The Axeman of New Orleans — Play Jazz or Die — The Sinister Past
New Orleans, March 1919. Newspapers publish a letter from an unidentified killer: he will strike again on a specific night, at a specific hour — but he'll spare any home playing jazz. That night, the entire city played.
In this episode, we explore the Axeman of New Orleans — the unsolved string of axe murders that terrorized Italian grocers across the city, the letter that turned an entire city into an all-night jazz party, and the case that was never closed.
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