Cleveland Torso murderer-1930's Who dunnit? (restaurants, kosher, murders)

[creepy]

Hi Folks, I was born in Cleveland but moved away when I was a child. I am re-reading the book Torso about the serial killer from the 1930's. Here is a good article about it.


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So I was wondering what average folks think too-do you think there was one murderer or two or more? Do you think the same guy did the similar murders in Pa?

Also I keep thinking about the butcher mentioned in the first part of the book when Flo Polillo's body was found. What was a butcher doing out at 2 am? What we know now about murderers is sometimes they hang around to see who notices-they act like an innocent bystander.

So this woman Flo's body is left outside near a building, a black woman hears a dog whining for a long time and decides to go look and then she sees what looks like meat in a bag and goes and tells this butcher she happens to see lounging around in the middle of the night and he goes and looks and sees it is a body and is shocked.

Was he really shocked or did he act that way? Some of the body parts of those killed a couple years later are in a potato sack and some other sack from a restaurant. Did some restaurants have their own butchers? Maybe Kosher Jewish ones?

Anyway it fascinates me the say the Kennedy shooting does.

[andrew61]

I have no idea... but your post jogged a long-forgotten childhood memory of mine. My dad, who was a kid in the 1930s, used to tell me about the "Torso" murders. I hadn't thought of that in years!

[creepy]

My Mom told me her Mom was engaged to a man that was attractive and relatively tall as far as Italians go. My grandma's plans to marry him were wrecked and the story goes that later this man was one of the Torso murders and that he had been involved in the white slave trade.
Weird.