# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/eddie-leonski
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:20:34.077Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/eddie-leonski"
name: "Eddie Leonski"
slug: "eddie-leonski"
description: "Edward Joseph Leonski 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 the practice of dimming or restricting outdoor lighting to make the city less visible to potential enemy aircraft during nighttime raids. 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\"."
tagline: "American soldier and serial killer (1917–1942)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Leonski.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
profileType:
  name: "Other"
  slug: "other"
birthDate: "1917-12-12"
deathDate: "1942-11-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.81
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.421785333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B5%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9%2C_%D0%AD%D0%B4%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B4"
    title: "Леонский, Эдвард"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%89_%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%83%D9%89"
    title: "ادى ليونسكى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Leonski"
    title: "Eddie Leonski"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Leonski"
    title: "Eddie Leonski"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Leonski"
    title: "Eddie Leonski"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Leonski"
    title: "Eddie Leonski"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Leonski"
    title: "Eddie Leonski"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q723008"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump