He said the man that did the job jumped over a manure box which he pointed out about 1½ blocks away, and then showed where he crossed the railroad track. An affluent family, the Moores were well known and well liked in their community. While Peckham stood on the porch, Ross went into the parlor and opened the guest bedroom door, where he found Ina and Lena Stillinger's bodies on the bed. No real evidence linked Sawyer to the crime, but his name came up often in grand jury testimonies. The crime was also detailed in the August 3, 2017 episode of the podcast, Stuff You Should Know. Was it likelier to be a local perpetrator, or a traveling killer, simply passing through town and taking an opportunity? Police obtained a confession from him; however, it followed many hours of interrogation and Kelly later recanted. However, R.H. Thorpe, a restaurant owner from Shenandoah, Iowa, identified Mansfield as the man he saw the morning after the Villisca murders boarding a train at Clarinda. He was released for a lack of evidence, and later won a lawsuit he brought against Wilkerson, and was awarded $2,225. Horton's search of the house revealed that the entire Moore family and the two Stillinger girls had been bludgeoned to death. They thought that she was awake and tried to fight back, as she was found lying crosswise on the bed, and with a defensive wound on her arm. At the Moore house, the murderer hung aprons and skirts to cover the windows. In 1914, two years after the murders, Kelly was arrested for sending obscene material through the mail (he was sexually harassing a woman who applied for a job as his secretary). He was sent to St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, the national mental hospital in Washington, D.C. Investigators speculated again that Kelly could be the murderer of the Moore family. The murders in Colorado Springs were closely related in execution to those in the Moore house. The podcast Scared To Death covered this case in their episode released on January 14, 2020. and Mrs. Moore, and two of their children. Dyer's son (J.R.) testified that one day as the crew drove through Villisca, Sawyer told him he would show J.R. where the man who killed the Moore family got out of town. [9] They conclude the murderer was Paul Mueller (or Miller), an immigrant possibly from Germany who was the subject of an unsuccessful yearlong manhunt as the sole suspect in the 1897 murder of a family in West Brookfield, Massachusetts, who had employed him as a farmhand. Kelly was described as peculiar, reportedly having suffered a mental breakdown as an adolescent. The film establishes Reverend Kelly as the killer (albeit while possessed). Despite its ominous air, the little white house was once filled with life. [14], The podcast Last Podcast on the Left covered this case in their episode Axe Murderers Part 2- Pinning Butterflies (episode 163, December 20, 2017). On June 10, 1912, the Moore family was sleeping peacefully in their beds. Other murders reported as possibly being linked to these crimes include the numerous unsolved axe murders along the Southern Pacific Railroad from 1911–1912, the unsolved Axeman of New Orleans killings, as well as several other such murders during this time period. Despite the commonalities, however, no actual connections could be made. information and features on our website. A bowl of water was found in the home, spirals of blood swirling through it. Though the crimes were not quite as gruesome, there were two common threads – the use of an axe as the murder weapon, and the presence of an oil lamp, set to burn extremely low, at the scene. The paranormal reality television series Scariest Places on Earth covered the story of the Villisca axe murders and hosted a paranormal investigation on the property. At one point, after a long interrogation, he eventually signed a confession detailing the crime. Mr. and Mrs. Moore, and two of their children. He is believed to have committed the axe murders in Paola, Kansas, four days before the Villisca crimes. As for the perpetrator of the Villisca axe murders, the police had shockingly few leads. Josiah received more blows from the axe than any other victim; his face had been cut to such an extent that his eyes were missing. The paranormal reality television series Ghost Adventures covered the story of the Villisca axe murders, in the episode "Villisca Axe Murder House".[10]. What he saw after letting himself in with his own key was enough to make him sick. text, art, and photographs ©2002, Fourth Wall Films. He also had a history with the Moore family, as many had seen him watching them while at church and out and about in town.

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