The Axeman of New Orleans: The True Story

From 1910 to 1919, New Orleans suffered a ripper-style murderer of his own Jack. This story is the subject of websites, short stories, novels, graphic novels and recent foreign exchange TV series "American Horror Story". But there are terrible murders, victims of sympathy, innocents, public panic, Mafia of New Orleans, and strange stories ...

In her new book, "Ax of New Orleans: the Story of Truth", Davis tried to understand the fact of the incident through pop culture phenomenon - what the police never solved. VICE recently wondered how the murder case paralyzed the inhabitants of the city, some residents played jazz music loudly at night and avoided anger, and Miriam C. Davis: the attacks in autumn 1910 Beginning, one of them died and Joe David died was not until June 1911. Then Axeman (or "Cleaver" he knew in 1910 - 1911) disappeared for 6 years. As he returned - from the murder of Maggios in May 1918, his brutal attack on Charlie and Ross Cosimilla and their young girl Mary was killed in March 1919 - Ax complete to New Orleans Be scared of

From May 1918 to October 1919, a serial killer named Axeman caused a wave of fear in New Orleans. Although the total number of victims is still unknown, at least 12 people in the New Orleans metropolitan area were attacked by Axeman within 17 months, at least seven people died due to injuries. On May 22, 1918, the Italian grocery store named Joseph Maggio, the first victim, and his wife, Catherine, were slaughtered while sleeping in the Upperline and Magnolia Street apartments. The couple's throat was scratched with a razor and their heads were struck with an ax. When the agents arrived, they found the bloody clothes, axes and fleas of the murderer. Originally, the police suspected that motive was robbery, but found that nothing was stolen in the house. In fact, money and valuables were always in an obvious condition.