"Inside the Villisca Axe Murders: Small-Town Terror, Secrets, and the Birth of America's First True Serial Killer

Eight victims. One Axe. No Answers.

It began on a quiet June night in 1912—when an entire family was slaughtered in their sleep, their faces and mirrors covered, bacon left near the bodies and their killer vanished into the dark. The Villisca Axe Murders shocked America and birthed one of the nation's earliest true crime obsessions. In this gripping episode of Crime Stands Still, bestselling author and criminal profiler Kerrie Droban unravels the haunting mystery behind the Moore family massacre—exploring botched investigations, mob hysteria, voyeuristic fascination, and the chilling theory that Villisca's killer may have struck again and again across the Midwest. 

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