The Axeman of New Orleans Part II: Revealing The Killer

History Dweebs - A look at True Crime, Murders, Serial Killers and the Darkside of History

Tim Scott

Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4 • 619 Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2015

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

From The Spring 1918 to The Fall of 1919, a serial Killer terrorized the city of New Orleans. People were brutally attacked in their beds by an axe wielding maniac. The killer taunted police by writing letters to local newspapers. Little is known of the Axe Man other than he killed 8 people in a one year crime spree and he had a fondness for jazz music. The murders remained unsolved....until now.

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0:00.0	Welcome to History Dweaves. I'm Tim Scott. I'm joined here by Charles Hawk Waters.
0:22.6	How are you doing, Chuck?
0:24.6	I'm doing great.
0:25.6	And Brandy Herman.
0:26.6	She has blue hair.
0:27.6	How you doing, Brandy?
0:28.6	Ha!
0:29.6	Your blue hair looks nice.
0:32.6	Thank you.
0:33.6	Welcome to Part 2, the podcast on the New Orleans Axeman.
0:41.6	If you have listened to Part 1, you know that in Part 1 we discussed the murders.
0:47.0	And here in Part 2 we're going to talk about the suspects, and we're going to actually reveal the killer.
0:52.6	So this is exciting.
0:55.3	If you haven't listened to Part 1, you can go to our website,
0:58.6	historydweeb.com, or you can now download episodes from iTunes or Stitcher.
1:06.7	So just to quickly recap the story, a serial killer known as the Axeman terrorized New Orleans from the spring of 1918 until the fall of 1919.
1:23.6	During that time, at least 12 people were attacked in their homes by a man with an axe.
1:29.5	At least eight people died.
1:32.2	In most cases, the ax man would enter the home by chisling out a panel in the door.
1:38.4	He would kill by using an axe or a hatchet that was found in the home.
1:42.8	So these were people were killed by their own instruments, and then he would leave the
1:47.8	axe behind.
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