Eliot Ness busted Chicago gangster Al Capone, a real-life deed that later inspired the TV series and movie The Untouchables. He moved on to Cleveland in the 1930s. A grateful city commemorated his ...

Hollywood keeps failing to turn the graphic novel 'Torso', about the Cleveland Torso Murders investigated by 'The ...

We all know crime fighter Eliot Ness brought down Chicago mobster Al Capone, right? Not quite. Ness spent the best years of his life in a hunt to put Capone behind bars, but he had less to do with the ...

Our impressions of well known historical figures are frequently derived from television programs. This reviewer’s image of the legendary Eliot Ness had been shaped by watching reruns of the hit TV ...

True crime media has sensationalized the lives and misdeeds of a great number of terrible people, from organized crime bosses to outright serial killers, but one of the most famous figures to rise in ...

Travel back to the era of Untouchables and learn about Eliot Ness during a special program at 6:30 p.m. March 14 at Mentor Public Library’s Main Branch, 8215 Mentor Ave. Ness served as Cleveland’s ...

CHICAGO – In the pantheon of Chicago crime fighters, nobody has the worldwide reputation of Eliot Ness. He’s the Prohibition agent who brought down Al Capone, the principled lawman in a city awash in ...

In the 1930s, Cleveland was beset by a serial killer who left his dismembered victims in various spots around the city, to be found by passersby, or in Lake Erie, where parts of victims would wash up ...

Hollywood's been known to dramatize even the most dramatic of real-life narratives. So of course the real Eliot Ness wasn't nearly as dashing as Robert Stack or Kevin Costner (although maybe he was).

CLEVELAND (AP) – A Massachusetts business plans to auction memorabilia from crime fighter Eliot Ness, the onetime Cleveland safety director and federal Prohibition Bureau agent whose unit brought down ...

The project is based on Douglas Perry's biography Eliot Ness: The Rise And Fall Of An American Hero, Deadline reports. Perry's biography is set to be released on February 20. The small screen ...

CHICAGO (AP) – In the pantheon of Chicago crime fighters, nobody has the worldwide reputation of Eliot Ness. He’s the prohibition agent who brought down Al Capone, the principled lawman in a city ...