The Villisca Axe Murders

Mysterious Circumstances

Age Of Radio + Bleav

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.4 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2017

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

On a June night in 1912, two adults and six children are murdered by an unknown attacker with an axe. The father had a few enemies in a sleepy little town, and one man was even tried twice for the crime but aquitted. Was it the work of a serial killer? Me, and guest host Ellie, will lay out the scene and the facts and let you decide.
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0:00.0	Mysterious circumstances is an American crime cast production.
0:14.4	Remember everyone is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
0:18.8	All right, this is Justin with Mysterious Circumstances Podcast.
0:27.8	Welcome to this episode where we will be discussing the Veliskka Acts Murders of 1912 and I say we will be
0:37.4	discussing because Ellie has agreed to join me again she really wanted to do this
0:41.4	case and a great case and I loved having her on last time so she came back for more
0:46.6	We're gonna go ahead and get into this episode and I think Ellie's gonna be leading us off
0:51.2	Hey Justin just wanted to say thank you again
0:54.7	so much for having me on the show.
0:56.8	I really, really had a good time last time,
0:59.7	and it's great to be back.
1:01.8	And I thought everybody that put up with me all of Justin's regular
1:06.0	listeners thank you and thank you for having me on the show and a special shout
1:10.8	out to Ashley from Utah I understand you've been saying some really nice things to Justin about me so thank you for that.
1:16.5	It honestly it does mean a lot. So I thought we'll start off with the timeline of the crime.
1:23.3	So this is the Valiska acts murder case,
1:27.4	as Justin said.
1:29.4	It's a case back from 1912 to just over 100 years old now. It's a really, really famous case and if you're
1:36.1	from the American Midwest you've probably heard of this case before. It's a serial acts
1:41.2	murder case of an entire family and two guests.
1:45.0	The minimal family was comprised of Joe Zeyamore who we're going to call Joe,
1:50.0	because I understand he went by Joe as a nickname. He was 43 years old in
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