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- Liverpool-born John Sweeney is a convicted British serial killer known for the brutal murders of his former partners, Melissa Halstead and Paula Fields. Sweeney, who was a carpenter by trade, had a history of violent behaviour towards women.
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1 day ago · Until I Kill You is the latest true-crime drama that brings to the screen the crimes of serial killer John Sweeney and his victims.. Anna Maxwell Martin heads up the cast as Delia Balmer, who ...
1 day ago · Until I Kill You is based on Delia Balmer's 2017 memoir Living with a Serial Killer, which charts her abusive relationship with John Sweeney. (ITV) Sweeney is in prison serving a whole life term for the murders of two women, Melissa Halstead and Paula Fields. He was arrested and charged with their murders whilst serving a life sentence for the ...
Sep 5, 2010 · Dr Kieran Sweeney died from a rare form of lung cancer triggered by breathing in dust and debris from pipe lagging at the Royal Infirmary and Southern General Hospital, where he worked in the...
Bob Sweeney : Everything you do right now has something to do with Derek. Bob Sweeney : This racist propaganda, this "Mein Kampf" psychobabble; he learned this nonsense, Murray, and he can unlearn it too.
- 10 The First Known Victims
- 9 Florence ‘Flo’ Polillo
- 8 The Tattooed Man
- 7 Enter The Untouchable
- 6 Bodies Pile Up
- 5 Street Violence
- 4 The Butcher’s Last Year in Cleveland
- 3 Detective Peter Merylo
- 2 New Castle Murders
- 1 Ness’s Suspect
In September 1934, just east of the town of Bratenahl, a young man found a woman’s detached torso. The corpse only included the woman’s abdomen and her thighs to her knees. When this gruesome find was presented to Cuyahoga County coroner A.J. Pierce, he noted that some kind of chemical preservative had been used and that it had turned the woman’s s...
By the winter of 1936, America was still knee-deep in the Great Depression. Impoverished workers choked the streets of Cleveland. Others, like Flo Polillo, had always been social losers, but the bad economy made their awful luck worse. Like Andrassay, Flo was a heavy drinker. While Andrassy’s love for the bottle drove him to sodomize other people’s...
On June 5, 1936, 11-year-old Allum Cheely and 13-year-old Gomez Ivory were playing hooky from school. The two boys really wanted to go fishing and saw learning as an impediment. So, near the Kingsbury Run area, the boys stumbled across a decapitated head in the scrub brush near the river. Elsewhere, the two boys also found the victim’s torso. Given...
By the summer of 1936, Cleveland’s authorities knew that they had a serial killeron their hands. Of course, the term “serial killer” did not exist back then, so the murderer was referred to as a “butcher,” a “sexual sadist,” and other things. A man who would play an important role in this case was Cleveland’s public safety director, Eliot Ness. Onl...
Following the discovery of the Tattooed Man, Mad Butcher victims began to be found at an alarming rate. In July 1936, a teenage girl discovered the brutalized remains of a 40-year-old white male. Like the others, this man’s head was cut off. Also, given the high volume of bloodthat had seeped into the ground, police theorized that the Mad Butcher h...
The summer of 1937 was a very troublesome time for the city of Cleveland. In that year, a major steel strike (latter to be known as the Little Steel Strike of 1937) began at the Republic Steel Company in Youngstown, Ohio. The strike, which was supported by the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), agitated for better wages and safer working c...
1938 would mark the last year of the Mad Butcher murders in Cleveland. In April of that year, a day laborer making his way across the Flats in Cleveland found the lower half of a woman’s detached legs near the banks of the Cuyahoga River. One month later, after dragging the river, police found two burlap bags that contained the rest of the victim’s...
While Ness received most of the press’s attention, the true top investigator on the Mad Butcher case was Cleveland detective Peter Merylo (pictured undercover above). Merylo, like a lot of people in Cleveland in the 1930s, was originally born in Eastern Europe. A native of Ukraine, Merylo quickly became one of the best officers on the force. Unlike...
Merylo believed that the Mad Butcher was responsible for a string of grisly mutilation murders in nearby New Castle, Pennsylvania. In particular, a swampy area that locals called the Murder Swamp began offering up detached heads as early as the 1920s. Between 1925 and 1934, four mutilated corpses were found near the Murder Swamp. This was in additi...
In 1939, police finally arrested someone in connection with the Mad Butcher murders. This suspect was a Czech immigrant bricklayer by the name of Frank Dolezal. Dolezal had known both Polillo and Andrassy, and this fact was good enough for Cuyahoga County sheriff Martin O’Donnell. Cleveland police officers were never consulted on the matter, and Do...
Mar 6, 2024 · Dr Sweeney is the second woman engaged to Mr Daus to meet an untimely death after Grace Holland died in 2020. Ms Holland's case was initially ruled as a suicide, but her family...
1 day ago · The horrifying true story behind ITV’s Until I Kill You. New drama recounts the three-year relationship between Delia Balmer and her boyfriend John Sweeney, who she later realises is a serial killer
