Slow Burn Media and Evergreen Podcast presents Who Killed, a podcast that provides a voice for the voiceless.

Hello and welcome to this week's episode of Who Killed. I am your host, Bill Huffman, and this is a slow burn media, evergreen podcasts, and killer podcast

production.

You can say this week's show is going to be a bit bloody because we're going to cover the prevalence

using an axe as a weapon to commit murder.

This was quite the choice of weapon back in the 1800s and 1900s, early 1900s, I should say, and I'm highlighting

10 cases between 1900 and 1915. I did not include the axe murder of Lizzie Borden's parents,

and if you're interested in that case, you can definitely find many podcasts covering her supposed crime so let's

begin with axe murder number one and this is from the topeka daily capital on july 22nd

1907 with the headline reads insane man kills three henry scutcheon a a farmer about 50 years old, living near the village, where today ran a muck

with an axe, killing his invalid son, his wife, and her foster father.

Scutcheon was later shot by Henry McClellan, a neighbor whom the Cray's murderer also attacked.

The dead were Henry, Polly Scutcheon, and his wife.

George Annie, Mrs. Scutcheon's foster father, was also killed.

The Scutcheon farm life had apparently always been a happy one,

except for the cloud which the son's invalidism cast over the family.

Today, with no warning, so far as known, Scutcheon suddenly murderously attacked his son with an

axe. He crushed the boy's head frightfully, and when his wife interfered, he turned on her and pursued

the frightened, screaming woman from the house

to the road where he knocked her down with his weapon. He then rushed back to the house and

murdered his foster father-in-law. Next, he tried to destroy himself, aka, commit suicide,

by gashing his throat with a razor and taking Paris green. His wounds did not weaken him,

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