Due to the graphic nature of these killers crimes,

listener discretion is advised.

This episode includes discussions of murder and assault

that some people may find offensive.

We advise extreme caution for children under 13.

The afternoon of May 3rd 1940. A couple of yard men in Stowe Township, Pennsylvania

were running a random maintenance check on some old boxcars.

The yardmen admittedly couldn't see the purpose behind the task.

The boxcars had first been abandoned in Youngstown, Ohio.

They'd later been moved to Struthers, Ohio, and then finally to Stowe Township in April of 1940.

They hadn't been used in over a year.

But the country was only just now coming out of the Great Depression,

so the Ardmen appreciated the work, however trivial.

It would be a short, easy day in the job, merely checking that the boxcars

had been emptied and was still usable.

Until the yardmen flung open the door to a musty boxcar and were overwhelmed by the smell of rotting meat.

The men recoiled in disgust and took them a moment to realize what they were looking at. Three corpses decomposing on the floor,

dismembered and decapitated.

The boxcars had not been in operation for over a year,

but someone, it seems, had been putting them to good use. Hi, I'm Greg Polson. This is Serial Killers on the Parcast Network.

Every Monday we dive into the minds and madness of serial killers.

Today we continue our deep dive into the life of the Cleveland Torso murderer,

...