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Alfred Zilla
Classical pianist and crazed murderer of young ladies in "The Mad Musician and His Tunes of Doom" story of comic book Crime Does Not Pay #22 (July 1942). Piano playing is heard at the girls' homes and the victims discovered the next morning, "...his fanatic feeling for music raised an emotion so strong, so beautiful and ugly at the same time, that it drove him to kill!!!"
He's a pianist at the Grand Theatre in Chicago, but when the cops get on his trail, he flees and becomes a farmhand in Lima, Ohio. When the trail goes cold, the cops open a phony orchestra agent's office to try to lure him out of hiding. It works, but when they try to make the collar, Zilla runs and is shot dead fleeing.
Victims:
- Edner Stowe
- Fern Cousines
- Miss Youngblood
