![]() In 1963, Tooms killed another five victims, accidentally leaving two fingerprints, both at Powhattan Mill. Tooms in 1963, as photographed by Frank Briggs The piece of liver ended up in Briggs' possession and, sixty years later, he would admit to having a strong hunch that Tooms had hidden the body because there was something about it that could prove his guilt. A particular missing person was correctly suspected of being the victim who was unaccounted for, though this suspicion would only be confirmed sixty years later. Even though no evidence linked Tooms to the piece of liver unearthed in the Ruxton Chemical Plant, Sheriff Briggs correctly assumed it was from one of Tooms' victims who had not yet been found as it did not match any of the other bodies. The Powhattan Mill murders were investigated by Sheriff Frank Briggs who, despite having previously seen numerous bloody murders, was shocked by the killings - ( ). One of Tooms' victims was a young male Tooms gnawed on his rib-cage at a point near the location of the victim's liver before burying the body in cement at the Ruxton Chemical Plant, which was under construction, but Tooms failed to sufficiently hide a piece of the liver and it was later found while the chemical plant was still not complete. In 1933, Tooms murdered five victims, killing two of them in Powhattan Mill, but he accidentally left fingerprints at three of the five locations where he had committed each murder - ( S queeze). Tooms' place and year of birth can be deduced from the 1903 census. Tooms was working as a dog catcher employed by Baltimore Animal Regulations at this time. Also in 1903, Tooms killed Edwardo Jeffers, the occupant of a room above the one he was reportedly living at. This building was where, by 1993, he had assumed a space for himself in an old coal cellar that contained his nest and several personal belongings taken from his victims. In 1903, details about Tooms were recorded in the Baltimore County Census, in which he was said to be living in an apartment at 66 Exeter Street. At one point in his life, he was enrolled in college. In 1873, Tooms was born in Baltimore, Maryland.
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