During the Axeman’s killing spree, a local newspaper published a letter allegedly from the killer claiming they’d spare anyone playing jazz Bettmann Archive/Getty It's been over a century since the ...
In 1919, a jazz-loving killer known as the "Axeman" terrorized New Orleans Christina Coulter has been a Staff Writer covering crime at PEOPLE since 2025. Her work has previously appeared in Fox News ...
It’s chilling to imagine the crimes: waking in the night to find your husband murdered in bed beside you, to see the glint of an axe in the darkness, to lie paralyzed with fear for children sleeping ...
The Axeman preyed on Italian-American families such as these who ran grocery stores in the New Orleans region. American Italian Cultural Center By August of 1918, the city of New Orleans was paralyzed ...
During the Axeman’s killing spree, a local newspaper published a letter allegedly from the killer claiming they’d spare anyone playing jazz Between 1918 and 1919, an unknown assailant dubbed the ...
It's been over a century since the Axeman brutally murdered at least five people and attacked over a dozen others in New Orleans. But other than an alleged love for jazz music, the identity of The Big ...
At least five murders and over a dozen attacks can be attributed to the Axeman, who earned the name from using axes as their murder weapon Though many people were suspected, all were eventually ...