Macabrepedia: A Marriage of True Crime and the Truly Bizarre

The Axeman of New Orleans terrorized... well, New Orleans, in the early 20th century. This guy wrote beautiful letters and committed terrible murders during this time in American history when axe murdering seemed like the thing to do if you were homicidally inclined. Wrapping up our Man from the Train series also. 

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Axeman Jazz (Don't scare me papa)
Squirrel Nut Zippers

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James, B., & James, R. M. C. (2017). The man from the train: The solving of a century-old serial killer mystery. Scribner.

Davis, M. C. (2018). The Axeman of New Orleans: The True Story.

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This infamous unsolved ax murder event from Germany has it all... murder, a haunted house, wrong place at the wrong time, incest, and more. Part 5 of our TMFTT series on ax murders that may belong to one murderer.

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James, B., & James, R. M. C. (2017). The man from the train: The solving of a century-old serial killer mystery. Scribner.

Der mythos Hinterkaifeck • Hinterkaifeck. Hinterkaifeck. (2018, April 30). Retrieved May 15, 2022, from https://www.hinterkaifeck.net/his

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Marissa takes us through the hollows (hollers) of the Virginias as we continue chugging along tracing back a couple of the earliest murders associated with "The Man From the Train" by Bill James and Rachel McCarthy James.

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James, B., & James, R. M. C. (2017). The man from the train: The solving of a century-old serial killer mystery. Scribner. 

The laurel creek murders. Geocities Archive Geocities Mirror / The 90s Archive (1990s 2000s nineties) / The Early web. (n.d.). Retrieved May 8, 2022, from http://www.oocities.org/rmbaker66/jstsmrdr.html?fbclid=IwAR2fL21YnM1s3VVxrVXN2CBg0xWLaNYZgP8txGOJx-O3FZ5hH3RZusVolsE 

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Clementine Barnabet and her supposed Voodoo cult were responsible for several murders in 1911-1912 in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas. Or were they? Some of these ax murders are attributed to the Man from the Train... and there are some similarities, but there are also some rituals and strange happenings that don't seem to be connected. Part 3.

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James, B., & James, R. M. C. (2017). The man from the train: The solving of a century-old serial killer mystery. Scribner. 

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Continuing with our ax murder series, these unsolved cases involve bloody murder and opportunistic murder weapons.

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AZLyrics - request for access. AZLyrics.com. (n.d.). Retrieved April 25, 2022, from https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/twiztid/serialkilla.html 

A Decade of Death - American axe murders 1909-1920. Welcome to DarkIdeas.net. (2021, November 8). Retrieved April 25, 2022, from https://darkideas.net/true-crime-articles/from-the-dusty-archives/a-decade-of-death-american-axe-murders-1909-1920/ 

Entire Kansas Family Murdered. (n.d.). 

Family of Five Murdered in Kansas. (n.d.). 

James, B., & James, R. M. C. (2017). The man from the train: The solving of a century-old serial killer mystery. Scribner. 

Six are Murdered as They Sleep. (n.d.). 

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Who committed the Villisca ax murders in 1912 Villisca, Iowa? This unsolved case involves the bloody murder of two adults and six children while in their beds. Was it a local senator? A cocaine addict? A reverend? The main from the train? We speculate in this entry.

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James, B., & James, R. M. C. (2017). The man from the train: The solving of a century-old serial killer mystery. Scribner. 

Magazine, S. (2012, June 8). The AX murderer who got away. Smithsonian.com. Retrieved April 17, 2022, from https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-ax-murderer-who-got-away-117037374/ 

The suspects in the villisca axe murders. The Suspects in the Villisca Axe House Murders. (n.d.). Retrieved April 17, 2022, from https://www.villiscaiowa.com/the-suspects.php 

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You may have heard of bodysnatchers Burke and Hare, but they were far from the only ones who engaged in selling dead bodies for coin. We talk about them but also the Ghoul of Richmond, Ben Crouch, resurrectionists in the United Kingdom, and more. Join us as we add this entry into our Macabrepedia.

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Female pirates may have been the minority, but they were just as awesome. Ching Shih has been called the most successful pirate ever, though she's joined by infamous pirates Anne Bonny, Mary Read, and more. Join us as we add another entry. 

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Today we're talking about spiritualism. Wait, what? Spiritualism deals with seances and trying to contact spirits after death. There was a lot of fraud and some debunking, and Houdini even promised he'd escape death if it was possible. Let's talk about that.

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Elliot. (2019, November 6). Victorian ghosts: The story of spiritualism. Eskify. Retrieved March 27, 2022, from http://eskify.com/victorian-ghosts-the-story-of-spiritualism/ 

Mary Lincoln's seance at the soldiers' home - president Lincoln's cottage: A home for brave ideas. President Lincoln's Cottage | A Home for Brave Ideas. (2009, October 30). Retrieved March 27, 2022, from https://www.lincolncottage.org/mary-lincolns-seance-at-the-soldiers-home/ 

Swedenborg Foundation. (n.d.). Retrieved March 27, 2022, from https://swedenborg.com/ 

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When a skull is found in David Attenborough's garden in 2010, a Victorian murder is wrapped up. Julia Martha Thomas hired Kate Webster to be her maid in 1879, but with this, she made a fatal error. Join us as we add this entry.

Ref: Dark Crimes S5E9 The Richmond Case

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