The Maniac In The Bushes: More True Tales Of Cleveland Crime And Disaster [Paperback]

Morbidly fascinating and wickedly entertaining.  The Plain Dealer

The second volume in Bellamy's popular series includes 13 more incredible true stories of Cleveland crime and disaster, including . . .

Martha Wise, Medinas not-so-merry widow, who poisoned a dozen relatives with arsenicincluding her own husband, mother, brother, niece, and nephewsbecause she enjoyed attending funerals;

The legendary Torso Murders, which baffled Cleveland safety directory Eliot Ness, two Cuyahoga County coroners, and the entire Cleveland police force as they tried in vain to catch the perpetratorwhom newspapers dubbed the Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run;

The unspeakably horrible Collinwood School Fire of 1908, in which 172 schoolchildren perished in panic because of obstructed fire exits;

Hammer-wielding Velma West, a big-city girl of Clevelands Jazz Age driven to murder her small-town husband by the slow pace of life of Painesvilleand her own obsession with another woman;

The Flats lumber fire of 1914, which leveled Clevelands industrial Flats, melted bridges, and very nearly set the entire city ablaze;

The enduring mystery of ten-year-old Beverly Potts, whose puzzling disappearance from west-side Halloran Park in 1951 launched Clevelands greatest manhunt;

And many other local heroes and villains in these compelling tales of mayhem, melancholy, and mystery.