Episode 160: The Villisca axe Murders

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The night of June 9 into the early hours of June 10, 1912, placed in Villisca, Iowa, by an unspeakable brutality. In the modest Moore house, six members of the well-liked Moore family—Josiah B. (43), his wife Sarah (39), and their children Herman (11), Mary Katherine (10), Arthur (7), and Paul (5)—along with their two young guests, Ina Mae Stillinger (8) and Lena Gertrude Stillinger (11), lay dead, each skull shattered by the same heavy axe. By dawn, investigators would stand in stunned silence before the scene: eight bodies arranged in their beds, the killer’s weapon still smeared with blood, and every mirror in the home draped in cloth as though to ward off prying eyes or restless spirits.