Between 1935 and 1938, at least twelve people were murdered and dismembered in Cleveland, Ohio, with bodies found in Kingsbury Run; Eliot Ness, the former Prohibition agent who had taken down Al Capone, led the investigation but could never prove his suspected killer, Dr. Francis Sweeney, despite Sweeney failing polygraph tests, and the case remains unsolved to this day.
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Between 1935 and 1938, 12 people were murdered in Cleveland. The bodies were dismembered. The killer worked with surgical skill. The man hunting him was Eliot Ness, who had just taken down Al Capone.
The bodies were found in Kingsbury Run, a wooded ravine cutting through Cleveland. He believed he knew who the killer was. He could never prove it.
He ordered the Cleveland shantytowns burned. The killing stopped. The killer was never charged. Ness died broke in 1957. The case has never been solved.
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