Cleveland, Ohio - Cleveland Police Museum
- Address:
- 1300 Ontario St., Cleveland, OH
- Directions:
- On the first floor of Cleveland Police Headquarters. I-90 exit 174B onto westbound Hwy 2/Cleveland Shoreway. Drive west to the 9th St exit. Drive south one block, turn right onto Lakeside Ave., drive west four blocks, then turn left onto Ontario St. The museum will be on the right, across from the parking garage.
- Phone:
- 216-623-5055
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The star of the exhibits is the corner devoted to the infamous Torso Murders of the 1930s, generally thought to be the first recognized serial killings in the United States. Particularly scary-cool are the four painted and bewigged plaster casts of the faces of four unidentified Torso Murder Victims. These were shown in a little out-of-the-way booth at the 1937 Great Lakes Exposition in Cleveland, in the hopes that someone might recognize them. No one did. Now they're a little worse for the wear, but all the more creepy for it. Icky autopsy photos of Torso Murder victims -- or whatever parts they were able to recover.
Museum is free, with a conspicuous donation box beside the door. [Mark Satola, 12/20/2000]
[RA: There were at least 12 victims of the Torso Murderer, who was never caught. Other highlights of the Museum include a you-can-sit-in-it jail cell from the Cleveland women's prison, and Eliot Ness's gun.]Nearby Offbeat Places
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