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Join us to learn about the Cleveland Torso Murderer, known for the Kingsbury Run Murders from Mazie Adams, Executive Director of the Cleveland Police Museum.
During the 1930s, Cleveland was a city on the rise. Manufacturing and the steel industry attracted a growing population of laborers, wealthy Clevelanders built mansions on Millionaire's Row and supported civic and educational institutions, and the Great Lakes Exposition and the Republican National Convention opened in 1936. Against this backdrop of community growth and excitement, one of the most prolific and gruesome serial killers brutally murdered and dismembered at least thirteen people. Mazie Adams, Executive Director of the Cleveland Police Museum, will explore the crimes as well as the local law enforcement's efforts to track down the killer and safeguard the city.
In 1829, Charles Hyde Olmsted promised to donate 500 books from his father’s collection if the residents agreed to change the name of their town from Lenox to Olmsted. They did and the books traveled by oxcart and were housed in individual residents’ homes while being circulated. The “Oxcart Library” is thought to be the first circulating public library in the Western Reserve.
This branch is a Student Success Center and a Greater Cleveland Food Bank Kids Café location.
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