The Cleveland Torso Killings

Who Killed...?

Bill Huffman

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

3.8 • 595 Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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A big thanks to Jim Harold, the man of a million podcasts, for joining me this week to discuss one of Cleveland’s oldest mysteries, the Torso Killings. Thank YOU for tuning in to this week's episode of Who Killed...? As a reminder, I drop new episodes of Who Killed…? every Friday, wherever you get your favorite podcasts. IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SUPPORT, you can do so the show via the Venmo app with my username @whokilled. Every contribution helps keep these podcasts running. If you do enjoy this podcast you can also support the show by leaving a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to favorite shows. If you’d like to stay up to date on the cases I have covered, as well as the new shows I have coming down the pike, please follow me on Twitter @billhuffman3. Link to Jim Harold's Podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Slow Burn Media and Evergreen Podcast presents Who Killed, a podcast that provides a voice for the voiceless. The Untouchable.
0:23.9	A Desi Lou production.
0:28.6	Tonight's episode, The Frank Mitty Story.
0:32.7	Starring Robert Stack as Elliot Nett.
0:35.7	Co-starring Richard Anderson,
0:42.3	Myron McCormick, and Dick Foran, with special guest star Bruce Gorton and narrated by Walter Winchell.
0:46.3	In 1934, Prohibition had been repealed, and the Capone mob, without its leader, serving time at Alcatraz Prison, was desperate for new sources of revenue.
0:59.0	With the instinct of jackals for an easy kill, they picked the nation's small theater owners for their prey.
1:04.0	The type of operation used was one they knew best, extortion.
1:08.0	On a quiet street in Oak Park, Illinois, suburb of Chicago,
1:12.6	Harold Coleman was closing his theater.
1:15.6	Coleman was the owner and operator of two small motion picture houses.
1:18.6	He thought he hadn't an enemy in the world.
1:21.6	But he was soon to learn that he was mistaken.
1:23.6	To put their extortion plan into operation,
1:26.6	the Capone mob had chosen Frank Nitty long time
1:29.1	in Fossa for Scarface Al Capone.
1:31.7	Hello and welcome to this week's episode of Who Killed?
1:35.0	I'm your host of Bill Huffman and this is a slow burn media, evergreen podcasts, and
1:40.9	killer podcast production.
1:43.0	On this week's episode, we're going to take a look back at a case that we have covered,
1:46.8	and I actually had a special guest on to discuss the case,
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