• The Axeman of New Orleans

  • The True Story
  • By: Miriam C. Davis
  • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
  • Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
  • 4.0 out of 5 stars (62 ratings)

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The Axeman of New Orleans

By: Miriam C. Davis
Narrated by: Joe Barrett
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From 1910 to 1919, New Orleans suffered at the hands of its very own Jack the Ripper-style killer while two innocent men nearly paid for one of his crimes with their lives. The story has been the subject of websites, short stories, collections of true crime, novels, a graphic novel, and the FX television series American Horror Story. But the real story of the Axeman of New Orleans 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 teenage 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.

©2017 Miriam C. Davis (P)2017 Tantor

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Narrator Sabatier

First clue, first paragraph, he reads library, as "lieberry" several times. At that point He was officially under my skin. i should have listened to my gut. He was going to ruin this one for me.

He follows throughout with really bad accents that fail abd change to an unknown, unidentifiable accent that changes mid sentence.

You should have just read the book Dude. Not "Credit Worthy"



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The detailed research is amazing.

The ACTUAL history of these events not some dramatized bs about a fake "Jazz" letter.

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Fun and Interesting Listen

This was a very interesting story about a series of historical events I didn't know much about. A fun and easy listen, but not a must for everyone. If you are interested in the history of the Axeman or New Orleans in this time period you'll enjoy it.

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No real revelations

The way the book is presented in the into, I expected some new information or a substantive theory of the axeman's identity. Instead, it is a detailed list of gruesome murders followed by generalizations about serial killers.

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