"The Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run"
Torso Murders/Victim List
The Torso killers victim's in order found:
#1 Name: John Doe #1
Date: September 23, 1935
Weather: H = 63, L = 51, Rain = 0.00
Found: near East 49th and Praha Avenue. Basically, Kingsbury Run.
Buried at Potters field.
Age: about
45
Height: about 5'6"
Weight: 165 pounds
Race: White
Body: Intact except for head.
Head: found.
Buried: At Highland Park Cemetery's Potters
Field.
#2 Name: Edward W. Andrassy
Date: September 23, 1935
Weather: H = 63, L = 51, Rain = 0.00
Found: about 30 feet from the John Doe #1.
Kingsbury Run. photo1
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Age: 28
Height:
5"11"
Weight: 150 pounds
Race: White
Body: Intact except for head.
Buried at Saint Mary's Cemetery at West 41 and Clark.
Head: found.
The surname "Andrassy" is common in Ohio.
#3 Name: Florence Genevieve Polillo, 41 years old. Known
prostitute.
Date: January 26, 1936
Weather: H = 20, L = -2, Snow = 0.02
Date:
February 7, 1936
Weather: H = 19, L = 13, Snow =
trace
Found: was found behind a business at 2315 E. 20th Street in downtown
Cleveland. photo1
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Buried: cremated and buried in Pennsylvania.
Age: 41
Height: 5'4"
Weight: 160 pounds
Race: White
Body:
In pieces.
Head: never found.
The surname "Polillo" is found in the state of Pennsylvania to this day, but
not in Ohio.
#4 Name: John Doe #2 AKA " the tattooed man"
Date: June 5, 1936 - June 6, 1936
Weather: H = 68, L = 56, Rain - 0.00
Date: June
6, 1936
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Weather: H = 85, L = 59, Rain - 0.00
Found: In the area known as " Kingsbury Run".
Decapitated while alive, head found June 5, the rest was
found the next day, body intact.
Age:
Height:
Weight:
Race: White
Body: Buried: At Highland Park Cemetery's at Potters Field.
Head: found.
Buried:
At Highland Park Cemetery's Potters Field.
#5 Name: John Doe #3
Date: July 22, 1936 - The only victim
killed where found. Naked and decapitated. Only Westside victim.
Weather: H = 84, L = 61, Rain = 0.00
Age: about
40
Height: 5'5"
Weight: 145 pounds
Race: White
Found: Big Creek area in a modest gully between the creek and the B. and O.
railroad tracks. Naked, decapitated and badly decomposed.photo1
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Body:
in pieces. Body dismembered while alive. (Butcher: Cleveland's Torso Murders
: James Jessen Badal).
Head:
found.
#6 Name: John Doe #4
Date: September 10, 1936
Weather: H = 78, L = 68, Rain - 0.00
Age:
Height:
Weight:
Race: White
Found: Along the Nickel Plate railroad tracks.
Or in a pond depending on source. Between the flats and Jackass hill. Green Ford truck spotted
in area.
(Torso: Steven Nickel)
Body: Upper half found by a hobo.
Lower half, legs gone at the hips.
Body emasculated.
Head:
never found
#7 Name: Jane Doe #2
Date: February 23, 1937
Weather: H = 32, L = 21, Rain or Snow = trace
Age:
Height:
Weight:
Race: White
Found: Same location as the "Lady of the Lake" Jane Doe 1.
May 5, 1937 - The rest of Jane Doe 2 is found off of East 30th in Lake Erie.
Body:
Head: never found.
#8 Name: Rose Wallace -The only black
woman (or victim) involved. Lived at 2027 Scovill Avenue. Known prostitute.
Some accounts dispute the identity of this victim.
Date: June 6, 1937 - Actual time of death may have been
June, 1936.
Weather: H = 79, L = 67, Rain
0.14
Age:
Height:
Weight:
Race: Black
Found: In a burlap bag, in a pile of rocks under the
Lorain - Carnegie Bridge in "Hoboville". Missing a rib. (Biblical
connection?)
Body:
Head:
found.
#9 Name: John Doe #5
Date: July 6, 1937
Weather: H = 81, L = 67, Rain = 0.00
Age:
Height:
Weight:
Race: White
Found: floating in the Cuyahoga river.
July 14, 1937 - The rest of John Doe is found.
Body:
Head:
never found.
#10 Name: Jane Doe #3 - The only victim with drugs in her
system.
Date: April 8, 1938
Weather: H = 40, L = 34, Rain = 1.17
Age:
Height:
Weight:
Race: White
Found: Lower leg in the Cuyahoga river.
Body:
Head: never
found.
#11 Name: Jane Doe #4
Date: August 16, 1938
Weather: H = 89, L = 79, Rain = trace
Age:
Height:
Weight:
Race: White
Found: Headless, in a dump, just East of East 9th Street.
Body:
Head:
found.
#12 Name: John Doe #6
Date: August 16, 1938
Weather: H =
89, L = 79, Rain = trace
Age:
Height:
Weight:
Race: White
Found: In the
same dump as Torso Victim 12.
Body:
Head:
found (in a can).
Name: Robert Robertson
Date: July
23, 1950
Weather: H = 82, L = 60, Rain = 0.05
Age:
Height:
Weight:
Race: WhiteFound: in Cleveland,
Ohio.
Body: His leg was found along the Pennsylvania railroad tracks
along the lakefront 200 feet away behind a factory on East 22nd. Street
police found the
torso, both arms and the other leg.
Head: His head was 4
days later
(This victim was discounted as a copy cat crime).
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