Case History
On August 16, 1938, the skull and bones of an unidentified male was accidentally found at a dump at the end of East Ninth Street in Columbus, Ohio. While searching the dump for remains of an unidentified female, detectives found the skull and bones of this unidentified male. The unidentified male became known as "victim 12".

The Cleveland Torso Murderer was an unidentified serial killer active in the Cleveland, Ohio, area in the early 20th century. The official toll of the murderer was 12, killed between 1935 to 1938, but some believe that there may have been as many as 40+ victims in the Cleveland, Pittsburgh, and Youngstown, Ohio, area between the 1920s and the 1950s. Two strong candidates for addition to the list of those killed are the unknown victim nicknamed the Lady of the Lake, found on September 5, 1934, and Robert Robertson, found on July 22, 1950. The serial killings officially stopped in 1938. The last victim, the so-called Victim Ten, was killed in April of 1938 even though remains of so-called Victims Eleven and Twelve were found in mid-August of that year.

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"Victim 12"

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Source Information:
Kinsbury Run Murders
The Crime Library
Kinsbury Run
Wikipedia