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The Ax Murder House in Villisca Part 1

The Ax Murder House in Villisca Part 1

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Where's the one place in the world you'd like to feel the safest?
Your bed, right? And in a secure home that surrounds that bed. We
also become nostalgic for what we think was a simpler and more
wholesome time. The atrocities we've become accustomed to hearing
about on our current nightly news, we imagine inconceivable in
bygone eras. But the truth is, we've always been vulnerable to
the brutality of the waking world, no matter the times or the
place. The darkest evil can come to find us wherever we lay our
heads. One average family in America's Heartland at the turn of
the century would experience this as their peaceful dreams turned
into a nightmare. On the evening of June 9, or early morning
hours of June 10, 1912, a depraved murderer had entered the home
of the Moore family in Villisca, Iowa. He savagely crushed
the skulls of Josiah Moore, his wife Sarah, and their four
children with an ax as they slept. Also killed in the same
fashion were Lena and Ina Stillinger, young sisters who just
happened to be spending the night. The memories of this gruesome
crime and the spirits who endured it would remain with the
house. This horrific act of violence would leave its mark
on the town and the Moore home, forever branding it the "Villisca
Ax Murder House."

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