Cleveland, Ohio, 1935. The Great Depression has hollowed the city out. Soup lines stretch around corners. Men sleep in ravines because they have nowhere else to go. Cleveland is trying desperately to rebuild its pride. Then something starts [music] leaving bodies in Kingsbury Run, a creek bed running through Cleveland's East Side, a place the local [music] newspaper called an unwholesome, crooked gash through Cleveland's lower East [music] Side. Between September 1935 and August 1938, 12 people were found there, all decapitated. Most [music] dismembered, many killed while they were still alive. Everybody had been completely drained of blood. >> [music] >> Everybody had been meticulously cleaned before disposal. The killer had surgical precision. The man brought in to catch him was Eliot Ness, the legendary Prohibition agent who had helped bring down [music] Al Capone, America's most celebrated lawman. Cleveland's new public [music] safety director, Ness had a prime suspect, a doctor named Francis [music] Sweeney, a WWI surgeon, an alcoholic, a schizophrenic, [music] a man who had grown up within walking distance of Kingsbury Run. Sweeney failed two polygraph tests >> [music] >> administered by the nation's leading polygraph expert. Ness interrogated him [music] secretly in a hotel room for days. Sweeney never confessed. Then he checked himself into [music] a mental asylum, voluntarily, placing himself legally beyond Ness's reach. And the murders stopped. >> [music] >> The day Sweeney walked into that asylum, the killings in Kingsbury Run [music] ended. But Sweeney was not finished with Eliot Ness. From inside the asylum for years, he mailed Ness cryptic, taunting postcards, signed with his own name, because he knew that Ness could never touch him. In August 1938, before Sweeney [music] committed himself, he left his final message directly for Ness. Two bodies placed in a location in plain view of Eliot Ness's office window. Not hidden, displayed. A serial killer looking his hunter in the eye and daring him to do something about it. Ness couldn't. Eliot Ness, [music] the man who faced down Al Capone, left Cleveland in 1942. He ran for mayor in 1947 and lost badly. The Torso murders had destroyed [music] him. The Torso killer was never identified, never charged, never caught. Every name recovered is a family given back their truth. Follow Grave file TV for a new investigation every week, because the cases that get shared are the ones that don't get forgotten.