The first body appeared in September 1934, when a beachcomber on Lake Erie saw a half-buried “rotting slab of human flesh.” It was the lower half of a woman’s torso, its legs chopped off at the kne…
when a beachcomber on Lake Erie saw a half-buried “rotting slab of human flesh.” It was the lower half of a woman’s torso, its legs chopped off at the knees. Just two weeks earlier, another man found what appeared to be a human vertebrae and ribs on another beach.
Later, “a clump of tangled flesh found near one of the bodies proved to be the severed genitals of both men.” One of the victims remained unknown, but the police were able to identify the second through fingerprinting as Edward Andrassy. Cops knew Andrassy as a “snotty punk” from “Rowdy Row” who might’ve dabbled in porn and prostitution, but definitely sold marijuana and “Spanish fly.” There were rumors he’d been in a voodoo cult.
The Butcher’s first victim appeared roughly 50 years after Jack the Ripper terrorized London, but with an official victim count of at least 12, the “Butcher” was a more prolific killer, and a more savage one: Most of his victims were found with limbs, genitals or heads hacked off. The city coroner believed those dismemberments occurred while the victims were still alive.
In June 1936, two boys hiking through Kingsbury Run with fishing poles over their shoulder found a pair of discarded brown pants. When they kicked them hoping for coins, a human head rolled out. Days later, a pair of railroad inspectors found a decapitated male body, which the city coroner confirmed perfectly matched the previous body-less head.
Frank Dolezal was brought in for questioning on the murder of Florence Polillo. He confessed after hours of interrogation, but later changed his story so many times that his guilt was never determined. But no evidence of the Butcher’s handiwork was seen after 1938, possibly because Ness had solved the case on the down low. The press had heard shadowy stories that the prime suspect was a mysterious Dr. X, a “discredited physician with a history of mental problems.” He turned out to be Francis Edward Sweeney, scion to a respectable Cleveland family and cousin to a sitting US congressman.
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