Catch The Maniac In The Bushes: More Tales Of Cleveland Woe Articulated By John Stark Bellamy II Expressed As Print

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 theth 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.
Per usual, Bellamy takes liberties with his commentary on the tales his book and peppers them with personal theories lacking evidence.
That being said, as a Clevelander the book has many interesting stories and paints a very different image of the city than many may be familiar with in present day.
Particularly interesting, as I am familiar with many of the areas discussed, A quick read, with plenty of information to fill out the urban legends you've already heard about many of these cases.
Another swell read by the journalist who brought you "They Died Crawling, " This one has another great assortment of riveting news stories from Cleveland's bygone days, Includes the "Torso Interludes. " Cleveland history buffs will like this collection of short stories, essays, and vignettes detailing various "famous" Cleveland crimes and tragedies.
The Kingsbury Run Torso murders are highlighted, what it says on the label, basically, wanted to know more about the ties between the torso murders investigation and thegreat lakes exposition this had some decent recaps of amusingly breathless, gruesome news from the time.
While not entertaining, interesting enough to keep me reading, The "Torso Murders" will give me nightmares!,/This book was pretty good, but not quite as good as another book by the same author, They Died Crawling.
The main part of this book was about the torso murders, which occurred in thes and was never solved.
The "torso interludes" were split up intoparts, which I liked, Other stories were presented in between the interludes to keep things interesting, Some of these stories were not as interesting as those in the previous book, The one that really stood out for me was theCollinwood School fire, I shed many tears reading this tragic story, The torso murders were fascinating, though! "Morbidly fascinating and wickedly entertaining, " The Plain Dealer

The second volume in Bellamy's popular series includesmore incredible true stories of Cleveland crime and disaster, including.
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Martha Wise, Medina's notsomerry widow, who poisoned a dozen relatives with arsenicincluding her own husband, mother, brother, niece, and nephewsbecause she enjoyed attending funerals

The legendary Torso Murders, which baffled Cleveland safety directory Eliot Ness, two Cuyahoga County coroners, and the entire Cleveland police force as they tried in vain to catch the perpetratorwhom newspapers dubbed the "Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run"

The unspeakably horrible Collinwood School Fire of, in whichschoolchildren perished in panic because of obstructed fire exits

Hammerwielding Velma West, a bigcity girl of Cleveland's Jazz Age driven to murder her smalltown husband by the slow pace of life of Painesvilleand her own obsession with another woman

The Flats lumber fire of, which leveled Cleveland's industrial Flats, melted bridges, and very nearly set the entire city ablaze

The enduring mystery of tenyearold Beverly Potts, whose puzzling disappearance from westside Halloran Park inlaunched Cleveland's greatest manhunt

And many other local heroes and villains in these compelling tales of mayhem, melancholy, and mystery.
John Stark Bellamy II is the author of six books and two anthologies about Cleveland crime and disaster, The former history specialist for the Cuyahoga County Public Library, he comes by his taste for the sensational honestly, having grown up reading stories about Cleveland crime and disaster written by his grandfather, Paul, who was editor of the Plain Dealer, and his father, Peter, who wrote for the Cleveland News and the Plain Dealer.
John Stark Bellamy II is the author of six books and two anthologies about Cleveland crime and disaster, The former history specialist for the Cuyahoga County Public Library, he comes by his taste for the sensational honestly, having grown up reading stories about Cleveland crime and disaster written by his grandfather, Paul, who was editor

of the Plain Dealer, and his father, Peter, who wrote for the Cleveland News and the Plain Dealer.
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