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Sidaway Bridge, Cleveland, OhioCleveland`s only suspension style bridge, the Sidaway bridge bridge was built in 1931 in an area known as Kingsbury Run. When the gruesome `Torso` murders ravaged Cleveland in the 1930`s, the ravine underneath the bridge became the dumping grounds for many of the dismembered bodies.Although Cleveland Safety Director Eliot Ness claimed to have solved the murders, a suspect was never identified and it still remains one of the most prolific and unsolved cases in American history.The bridge also has further negative historical implications when it was the center of rising racial tensions in the transitioning neighborhood. According to Cleveland Historical, `In 1966, this tension erupted in the form of the Hough Riots. During the riots, the Sidaway Bridge became a flash point, literally, when someone likely from the Jackowo neighborhood removed planking from the bridge and attempted to set it on fire, preventing anyone, particularly residents of the Kinsman Road neighborhood, from using it. Rather than repair the bridge and keep it open to the public, the City of Cleveland elected instead to close it.`