In Belisca, Iowa, the Moore family had consisted of six.

Josiah, who was also known as Joe Moore, his wife, Sarah Moore,

the kids, Herman, Mary Catherine, Boyd, and the youngest, Paul,

were in the modest home near the train station,

where they regularly attended services in a Presbyterian church.

On Sunday evening, June 9, 1912, the Moore family, along with Aina and Lena Stillinger,

went to a Children's Day service in their church.

The Stalinger girls asked their parents to stay the night with the Moors, since the walk to their home was dark.

The Children's Day service was an end-of-the-year Sunday school program.

With Sarah Moore as a co-director of the church, she had her kids and the other members

perform speeches and recitations as part of the service. The night was cloudy, damp, and cool,

but it didn't stop them from worship and social interaction.

The activity lasted until 9.30, and the parishioners bid goodbye to settle the night.

Little did they know that this would be the last time that the moors, including the Salinger girls, would be seen alive.

On the quiet morning of June 10th, 1912, the idyllic and agricultural life of Viliska, a town

in Montgomery County, Iowa, was broken by the terrifying news.

Six children, two adults.

Their heads were all covered in bed sheets.

They had been murdered viciously by an unknown killer.

Such terrible and unsolved crime that would span decades of investigations in numerous trials and earned it the name, the Villisca Axe murders.

My name is Edwin, and here's the dark man.

At around midnight, while the town was asleep, an unknown killer picked up Joe's axe in the backyard,

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