Al Capone, Eliot Ness, and Cleveland’s Torso Murderer

In 1934, a man collecting driftwood along the Lake Erie shore found
a human torso on the beach. No one could figure out what had
happened. Over the next several years, more bodies were discovered.
Eventually, a coroner assembled something he called the “Torso
Clinic” to work on the case. It was made up of about 30 people –
doctors, professors, police officers, and a young Prohibition agent
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