Episode 160: The Villisca axe Murders

Hello      Welcome back This is survived with Sophie and LexiWe started telling our survived story (in college) and we are moving on to being you guys moreThrough many different topics The night of June 9 into the early hours of June 10, 1912, placed  in Villisca, Iowa, by an unspeakable brutality. In the modest Moore house,  six members of the well-liked  Moore family—Josiah B. (43), his wife Sarah (39),  and their children Herman (11), Mary Katherine (10), Arthur (7), and Paul (5)—along with their two young guests, Ina Mae Stillinger (8) and Lena Gertrude Stillinger (11), lay dead, each skull shattered by the same heavy  axe. By dawn, investigators would stand in stunned silence before the scene: eight bodies arranged  in their beds,  the killer’s weapon still smeared with blood,  and every mirror in the home draped in cloth as though to ward off prying eyes or restless spirits.