In the Wake of the Butcher

In the Wake of the Butcher
Author: James Jessen Badal
Publisher: Kent State University Press
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2001
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780873386890

"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based on police reports, autopsy protocols, personal interviews with the descendants of victims and investigators, and unpublished manuscripts and is illustrated with maps, rare crime scene and morgue photographs, and newspaper photos.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.

The Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run

The Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run
Author: Tim Huddleston
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 106
Release: 2013-06-02
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 9781490337579

It's one of the most infamous unsolved cases of all time...a mad butcher in Cleveland who decapitated and mutilated several victims in the 1930s and was never caught. When the famous Untouchable Elliot Ness is brought in the killer is tracked down and the verge of being arrested. So why was this killer allowed to walk free and never be arrested? Find out in this page-turning book!

Hell's Wasteland

Hell's Wasteland
Author: James Jessen Badal
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 9781606351536

Did the Mad Butcher of Cleveland also strike in Pennsylvania? From 1934 to 1938, Cleveland, Ohio, was racked by a classic battle between good and evil. On one side was the city's safety director, Eliot Ness. On the other was a nameless phantom dubbed the "Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run," who littered the inner city with the remains of decapitated and dismembered corpses. Never caught or even officially identified, the Butcher simply faded into history, leaving behind a frightening legend that both haunts and fascinates Cleveland to this day. In 2001 the Kent State University Press published James Jessen Badal's In the Wake of the Butcher: Cleveland's Torso Murders, the first serious, book-length treatment of this dark chapter in true crime history. Though Murder Has No Tongue: The Lost Victim of Cleveland's Mad Butcher--a detailed study of the arrest and mysterious death of Frank Dolezal, the only man ever charged in the killings--followed in 2010. Now Badal concludes his examination of the horrific cycle of murder-dismemberments with Hell's Wasteland: The Pennsylvania Torso Murders. During the mid-1920s, a vast, swampy area just across the Ohio border near New Castle, Pennsylvania, revealed a series of decapitated and otherwise mutilated bodies. In 1940 railroad workers found the rotting remains of three naked and decapitated bodies in a string of derelict boxcars awaiting destruction in Pennsylvania's Stowe Township. Were all of these terrible murders the work of Cleveland's Mad Butcher? Many in Ohio and Pennsylvania law enforcement thought they were, and that assumption led to a massive, well-coordinated two-state investigation. In Hell's Wasteland, Badal explores that nagging question in depth for the first time. Relying on police reports, unpublished memoirs, and the surviving autopsy protocols--as well as contemporary newspaper coverage-- Badal provides a detailed examination of the murder-dismemberments and weighs the evidence that potentially links them to the Cleveland carnage. Hell's Wasteland is the last piece in the gigantic torso murder puzzle that spanned three decades, covered two states, and involved law enforcement from as many as five different cities.

Princeps' Fury

Princeps' Fury
Author: Jim Butcher
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 404
Release: 2008
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780441016389

After achieving a fragile alliance with the savage Canim, Alera's oldest foes, Tavi of Calderon is confronted by an invasion by the Vord, which forces the Aleran legions and Canim warriors into a desperate battle for survival against a dreaded mutual enem

Eliot Ness and the Mad Butcher

Eliot Ness and the Mad Butcher
Author: Max Allan Collins
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 560
Release: 2020-08-04
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 006288199X

"The thrilling history of the torso murderer. The tale of the ‘Untouchable’ who got Al Capone but failed to solve his goriest case." —Dan Jones, The Sunday Times In the spirit of Devil in the White City comes a true detective tale of the highest standard: the haunting story of Eliot Ness's forgotten final case–his years-long hunt for "The Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run," a serial killer who terrorized Cleveland through the Great Depression. “After helping to put Al Capone behind bars, lawman Eliot Ness came to Cleveland, where he did battle with a vicious killer. ... Even Ness was stumped trying to apprehend the ‘torso murderer’ responsible for a series of ghoulish killings. ... The authors have done Ness justice." —Wall Street Journal In 1934, the nation’s most legendary crime-fighter–fresh from taking on the greatest gangster in American history–arrived in Cleveland, a corrupt and dangerous town about to host a world's fair. It was to be his coronation, as well as the city's. Instead, terror descended, as headless bodies started turning up. The young detective, already battling the mob and crooked cops, found his drive to transform American policing subverted by a menace largely unknown to law enforcement: a serial murderer. Eliot Ness's greatest case had begun. Now, Max Allan Collins and A. Brad Schwartz–the acclaimed writing team behind Scarface and the Untouchable–uncover this lost crime epic, delivering a gripping and unforgettable nonfiction account based on decades of groundbreaking research. Ness had risen to fame in 1931 for leading the “Untouchables,” which helped put Chicago’s Al Capone behind bars. As Cleveland's public safety director, in charge of the police and fire departments, Ness offered a radical new vision for better law enforcement. Crime-ridden and devastated by the Depression, Cleveland was preparing for a star-turn itself: in 1936, it would host the "Great Lakes Exposition," which would be visited by seven million people. Late in the summer of 1934, however, pieces of a woman’s body began washing up on the Lake Erie shore–first her ribs, then part of her backbone, then the lower half of her torso. The body count soon grew to five, then ten, then more, all dismembered in gruesome ways. As Ness zeroed in on a suspect–a doctor tied to a prominent political family–powerful forces thwarted his quest for justice. In this battle between a flawed hero and a twisted monster–by turns horror story, political drama, and detective thriller–Collins and Schwartz find an American tragedy, classic in structure, epic in scope.

The Male Secretary to Female CEO

The Male Secretary to Female CEO
Author: Xiao QingGan
Publisher: Funstory
Total Pages: 812
Release: 2019-11-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1647596971

By chance, Zhao Ling San, who graduated from a third-rate university, became the personal secretary of his beautiful superior, and even peeked at his beautiful superior's office ...

The Butcher's Dog

The Butcher's Dog
Author: Eliza Hemingway
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Total Pages: 326
Release: 2001-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1552129667

The Russian Revolution is in full swing when ten year old Mikhail loses his family and has to take to the road to get away from the guns. He feels that the death-marchers he walks with are doomed so breaks away from their line to look for shelter. Farmers Ivan and Anna find him and let him live with them to work their farm. He grows into manhood and falls in love with Anna. He suffers through years of brutality from Ivan and knows they must one day come to blows. There is a fight and Mikhail kills the old man and runs for his life again. There is an old fable about a butcher whose dog is killed because the villagers thought he was keeping food from them. Ivan is left lying in a clearing in the woods just like the butcher's dog. Mikhail finally arrives in Canada with another young boy, Andy, and learns the ropes in Fort William as a docker. He and Andy get to Victoria and fall in love with the sea. Mikhail marries into money and buys a boat to start running liquor into the states because of prohibition and the temptation of larger profits. He's wealthy but not truly happy. He never stops trying to find Anna, his first and only love.

Jim Butcher's The Dresden Files Omnibus

Jim Butcher's The Dresden Files Omnibus
Author: Jim Butcher
Publisher: Dynamite Entertainment
Total Pages: 538
Release: 2015-07-22
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN:

When criminal investigations take a weird turn, the officers of the Chicago Police Department call in Harry Dresden! A wizard and private investigator with formidable yet unrefined skills, the young Dresden is more than capable of tracking down and facing the perps, whether they be black magic practitioners, blood-hungry werewolves, or worse! This first volume of The Dresden Files Omnibus collects three complete comic book story arcs, including the exclusive-for-comics tale, "Welcome to the Jungle", the adaptations of the universe-defining "Storm Front" and "Fool Moon" novels, plus additional content set within official continuity of Jim Butcher's beloved magic noir universe.

The Birth of an Assassin

The Birth of an Assassin
Author: Tony Bertot
Publisher: eBookIt.com
Total Pages: 381
Release: 2012-07-17
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1456609556

This prequel to The Heart of an Assassin takes you to the beginning and exposes you to what made the Assassin who he is. Follow his life as a young boy growing up on the streets of post war Chicago. His carefree innocence is shattered by a ruthless crime family whose rise is determine by the money they steal through extortion. Witness how in an attempt to escape the streets of Chicago his mother returns to Sicily where they are faced with a Nazi occupied city prior to the American and British invasion. A Nazi commandant befriends the boy in order to get closer to his beautify mother. He teaches the boy how to shoot and is amazed with his quick ability to learn and his uncanny accuracy. With every lesson the boys becomes more and more accurate and unwittingly the commandant is giving the boy the hammer to the nails to his own coffin. The boy returns to Chicago seeking revenge but instead falls in love. But once again, life as we know it, is not for the young man and he force do what he does best. The characters come alive before your very eyes and find yourself wanting more and not able to put the book down. The assassin becomes a force to be reckon with and a legend to those in the underworld.