SYSK’s Fall True Crime Playlist: Who Committed the 1912 Villisca Ax Murders?
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Moving on with our next episode in the playlist, this one's on a horrific and truly saddening multiple axe murder in Iowa in 1912. To some it looks like a random act of violence committed by someone who is a stranger to the victims, but some odd clues also point to it as the work of possibly someone who knew all of the people who died, which included children. This one is harrowing, interesting, and bizarre.
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Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark. There's Charles W. Chuck Bryant. There's Jerry. Put the three of us together, add a little mystery, a lot of mayhem. You got Stuff You Should Know. And one axe. Yeah.
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How many is this? Three? We got Lizzie Borden. Yep. Hinterkai effect. Yep. And then this one. I couldn't think of any more. Well, it's funny because I looked and I was like, I wonder if we could do a spinoff show just on axe murders. And Wikipedia had 30 listed. I'm surprised that's it. There's like 10 mentioned in this article alone. Well, we'll see why there are so many axe murders. This whole researching the Villisca axe murder kind of solved a question I've had that I didn't realize I knew had. How to pronounce Villisca? We just settled that by calling the Villisca Town Hall. I know. That was a pretty great moment. Right before we recorded, I was like, are you sure it isn't Villisca? Josh called the Town Hall.
And lied. Well, it was kind of a bet that she settled. Yeah, you said settle a bet. We just never put money on it. So if you or whoever answers the phone at the Villisca Town Hall, first of all. Thank you. You got a call today, so congratulations. And second of all, you just spoke to an internet celebrity. I don't know, man. I think Villisca is on the map, and it is 100% because of this murder.
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Well, if you just type in Villisca, almost all you see is stuff about this axe murder. Well, yeah, the site VilliscaIowa.com is entirely dedicated to this axe murder. It's a pretty big deal. Yeah, no, it's just, it doesn't mention it at all, but all the copy is just in the outline of the shape of an axe. They just talk about like their boys club and stuff that they're doing, their 4th of July parade, but it's in the shape of an axe. Yeah. The population in Elevation isn't a drop of blood coming off of the axe. Yeah, it's his population, not as much as it was on June 9th.
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