Sometime during the night of June 10, 1912, a person or persons unknown bludgeoned to death Josiah B.
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Epperly has been researching the 1912 Villisca axe Murders for over 60 years.
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Fiend Incarnate is a companion to the award-winning documentary feature film Villisca: Living With a Mystery .
Illustrated with 190 photographs and diagrams.
This book represents the definitive written account of America\'s greatest unsolved mystery.
Similar crimes had been committed in Colorado Springs, Colorado
Ellsworth, Kansas; and Monmouth, Illinois.
Investigators and reporters across the country speculated that the axe Murders were the work of an early serial killer.
A traveling minister from England with a history of window-peeping was charged and tried.
The small Southwest Iowa town split over the guilt or innocence of a local businessman and State Senator.
The sensational crime in Villisca, Iowa led to nearly 10 years of investigations and trials.
Moore, his wife Sara, their children Herman, Katherine, Boyd, and Paul, and two overnight guests Lena and Ina Stillinger.
Sometime during the night of June 10, 1912, a person or persons unknown bludgeoned to death Josiah B