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The Villisca Axe Murders of 1912: Eight Victims, an Unsolved Crime, and a House That Became a Haunted Legend
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
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