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From 1910 to 1919, New Orleans suffered at the hands of its very own Jack the Ripper–style killer. The story has been the subject of websites, short stories, novels, a graphic novel, and most recently the FX television series American Horror Story. But the full story of gruesome murders, sympathetic victims, accused innocents, public panic, the New Orleans Mafia, and a mysterious killer has never been written. Until now. The Axeman repeatedly broke into the homes of Italian grocers in the dead of night, leaving his victims in a pool of blood. Iorlando Jordano, an innocent Italian grocer, and his teenaged son Frank were wrongly accused of one of those murders; corrupt officials convicted them with coerced testimony. Miriam C. Davis here expertly tells the story of the search for the Axeman and of the eventual exoneration of the innocent Jordanos. She proves that the person mostly widely suspected of being the Axeman was not the killer. She also shows what few have suspected—that the Axeman continued killing after leaving New Orleans in 1919. Only thirty years after Jack the Ripper stalked the streets of Whitechapel, the Axeman of New Orleans held an American city hostage. This book tells that story.
In the mid-1880s, 8 innocent people in Austin, TX were brutally murdered. The killer is still unknown. Cat Thompson finds the mystery of solving the murders fall into her lap. Cat can speak to the dead. Using this ability, she encounters spirits who help her put the pieces of the puzzle together. Her mission - give some peace to the innocent and identify the true Axeman. Injustice still exists. Innocent people charged with crimes they didn't commit. Innocent victims murdered through no fault of their own. Someone needs to stand up for the innocent. That someone is Cat Thompson! The one thing Cat came away with after being seriously injured while working as an embedded journalist in Iraq, was the ability to see and speak to the dead. Over fifteen years after being injured, she finally finds someone else with the same ability. Someone who can help her understand how best to use her ability. Then a murder mystery falls into her lap. In Austin, Texas, in 1884 and 1885, eight people were brutally murdered by a killer that was called The Axeman or The Servant Girl Annihilator. During this reign of terror, five African American women, one African American man, and two white women were savagely attacked and murdered. The crimes remained unsolved. That is until Cat meets a spirit who starts her on the path to unmask the murderer. Unofficially, the murders were attributed to a young African American man named Nathan Elgin. But the spirits of the victims are not at peace. They want someone to find and expose the true killer. Cat feels that responsibility lies with her. And she will get to the truth!
Urgum and his sons are challenged to change their barbarian ways by the unexpected arrival of a 10 year-old daughter, Molly.
This true crime biography reveals the full story of a remorseless serial killer once proclaimed the most dangerous man in Britain—and where he is now. For a few days in the winter of 1975, it looked as though police had unmasked a serial killer whose reign of terror was unprecedented in British crime history. Convicted of three killings, suspected of another eight, Patrick Mackay was dubbed the Monster of Belgravia, the Devil’s Disciple, and simply The Psychopath. The Nazi-obsessed alcoholic had stalked the upmarket streets of West London hunting for victims, and gruesomely murdered a priest he had once befriended in Kent. Yet many of his suspected murders remain unsolved to this day. Not long after his conviction, the public outrage at his crimes faded. Now, after more than forty years behind bars, Mackay has been allowed to change his name and transfer to an open prison—steps that put him closer to freedom. For the first time, Britain’s Forgotten Serial Killer reveals the full, untold story of Patrick Mackay and the many still-unsolved murders linked to his case.Serial killer Patrick Mackay was dubbed the most dangerous man in Britain when he appeared in court in 1975 charged with three killings, including the axe murder of a priest. The Nazi-obsessed alcoholic had stalked the upmarket streets of West London hunting for victims and was suspected of at least eight further murders. Now, after more than 40 years behind bars, where he has shunned publicity, Mackay has been allowed to change his name and win the right to live in an open prison - bringing him one step closer to freedom. For the first time, Britain’s Forgotten Serial Killer reveals the full, untold story of Patrick Mackay and the many still-unsolved murders linked to his case.
The ax-man murders of 1912 in Louisiana and Texas leave a bloody trail of evidence that points to the largest, unsolved serial killing in history of the United States. It’s a tale of ritual murder, voodoo mayhem, and wholesale killings that leads the reader on a shocking train ride across two states and into the chapters of a real American horror story. The fiendish slayings of 10 sleeping families nestled in their beds is only the beginning of the terrifying account of a true crime that remains unsolved. Axes of Evil sheds light on an unwritten part of American history and uncovers the American “Jack the Ripper.”
In the 1880s, a serial killer terrorized Austin, Texas, setting a pattern for the many who followed him. In the 1890s, an Atlanta boardinghouse resident shot several of his fellow boarders. These and other true crime stories, spanning from Texas to West Virginia, are interesting and historically significant as opposed to depressing or lurid.
Based on a true story. A young woman is killed and all that is left behind was the killers calling cards, a bloody axe, and a note. Soon a second body is discovered and the police now realize they have a serial killer on hands. With re-election fast approaching the mayor demands action. The Chief assigns two of his top detectives to the case. A case that is like no other they have ever seen. But as the killings continue and the notes left behind turn to taunts the police realize that they are now involved in a dangerous game of cat and mouse with a madman. No one is safe, not even the one's they love. With little or no clues the two detectives turn the city upside down in a desperate race to find the one thing that can lead them to the "Axeman." Can they find they the bloody "Axeman" before he finds them?
An Edgar Award finalist for Best Fact Crime, this “impressive…open-eyed investigative inquiry wrapped within a cultural history of rural America” (The Wall Street Journal) shows legendary statistician and baseball writer Bill James applying his analytical acumen to crack an unsolved century-old mystery surrounding one of the deadliest serial killers in American history. Between 1898 and 1912, families across the country were bludgeoned in their sleep with the blunt side of an axe. Jewelry and valuables were left in plain sight, bodies were piled together, faces covered with cloth. Some of these cases, like the infamous Villasca, Iowa, murders, received national attention. But few people believed the crimes were related. And fewer still would realize that all of these families lived within walking distance to a train station. When celebrated baseball statistician and true crime expert Bill James first learned about these horrors, he began to investigate others that might fit the same pattern. Applying the same know-how he brings to his legendary baseball analysis, he empirically determined which crimes were committed by the same person. Then after sifting through thousands of local newspapers, court transcripts, and public records, he and his daughter Rachel made an astonishing discovery: they learned the true identity of this monstrous criminal. In turn, they uncovered one of the deadliest serial killers in America. Riveting and immersive, with writing as sharp as the cold side of an axe, The Man from the Train paints a vivid, psychologically perceptive portrait of America at the dawn of the twentieth century, when crime was regarded as a local problem, and opportunistic private detectives exploited a dysfunctional judicial system. James shows how these cultural factors enabled such an unspeakable series of crimes to occur, and his groundbreaking approach to true crime will convince skeptics, amaze aficionados, and change the way we view criminal history.
Powerful, eloquent, and paced like a thriller, Strange Piece of Paradise is the electrifying account of the author's investigation into her near murder.
In historic Boston a drunken ex-cop and bartender must find his way back after his wife and daughter die and his father is severely injured in an accident he caused. Broken in many ways, he discovers he can still be of use when an acquaintance turns to him for help after being tortured in a back room by a mysterious and sadistic pair of men who work in the shadows of city government while committing the crime of the century.