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What's up? Welcome back to Cult Leader. I'm your Cult Leader, Spencer Henry, and tonight's episode is going to be a very special one.

So I've been wanting to do this case forever. It's my favorite case, and I've, you know, told probably everyone that I've met about this case.

So like whenever I'm at like a party or event or date or new friend, I, I tell everyone this story. So if you've gone on the date with me, if you've been my friend, I've probably talked about this story before, but it is the ax man of New Orleans.

The story might sound familiar to some of you, especially like I know a lot of you watch American Horror Story. So if you'll think back to American Horror Story season three, the cup in season, I believe, is when they talk about the ax man, and I think he's in like a few episodes.

So if it sounds familiar, that could be why, but really it's an old, unsolved murder, and I think it's really interesting. It's interesting for a whole slew of reasons.

One decade, why is I think it's pretty cool because it all takes place like right before 1920, and it involves some, you know, a unique character.

So he reminds me kind of a the zodiac killer in some ways, which I'll get into a little bit later on, but let's take it back. Let's start from the beginning.

Let me, let me give this my best, my best 1920s, 20s go ahead. It all starts in 1918. It's just before the brorens, 20s, everybody's running a muck all throughout New Orleans. Just scared that this crazy ax murderer on the loose.

But what did this ax murderer have that this haven't an affinity for jazz?

Can you just imagine for a minute how fucking annoying it would be if I did that the whole time?

Or maybe some of you love that and you're like, wow, I wish you would do this all the time. Let me know.

But anyways, so it does take place right before 1920. We're going back. Again, part of that, the whole reason this is so cool is because it is taking place like right before the 1920s in New Orleans.

It's so interesting. The whole jazz thing will come into play in a little bit. It's not just because of the decade. Like it's it's it's it gets really fucking weird. So it's the early 1900s and the first seemingly linked attack took place on August 13th of 1910.

Italian grocer, August Crutie and his wife are woken up in the middle of the night to a man demanding that they pass over any money and any valuables that they have.

Afterwards, the man strikes them both in the face and the head with a meat cleaver and then he proceeds to leave the residence.

A next door neighbor backed up the couple's claim when they told authorities they had seen a man walking out of the home with the couple's bird cage and releasing the mocking bird that was inside.

The Crutie survived the attack, but they were able to give little to no information about the attacker himself.

In June of 1911, Joe and Marie Davie were attacked by meat cleavers in the middle of the night as well. Joe did not survive the attack and that leaves him to be the first alleged kill by the ax man.

At this point, the perpetrator must have realized that the meat cleaver was not sufficient for these attacks. And so he starts again on May 15th 1912. This time shooting the Ciambra family.

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