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Exploring one of history's most baffling murder mysteries.

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The Villisca Ax Murders Mystery

This episode starts with a brutal axe murder that scandalized the quiet town of Villisca, about 2,000 souls in the summer of 1912, when a family of six and two young visitors were killed in their beds by an assailant wielding a long-handled axe, the family’s own tool, which was left at the scene. Clues were scant, and it took years for the twists and subplots to emerge, including a string of similar murders, implications that it was a job for hire by a business rival, and a bizarre confession by an itinerant minister five years later.

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Musical direction by Dave Sams

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Horror ambiance by the Klankbeeld team via freesound.org

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www.truecrimehistorian.com/1912villisca