The Villisca Axe Murder House: Unsolved Mystery, Still Haunting Today.

Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale.  This week, your Curator Kara is keeping with the Axe Murder Trend. 

Eight people are alive after a small town church program in Villisca, Iowa. By morning, the Moore family and two visiting children are gone, the house is staged in ways that make your skin crawl, and the investigation is already falling apart. The Villisca Axe Murders are infamous for the brutality, but what keeps pulling us back is the weirdness: covered mirrors, covered faces, a killer calm enough to move through the home and even cook food, then vanish with no conviction ever coming.

We walk through what’s known about the 1912 timeline, the victims, and the suspect list that still fuels true crime debates today. We also talk about why these family-in-bed attacks feel connected to other unsolved axe murder cases, and how a lack of forensic tools plus a contaminated crime scene can lock a case into permanent limbo.

Reference Shout Outs:

• https://iowacoldcases.org/case-summaries/josiah-b-moore-family/ 

• https://www.villiscaiowa.com/axe-murder-house 

• https://www.legendsofamerica.com/ia-villiscaaxemurders/ 

• https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-axe-murders-of-villisca-1317570/ 

• https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/crime-and-courts/2017/06/09/villisca-axe-murders-105-years-later/380162001/ 

• https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/villisca-axe-murder-house

• https://www.history.com/news/8-people-killed-in-the-villisca-axe-murders 

• https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/villisca-axe-murders 

• https://www.americanhauntingsink.com/villisca 

• https://www.paranormalfiles.org/villisca-axe-murder-house-investigation/ 

• https://www.travelchannel.com/shows/ghost-adventures/articles/villisca-axe-murder-hous e

• https://www.britannica.com/event/Villisca-axe-murders 

• https://www.newspapers.com/topics/crime-law/villisca-axe-murders/ 

• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/search?location=Villisca+Axe+Murders 

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