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Another theory was that Senator Jones hired William "Insane Blackie" Mansfield, an ex-convict and former U.S. Army soldier stationed at Fort Leavenworth, to murder the Moore family. [7] Nine months before the murders at Villisca, a similar case of axe murder occurred in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Two axe murder cases followed in Ellsworth ...
The Josiah B. and Sara Moore House is a house in Villisca, Iowa, United States. The house was the site of the 1912 brutal murder of eight people, including six children. A documentary has been made about the murder, which remains unsolved. The house was renovated in the 1990s and serves as the Villisca Axe Murder House. [2]
I’d heard about the Axe Murder House in Villisca, Iowa, for years. The killing still stumps investigators to this day: six members of a beloved family in the small community along with two young ...
The Family. The Moore family was a well-respected family in the local Villisca community throughout the early 1900s, Johnny Houser, a tour guide at the Villisca Axe Murder House, told local ABC 5 ...
508 E. 2nd St. Villisca, Iowa. The tiny town of Villisca, Iowa, was the site of gruesome axe murders in 1912. Eight people in one household were killed with an ax, including Josiah and Sarah Moore ...
Hudson Murders (June 1912, in Paola, Kansas): Roland Hudson and his wife were killed with an axe. Villisca axe murders (June 10–11, 1912 in Villisca, Iowa ): the Moore Family (no relation to Henry Lee Moore), as well as two visiting girls named Ina Mae and Lena Stillinger, were brutally killed at the Moores' home.
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The Villisca axe murders occurred between the evening of 9 June 1912, and the early morning of 10 June 1912, in the town of Villisca in southwestern Iowa. The six members of the Moore family, as well as two house guests, were found bludgeoned in the Moore residence.