For Eliot Ness, Al Capone was old news in 1935. It was Nessโ stint as Safety Director of Cleveland, and his face off with Clevelandโs Torso Murderer, that was plainly the defining episode in his career. The Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run tore through the headlines of Clevelandโs daily papers for years, and this serial killer -perhaps Americaโs first of its kind- left behind a bloody birthright that haunts the city still.