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From 1910 to 1919, New Orleans suffered at the hands of its very own Jack the Ripper-style

killer.

The story has been the subject of websites, short stories, novels, a graphic novel, and

most recently the FX television series American Horror Story.

But the full story of gruesome murders, sympathetic victims, accused innocents, public panic,

New Orleans Mafia and a mysterious killer has never been written until now.

The ax man repeatedly broke into the homes of Italian grocers in the dead of night,

leading his victims in a pool of blood.

Hyolando Giordano, an innocent Italian grocer and his teenage son Frank, were wrongly

accused of one of those murders.

Corrupt officials convicted them with coerced testimony.

Miriam C. Davis here expertly tells the story of the search for the ax man and of the

eventual exoneration of the innocent Giordanos.

She proves that the person most widely suspected of being the ax man was not the killer.

She also shows what few have suspected that the ax man continued killing after leaving

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