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index - 157 Index Aliquippa, legs found near, 81, 123 Alonzo, Ernest, 112, 124–26 Andrassy, Edward, 97, 107 Andrews, William G., 30 autopsies, 17; incompleteness of record on decapitation, 86–87; of bodies found in boxcars, 54–55, 67, 85; of corpse found in railroad shed, 6; of Murder Swamp bodies , 86; of torso murder victims, 65–66, 86 B&O Railroad: burning shed in Ellwood City by, 10–14; murder locations and, 3, 20 Bannon, Walter, 21–22, 50, 76; bodies in Murder Swamp and, 24, 26, 36, 46, 80; Merylo and, 41, 47 Barry, John, 9 Bauerdorf, Georgette, 131 Beaver River, 4, 20, 35 Benn, E. B., 37, 39 Bezdek, Fred J., 9 Black, Frank, 10–11 Black Dahlia (Elizabeth Short), 128–31 Black Hand, 7, 19–20 black stranger, as suspect in Jackson murder, 1–4 Black, John P., 6 blood: boxcar murders and, 54, 121; on clothing, 6, 24; torso murder victims drained of, 97–98 bootleggers. See also mobsters: Murder Swamp bodies possibly, 119– 20; murders among, 20, 76, 95 boxcars, bodies found in, 85. See also Stowe Township bodies; autopsies of, 56, 67; body found in Weirton, West Virginia, believed murdered in, 9; discovery of, 37–38, 42, 90; dismemberment of, 42, 51–53; evidence found near, 47, 53–54, 60, 77–78, 121; investigation of, 59–60; killer trying to prevent identification in, 58, 107; likelihood of same killer for, 119, 121; link between torso murders and, 66–67, 116–17; links with other murders, 121, 123, 126; murder sites in, 42, 109; newspaper coverage of, 59, 67; summary of, 106–8; suspects for, 76–77, 109, 120–21 Brown, Tom, 100–101 Brown, Wallace L., 123–24, 126 burial: of heads, 6, 24; of Murder Swamp bodies, 21–25, 93–95, 108; of Noschesi, 12–14 burning, 24; of body and shed in Ellwood City, 10–14; of skeleton in Murder Swamp, 80, 112; to prevent identification, 45–46, 57 index - 158 Burton , Harold, 34 Byers, Charles P., 46 Caldwell, James P., 17; investigating Murder Swamp bodies, 22–24, 26; on Ellwood City body, 12, 14 Carroll, Jim, 45 Cashmore, Captain, 55 Cass, Stephen, 5 cause of death: McGregor’s, 6, 8, 17; of bodies found in boxcars, 56; of bodies found in Murder Swamp, 23–24, 36; of bodies in Cleveland, 101 Chamberlin, Robert, 55, 65 children, murders of, 4, 17, 93, 120; links to other murders, 15, 90–91 Clarke, C. J., 3–4 Cleveland. See also law enforcement, Cleveland’s; torso murders, in Cleveland: awareness of Pennsylvania murders in, 38–39; crime in, 20, 132; effects of torso murders in, 33–34; railroad links to sites of other murders, 68, 70; relation to New Castle and Youngstown, 32; state of the art police department and coroner’s office in, 86 Cleveland Butcher. See Mad Butcher clothing: bloody, 6, 59; found in Murder Swamp, 27, 29; killers’, 24; of bodies found in Murder Swamp, 24, 26, 47; victims’, 97; victims’ missing, 36, 52–53 Conners, Donald, 52, 54 conspiracy, rumors of, 10 Cowles, David, 47–48, 60, 64, 66; believing Sweeney to be Mad Butcher , 102–4, 113–17; doubting link between Pennsylvania murders and torso murders, 87, 111, 117, 119; on bodies found in boxcars, 55, 111; on link between Pennsylvania murders and torso murders, 49, 50, 58, 81, 115; summarizing torso murder cases, 100–101 crime scenes. See murder sites Criswell, R. A., 39 Croatian suspect, sleeping in boxcars, 76–77 Crowley, Martin J., 126 Cuyahoga County Coroner’s Office. See also Gerber, Samuel: mistrust of Gerber and, 64–66; sloppiness of, 101, 106 Cuyahoga River, dismembered bodies pulled from, 100–101 Davison, James, 52 decapitation, 7; as Cleveland Butcher ’s signature, 33, 95, 105, 109, 111, 130; importance of method of, 88; incomplete record of in autopsy reports, 64, 86–87; Jackson wrongly identified as, 51, 91, 112–13; of Alonzo, 124–25, 127; of bodies found in boxcars, 37, 56–58, 107; of Brown, 123–24; of children’s bodies , 90; of Murder Swamp bodies, 22, 25, 80, 93–94; skill level of, 6, 97, 125, 127; variety of murders involving, 14–16, 89–90; with saw vs. axe or knife, 46–47, 50, 61–64, 109, 111, 124 Depression, transients riding railroads during, 69 dismemberment: as signature of torso murders, 105, 106; Cleveland Butcher increasing mutilation, 100–101; leg found near railroad tracks, 81; legs found floating in Ohio River, 112, 123; of bodies found in boxcars...
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