74 - Earle Leonard Nelson, Part Two

Forgotten Darkness

The police are on the trail of “Adrian Harris,” even as Earle Leonard Nelson leaves the West Coast behind for a cross-country killing spree at a considerably quickened pace. But his spree comes to an end in June, 1927...

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Closing music by Soma.

SOURCES

“Assailant Uses Telephone Cord.” Owensboro (KY) Messenger, June 3, 1927.

“Buffalo Murderer Eludes Detectives in All-day Search.” Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, June 1, 1927.

“Buffalo Police Cannot Find the Murderer.” Dunkirk (NY) Evening Observer, May 31, 1927.

“Butcher’s Helper Quizzed in Slaying.” Washington Evening Star, June 3, 1927.

“Clues Lacking in Dual Killing.” Detroit Free Press, June 7, 1927.

“Crime Puzzles Police.” York (PA) Dispatch, April 28, 1927.

“Detroit Police and a Double Murder.” Greenfield (IN) Daily Reporter, June 7, 1927.

“Dragnet Out For Strangler of Philadelphia Woman.” Scranton Times-Tribune, April 28, 1927.

“Fiend Suspect Tries to Enter W. Phila. Home.” Philadelphia Inquirer, April 29, 1927.

“Find Strangler Placed Another Woman in Terror.” Davenport (IA) Daily Times, December 25, 1926.

“Find Woman Dead Behind Furnace.” Lincoln (NB) Journal Star, December 24, 1926.

“Finds Wife Slain in Home.” Kansas City Times, December 28, 1926.

“Funeral Rites For Mrs. Ida Ann Clements Held Friday Afternoon.” Hennessey (OK) Clipper, July 1, 1948.

“’Gorilla’ Kills Woman.” Arizona Republic, June 3, 1927.

“Housewives Murdered By ‘Phantom Strangler’.” New Castle (PA) News, January 3, 1927.

“Mrs. John Berard, Former Hennessey Woman, Murdered.” Hennessey (OK) Clipper, December 30, 1926.

“Murder in Chicago is Not Solved.” Sioux City Journal, June 5, 1927.

“No Sign of Fight Found By Police.” Lancaster (PA) Intelligencer Journal, April 29, 1927.

“Police on Strangler’s Trail.” Winnipeg Tribune, June 13, 1927.

“Shirt Murder Still Baffles Bluffs Police.” Des Moines Register, December 26, 1926.

“Take Up Murder Theories.” Kansas City Star, December 29, 1926.

“Which Will Be Next City to Harbor Death Fiend Now Crossing Country?” Lancaster (PA) Intelligencer Journal, January 6, 1927.

“Woman Thwarts Attempted Attack.” Philadelphia Inquirer, April 20, 1927.

“Young Girl Seized By Phila. Strangler.” Camden Courier-Post, April 29, 1927.

Atlas of Kansas City, Missouri and Environs. Tuttle-Ayers-Woodward Co., 1925.

Schechter, Harold. Bestial: The Savage Trail of a True American Monster. New York: Pocket Books, 1998.