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Copyright © 2014 by Richard O Jones

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Cover images: Postcard from the Ed Creighton Collection; mug shot from the Cincinnati Police Department.

First published 2014

e-book edition 2014

ISBN 978.1.62585.217.5

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Jones, Richard O., 1946-

Cincinnati’s savage seamstress : the shocking Edythe Klumpp murder scandal / Richard O Jones.

pages cm. -- (True crime)

print edition ISBN 978-1-62619-685-8 (paperback)

1. Klumpp, Edythe, 1918-1999. 2. Murder--Ohio--Cincinnati--Case studies. 3. Murder--Investigation--Ohio--Cincinnati--Case studies. I. Title.

HV6534.C5J66 2014

364.152’3092--dc23

2014032813

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