#231 The Villisca Ax Murders

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🗓️ 14 February 2024

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Sometime around midnight between Sunday, June 9, and Monday, June 10, 1912, a person or persons entered a home in Villisca, Iowa, and bludgeoned to death eight people sleeping there, including two adults and six children aged 5 through 12. (Violence towards children warning) The killings became known as the “Villisca Axe Murders,” and are easily the most notorious murders in Iowa history. The murders spawned nearly ten years of investigations, repeated jury hearings, a slander suit and murder trial, and numerous other litigations and trials. This crime made and broke political careers. Did we mention its unsolved? True Crime Guys YouTube EVERYTHING TRUE CRIME GUYS: https://linktr.ee/Truecrimeguysproductions True Crime Guys Music: True Crime Guys Music on Spotify OhMyGaia.com Code: Creeper Patreon.com/truecrimeguys Patreon.com/sandupodcast Merch: truecrimeguys.threadless.com Sources: https://www.annmarieackermann.com/german-ax-murderer-in-america/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villisca_axe_murders https://medium.com/mel-magazine/the-father-daughter-duo-who-found-the-truth-behind-a-string-of-century-old-murders-8f4725322e01 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-ax-murderer-who-got-away-117037374/ https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/crime-and-courts/2017/12/08/villisca-axe-murders-iowa-bill-james-rachel-mccarthy-james-paul-mueller-man-train-book/934910001/ The Villisca Ax Murders | That Chapter Podcast Beth H. Klingensmith. “The 1910s Ax Murders: An Overview of the McClaughry Theory.” Emporia State University Research Seminar, July 2006; Nick Kowalczyk. “Blood, Gore, Tourism: The Ax Murderer Who Saved a Small Town.” Salon.com, April 29, 2012; Roy Marshall. Villisca: The True Account of the Unsolved Mass Murder That Stunned The Nation. Chula Vista : Aventine Press, 2003; Omaha World-Herald, June 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 1912; December 27, 1913; June 10, 2012.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to True Crime Guys podcast. I'm your host Michael and if you didn't think I brought Andy with me today you dang crazy.
0:10.6	I mean I don't think you actually brought me I think it was more like you lured me.
0:13.3	Yeah, well, whatever, Andy, I brought you here. I'm here, okay? I help create the events to bring you here today.
0:19.1	This was on purpose. That's right.
0:24.0	Into your will aware of our engagement.
0:26.0	Okay?
0:27.0	So I guess first things first,
0:30.0	I don't know if we can have an episode this close to the Super Bowl
0:32.0	and not say something about the
0:33.4	Super Bowl.
0:34.4	Well, me and Andy were talking before the show.
0:36.3	It's like there's all kinds of reasons for people to lose their shit over the Super Bowl
0:40.8	because people bet on literally everything. Well, I mean mean they bet on every game yeah every game every sport is now I mean it's being betted on and all across the states I don't know how it is in other countries but all it's spreading like wildfire across the United States
0:54.8	sports betting is like the new shit and I think we kind of have to to save live sports.
1:02.4	I mean yes I think we kind of too. to save live sports. I mean yes to an extent. I mean because live
1:05.2	sports became so much advertising and so much brand and so much like who's
1:09.5	sponsored by who and who's gonna make sure they're good for this deal and it's like yeah now how am I
1:14.6	going to enjoy this now I need to actually enjoy this I'm just going to bet 50 bucks
1:17.6	that that guy breaks a leg and there you go whatever you're betting on exactly you find yourself cheering for the weirdest shit but you know it's it's still people watching
1:27.0	so they're genius in that I guess like I need the second string full pack to get eight more yards
1:32.3	God damn it.
1:33.0	Listen, we, you know, the NFL, we never said there were any slouch in marketing.
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