Villisca Axe Murders: The Unsolved Horror

June 8, 1912, Villisca, Iowa. An entire family,

hacked to death in their beds. Eight souls gone in one night. No screams woke

the quiet town. The Moores and two visiting girls, bludgeoned by an axe from their

own barn. Doors locked from inside, mirrors covered with cloth,

bizarre bacon slabs on the floor. Suspects emerged. A traveling preacher confessed,

then quickly recanted. A senator was accused, but the case was dropped.

Bloody footprints led nowhere. Locals whisper of shadows in the attic,

where the killer hid for hours. Listening to them sleep, waiting for the