Headless Body in Cave Is Identified as 1916 Ax Murder Suspect – The New York Times

In the spring of 1916, a bootlegger in Idaho escaped from jail by hiding a saw in his shoe and using it to cut his way out of his cell. A few months later, the man murdered his common law wife by beating her brains out with an ax, according to a local newspaper.

At her funeral, one of his children told a reporter, Papa never stayed in jail very long and he ll soon be out. A couple of weeks later, he did it again, escaping from yet another jail with the old saw-in-the-boot trick.

This week, more than a century later, officials in Clark County, Idaho, announced that Joseph Henry Loveless, the bootlegging escape artist, had been found. Of course, he is long dead. And it had been years since anyone was actively looking for him.

But in solving one mystery, investigators helped solve another. Since 1979, the authorities in Idaho had been trying to identify a torso that had been stuffed in a burlap sack in a cave. Now, they have learned that the torso belongs to Loveless.

via www.nytimes.com

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