Tag: decapitated
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DISMEMBERED ARMS AND LEGS, OH MY!
Cincinnati is known for a lot of things but in the late 1880’s it seems beer, caskets and cadavers were top of the list, and I think this tale links them together quite splendidly. Back then, our city’s beer consumption ranked 2 1/2 times the national average. That comes in at about 40 gallons for…
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THE MYSTERY GIRL IN THE RIVER
The articles below detail the grisly murder of a young woman, found decapitated, floating in the Ohio River in early May, 1936. There was speculation for a brief time that she was Evelyn Hatfield from Cincinnati, but detectives later determined that missing young woman was alive and well, she’d actually run off to join the…