“Fascinating and yes entertaining … often in a bizarre way that leaves the reader feeling guilty for being so entertained.”
— Medina County Gazette
The fourth volume in John Stark Bellamy’s classic Cleveland crime and disaster series features
26 more gruesome, horrible, tragic, and despicable—but true—tales
, including:
Love-crazed Clark Hill, who warmed up his teenage girlfriend with
an overdose of Spanish Fly
in her milk shake;
The chilling
Cuyahoga River scow disaster
, in which 16 clinging, drowning men fought so desperately to stay afloat that they dragged each other to the dark bottom of the river;
Doomed workmen Patrick Toolis and Patrick Cleary,
buried alive
in the very concrete that became Cleveland’s celebrated Terminal Tower;
Not-so-friendly Dorothy Kaplan, who
deposited shards of glass in her neighbors’ milk
in hopes of helping slow the “noisy” couple down a bit;
Mafia legend Shondor Birns
, whose high-profile life of crime came to an explosive end when he started up his Lincoln Continental one fine day;
And other detailed and compelling accounts of the unspeakable.