Eddie Leonski
American serial killer
Died when: 24 years 332 days (298 months)Star Sign: Sagittarius
Edward Joseph Leonski (December 12, 1917 – November 9, 1942) was a United States Army soldier and serial killer responsible for the strangling murders of three women in Melbourne, Australia in 1942.
Leonski was dubbed The Brownout Strangler, after Melbourne's wartime practice of dropping the electricity voltage to conserve energy.His self-confessed motive for the killings was a twisted fascination with female voices, especially when they were singing, and his claim that he killed the women to "get their voices".
Leonski is the first and only citizen of another country to have been tried and sentenced to death in Australia under the law of his own country.
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