The Maniac in the Bushes: More Tales of Cleveland Woe

Here are 13 more incredible true stories of Cleveland crime and disaster. Meet such local characters as Martha Wise, the Merry Widow of Medina, who poisoned a dozen relatives with arsenic because she enjoyed funerals; Velma West, big-city girl of Cleveland's Jazz Age, who was driven to murder her small-town husband by the slow pace of life in Painesville; Cleveland Safety Director Eliot Ness and his nemesis, the "Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run"; and many other local heroes and villains.