This spiritually gifted young woman whom was malformed by life’s cruel practice of hateful inconsequence would now be reinvigorated within a new life, a new life that she had given to her and a new life that would now tirelessly serve them both. For Lilith deduced that if she could show such benevolence to a mere mortal then she might well find herself welcomed back into the fold of the heavens again and could even potentially claim her rightful place upon the throne that was currently occupied by another. She knew that only gullible and forsaken fools worshipped this all-powerful other whom she understood to be an utterly cruel god whom cared little for the suffering of humanity.
Lilith’s comfortingly familiar thoughts about ultimate conquest over her unseen enemy above where then taken away because she was mesmerised by the sunlight which surrounded her and strangely enjoyed the warm sun kissed breeze which caressed her beckoning skin. She then felt somewhat appalled at herself for thinking that only wonderful things happened under a full moon and even felt alarmed at her new desire to simply bathe within the suns glow and smell the surrounding flowers. She could then feel her new daughters powerful spirit slowly reawakening within her and warming towards her unexpected intrusion as the attune demoness bathed her within a love that she had never known, the love of a mother whom was now ever present.
Lilith then realised that the taxi driver was still awaiting a reply to his question and hesitated because she was still unskilled in speaking until her new daughter took control and led her through the unfamiliar motions of social interaction, eager to help this benevolent new being whom resided within her and thankful to the unknown powers that be for saving her soul from the coldness of oblivion. A reinvigorated Poppy then happily repeated herself to the intently listening taxi driver as they both forever left Cleveland and all their troubles behind them “It’s such beautiful day!”
Ness married Evaline in October 1939 and helped county prosecutor Cullitan build his successful tax evasion case against Polizzi before he was forcibly removed from his position in 1942 after being involved in a drink driving accident. He then moved to Washington with Evaline so that she could pursue her art career but this marriage eventually failed and they divorced in 1945. He then moved back to Cleveland and married Elisabeth Seaver in 1946 and adopted his first child called Robert. In 1947 he used the last of his savings to campaign to be the Mayor of Cleveland which proved unsuccessful and when asked about the Mad Butcher case during the campaign he stated “That case had been solved!” Throughout the rest of his life Dr Sweeney would continually harass him with cryptic postcards that he kept secret until his dying day, one of them signed “F.E Sweeney M.D - Your Paranoidal Nemesis”. Sweeney was allowed to leave the many mental hospitals that he was put in on many occasions because he was self-admitted and no one knows what he was doing during this time. Ness eventually died in obscurity of a heart attack, drinking heavily and in debt on the 16th of May 1957.
Dr Sweeney was self-committed into various hospitals over the years that followed and was initially under constant surveillance but as the years passed on this became less so. He left the hospitals on numerous occasions and during this time hospital records indicate a significant degradation in his mental state until he was ultimately diagnosed with having Schizophrenia in 1956. It is theorized that he could have been responsible for the similar homicides of both the famed Lipstick Killer murders between the years 1945 and 1946 and the unsolved Black Dahlia homicide in 1947. He was obsessed with Ness and continually tormented him with cryptically threatening postcards until his death. Sweeney died alone in a veterans' hospital at Dayton on the 9th of July 1964.
Sweeney vacated his congressional seat in 1941 due to his violent outburst within the House of Representatives whereby he punched fellow democrat Beverly Vincent for criticizing his pacifist stance on the United States involvement within World War II. He also had an unsuccessful bid to become the Democrat’s nomination for Mayor of Cleveland in 1941. He died on the 1st of May 1960.
Detective Merlyo doggedly pursued the officially open and unsolved case of the Mad Butcher for the rest of his life. He and his partner investigated many more murders over the forthcoming years whereby all the victims were found within Kingsbury Run’s many railroad boxcars. He officially stated that he believed that the elusive Mad Butcher was still riding the railroads in his never ending quest for fresh victims but many suspect that he still simply craved the limelight after the secret suspect interview. He died in 1958 without ever closing the investigation.
Polizzi was indicted on tax evasion charges in 1944 and fled to Florida whereby he continued his numerous underworld criminal activities until he died in May of 1975. U.S Senate investigators characterized Polizzi as “One of the most influential members of the underworld of the United States”
Gerber won thirteen consecutive elections to be coroner on the Democrat ticket and in 1949 he graduated from the Cleveland Marshall Law School of Cleveland State University to become a Judge. He then became qualified to practice before the U.S Supreme Court in 1955 and the U.S District Court in 1961. He died on the 16th of May 1987.
Zalewski spent the rest of his life working alongside his partner in there never ending quest for the Mad Butcher. He died without closing the investigation on 21st of November 1958.
Cowles eventually became head of Cleveland’s Scientific Identification Bureau and when he was interviewed about the Mad Butcher investigation in 1983 he stated that “There was a suspect in these murders, I won’t mention any names. He was born and raised on the edge of the Run and later went into service in the Medical Corps. He then came back and went to college and medical school to eventually became an M.D and married a Nurse. He was a relative of a Congressman. He (Ness) had to be very careful how he handled it! We didn’t bring him to Jail but to the Hotel Cleveland!” Cowles would later state that Ness had secretly told him the following about his encounter with Dr Sweeney at the Hotel Cleveland…
… “Never in all of my dangerous career have I ever felt as threatened as I did when I was alone with Dr Sweeney” — Eliot Ness
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