Incredibly Strange Deaths and Disappearances

[The Franchise]

Originally Posted by BigMeatballDave

I don't think so...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villisca_axe_murders

The Moore family consisted of parents Josiah B. (aged 43), Sarah (née Montgomery) (39), and their four children: Herman Montgomery (11), Mary Katherine (10), Arthur Boyd (7), and Paul Vernon (5). An affluent family, the Moores were well-known and well-liked in their community.[1] On June 9, 1912, Katherine Moore invited Ina Mae (8) and Lena Gertrude Stillinger (12) to spend the night at the Moore residence. That evening, the visiting girls and the Moore family attended the Presbyterian church where they participated in the Children's Day Program, which Sarah Moore had coordinated. After the program ended at 9:30 p.m., the Moores and the Stillinger sisters walked to the Moores' house, arriving between 9:45 and 10 p.m.

At 7 a.m. the next day, Mary Peckham, the Moores' neighbor, became concerned after she noticed that the Moore family had not come out to do their morning chores. Peckham knocked on the Moores' door. When nobody answered, she tried to open the door and discovered that it was locked. Peckham let the Moores' chickens out and called Ross Moore, Josiah Moore's brother. Like Peckham, Moore received no response when he knocked on the door and shouted. He unlocked the front door with his copy of the house key. While Peckham stood on the porch, Moore went into the parlor and opened the guest bedroom door, where he found Ina and Lena Stillinger's bodies on the bed. Moore immediately told Peckham to call Hank Horton, Villisca's primary peace officer, who arrived shortly thereafter. Horton's search of the house revealed that the entire Moore family and the two Stillinger girls had been bludgeoned to death. The murder weapon, an axe belonging to Josiah, was found in the guest room where the Stillinger sisters were found.

Doctors concluded that the murders had taken place between midnight and 5 a.m.[2] The killer or killers began in the master bedroom, where Josiah and Sarah Moore were sleeping. Josiah received more blows from the axe than any other victim; his face had been cut so much that his eyes were missing. The killer(s) went into the children's rooms and bludgeoned Herman, Katherine, Boyd, and Paul in the head in the same manner as their parents. Afterward, the killer(s) moved downstairs to the guest bedroom and killed Ina and Lena.

Investigators believed that all of the victims except for Lena Stillinger had been asleep when murdered. 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. Lena's nightgown was pushed up to her waist and she was wearing no undergarments, leading to law enforcement speculation that the killer(s) sexually molested her or attempted to do so.

The crime was never solved. The house is kind of like a tourist trap for ghost hunters now and apparently it's extremely haunted.

[BigMeatballDave]

Originally Posted by Dicky McElephant

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villisca_axe_murders



The crime was never solved. The house is kind of like a tourist trap for ghost hunters now and apparently it's extremely haunted.

Gruesome.

Who knew there was actually something interesting about Iowa?

[Easy 6]

Originally Posted by Dicky McElephant

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villisca_axe_murders



The crime was never solved. The house is kind of like a tourist trap for ghost hunters now and apparently it's extremely haunted.

Watched a show on this not long ago, I believe they narrowed the suspect down to a traveling preacher who was in town that week and was gone the day after the murders.

[Bugeater]

Originally Posted by Pestilence

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villisca_axe_murders



The crime was never solved. The house is kind of like a tourist trap for ghost hunters now and apparently it's extremely haunted.

I know a ghost hunter that has spent several nights there. She posted a video a while back where they set a ball on the floor, and instead of it either staying still or rolling in one direction it would go in curves and circles. Weird as hell, I'd never set foot in that place.