The Welcome to another episode of American Hauntings, the podcast dedicated to the history,

haunting's legends and lore of America's past. The show is hosted by Cody Beck and Troy Taylor

and today we are continuing our third season, which we call murdered in their beds.

If you're tuning in the podcast for the first time we recommend going back to

episode 36 and start the new season from there.

It's the first part in this series and marks the beginning of the

transient butcher's reign of terror in the Midwest

of the early 1900s.

Each episode will not only explore the killer's horrific crimes,

but will explore the

effect he had on the small railroad towns of the region, especially the town of

Alaska, Iowa. So open all the curtains, hide the axe in the barn and prepare for the next installment of

murder in their beds. The During the summer of 1912, a number of suspects in the moor murders were named and then dismissed.

And as summer turned to fall and fall turned to winter,

there were dozens of theories

but genuine leads were getting harder and harder to find.

Frank Jones had problems of his own

in the summer and fall of 1912.

Gossip was circulating in town about the possibility of an affair between J.B. Moore and

Dona Jones, Albert's wife, who already had a reputation as a loose woman.

There was also talk about the bad blood

that supposedly existed between Jones and Moore

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