Ep 247: The Barnabet Axe Murders

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David Flora

Science, Social Sciences, Society & Culture

4.7 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2020

⏱️ 87 minutes

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The horror continues in Blurry Photober with a mega episode about the Barnabet axe murders. Flora is joined by authors Alan Gauthreaux and Dr. Daryl Hippensteel as well as numerous Louisianans to explore the ghastly tale of the Barnabet axe murders. Southwestern Louisiana was terrorized in 1911-12 by brutal axe murders. One young woman was pinned with not only perpetrating them, but possibly masterminding more. Hoodoo and Voodoo were found to be involved, which the media picked up at the time and ran with. Hear the shocking story and how it ended, told via news articles and criminal justice perspectives. And make sure to head to Alan's YouTube channel for much more content and grab Alan and Daryl's books! Just remember, for this episode of Blurry Photos, content is very graphic. Listener discretion is advised. Featuring the voice talents of Brea Joy as Clementine Barnabet Get a copy of Dark Bayou by Alan and Daryl Check out Alan's Bloodstained Louisiana Grab a copy of Italian Louisiana by Alan and Daryl Check out Alan's channel True Crime: Man's Dark Imagination Don't forget to join the Blurry Photos Discord Server! Watch me stream games on Twitch! Music Myst on the Moor, Dirt Rhodes, Zombie Voodoo - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Gauthreaux, Alan, and Hippensteel, D. G., Ph.D. Dark Bayou: Infamous Louisiana Homicides. McFarland & Company, Inc. Jefferson, NC. 2016.
The Advertiser, “"BERNABET CONVICTED",” Who Did It?: Clementine Barnabet and the Louisiana-Texas Ritual Ax Murders, accessed October 27, 2020, https://whodidit.omeka.net/items/show/14.
The Advertiser, “"ARRESTED AS SUSPECT",” Who Did It?: Clementine Barnabet and the Louisiana-Texas Ritual Ax Murders, accessed October 28, 2020, https://whodidit.omeka.net/items/show/33.
Lafayette Advertiser (La.). “Ax Fiend At Beaumont. - Mother and Three Children Killed While They Sleep - Crime Similar to Louisiana Murders.” Feb. 23, 1912, p. 1.
Lafayette Advertiser (La.). "Ax Fiend Again. - Kills Family of Five in San Antonio. - Total Victims Now Forty.” Apr. 16, 1912, p. 1.
The New Orleans Times Picayune, “"New Grand Jury Will Investigate Mysterious Killing",” Who Did It?: Clementine Barnabet and the Louisiana-Texas Ritual Ax Murders, accessed October 28, 2020, https://whodidit.omeka.net/items/show/46.
El Paso Herald (Tx.). “Voodoo’s Horrors Break Out Again.” Mar. 14, 1912, p. 13.
The Crowley Signal. “"WOMAN AND FOUR CHILDREN MURDERED IN CROWLEY LAST NIGHT.",” Who Did It?: Clementine Barnabet and the Louisiana-Texas Ritual Ax Murders, accessed October 30, 2020, https://whodidit.omeka.net/items/show/36.
The Weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.), 13 April 1912. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. <https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccnsn88064323/1912-04-13/ed-1/seq-2/>
Seven, Team. Axe Murderers. True Crime Seven. July 19, 2019. Web. https://truecrimeseven.com/axe-murderers-6-horrific-true-crime-stories-1-common-tool/
Female Serial Killer Index. Clementine Barnabet Study Collection. Feb. 21, 2016. Web. http://female-serial-killers-index.blogspot.com/2016/02/clementine-barnabet-study-collection.html?m=1

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0:17.0	This episode contains graphic descriptions of brutal crimes.
0:24.0	Listener discretion is strongly advised. My name is Clementine Burnaby. I was born and part of the town of St. Martinville and moved to Lafayette about three years ago
0:45.0	when I began to lead a life of degradation. Turn of the 20th century America and acts murders, a duo that danced a waltz of death with seemingly every corner of the
1:06.3	country as its dance floor. Famously in New Orleans, where Jazz Music ironically paused the dance one night in 1919.
1:17.0	Less famously, but perhaps more brutal,
1:21.0	for another series of axe murders spread around southern Louisiana
1:25.9	prior to the night that jazz floated and mixed in the air over a terrified city. It was a chilling spree of killing with several suspects,
1:36.4	unknown motives, and rampant speculation, including a possible cult and the use of kudi.
1:46.5	I've never been married.
1:48.5	It was while in the company of two other men and two
1:52.4	two women while they knew Iberia that we met this old man who
1:56.0	who told us that if he could sell us kangels, we can do as we pleased. And we would never be detected. And we would in fact be protected
2:07.6	from the hands of the law by the mere fact of these kinds of being in our possession.
2:16.4	So we bought them. Pay $3 each for them and left New I buried the same night returning to Lafayette when we began to plan our
2:20.2	actions. Now don't get me wrong we hadn't even decided on committing any murders but
2:24.7	while we were discussing our future plans the question came up as to whether we could kill and
2:29.6	be protected by the hoodoos. One of the gang members, they was instructed to go to New Iberia and interviewed the hoo-man who said
2:38.0	we were safe in any and all actions that we might do.
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