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*POLICE SEEK TO IDENTIFY TORSO MURDER VICTIMCleveland Officers Redouble Efforts to Apprehend “Mad Butcher”HEAD, ARMS ARE MISSINGDissection Crudely Done; Former Cases Exhibited Neat Surgical SkillCLEVELAND, Feb. 24.—(U.R— While police checked records oflt;missing women for a clue to the jidentity of a 25-year-old mother jwhose torso was found on a LakeErie beach, search was redoubledtoday for the “mad butcher ofKingsbury run,” known to havedecapitated six persons in the last18 months.The newest body, found washed up on the lakefront yesterday, was the eighth decapitation victim in a two-and-one-lialf year period. The upper portion of a young woman’s torso, head and arms hacked off, was found in almost the exact spot where two and one-half years ago a woman’s torso was discovered.Detectives speculated on whether the two women were victims of the apparently mad and sex-perverted murderer who beheaded five men and a woman in the lonely Kingsbury Run area.Coroner S. R. Gerber said the torso found yesterday, gave fewclues to the identity of the vie-tim. She was of slight build, evidently was of light complexion with brown hair, and about five feet, four inches tall.The abdomen had been severed with a single cut. A sharp, heavy knife had been used to cut off each arm, and decapitation evi dently was accomplished with the same instrument.Cases RecalledDetectives said the dissection was crudely done, in contrast with the methods of the Kingsbury Run pervert, who has displayed surgical skill.Decapitation in the Kingsbury Run murders, ail of which occurred late in 1935 and during 1936, was invariably the cause of death, Dr. Reuben Straus, countypathologist, said. The two wrnmen found on the beach however, were dismembered after death.Examination today was expected to reveal whether the latest victim was an expectant mother. Dr. Straus said an examination di#* proved theories the woman might have been killed by an abortionist. He said she had been a mother once and possibly twice.The last of the Kingsbury Run victims, four of whom w'ere never identified, was found in a pool last Sept. 10. At that time police called a conference of sex psychology experts. Efforts to connect the murders with those of similarly dismembered bodies in New York and Pennsylvania failed.
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Van Wert Times Bulletin
Van Wert, Ohio, US
Wed, Feb 24, 1937
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