CASE #002: The Villisca Murders

Coffins & Confessions · May 19, 2026 · 19m

It’s a warm June night in 1912, and Villisca, Iowa, is settling down after a night at church. Inside one small house, the Moore family and two young girls who had stayed over for a sleepover are getting ready for bed. By morning, all eight of them will be dead. The Villisca Axe Murders became one of the most infamous unsolved mass murders in American history. An axe, strange details left behind at the crime scene, a long list of suspects, questionable investigations, and even multiple trials would turn this quiet Iowa town upside down. More than a century later, nobody has ever been…