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Crimes of the Centuries

S2 Ep1: The Cleveland Torso Murders

Crimes of the Centuries

Amber Hunt and Audioboom

History, Documentary, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.74K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

On a crisp fall morning in 1935, two young boys made a grisly discovery in Kingsbury Run, an area in southeast Cleveland, Ohio. The boys, ages 16 and 12, had been playing catch but lost control of the ball. To retrieve it, they ran down a hill affectionally called Jackass Hill, and were stopped in their tracks by the sight of a man’s headless body. When police arrived, they'd find another emasculated, decapitated corpse. Officials didn't know it yet, but the two bodies marked the first in the official tally of a serial killer to be dubbed the Cleveland Torso Murderer.

"Crimes of the Centuries" is a podcast from Grab Bag Collab exploring forgotten crimes from times past that made a mark and helped change history.

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0:36.7

Some crimes are so heartbreaking or shocking that they earn the label crime of the century.

0:44.9

But the stories that made headlines and decades past are necessarily remembered today.

0:52.7

I'm Amber Hunt, a journalist and author.

0:56.5

And in each episode of this show, I'll examine a case that's maybe less known today, but

1:02.4

was huge when it happened.

1:05.4

This is season two of Crimes of the Centuries.

1:20.9

On a crisp fall morning, a Monday in 1935, two young boys made a grisly discovery in Kingsbury

1:28.7

Run, an area in Southeast Cleveland, Ohio.

1:32.4

The boys, ages 16 and 12, had been playing catch but lost control of the ball.

1:38.5

To retrieve it, they ran down a hill affectionately called Jackass Hill and were stopped in their

1:43.7

tracks by the sight of a man's body, naked, except for socks.

1:49.5

Also, he was missing a head and a penis and his blood had been drained.

1:58.0

The boys rushed home and told their parents what they had found.

2:01.3

Their parents, naturally, alerted police.

2:04.2

If police had been skeptical about the report, that doubt would have quickly been erased

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