{"product_id":"hells-wasteland-the-pennsylvania-torso-murders-paperback","title":"Hell's Wasteland: The Pennsylvania Torso Murders - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJames Jessen Badal\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDid the Mad Butcher of Cleveland also strike in Pennsylvania?\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom 1934 to 1938, Cleveland, Ohio, was racked by a classic battle between good and evil. On one side was the city's safety director, Eliot Ness. On the other was a nameless phantom dubbed the \"Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run,\" who littered the inner city with the remains of decapitated and dismembered corpses. Never caught or even officially identified, the Butcher simply faded into history, leaving behind a frightening legend that both haunts and fascinates Cleveland to this day. In 2001 the Kent State University Press published James Jessen Badal's \u003cem\u003eIn the Wake of the Butcher: Cleveland's Torso Murders, \u003c\/em\u003ethe first serious, book-length treatment of this dark chapter in true crime history. \u003cem\u003eThough Murder Has No Tongue: The Lost Victim of Cleveland's Mad Butcher\u003c\/em\u003e-a detailed study of the arrest and mysterious death of Frank Dolezal, the only man ever charged in the killings\u003cem\u003e-\u003c\/em\u003efollowed in 2010.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNow Badal concludes his examination of the horrific cycle of murder-dismemberments with \u003cem\u003eHell's Wasteland: The Pennsylvania Torso Murders\u003c\/em\u003e. During the mid-1920s, a vast, swampy area just across the Ohio border near New Castle, Pennsylvania, revealed a series of decapitated and otherwise mutilated bodies. In 1940 railroad workers found the rotting remains of three naked and decapitated bodies in a string of derelict boxcars awaiting destruction in Pennsylvania's Stowe Township. Were all of these terrible murders the work of Cleveland's Mad Butcher? Many in Ohio and Pennsylvania law enforcement thought they were, and that assumption led to a massive, well-coordinated two-state investigation. In \u003cem\u003eHell's Wasteland\u003c\/em\u003e, Badal explores that nagging question in depth for the first time.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRelying on police reports, unpublished memoirs, and the surviving autopsy protocols-as well as contemporary newspaper coverage- Badal provides a detailed examination of the murder-dismemberments and weighs the evidence that potentially links them to the Cleveland carnage. \u003cem\u003eHell's Wasteland \u003c\/em\u003eis the last piece in the gigantic torso murder puzzle that spanned three decades, covered two states, and involved law enforcement from as many as five different cities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJames Jessen Badal\u003c\/strong\u003e is an assistant professor of English and Journalism at the Eastern Campus of Cuyahoga Community College in Cleveland. In addition to his volumes on the Mad Butcher, he is the author of \u003cem\u003eTwilight of Innocence: The Disappearance of Beverly Potts \u003c\/em\u003e(The Kent State University Press, 2005). He has been on the board of trustees of the Cleveland Police Historical Society since 2001 and lectures frequently on the torso murders.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 164\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.53 x 9 x 6.42 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 26, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53213441851699,"sku":"9781606351536","price":28.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/bHDby7j1_Z9781606351536.webp?v=1775694212","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/hells-wasteland-the-pennsylvania-torso-murders-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}