The Villisca Axe Murders

What if you went to bed in your quiet small-town home... with your family safe around you...

and woke up to find an intruder had been hiding in your attic all night, waiting for everyone

to fall asleep? Would you ever feel safe again? This really happened. Villisca,

Iowa, June 1912. The peaceful Moore family—Josiah, Sarah,

their four young children—and two little girls spending the night, all tucked in after

church. Sometime after midnight, someone who'd slipped into the house earlier creeps down from

the attic... carrying the family's own axe. One by one, room by room...

eight skulls crushed in their sleep. Faces battered beyond recognition. Blood everywhere.