The Villisca Axe Murders — Eight Bodies, Zero Convictions
On the morning of June 10, 1912, a neighbor found the Moore family's Villisca, Iowa farmhouse locked and silent. Inside: eight bodies — six family members and two young houseguests — all killed in their beds with an axe taken from the family's own woodshed.
Every mirror in the house had been covered. Every door was locked from the inside. Two men stood trial and both walked free. Decades later, researchers linked the murders to a string of near-identical axe killings across the American Midwest — and the case remains, over a century later, one of America's oldest unsolved mass murders…
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