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I don't get it. Did you write this, Brogue, or did it come from that link? And if not, where is the rest of the article?
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Since McKees Rocks is about 4 miles NW of Pittsburg, I can pretty much see on that map that there's a direct route (or one through New Castle) from Youngstown to there. It almost looks like a pattern.
CLUE: The boss knew that big, strong men were needed to handle the wood in the preservation process and was elated as XXXXXX told him about CCA, chromated copper arsenate and the experience he had while working near a farm where the children who went barefoot experienced reddened, thickened skin on the soles of the feet.
Victim #2 John Doe I September 23, 1935 Jackass Hill area of Kingsbury Run
Male body was never identified.
Emasculated and decapitated, head recovered.
The skin was treated with a chemical agent that caused it to become reddish and leathery.
Initial estimates were seven to ten days. It was later revised to three to four weeks.
August/September 1935
It was from a story. I tried to imagine why a man might want to preserve a body (it is documented as a preservative on the skin). I researched the kind of work a man might do during the depression, steel and lumber. Lumber gave me CCA, chromated copper arsenate created in India 1933 for preserving green wood. Cleveland was building projects and clearing 22 acres of green timber for the construction of those projects.
From the beginning, I saw that the substance was "a preservative". I knew that it had to come in large amounts because large amounts were found. In researching the events of the area at the time, the building of housing projects were very nearby and would bring in men on the rails, especially with experience, lumbermen. The CCA is termed a "salt". I saw that the analysis from the investigators named the substance a salt. That is when I knew it was most likely this chemical which was brought in from India where it was created in 1933. Chromated copper arsenate (CCA) is a wood preservative that has been used ... copper and arsenic (as Copper(II) arsenate) formulated as oxides or salts.
It seems that during the depression a man (especially a hunter) would not waste the skin. It would make many needed things. He was trying to preserve it because someone must have told him that the CCA was a preservative or that his experience told him that while working with wood (green wood). A doctor would know that the preservative would not preserve the body but a hunter would not. Also a huge man, an outdoors man, who was born and raised where hunting was a part of life from childhood would easily carry a buck over steep terrain for miles. It is how he survived. It would be second nature. He would also dissect the head to drain the body of blood because the head would not be used for anything viable, it would lessen the weight and decrease identification of the victim, plus the huge arteries of the neck and aorta would make the bleed out much faster and complete. So take a man who killed since childhood to survive, a man who became a master of decapitating large game, he would most likely have a pattern (even a signature) and the skills of what someone might think is surgical skill.
I am at an advantage regarding the evidence and what I know. It would be hard to see how it is connected otherwise.
They were with little doubt killed in Youngstown during December of 1939. I think that pretty much eliminates Sweeney and it most definitely eliminates Dolezal.
I believe a hunter would use all parts, like skin for needed things. This was the depression and his experience would allow many uses for skin, just about anything a leather or deer skin could be used for. I think he tried to preserve the skin for future use. I am unsure about the sunbather. I do not know anything about that. What is that? I am also unsure if the first victim in 1921 is a part of his collection. I read some places that she was not. I am thinking it started in 1924 or 1925.
Shoes:
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Coats:
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Belts: (Ed Gein)
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I have not read much about the Swamp Murders but what I have read, I believe he is the same killer. I will have to find more information on the 1921 female.
After read the details of the PA murders in Badal's book, I don't think they were linked with the Cleveland killings.