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Preface
Torso Prologue: The Mystery Begins
1. “Twelve O’Clock Girl in a Nine O’Clock Town”: The Red Rage of Velma West, 1927
Torso Interlude 1: Jackass Hill, Kingsbury Run
2. Ash Wednesday Forever: The 1908 Collinwood School Fire
Torso Interlude 2: Flo Polillo and the Dog That Did Bark in the Night
3. The Maniac in the Bushes: The 1921 Foote-Wolf Terror
Torso Interlude 3: Birth of a Legend
4. “Bring Out Your Man!”: The 1887–1888 Saga of Bold, Bad “Blinky” Morgan
Torso Interlude 4: The Mad Butcher of Big Creek
5. Death of the Music Lovers: The 1908 Ziechmann-Bernthaler Tragedy
Torso Interlude 5: The Remains of the Day
6. Bad Day at Newburgh: The 1872 Northern Ohio Insane Asylum Fire
Torso Interlude 6: Beulah Park Redux
7. A Fiend Walks in Cleveland: The 1930 Death of Janet Blood
Torso Interlude 7: A Rose Ain’t Necessarily a Rose
8. A Fatal Bottle of Beer: The J. J. Phillips Mystery of 1907
Torso Interlude 8: Torso No. 10—The Legend Grows
9. Medina’s Not-So-Merry Widow: Martha Wise’s Deadly Crying Game, 1925
Torso Interlude 9: Another Lady, Another Dead End
10. “They’re Killing Them on the Bridge!”: The 1920 Sly-Fanner Payroll Murders
Torso Interlude 10: “They Call Me Mad and a Butcherer . . .”
11. Cleveland’s Burning!: A Trio of Catastrophic Fires, 1883–1914
Torso Interlude 11: Mad M.D.s and Frank Dolezal
12. “You Better Be Home Before Dark”: The Beverly Potts Mystery, 1951–?
Torso Epilogue: Farewell to the Mad Butcher
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Leslie Manes
reviewed Maniac in the Bushes: More True Tales of Cleveland Crime on March 11, 2017
Maniac in the Bushes: More True Tales of Cleveland Crime
I'd like to start off by saying that this book is not for the faint of heart. It's graphic, disturbing, and full of stories that make you lose faith in humanity (if you had any left.)
Moving on, it seems there has always been a black cloud hovering over Ohio. One needn't go through the litany of atrocities and horrific incidents that took place here to see that there is something about Ohio that harbors misery, poverty, brutality, and every other ingredient needed to make a lurid tabloid crime.
This book chronicles the most notable examples of terrible Ohioans doing terrible things to other Ohioans in Greater Cleveland in the first half of the 20th century. Most notably, The Mad Butcher of Kingsbury run, the story of a sort of Jack the Ripper who preyed on the homeless and hobos who were just passing through. That story is dispersed between chapters detailing more obscure events, such as a woman who poisoned her family with arsenic, and burned down barns...Just for the hell of it.
I can't necessarily say that this book is entertaining, but it is interesting. . Most of these stories are deeply unsettling, but it has that sort of "car wreck" affect. You shouldn't look, but you can't look away - Well, perhaps that analogy would hold up better if the car wreck dispensed trivia about Ohio.
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