It's our first case suggestion! Shanna wrote in to ask us to cover the Millstadt Massacre, aka the Saxtown Axe Murders. In 1874, a family was brutally murdered, but who could have committed such a horrific crime?

*Content Warning: Description of axe injuries*

Pistor, Nicholas. The Ax Murders of Saxtown: The Unsolved Crime That Terrorized a Town and Shocked the Nation. Lyons Press, 2014.

The Panic of 1873

Slaughter in Saxtown: The brutal axe murder of an entire family remains the coldest case in the region

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