Dark Stranger: The Crimes of Earle Leonard Nelson

If you think about the 1920s in the United States, a few things
might come to mind—jazz, prohibition, Babe Ruth, and, right at the
end, the Wall Street Crash. And if you think of crime, you probably
think of Al Capone, bootlegging, and fast-talking wise guys with
Tommy guns. But the 1920s were also in some ways the nation’s
introduction to crimes that could shock and horrify the entire
country. Leopold and Loeb’s thrill killing, the kidnapping and
murder of the Lindbergh baby, the utter horror of child-killer and
cannibal Albert Fish. And possibly the most prolific killer of the
decade was a man whose strange desires sent him on a trail of
murder all across a continent.

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Sources:
Bestial by Harold Schechter
The Laughing Gorilla by Robert Graysmith

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