Eliot Ness - The 14th victim?

[Kane]

http://www.pbs4549.org/14VICTIM.HTM

In the recent past, I came across some links about Eliot Ness and his unsuccessful hunt for the so-called Torso Slayer (aka The Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run). Above this message is one of those links (though outdated).

I never forgot the UM case about Eliot Ness (and it was fitting since Robert Stack portrayed him in the Untouchables TV series). As you may know, the "torso murders" was the only case, Ness never solved.

In 2003, some PBS stations aired a documentary entitled The Fourteenth Victim: Eliot Ness and the Torso Murders. Although I never saw the documentary myself (since I didnt' know about it until after it was aired), it suggests that the unknown serial killer's taunting of Ness eventually resulted in Ness's fatal heart attack. Since the killer was believed to have been responsible for 13 confirmed slayings, the possibility that he drove Ness to his death suggested that Ness was the killer's "fourteenth victim."

Eliot Ness believed he knew who the killer was, but he never had enough evidence to make an arrest. He never publicly revealed the name of his suspect, but some information came to light that his "secret suspect" was Dr. Francis Sweeney. It is believed that Sweeney (who is now deceased) had mailed taunting messages to Eliot Ness.