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Ghost Town: Strange History, True Crime, & the Paranormal

53: Villisca Axe Murders

Ghost Town: Strange History, True Crime, & the Paranormal

Ghost Town

Social Sciences, History, True Crime, Science

3.7938 Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

On the evening of June 10, 1912, and the morning of June 11, 1912, the town of Villisca, Iowa fell prey to murder by axe. What is now commonly known as the Villisca Axe Murders is currently unsolved, and there is a list of suspects a mile long.

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I was the most famous murder spree.

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I'm Jason Horton. I'm Rebecca Leib.

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And this is Ghost Town. So growing up with the Midwest, I felt like I knew a lot about true crime.

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I loved it.

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I lived it.

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I breathed it.

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But there are still some things.

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Well, you hope you didn't really live it.

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No, I didn't live.

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