Author: William T. Rasmussen
Publisher: Sunstone Press
Keywords: evidence, corroborating
Number of Pages: 193
Published: 2004-09
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 086534440X
ISBN-13: 9780865344402

The murderer killed his victims, one after the other, and then vanished. These were horrific crimes committed by a psychopathic madman. Fear gripped the city. When would he strike again? Hundreds of policemen thought they had sifted through every shred of evidence, but subtle clues and corroborating evidence left behind by the real killer were overlooked. Seventeen-year-old William Heirens was eventually arrested for three of the murders. He confessed and was sentenced to three consecutive life sentences in 1946. Heirens is the longest-serving living inmate in the Illinois penal system. Now

Author: William T. Rasmussen
Publisher: Sunstone Press
Keywords: evidence, corroborating
Number of Pages: 356
Published: 2006-08-01
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 0865345368
ISBN-13: 9780865345362

In "Corroborating Evidence II," William Rasmussen, author of two previous true-crime books, continues his investigation into famous, unsolved criminal cases by focusing on two separate, unrelated stories. The first zeroes in on the Cleveland Torso Murders committed between 1934 and 1938, where someone killed and expertly dismembered at least twelve victims in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1938, a letter by someone claiming to be the Torso Killer was mailed from Los Angeles to Cleveland’s Chief of Police Matowitz. Approximately eight years later on January 7, 1946, six-year-old Suzanne Degnan was k