The Maniac in the Bushes: More True Tales of Cleveland Crime and Disaster
by II John Stark Bellamy
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Here are 13 more incredible true stories of Cleveland crime and disaster. Meet such local characters as Martha Wise, the Merry Widow of Medina, who poisoned a dozen relatives with arsenic because she enjoyed funerals; Velma West, big-city girl of Cleveland's Jazz Age, who was driven to murder her small-town husband by the slow pace of life in Painesville; Cleveland Safety Director Eliot Ness and his nemesis, the "Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run"; and many other local heroes and villains.Tags
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Reviewed May 1998
A gift from Bo Gerbic, the author also wrote “They Died Crawling” Bo gave me this book because one of the stories is about the Collinwood Fire. I could not read it nor the story on the insane asylum fire. The other stories were interesting and detailed. Bellamy writes well and takes his information from Cleveland’s newspapers, sadly, several stories are unsolved and I wonder if the crime was committed today, would it still remain unsolved? The torso killings were especially frustrating, somehow these should have been solved.
21-2008
A gift from Bo Gerbic, the author also wrote “They Died Crawling” Bo gave me this book because one of the stories is about the Collinwood Fire. I could not read it nor the story on the insane asylum fire. The other stories were interesting and detailed. Bellamy writes well and takes his information from Cleveland’s newspapers, sadly, several stories are unsolved and I wonder if the crime was committed today, would it still remain unsolved? The torso killings were especially frustrating, somehow these should have been solved.
21-2008
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John Stark Bellamy II was the history specialist for the Cuyahoga County Public Library. He comes by his taste for the sensational honestly: Bellamy grew up reading stories about Cleveland crimes and disasters written by his grandfather, Paul, editor of the Plain Dealer for 20 years, and his father, Peter, who wrote for the Cleveland News and the show more Plain Dealer. He is the author of five other collections of Cleveland crime and disaster stories. show less
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- Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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- Cleveland Torso Murders
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- Nonfiction, History, General Nonfiction, Politics and Government
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- 364.15230977132 — Society, government, & culture Social problems and social services Crime Criminal offenses Offenses against the person Homicide Murder History, geographic treatment, biography North America Midwestern U.S.
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- HV6795 .C5 .B45 — Social sciences Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology Crimes and criminal classes
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