My favourite: The Villisca Axe Murders.
For those who don’t know the story, here it is.
8 people were murdered in their house in Villisca, Iowa, a small town where everybody probably knew everybody. It was June 10, 1912 and while everyone was sleeping in the tiny house, someone came in and killed them all with an axe.
There was no sign of break in and just before everyone went to bed to be killed, the family had been at church.
It is thought the killer had climbed into the attic and waited for them to come home and go to bed. 6 of those killed were children aged 5-11 and only 4 were from the family, 2 killed were friends sleeping over.
What is especially weird is how nobody woke up after the person next to them was smashed in the face by the axe.
At least everyone in the house was sharing a bed. But even stranger than that, all the mirrors in the house were covered by sheets. Over the past 100 years, nobody has solved the murder although one suspect is Reverend George Kelly who admitted to the murders but there was a lack of evidence to this.
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