He Cursed the Courtroom… Then 6 People Died | Jake Bird: The Tacoma Ax-Killer
In 1947, a railroad drifter named Jake Bird broke into a Tacoma home and hacked a mother and her 17-year-old daughter to death with an axe.
Caught covered in blood, he confessed on the spot. But at sentencing he looked the entire courtroom in the eye and delivered a chilling promise:
“All you guys who had anything to do with this case are going to die before I do.”
Within a year, six people connected to the trial were dead.
Bird claimed he had killed as many as 46 people across the country. Investigators confirmed at least 11.
This is the forgotten story of one of America’s most prolific —…
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