This week Shaun takes us back to late 1910’s and to the city known as the Big Easy, the birth place of Jazz - New Orleans where on March 19th 1918, jazz music could be heard from every home, bar and dance hall. But this wasn't simply to 'let the good times roll'... but out of fear of their lives.

For Orleanians had been offered a proposition from a serial killer and self-proclaimed 'demon from the hottest of hells'; play jazz and I will stay my axe.

The Axeman would attack primarily Italian immigrant grocers, by gaining access to their homes by chiselling open a panel on the back door and wriggle though. He would stealthily move through the house to locate an axe and head into the bedroom, where he would then loom over his victims in the dark. When they awoke, he would strike them with the axe, before fleeing into the night. 

The Axeman, whose crimes would go unsolved, would go on to claim the lives of at least six people and injure a further six more between 1918 -1919.