MoNo Encore: The Villisca Axe Murders: Wilkerson Vs. Jones w/ Edgar Epperly

Most Notorious! A True Crime History Podcast

Erik Rivenes

True Crime, History, Education

4.7 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2025

⏱️ 79 minutes

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(Original Publish Date: 5/31/22) This episode is sponsored by Strawberry dot me. Get a $50 credit when you use our link: https://strawberry.me/notorious Frank Fernando (F.F.) Jones seemed to be one of the most obvious suspects in the aftermath of the horrific 1912 Villisca Axe murders. He had a contentious business rivalry with the patriarch of the slain Moore family, Josiah (Joe) Moore, intensified further because Moore was having an affair with his daughter-in-law. However there was no direct evidence linking him to the crime. Enter James Wilkerson, a pugnacious and cunning private detective who made it his mission to connect Jones to the murders, even if it meant manufacturing evidence. In this second part of my three part interview with Dr. Edgar Epperly, author of " Fiend Incarnate: Villisca Axe Murders of 1912", we delve into Wilkerson's trumped-up charges against Jones and bitter obsession with pinning the murders on him. Dr. Epperly's website: https://villiscabook.com/ More about the documentary "Villisca: Living with a Mystery" here: https://www.villiscamovie.com/ Dr. Epperly's Villisca Axe Murders Blog: https://docublogger.typepad.com/villiscamystery/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:16.0	In this episode, the colorful and immoral Burns Agency Detective James Wilkerson makes it his mission
1:27.1	to persecute and prosecute F.F. Jones, Joe Moore's
1:33.1	business adversary for the murders of the Moore family and the Stillinger girls on either the late
1:40.4	evening of June 9th or the early morning of June 10th.
1:45.3	Let's pick up where we left off on the last interview.
1:49.3	The crime has been committed.
1:51.4	Various doctors have made their visits to the house.
1:55.1	Away we go.
2:03.6	Okay. The The So speaking of F.F. Jones, part of the reason he would become suspicious for many was that he was in a business war with Joe Moore. They were in an intense competition for customers,
2:38.0	and they were enemies, in essence.
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