The Axeman of New Orleans was an unidentified serial killer who terrorized the city between May 1918 and October 1919, breaking into homes and brutally attacking mainly Italian grocers and their families with an axe found on the premises. His crimes left at least six dead and many wounded, but he was never caught or identified. The killer famously sent a taunting letter to the local newspaper, claiming he’d spare any household playing jazz music on a particular night—prompting New Orleans to fill the streets with music in one of history’s strangest attempts at appeasing a murderer.

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