Tuesday, June 5, 2007

Solve The Crime: The Cleveland Torso Murderer

After a few days of investigation, the police summed up their theories: (1) the murders were crimes of passion, not racket related, (2) a woman will be found to have played some part in the case, (3) the victims were taken to Kingsbury Run after their deaths, (4) the two victims knew each other and were killed by the same person, (5) the unidentified man was killed first, his body immersed in some sort of fluid until the killer could trap and murder Andrassy, (6) each victim, after his hands were tied, was executed by some sharp instrument, like a butcher knife. Police were quite sure that each victim would have had to be carried, probably at night, down the steep embankment of Jackass Hill. Automobiles and trucks couldn't get any closer to the ravine than 100 feet from Praha Avenue.

Police reconstructed the timing of events leading up to Andrassy's murder. He left home on the Thursday evening, September 19, 1935, not telling his family where he was going. From Coroner Pearse's report, he was killed Friday night. On Monday afternoon his body was found. No one was ever found that had seen him after he left his home on Thursday.
It was stated by police reports that after Andrassy was "murdered", the killings had stopped. It then brings me to the conclusions of the murderer being Andrassy. Though, he had, had a family, and a seemingly normal life, evidence was found in his soda shop, The Parlor, in the basement, with plans for the murders, and body parts in an old hatch refrigerator. This case can be closed, because Andrassy was murdered by one of his own proteges. And it is within considerable mention, that this culprit was responsible for the killing of Elizabeth Short, known as the Black Dahlia Murder in 1947.



Citations:
1. http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial_killers/unsolved/kingsbury/1d.html
2. http://www.prairieghosts.com/torso.html
3. http://www.francesfarmersrevenge.com/stuff/serialkillers/cleveland.htm
4. http://www.answers.com/topic/cleveland-torso-murderer
5. http://www.fortunecity.com/roswell/streiber/273/clevtorso_mo.htm
6. http://www.deadohio.com/Kinsbury.htm
7. http://www.bethshort.com/dahhome.htm
8. http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/famous/dahlia/index_1.html

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