24 - Death Rides the Rails, Part 4

Summing up the Midwest axe murders.  Suspects, some bizarre letters, and a second serial killer operating at the same time.

Photo Gallery: https://www.facebook.com/andrew.d.gable/media_set?set=a.10215988325414517&type=3.

Spellings used in the letter by Eli Eloi received at Villisca: 'nation' is written Nay Shun. 'Mystery of life' is written Miss Tree of life.

“Arrest a Villisca suspect,” Adams County (IA) Free Press, June 29, 1912.

Connelley, William E. A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans. Chicago: Lewis, 1918.

Henry Lee Moore. http://murderpedia.org/male.M/m/moore-henry-lee.htm.

“Hunting Iowa ax-murder clew in hundreds of crank letters,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, July 21, 1912.

James, Bill and Rachel McCarthy James. The Man from the Train: The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery. New York: Scribner, 2017.

Klingensmith, Beth. The 1910s Ax Murders: An Overview of the Crimes and the McClaughry Theory. http://sites.rootsweb.com/~bkling/hi815%20moore%20history%20paper.pdf.

Last name: Errett. http://www.surnamedb.com/Surname/Errett.

“Letters puzzle the officials,” Galena (KS) Evening Times, October 25, 1911.

Marshall, Roy. Villisca: The True Account of a Mass Murder. Chula Vista, CA: Aventine, 2003.

Martin, Ernest L. “The temple symbolism in Genesis,” http://www.askelm.com/temple/t040301.htm.

“Release Villisca murder suspect,,” Des Moines Register, June 25, 1912.

Taylor, Troy. Murdered in Their Beds: History and Hauntings of Villisca and the Midwest Ax Murders.

Testimony of John V. Morse in the trial of Lizzie Borden. http://www.famous-trials.com/lizzieborden/1457-morsetestimony.

The 1912 Villisca Axe Murders Blog. https://docublogger.typepad.com/villiscamystery/.

“The murder case at Villisca,” Adams County (IA) Free Press, June 29, 1912.

“The Showman murder,” Ellsworth (KS) Reporter, May 8, 1913.

Opening music by Kevin MacLeod.
Closing music by Soma.