Fiend incarnate Villisca axe murders of 1912
Book - 2021
"Sometime during the night of June 10, 1912, a person or persons unknown bludgeoned to death Josiah B. Moore, his wife Sara, their children Herman, Katherine, Boyd, and Paul, and two overnight guests Lena and Ina Stillinger. The sensational crime in Villisca, Iowa led to nearly 10 years of investigations and trials. The small Southwest Iowa town split over the guilt or innocence of a local businessman and State Senator. A traveling minister from England with a history of window-peeping was charged and tried. Investigators and reporters across the country speculated that the axe murders were the work of an early serial killer. Similar crimes had been committed in Colorado Springs, Colorado; Ellsworth, Kansas; and Monmouth, Illinois. Thi...s book represents the definitive written account of America's greatest unsolved mystery"--
- Subjects
- Genres
- True crime stories
- Published
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Moline, Illinois :
Fourth Wall Press
2021.
©2021 - Language
- English
- Main Author
- Other Authors
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- Edition
- First edition
- Physical Description
- 416 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographic references (pages 404-406) and index.
- ISBN
- 9798463846457