Ep 202 : The Villisca Axe Murders : Unsolved Iowa Massacre of 1912

Mama Mystery with Kelly Evans

Kelly Evans

True Crime, Society & Culture, Comedy

4.6 • 769 Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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In this episode, we take a detailed deep dive into one of America’s darkest and most haunting unsolved mysteries: The Villisca Axe Murders. On a quiet night in June of 1912, the peaceful town of Villisca, Iowa, was shaken by the brutal murder of the Moore family and their two young guests. Eight innocent victims, bludgeoned in their sleep with their own axe. Go to https://zbiotics.com/MAMA and use MAMA at checkout for 15% off any first time orders of ZBiotics probiotics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Sitting quietly once you've made the house all shiny.
0:04.0	Down time can be just fine, playing bangers from the 90s.
0:08.0	Tea break.
0:09.0	Lunch break.
0:10.0	Maybe listen to the outbreak.
0:12.0	Sometimes it's not time for some tombola, right?
0:15.0	It's enjoying lasagna time, chilling with a book time, or time to visit your nam time go on play some other time put your
0:23.1	phone down tombole open for fun terms apply 18 plus gambleaware.org
0:29.3	welcome back to mama mystery i am your host, Kelly. And before we get started with today's
0:42.8	episode, I want to just let you guys know of a couple things. So first of all, this episode is going
0:48.0	to be in a video format. So if you'd like to watch it on YouTube, it'll be on YouTube. And Spotify is
0:53.7	also implementing some new video
0:55.3	format content as well. So I'm trying to get connected with that. And then if you're on Patreon,
0:59.7	you can also view the video form of this episode. I think it's helpful to be able to see the
1:04.6	pictures in real time as you listen to this or any episode to kind of know what people look like,
1:10.2	know what the scene looks like.
1:11.3	I just think it kind of helps tell the whole story. So that is something new that we are or that I am
1:16.5	implementing. Also, my book, Wicked Women came out on Saturday. And it was so surreal. We had a
1:24.1	book signing event in our hometown in St. Joseph, Missouri, and it was so great, the people that showed up.
1:31.1	I was just so thankful that people even showed up at all.
1:34.3	But the reaction or the response I've gotten from releasing this book has been so supportive and I'm so grateful.
1:42.0	And I have to say this because I know it sounds cliche to say,
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