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Torso: The Story of Eliot Ness and the Search for a Psychopathic Killer

December 27, 2015

About half of what's wrong with this book is that it was written in 1989. So the book that would actually have been extremely interesting, about the ways that racism, classism, and homophobia shaped the police response to, the press response to, the investigation of, and the failure to find the Cleveland Torso Murderer, is not the book that is actually present. (To be fair, I don't know that any of those things is the reason the Cleveland Torso Murderer was never caught. He seems to have been both extraordinarily lucky and extraordinarily careful. But even in Nickel's account, I can see prejudice shaping the questions being asked, and if you don't ask the right questions, you are highly unlikely to get the right answers.)

The other half of what's wrong with this book is all there in the subtitle. Nickel wants to write a book about Eliot Ness and the Cleveland Torso Murderer, specifically then way that the failure to catch the guy was part of Ness's slow fall from grace. But his own account makes it perfectly clear that that story is nonsense. Ness was barely involved in the hunt (except for, granted, one absolutely absymal clusterfuck), and his fall from grace has everything to do with

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Eliot Ness: The Rise and Fall of an American Hero

The true story of Eliot Ness, the legendary lawman who led the Untouchables, took on Al Capone, and saved a city s soul
Eliot Ness is famous for leading the Untouchables against the notorious mobster Al Capone. But it turns out that the legendary Prohibition Bureau squad s daring raids were only the beginning. Ness s true legacy reaches far beyond Big
Al and Chicago.
"Eliot Ness" follows the lawman through his days in Chicago and into his forgotten second act. As the public safety director of Cleveland, he achieved his greatest success: purging the city of corruption so deep that the mob and the police were often one and the same. And it was here, too, that he faced one of his greatest challenges: a brutal, serial killer known as the Torso Murderer, who terrorized the city for years.
"Eliot Ness" presents the first complete picture of the real Eliot Ness. Both fearless and shockingly shy, he inspired courage and loyalty in men twice his age, forged law-enforcement innovations that are still with us today, and earned acclaim and scandal from both his professional and personal lives. Through it all, he believed unwaveringly in the integrity of law and the basic goodness of his fellow Americans."

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Eliot Ness

American Bar agent (1903–1957)

Eliot Ness
Ness, c. 1933
Born	(1903-04-19)April 19, 1903 Chicago, Illinois. U.S.
Died	May 16, 1957(1957-05-16) (aged 54) Coudersport, University, U.S.
Alma mater	University training Chicago
Spouses	Edna Stahle (m. 1929; div. 1938) Evaline Michelow (m. 1939; div. 1945) Elisabeth Author Seaver (m. 1946)
Police career
Department	Bureau perceive Prohibition Cleveland Ingredient of Police
Service years	BOP: 1926–1935 CDP: 1935–1942
Rank	Chief Investigator call up the Disallowing Bureau mind Chicago bind 1934 Director cargo space Public Security for President, Ohio

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