Though Murder Has No Tongue (42 page)

Kerr, David,
136

Kiersner, Harold,
37

Kilbane, Michael F.,
32
,
39

Killing place, in torso murders,
159–60
; amount of blood expected in,
49
; Dolezal's apartment unlikely as,
49–50
,
54
; Lyons brothers searching for,
19–20
; Ness searching for,
20–21
,
31
,
120
,
159
; in profile from “torso clinic,”
9–10

Kingsbury Run,
6
,
174
; killer's familiarity with,
5
,
9
; Lyons brothers searching for killing space around,
19–20
; Ness's shantytown raids in,
10–11
,
120
,
159

Kmieck, Anne,
70

Knives: borrowed by mysterious “Frank,”
21
; Dolezal borrowing from neighbor,
31

Kovacic, Edward,
136

Kovacic, Victor,
55

Krial, Catherine (Kate),
87–88
,
104

Lady of the Lake,
4
,
145
,
155

Lake Erie, bodies dumped in,
4
,
6

Lausche, Frank D.,
149–50

Law enforcement agencies,
15
,
24
; laxity of rules governing,
34–35
,
141
; politics among,
19
,
164–65
.
See also
Police Department
,
Cleveland
;
Sheriff's department

Lawsuits, Dolezal's, on brother's behalf,
24–25
,
79
,
99
,
147–49
,
172–73

Lie detector tests,
47
; of Dolezal,
24
,
35
,
40–41
,
44
,
55
; limited availability of,
114
; requirements that subject be rested and calm,
55
; of Sweeney,
113–14
,
140–42
,
144
,
152
,
154

Limber, James M.,
137–39

Lindsay, S. C.,
42

Location, of bodies,
10
,
53–54

Lyons, Carol,
71

Lyons, G. V.: finding blood in Dolezal's apartment,
30–31
,
35
,
49
; investigating murders with brother,
19–20

Lyons, Lawrence J. (Pat),
22,
44
,
93
; accused of being drunk,
25–28
; Charles Dolezal's lawsuit against,
25
,
148–49
,
173
; contradictory portrayals of,
26
,
28
; on Dolezal not guilty of all torso murders,
57
; on Dolezal not walking out of jail,
151
; on Dolezal's confessions,
32
; effects of torso case on daughters of,
71
; investigating torso murders,
18–19
,
32
,
147
; investigation leading to Dolezal,
20–24
,
144
; memoirs on torso murders,
99
; Merrills and,
25–26
; Merylo's relations with,
26–27
; on rumors that Dolezal killed sister and nephew,
175–76
; searching for killing space,
19–20
; sheriff's department and,
20
,
145
,
151

Mad Butcher: Charles Vorell rumored to be,
172–73
; one or more killers,
35–36
,
56–57
; profile of, from Pearce's “torso clinic,”
9
,
53–55
,
161
; staging bodies,
6
,
54
; as transient, 173.
See also
Dolezal, Frank
;
Sweeney, Francis Edward

Maher, Richard L.,
151–52

Mahon, John J.,
50–52

Marks, Gertrude Ann (Sue) Nigrin,
178–79

Matowitz, George: investigation of torso murders and,
15–16
; Merylo and,
16
,
44
; silence on Dolezal case,
45
,
56
,
165
; unlikely to allow deal for Sweeney,
152

Matowitz, Thomas G., Sr.,
136
,
149–50

McCormack, Martin A.,
46

McDevitt, Paul,
22
,
23–24
,
26

McFarland, Rebecca, questioning Dolezal's suicide,
75
,
82
,
97

McGunagle, Fred,
130–31

Media: casual standards of,
32–33
; on Cleveland politics,
7
,
151–52
; criticisms of O'Donnell in,
48–50
,
170
; on Dolezal case,
33
,
42–46
,
48–50
,
63
,
165
; on Dolezal in custody,
40–41
; on Dolezal inquest,
62–63
,
78
,
82
; on Dolezal's arrest,
24
,
30
,
52
,
55–56
; on Dolezal's confessions,
32
; on Dolezal's death,
58
; Dolezal's photos in,
40–41
,
69
,
71
,
74
,
77
; on Dolezal's sanity,
42
; on Dolezal's treatment,
34
,
41–43
,
46–48
; fiftieth anniversary stories about torso murders in,
135–36
; hints of Sweeney as suspect in torso murders in,
134–35
,
169
; Jones's story of attack by Dolezal in,
38–39
; major players in Dolezal case silent in,
56
; Ness courting,
36
; O'Donnell's relations with,
32
,
48–49
,
146
; reviewing torso murders,
70
,
130–31
; rumors that Dolezal killed sister and nephew in,
175–79
; on secret suspect in torso murders,
130–31
,
143
; on sheriff's department
vs.
police department,
32
; Sweeney's popularity with,
114–15
,
119
,
151–52
; on torso murders,
3
,
5
,
24

Medical training, Sweeney's,
118
,
161

Mental disease: caused by alcohol and drug use,
187–89
; determination of sanity and,
182–85
; diagnoses of Sweeney's,
120–21
,
189
; evident in Sweeney's late-life writing,
129–31
,
188–89
; Sweeney's wife questioning sanity,
119
,
155

Mercyhurst College, forensic experts investigating Dolezal's death at,
97
,
99–107

Merrills, Helen,
25–27

Merylo, Peter,
16
;
on arrest of Dolezal,
24–25
,
27
; background of,
15–16
; on case against Dolezal,
17–18
,
24–25
,
31–33
,
56
,
149
,
165
; on Dolezal's death,
94–95
,
165–66
; on Dolezal's guilt,
44–45
,
52
; effects of torso case on daughters of,
71
,
73
; Lyons and,
26–27
,
149
; Merrills and,
25–26
; Ness and,
16–17
,
165
; notes on torso murders,
28
,
52
,
78–79
,
94–95
,
99
; on Sweeney as suspect in torso murders,
132–33
,
152
,
160–62
; working on torso murders,
16–18
,
44–45
,
57
,
173

Miller, Nick,
39

Miller, Raymond T.,
6–7
,
19

Miller, William,
43

Monney, Charles A.,
6

Motowitz,
27

Mulroy, John,
39

National Museum of Crime and Punishment,
180

Ness, Eliot,
8
,
19
,
36
,
72–73
,
75
; collaborating with Fraley,
113
,
140
; on death of Sweeney's brother,
171–72
; on Dolezal case,
25
,
27
,
56
,
94
,
134
,
149
,
164–66
; interrogation of Sweeney,
140–42
,
144
; leaving Cleveland,
151
,
161
,
166
; Martin Sweeney and,
115
,
140
; Merylo and,
16–17
,
25
,
27
,
32
,
94
,
165
; O'Donnell
vs.,
146–47
; operatives of,
94
,
133
,
165
; reputation of,
10
,
164
; searching for killing space,
20–21
,
31
; secrecy around suspicions about Sweeney,
129
,
140
,
154
; secret suspect in torso murders,
113
,
115–16
, 125n,
132–40
,
143
,
154
; shantytown raids by,
10–11
,
120
,
159
; Sweeney as secret suspect of,
127
,
133–34
,
140
,
158–59
; Sweeney's cards and letters to,
129–31
,
139
,
162
,
188–89
; unable to make case against Sweeney,
152–55
,
158–59
; working on torso murders,
15
,
127–28
,
161

Ness, Elizabeth,
129
,
142

Ness, Robert Eliot,
129

Ness, Sharon,
129

Nigrin, Anna Dolezal,
39
,
175–79

Nigrin, Gottlieb,
175
,
177–78

Nigrin, Joseph Allan,
39
,
175–79

Nigrin, Joseph Allan, II,
178

“Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity” defense,
183–85

Notebook, found in Dolezal's apartment,
31

Number, of victims,
5

O'Donnell, Martin L.,
38
,
44
;
case against Dolezal and,
34
,
39
,
42–43
,
58
,
108
,
169–70
; Charles Dolezal's lawsuits against,
24–25
,
27
,
79
,
99
,
147–49
,
173
; death of,
147
,
149
; on discrepancies in Dolezal's confessions,
33–35
; at Dolezal inquest,
82
,
89–91
,
167–68
; Dolezal's arrest and,
11
,
23–24
,
27
,
30
,
52
,
145–47
; on Dolezal's death,
3
,
58
,
88
,
91
,
104–5
,
148
,
170
; on Dolezal's injuries,
41–42
,
46–48
,
62
; election of,
7–8
; Gerber and,
167–68
; ignoring gambling,
8
,
146–47
; letter implying Dolezal killed sister and nephew to,
175–79
; Lyons and,
20
,
23–24
; media and,
30
,
36
,
45–46
,
48–50
,
53
56
,
146
; mistreatment of Dolezal under,
42–43
,
50
,
55
,
63
,
92
; police department and,
44
,
56
; political maneuvering of,
7–8
,
19
,
27
,
146
; power of,
63
,
90
,
92
,
164–65
; reputation of,
52
,
146
; revisiting Dolezal' apartment,
37
; in theories of cover-up of Sweeney as murderer,
128
; treatment of Dolezal under,
42
,
46
,
84
,
150–51
; violating Dolezal's civil liberties,
42
,
45–46
,
50
,
84

Ohio Soldiers' and Sailors' Home.
See
Soldiers' and Sailors' Home (Sandusky)

Olson, Greg,
104

O'Neil, Floyd,
3
,
88

Otwell, Frank,
28

Palda, George,
85
,
86

Pearce, A. J.,
19
,
155
; “torso clinic” of,
8–10
,
53–55
,
135
,
161
; torso murders under,
36
,
166

Pendergast, Leonard F.,
120–21

Penty, Myron J.,
44
,
49
,
50–51

Peterka, Edward,
158–60

Phillips, Frank C.,
27

Platter, H. M.,
157

Plea, Dolezal not entering,
44

Police Department, Cleveland: Dolezal's death and,
60
,
74
,
81–82
; killer staging bodies to mock,
6
,
54
; lack of experience with serial killers,
9–10
; lack of progress on torso murders,
3–5
,
10
; Pearce's “torso clinic” for,
8–10
; rumors about secret suspect in torso murders within,
135–36
,
140
; sheriff's department
vs.,
24–25
,
32
,
43
,
47–48
,
56
,
146
; Sweeney and,
133
,
134
,
136
.
See also
Law enforcement agencies
;
Merylo, Peter
;
Ness, Eliot