Eliot Ness and the Mad Butcher is about Hunting America’s deadliest serial killer at the dawn of modern criminology.
The haunting tale of Eliot Ness’s forgotten last case – his years-long hunt for the “Mad Butcher of the Kingsbury Run,” a serial killer who terrorized Cleveland through his life. The Great Depression and tormented Ness to his dying breath.
They offer the portrait of a sophisticated crime fighter who believed in science and reason at a time when most police officers were catching suspects around.
In 1934, the nation’s most legendary crime fighter – fresh from playing the greatest gangster in American history – arrives in Cleveland, a corrupt and dangerous town about to host a world’s fair. .
Instead, terror descended, as headless bodies began to appear. The young detective, battling mobs and crooked police, has found his motivation to turn the US government toppled by a threat unknown to law enforcement: a serial killer.
