How Fear, Faith, and Factionalism Devoured a Puritan Community In the winter of 1692, in the small farming settlement of Salem Village (today’s Danvers, Massachusetts), two girls began having fits. By the following spring the colony’s jails were overcrowded, a special court was hanging people on the strength of dreams and visions, and a respected grandmother had been condemned after a jury’s not-guilty verdict was overturned. By the time the hysteria burned itself out in 1693

On the morning of June 10, 1912, a quiet house in Villisca, Iowa, concealed a devastating crime. Josiah and Sarah Moore, their four children, and two young sisters visiting for a sleepover had been killed with an axe. Eight people were dead, six of them children. Despite years of investigation, competing accusations, a confession, and two criminal trials, no one was convicted of their murders. The case remains unsolved. Today, the former Moore home is known as the Villisca Ax

On a cold December night in 2020, 21-year-old Jason Landry left his apartment in San Marcos, Texas, and started the drive home for winter break. He was a Texas State University student, headed toward Missouri City, where his family lived. It should have been an ordinary trip across familiar Texas roads. But Jason never made it home.

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This is the story of James "Jamie" Carroll — hairdresser, drag queen, meth dealer, and a man whose magnetic personality made everyone in the room feel like the most important person alive. It is also the story of Jeffrey "Jase" Mundt and Joseph "Joey" Banis — two men bound together by drugs, obsession, and secrets so dark that even the city's beloved Victorian shadows couldn't keep them buried forever.