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In the Wake of the Butcher Cleveland Torso Murders, Authoritative Edition, Revised and Expanded

James Jessen Badal

In 2001 The Kent State University Press published James Jessen Badal’s In the Wake of the Butcher: Cleveland’s Torso Murders—the first book to examine the horrific series of unsolved dismemberment murders that terrorized the Kingsbury Run neighborhood from 1934 to 1938. Through his access to a wealt...

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It was described as an amazing and detailed book about the Cleveland Torso Murders, and the author was praised for his exhaustive research into the many discrepancies in police records and news reports.

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But there is an amazing book on this, The Cleveland Butcher. And it's written by James Jessen Battle.

— Episode: #172: The Cleveland Torso Butcher Serial...

Episode: #172: The Cleveland Torso Butcher Serial Killer

It was described as an amazing and detailed book about the Cleveland Torso Murders, and the author was praised for his exhaustive research into the many discrepancies in police records and news reports.

"

But there is an amazing book on this, The Cleveland Butcher. And it's written by James Jessen Battle.

I just want to say that he did impeccable research on this case.

Which must have been an incredibly frustrating process because there were so many discrepancies and even missing police reports.

So this might be the most detailed comprehensive review of what actually happened with the Cleveland Butcher. And we have James Jessen Battle to thank for that.

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