Unsolved Murder cases

Unsolved Murder cases. By: Kaylee.

[Audio] The Axeman would only attack at night and is possibly responsible for 12 attacks and 6 killings. The Axeman seemed to strike at people while they slept in their bed. The Axeman wouldn't use his own tools he would take them from the house of his victims. The weapon of choice was usually an axe that he would leave behind..

[Audio] On May 23rd, 1918, at 4901 Magnolia St the first attack occurred. Catherine and Joseph Maggio were struck violently by an axe and a straight razor used on their throats. Catherine was almost entirely decapitated and Joseph had suffer many injuries. The bodies were discovered by Joseph's brothers who lived in the same house. Nothing was heard or seen and no valuables were stolen. The bottom panel of the kitchen door was kicked out. All that was found left in the house was an axe..

[Audio] A little over a month later on June 28th, 1918 another attack occurred. Severely injured Louis Besumer and Anna Lowe were discovered by a baker named John Zanka making morning deliveries. Louis would end up surviving the attack and Anna would only survive for another seven weeks before dying. Anna supposedly recounted to the police that a large white man with a hatchet had attacked them. The bottom panel of their bedroom door was missing and once again, a bloody axe was left at the scene..

[Audio] Roughly a month later on August 5th, 1918, in an undisclosed home location. Mrs. Ed Schneider was found by her husband in the afternoon at their home. Mrs. Schneider was still alive and was rushed to Charity Hospital, and would reportedly survive the attack. During the investigation it was discovered that their axe was missing from their shed. Mrs. Schneider was also pregnant and successfully gave birth a week after the attack..

[Audio] Five days later on August 10th, 1918 near Tonti and Gravier St. 80 year old Joseph Romano was found by his nieces Pauline and Mary after they heard him struggling. His head was bashed in. The two girls supposedly saw the attacker and described him as "dark, tall, heavy-set, wearing a dark suit and a black slouch hat." Joseph Romano would die two days later..

[Audio] Around this time, August 1918, the New Orleans state newspaper recounted "Armed men are keeping watch over their sleeping families while the police are seeing to solve the mysteries of the axe attacks.... Extra police are being put to work daily." If you look at the timeline it apparently worked for awhile until 7 months later..

[Audio] On March 10th, 1919, the Cortimiglia family was attacked. Rose Cortimiglia awoke to her husband Charles and the Axeman fighting, a fight Charles would lose. Rose and their two-year old daughter Mary were also attacked. Rose and Charles would survive, but their daughter sadly did not. Again he used an axe that belonged to the family..

[Audio] Five days later, a New Orleans newspaper called the Times Picayune received a letter from the apparent Axeman. "Hell, March 13, 1919. "Esteemed mortal, they have never caught me and they never will. They have never seen me, for I am invisible, even as the ether which surrounds your earth. I am not a human being, but a spirit and a felll demon from hottest hell. I am what you Orleanians and your foolish police call the Axeman." He also goes on to insult and threaten the police. "They have been so utterly stupid so as to amuse not only me, but his satanic majesty....But tell them to beware. Let them not try to discover what I am, for it were better that they never were born than for them to incur the wrath of the Axeman.'".