A decade after end of the Toledo Clubber murders, Ohio was once again the site of another unsolved serial murder case. What made this case notable was not only the unusual savagery of the killings but the involement of Eliot Ness, the lawman of Untouchables fame.
In happened in Cleveland during the Great Depression. In September of 1934, the lower half of a woman's torso with the legs severed at the knees, was found washed up on the shore of Lake Erie. She was never ID'd and her story quickly became yesterday's news. Only later on would the people of Cleveland realize that she was the start of something horrible.
A year later two boys stumbled across a pair of headless, decomposing male bodies. Both bodies had their genitals severed. The boys came across them while walking along Kingsbury Run, a weed infested ravine on the east side of Cleveland. Postmortem exams concluded that the two men had been decapitated and castrated while alive. The older of the two victims was never identified but the younger victim turned out to be Edward Andrassy. He was well known amung the police and had a rap sheet of petty arrests. He was also known for having an affair with a married woman who's husband had threatened Edward's life. The police concluded that the two murders were crimes of passion.
In January of 1936, the hacked up remains of a 41 year old prostitue were found
