Tongue, James Jessen Badal tells a gripping tale of justice gone wrong. It is also a modern story of forensic analysis as compelling as an episode of CSI. Using police and sheriff reports, inquest testimony, autopsy and archival photographs, unpublished notes from the primary investigators, and analyses from some of today's top forensic anthropologists and medical examiners, Badal establishes the facts, dispels rumors, and presents a thorough examination of the real reasons behind Frank Dolezal's mysterious death.

Author : John Stark Bellamy
Publisher : Gray & Company
ISBN 13 : 1598510673
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Days of Cleveland written by John Stark Bellamy and published by Gray & Company. This book was released on 2010 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #6 in this Cleveland crime and disaster series includes 15 stories. Sometimes gruesome, often surprising, these tales are meticulously researched and delivered in a literate and entertaining style. Meet a daring Jazz Age stick-up man, a murderous grandmother, an ageless fire chief addicted to profanity, and other unforgettable characters.

Author : James Jessen Badal
Publisher : Kent State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780873386890
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Wake of the Butcher written by James Jessen Badal and published by Kent State University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the Wake of the Butcher is based on police reports, autopsy protocols, personal interviews with the descendants of victims and investigators, and unpublished manuscripts and is illustrated with maps, rare crime scene and morgue photographs, and newspaper photos. The author dispels some long-held rumors about the crimes and confirms others. In the Wake of the Butcher presents its compelling case and leaves readers to come to their own conclusions about the notorious Cleveland murders."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : William Louis Tabac
Publisher : True Crime History
ISBN 13 : 9781606353523
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Insanity Defense and the Mad Murderess of Shaker Heights written by William Louis Tabac and published by True Crime History. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They have no witnesses. They have no case. With this blunt observation, Mariann Colby--an attractive, church-going Shaker Heights, Ohio, mother and housewife--bet a defense psychiatrist that she would not be convicted of murder. A lack of witnesses was not the only problem that would confront the State of Ohio in 1966, which would seek to prosecute her for shooting to death Cremer Young Jr., her son's nine-year-old playmate: Colby had deftly cleaned up after herself by hiding the child's body miles from her home and concealing the weapon. Thus, this "highly intelligent" woman, as she would be described at her trial, had hedged a little on her wager. Not only were there no witnesses to the crime, but there was not a shred of physical evidence to pin the slaying on her. Under the usual forensic standards, her wager was spot on; the probabilities were that she would get away with it. But as the Shaker Heights police found themselves stymied by an investigation that was going nowhere, Mariann Colby upped the ante a bit. Under intense questioning, she broke down, claiming the gun had accidentally discharged. The state thought it had its capital murder case, but Mariann Colby's bet against it would be right on the money. As her trial unfolds in the book, the imprecision of her insanity defense confounds the judges, and psychiatrists disagree about her diagnosis. To make matters worse, the panel of judges that initially tried Colby was so confused by what they'd heard that they did not reach a decision consistent with the law of the state. This led to a second trial and more conflicting psychiatric opinions, another controversial judgment, and clashing trial outcomes. After reading The Insanity Defense and the Mad Murderess of Shaker Heights, readers--and the many childhood friends of the slain boy whose painful reminiscences are set forth in the book--will contemplate whether Mariann Colby did indeed get away with murder. In addition, those interested in legal history will find much of value in Tabac's discussions of the case and its use of an insanity defense strategy.

Author : James Renner
Publisher : Gray & Company, Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1598510460
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Serial Killer's Apprentice written by James Renner and published by Gray & Company, Publishers. This book was released on 2008 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses twelve cold cases in Northeast Ohio involing murders and abductions.

Author : John Stark Bellamy, II
Publisher : Gray & Company, Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1886228035
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book They Died Crawling, and Other Tales of Cleveland Woe written by John Stark Bellamy, II and published by Gray & Company, Publishers. This book was released on 1995 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The foulest crimes and worst in Cleveland history are recounted in these 15 incredible-but-true tales. Each no-holds-barred account into one of this city's most notorious moments, from the 1916 waterworks collapse to the Cleveland Clinic fire to the sensational Sam Sheppard murder trial. These gripping narratives deliver high drama and dark comedy, heroes and villains, obsession, courage, treachery, deceit, fear, and guilt -- all from the streets of Cleveland.

Author : Louis H. Masotti
Publisher : New York : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shoot-out in Cleveland written by Louis H. Masotti and published by New York : Praeger. This book was released on 1969 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Stark Bellamy, II
Publisher : Gray & Company, Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1598510002
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women Behaving Badly written by John Stark Bellamy, II and published by Gray & Company, Publishers. This book was released on 2005 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women who murder . . . why are they so much more fascinating than their male counterparts? For evidence, dip into any of the sixteen strange-but-true tales collected in this anthology by Cleveland’s leading historical crime writer. You’ll meet: • Ill-fated Catherine Manz, the “Bad Cinderella” who poisoned her step-sister in revenge for years of mistreatment, then made her getaway wearing her victim’s most fetching outfit, a red dress and an enormous feathered hat . . . • Velma West, the big-city girl who scandalized rural Lake County in the 1920s with her “unnatural passions”—and ended her marriage-made-in-hell with a swift hammer’s blow to the skull of her dull husband, Eddie . . . • Eva Kaber, “Lakewood’s Lady Borgia,” who, along with her mother and daughter, conspired to dispose of an inconvenient husband with arsenic and knife-wielding hired killers . . . • Martha Wise, Medina’s not-so-merry widow, who poisoned a dozen relatives—including her husband, mother, and brother—because she enjoyed going to funerals . . . And a cast of other, equally fascinating women who behaved very, very badly. This is wickedly entertaining reading!

Author : William T. Rasmussen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780865345362
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Corroborating Evidence II written by William T. Rasmussen and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fascinating and highly documented information contained in this new illustrated book could well be a significant development in the Torso Murders of the 1930s, the murder of Suzanne Degnan, the murder of the Black Dahlia, and the Zodiac Murders.