The Axeman of New Orleans was an unidentified American serial killer who was active in and around New Orleans, Louisiana, between May 1918 and October 1919. Press reports during the height of public panic over the killings mentioned similar crimes as early as 1911, but recent researchers have called these reports into question. [ 1 ]

2024年11月3日 · From May 1918 to October 1919, a mysterious serial killer known as the Axeman of New Orleans terrorized the Louisiana city, viciously murdering about half a dozen people and injuring several others. The assailant broke into his victims’ homes in the dead of night by chiseling a panel off of their back doors.

For over a year, from May 1918 to October 1919, the city of New Orleans, Louisiana was in a frenzied panic over a roaming serial killer dubbed the “Axeman”. The first to succumb to the sharp blade of the Axeman was an Italian grocer named Joseph Maggio and …

2018年2月15日 · The Axeman struck households in New Orleans from 1917 to March 1919. Then the killer crossed the crossed the Mississippi River to the neighboring town of Gretna.

2024年8月3日 · A serial killer with a love of jazz once ravaged the streets of New Orleans, slipped through house doors and hacked sleeping victims to death.

2024年4月18日 · In 1918, an axe-wielding killer wreaked havoc in New Orleans in a murderous spree that would see twelve attacks, six of which resulted in the victim's death — one of which was a young child.

2016年7月27日 · For nearly two years, the ax man of New Orleans would terrorize residents with an uncanny ability to materialize in their homes, bludgeoning them with axes kept in their own tool sheds, and then...

Looking around the bloody scene, Officer Hatener discovered a pile of men's clothing in the middle of the bathroom floor. Inside the cast-iron bathtub, he spotted an axe leaning against one side. From all appearances, it had been hastily washed clean of blood, although some still clung to the blade and the tub.

2018年6月22日 · A serial killer dubbed "The Axeman" terrorized New Orleans in 1918-1919. One day, the local paper published a letter he'd written saying that he would strike again on a particular night.

2024年2月26日 · Operating from May 1918 to October 1919, the Axeman was an unidentified serial killer who targeted Italian immigrants and Italian-Americans in brutal attacks using axes or straight razors. His modus operandi involved removing a panel on the back door of his victims’ homes before launching deadly assaults.