True Crime
Episode 14. The Villisca Axe Murders In 1912, an entire family and their two guests were murdered while sleeping in their beds. The culprit was a vicious killer wielding an axe and a motive that we will never know. This brutal event left their town forever infamous. Ttoday, it has become a hot spot for ghost hunters and paranormal investigators - leaving the lives of the victims as nothing more than background noise to the macabre story. Sources: the Smithsonian, the Daily Crate City, VilliscaIowa.com, Murdered In Their Beds: The History. & Hauntings of the Villisca Ax Murders, the Gazette (Cedar Rapids, Iowa), the La Crosse Tribune, the Denison Review, Ghost Adventures, the Witchita Beacon, Iowa Cold Cases, Des Moines Register, Man from the Train, MSN.com, Adams County Free Press, Pierre Weekly Free Press, Chanute Daily Tribune, Quad City Times, Abilene Daily Chronicle