Wednesday, ‘August.7, 1991 | : ‘es kept any belleve that serial killers ore a recent phenomenon. further from the trul the most heinous of have always been out there, preying ‘on the unwary. On Sept. 5, 1934, a man walking on : Hictid Beach, about elght miles from downtown Cleve: farid, stumbled across a young woman's nude body attially buried in the sand. The girl had been lecapitated. Her description was checked against ported missing persons, but she has never been identified. “At the time, police had no idea that they were dealing th the firet in a series of murders, which would later be turning up hea a) Edward's past was thoroughly investigated in the hope that something would be uncovered which would lead Nothing could be ‘police to the - Uh, Serial killers, murderer, Edward all criminals, had been a transveslite who frequented local bars. He sometimes posed as a doctor and had been arrested for examining female patients. Four days before his decapitated body was found, he had left his rooming house at § p.m. and had not been seen alive after that time, : Two things puzzted police. A lype of preservative alled the Kingsbury Run murders, named after the ‘alher ugly ancient creck bed running Uhrough the heart f Cleveland. 4 year later, on Sept. 23, 1935, the bodies of two men ere found at the foot of East 49th St. and Kingsbury ¢ Run. Both bodies were nude, headless, and had had ‘thelr penises removed. The heads were recovered “Separately, burled some distance from the bodies, Several Ides were found at the murder site — a blue Jacket, a irt, cap, flashlight and some rope. All were sent to a lice laboratory for analysis. Attempts to trace these Items failed. To some it had been used on the remains of the headless body found on Euclid Beach. The saine preservative had been applied lo the unidentified man found more recently. Another connecting link was the skill with which all heads had been removed. Was It possible that a madman was loose, killing and both malo and female victims? Four months after the two bodics were found, a woman reported that a basket of meat had been teft in the alley behind 2315 East 20th Sl. The basket proved to contain the right arm, lower torso and thighs of a woman. Thirteen days Inter the legs and left arm of the woman were found behind a derelict building on Orange Ave. The head of this victim was never found, but a fingerprint check Identified her as Mrs. Florence Polillo, a Rats have emerged as the latest * measure of New York's recession and budget Crisis. Cutbacks in rubbish collection and pest control have combined with a heat wave of record duyation to create an urban patadise for ratBudget cuts let rats nibble at the Big Apple i Rats have emerged as the latest pease of New York’, s pad gehctisis Seubacks in rubbish collection ant-pest-control-have combined with a heat wave of record duration to treate an urban paradise for rats, and they are multiplying. ¢New Yorkers have always -shited their city with the rat. ‘There are seven million humans the metropolitan area, and an ed nine million rats. But experts warn that after years of relatively stable population figures, this summer my have seen an increase of at legst 25 per cent so far. And the rath, large, spiky-coated creatures * wiih wicked tails, are becoming 42-year-old alcoholic prostitute. Budget cuts let rats nibble at the Big Apple af + more visible. Once they were only sighted in the bushes of Central Park and in the subway stations in the quiet hours of the night. Now they scurry over the pavements in broad daylight and scavenge openly in the gutters of Manhattan’s wealthiest avenues, “We are facing a problem of is. Man has ith the-rat, : aves, dropped our defences: just as hé has got the biggest break he could have asked for,” said Mr Richard Kourbage, a est exter and Pissident of Kingsway Exterminating Co. But while he and his service by stopping Sunday collections from street bins, increasing the amount of rubbish on the streets; he also cut the city’s Bureau of Pest Control by 25 per cent, and froze privatised contracts, “The critters don't even have to go looking for food. We have given them carte blanche. They have their own fast-food restaurants right on every-corner,” said Mr Kourbage. ‘The heat wave hasimproved conditions for rats even further, Fire-hydrants turned on to cool people with their spray leave pools in the gutters that offer the perfect watering holes. The heat also increases the of food eaten, and re in the P, Pest Control A i admit pped, in the streets, and the their interest, they say that City Hall ignores their waming signals at its peril. The problem boils down to a simple causal chain: facing a budget deficit, Mayor David ,Dinkins cut the rubbish collection scent of left-overs stored in plastic rubbish bags drifts further. “The only good thing is that Tats love to come out and play in the heat, which means that people see them, which means they get angry,” said Mr Kourbage. WHY NOT INVITE 17,000’ PEOPLE tine hy Ni ay =" It es Sa Al fi ft =i MAKE OUT THOSE INVITATIONS WITH JUST, ONE CALL eet for our weekly Garage Sale feature in the Cesalfieds SUZ The Sener Sun AS 465 Columbia Ave., Cite, B.C. af 168. Based on aclreulation in excess of 6000; If you enjoy Crime Flasliback,.. News of the Weird or any of our other features please Iet us know by dropping a line to: \U/ Se The Castlegar Sun Cis 465 Columbia Ave. Casltegar, B.C. 1985 DODGE CARAVAN LE ¢ 7 passenger ¢ air conditioning ¢ automatic transmission © power windows & door locks deep tinted glass .Florence had walked out on her husband 13 yenrs * sreneller.: ‘Androw' Polllto travalted front Huffato to identity the Varlous parts of his Jong tost wife's body, Wecks were # apent delving Into Florence's past, but all efforts fale | to uncover. her killer, Tho Mad Butcher of Kingebury Run, as he was now ” called, On Sept. 10, beside a hobo Jungle on Kingsbury Run, & man’s torso was found bobbing in a stagnant pool. The body had been emasculated with the same surgical skill as previous victlms, The herd was nover found. One can only imagine the effect thls serles of strange ‘murders had on the general population of Cleveland. The Mad Butcher of Kingabury Run was the main tople of convoraalion in (he community. Visitors shunned the city. Vagrants and hobos travelled in groups, The city of Cleveland was held in the grip of fear. The Mad Bulcher took a holiday from his macabre profession until Feb, 23, 1937, when a female body turned up on the beach close to where victlm ber one had been found. Aa the arma and head were never recovered, identification proved to be impossible. A coroner’s report issued after this latest murder pointed out the similar conditions of the various victini's bodies: It is the pecullar dissection of the bodies which groups these cases together. All show that the heads were severed from the bodies through the Intervertebral dise by means of a sharp knife. Cases four, seven and eight, showed further that the bodies were cleanly dismembered at the shoulder and hip joints, apparently by a series of “euls uround'tho flexure of the joints and then by a strong sulting Ue capsule, = "The torsos were further Sec Toned through the, abdomen, the knife being carried in cases four and seven through the intervertebral discs. Case number four was further mutilated by disarticulating the knee Joints roughly, fracturing the mid portion of the bones of the lower legs and slashing the abdomen down through the pubic hones, All the skin edges, muscles, blood vessels and cartilages were cut cleanly and squarely. “The procedure followed by these cases suggests to us that the dissection was done elther by a highly Intelligent lay person or, as is more likely, by a person with some knowledge of anatomy, such as a doctor, a inedical sludent, nurse, orderly, butcher, hunter or veterinary surgeon.” The bodies kept turning up bearing the Mad Butcher's unique signature. On July 6, 1937, portions of a man's body were pulled out of the Cuyahoga River, During the remainder of 1937/1938 four more bodies were found near Kingsbury Run. On Aug. 16, 1938, the last murder took place and the nightmare that had haunted Cleveland came to an abrupt end. rom time to time, suspects were arrested, bul all were released when they proved to be innocent. Special police units were formed to track down the butcher, but these. too falled. Many deranged men confessed to the serial killings. These confcssions proved to be false. In January 1939, Cleveland's Chlef of Police George Matowitz received the following letter, whleh Is believed to be authentic. It was postmarked Angeles, California: ‘You can rest easy now as I have come out to sunny California for the winter. I felt bad operating on those people, but science must advance. I shal! astound the medical profession, a man wilh only a D.C, “What did their ves mean in comparison to hun- dreds of sick and disease twisted bodies, Just labora. tory: gulca 5 pigs found on any public atrest. No one when I fail ly lant casa was suc- bison iH ‘know now the feeling of Pasteur, Thoreau, and other ploneera. “Right now I have a volunteer who will absolutely prove my theory. They call me mad and a butcher, but the truth will out, "T have failed but once here. The body has not been found and never will be, but the head minus the features, is buried on Century Blvd., between Western and Crenshaw. I feel it my duly to dispose of the bodies as I do. It is God's will not to [et them suffer. (Signed) X."" The Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run was never heard of again. The series of killing which took place In Cleveland have never Beet solved. ¢ roof rack eitegh |. ‘fully Joaded and “very clean’ JSOLAWSICY TNO OF CABS” The Castlegar Sun Dear Ann Landesat My t two ., Sisters and I are not speaking to * each other at this time. For my father’s sakc, please talk some sense into them, Daddy is 91 years old, He is :senile, has not recognized anyone jin the family in more than a year, {and has been refusing food for itwo months. His doctors want to (feed him through a tube: He says 4f.Daddy docsn't get some pro- tein, he will eventually starve to ‘death. / My-sisters insist that tube sfeeding is a type of life support ‘and that Daddy would not want it. ‘My hunch is that they are ina hurry for him to die before his entire estate is spent on medical treatment. 1! Daddy worked hard all his life to see that his daughters had the ‘best of everything. He never had a vacation in 30 years. It tears me up to see them trying to do this to him: The doctor who delivered all three of us isso disgusted that he ‘has told us to find another doctor. ‘he said he couldn’t stand by and ‘watch this man be deliberately starved. © Thave an ill husband and can’t take care of Daddy myself. I don’t want to prolong his suffer- ing, but I don’t believe we have the right to starve him.’ Tube feeding is nat life 5 Hla it God will take Daddy. in‘his own time, Please help, Aaa I think’ ; my sisters will listen ‘to -you..— No Name or City, Just a Heart- broken daughter ae ‘ Dear No City: It'is‘not my Place to make this decision for ’ you. However, here are a few: ;. Someone. asked what to d when Q person. starts to tellia funny story and says; “Stop me ify you heard this before.’ you ‘said, “If you've heard it—stop him." I don't agree, Some funny sto- for the good or greedy’ ries are classics, like popular: ‘songs. You wouldn't refuse to lis-' Sten to Bing Crosby sing “White Ch you'd heard it once, wouldn't you? Most peo- ple have a sense of humor but it has to be developed and fine- * tuned, It takes a lot of courage for! .{ “people o tell their first story. Please don’t rain on their parade, Another thing, it’s fun to hear points you might want to consid- Tube feeding is life support, Your father might be expressing his wish to die be refusing to eat. He is 91 years old and you might not be doing him a favor by pro- longing his life. Instruct the doctor to give your father as much medication as nec- essary to keep him comfortable. My condolences to all of you. Dear Ann Landers: You and I have been having morning cof- fee together for more years than I am going to admit. I usually © agree with the advice you give, however, you really blew it a few © weeks ago. else's version of an old classic. He might have a new twist, a different approach or maybe he dressed it up a bit. And there’s always the outside chance that the joke isn't the one you thought it was going to be, Good story-telling is an art that takes practice, so give the guy a chance to do his home- work, If you heard it before—so what? Listen anyway, pat him on the back, tell him it’s a great story, and send him on his way proud of himself. —The Philo- sophical Pharmacist from S.D. Dear Phil: You sound like a wonderful Person, Your ware hearted of tended to be asleep. 1’ was so ° afraid of him I couldn't tell any- “body for fear of what/he might ‘do. My mother knew, ‘but she » .Wasn't-strong enough to. confront ‘him either. Two days after I grad- “uated from high school, I moved ) out, At that time, I despised my : father. 'I am an adult now and ‘have worked through my anger. | We live in the same town and I have a better relationship with my parents than I ever thought possi- “ble. Now, my problem: I have two daughters. They love to stay at Grandma and Grandpa’s house. They are getting older and I am becoming worried. I don’t let the girls stay overnight nearly as often as they would like, nor as often as they are invited. I’ve said “no” a lot this year and the girls haven't complained. I think they have lost interest and prefer slum- ber parties with their girlfriends, which is just fine with me. I don’t want to withhold my another “Philosophical Pharma hildren from my parents. they all love each other so much. But I yant my ‘father to touch F< course my husband ‘doesn’t ; Ye about any! Of this. He gets or ng well with my parents, If he re would, be the end of the i: it'safe to assume that my ’ father has changed after 30 years? Should I confront him? Shonld I talk to my mother about it? Should I be vague about the rea- sons if my parents become persis- tent and simply say no to all overnight visits? I trust you. — An Uneasy Mother Dear Uneasy: Do NOT permit your daughters to spend the night under the same roof as your father under any circumstances, I fail to understand why you took such a risk when they were younger, Since.your mother did nothing to protect you, it’s safe to assume that she wouldn’t protect them cither. I find it quite remarkable that you have such a loving relation- ship with your parents. My hat is off to your therapist. If your par- ents should become persistent in their requests that the girls sleep over, it would be perfectly all Tight to spell out for them the rea- son you will not permit it. once you have given them chapter and verse, I assure you, they will stop es BG TESA Gg = eae ‘Ana Landers: response to the “NJ, tives of being a:new ery Person, I'd. like to tell’ about' the we do it; ‘which ‘¢! nates a lot of problems. ;+ ‘3 Subscribers to The ‘Newton’ Kansan pay the newspaper office in-advance and a local “paper- boy” or “papergiri” picks up the: Papers at a drop-off point and delivers them. The Wichita news- paper has the same system, |. ‘When this system is used, the carriers are’ spared the:job of going around to collect and they-: assured that every paper, they 5 deliver will be paid for. I don’t understand why every - newspaper in the country doesn't | use this delivery system, maybe | you can suggest it the next time someone writes to complain. — enlight. ening me. What you hays, described sounds 50 totally sensiz ble that I, like you, cannot under stand why all newspapers aren't delivered this way. Perhaps some’ * subscribers would prefer not to pay for their papers in advancé; but if this system were imple-, mented, they would have no choice. oy e ws programs. The resolution would mB establish, at the State Archives, a “Registry of Bothersome Prac- tices,” on which people could express complaints about such things as elevator music and mag- azine blow-in subscription cards, The continuing crisis * Neil Bush, ‘son of the presi- dent, was disqualified from a Denver tennis tournament in May for cheating—after he and his partner improperly signed up for 3 .& match against opponent far current compilation of the most things people do, edited by Chuck Shepherd. Proof that true below their own skill level so that they would get an easy victory. + About 140 different home video games have been circulat- ing in Austria and Germany that ‘feature Nazis as heroes. One . game makes the player comman- | dant of a death camp, awarding «~~ points for gassing prisoners and selling lampshades and gold fill- ings. Turks, along with Jews, are the victims. ¢ Included in last year's edition weirder than made-up. stories. On May, 19 members of the House of R tives (led by the ‘chairman of the a meeoniion designed to deal with obnoxious social problems with- out creating expensive regulatory of “Or di Young Men of America” were five inmates of the Indiana State Prison, includ- ing a man serving 110 years for murder, named for his “outstand- ing civic and professional contri- butions.” He had-been nominated by another murderer, * The Centre for Disease Con- trol reported last August that the leading cause of on-the-job death for female workers is not acci- dents but murder—at a rate three- and-a-half times that for male workers, + The biggest traffic jam in Japan’s history occurred last August 12—15,000 vehicles, extending over 94 miles, brought on by a typhoon that forced the closing of several roads. Four South Korean men were arrested in October for making customers at a hotel sauna “dis- gusted” by their tattoos of drag- ons and other animals. Authorities charged them with “causing other bathers to have bad feelings.” -.A. November Gallup Poll . tevealed that 78 per cent of Americans believe in heaven and 60 per cent in hell, the highest figures in about 40 years. Only four per cent thought they, per- sonally, were going tovhell, and 78 per cent thought they had a good shot at heaven. ¢ Police in Thousand Oaks, Calif., endured a rash of incidents in February and March of very, very wrong.” ¢ In Japan, electronic “eyes” have been installed on curbs to be activated when people attempt to cross where there is no cross- walk. A voice scolds them harsh- ly. Authorities say signs alone don’t work, because of the "s ing Westem-like ming in the Ohio River. * City officials in Anchorage held a “Scoop the Poop Day” in April to clean up the 8 million pounds of dog poop that had been - deposited in the city during the six-month freeze. The organiza- tion that scooped the most disrespect for authority. * Romanian farmer Calin Flora, finally convinced in March that communism was dead in his country, dug up the tractor that he’s kept buried in his yard for 35 years. The engine still runs, but he couldn’t find many of the parts he had separately buried. He said he could use a good metal detec- tor to find.them., : . « In February, Baptist Church held a christening at. the Puddlingstone Hot Tub Resort in a suburb of Los Ange- les. A spokesman called the church (the average age of whose members is 27) “the flock that likes to rock." « Ella Hartley, 53, a psychiatric patient on whose behalf a lawsuit was filed in 1982 by a public rolling b ig balls ’ and tires down a sloping street. One resident said he saw one ball reach a speed of 50 to 60 mph. The presi of a neigh d y group in order to win more freedom for mentally ill people in West Virginia, drowned in November near Huntington. association said, “Something is She had off during a doctor visit in order to go swim- a trophy. ¢ Brazil's Supreme Court struck down the “legitimate defense of honor” excuse in March, which historically had allowed men a legitimate ex for murdering their unfaith! wives or wives’ lovers. {Send your weird newft Chuck Shepherd, P.O. Box 5441, Washington, D.C. 20037.) Selling something? Phone 365-5266 Any quest Andweil Collecfon Services Drug found to heip congestive heart failure Treatment with a drug that prevents blood vessels from nar- to only about 20 percent of such patients, usually only when con- failed, rowing can ‘si increase the survival rates of patients with long-term congestive heart fail- ure, according to two new stud- ies. The studies, published in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine, provide the first clear evidence that a class of drug known as ACE-inhibitors can help save the lives of because there was insufficient evidence of their effectiveness. The drug used in the studies was Vasotec, which with Vaseretic is one of two brands of the ACE-inhibitor enalapril sold by Merck Sharp & Dohme. One of the studies was backed by a donation from Merck, but of patients who suffer from chronic congestive heart failure. ACE- inhibitors work by g the iction of blood said the p played no part in the design, con- . duct or monitoring of the study or Canada and Belgium found that enalapril, when combined with conventional treatment, lowered the risk of death by one-sixth and reduced the need for hospitaliza- tion for heart failure by nearly one-third. “Not only did this drug make chronic heart failure patients feel better, it improved their survival and kept them out of the hospi- tal,” said study leader Dr. Salim Yusuf of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. Dr. Claude L'Enfant, director of the insti d that in the ly or ig of its results. vessels. Although available for years, they have been prescribed “Tn that study, doctors from 83 hospitals in the United States, Australian nobleman must go home ! ‘The Australian-born son of the Duke of Manchester, Teported to! be one of Britain's poorest aristo- crats, must leave Canada because he has a string of Australian criminal convictions, an,immi- gration hearing was told Wednes- day. 3 ij. Baron A during the 45-minute inquiry, has been staying in a downtown’ youth hostel since flying to Van- »couver from Hong Kong in June. He was arrested July 12 by police on charges of entering Canada illegally and spent four ysl in jail before being freed. d with a former 28, was convicted of assault with » a: weapon in:the Melbourne sub- urb of Dandenong in 1984, the - quiry heard.: “The allegation is simply he is : ‘ot admissible because of crimi-" al convictions in 1984,". said immigration < official.’ Jeff Williamson, Montagu: as also found guilty of several fraud dded.. ‘The, hearing was idjourned to Sept.” 18: ‘ ; ; MAA who said nothing Charges ‘in:the mid-1980s, he stripper, he told reporters he was anxious to see how the poor lived, his son that' Montagu was 52nd in line to the British throne, second cousin to Diana, Princess of ‘Wales and heir to a huge fortune. Burke's Peerage, which lists peers with their: lintage, has described the: Duke of Manch- paral as ene ‘of Britain's Posten, "But his father later denied as a “fatuous and untrue” claims by routine use of the drug for chron- ic congestive heart failure would prevent between 10,000 and 20,000 deaths'in the United States alone. Hospitalizations could be cut by about 100,000 at a savings of about $1 billion, L’Enfant said. In the second study, led by Dr. > Jay N. Cohn of the University of Minnesota Medical School, i researchers found that the death 7 Tate. was 25 Percent in patients compared with 18 percent one, those given enalapril as well. ‘As_a result, drugs such as enalapril which block the con- striction of blood vessels ‘can ‘now--be considered one of the three comerstones of the pharma- cologic treatment of heart fail-, ure,” Dr, Eugene of accounts for 40,000 deaths annu- ally. Another 230,000 probably die from its effects. 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