![]() ![]() The victims, predominantly shop keeping members of the Italian community, were all bludgeoned with an axe in their own homes as they slept soundly at night. It’s a fascinating, if somewhat disturbing account of a series of crimes that I knew nothing about and a story that drags you straight onto the streets of the New Orleans of a different era. The Terrible Axe-Man of New Orleans explores a series of gruesome murders and assaults that took place during a two year period at the end of the First World War in the city that never sleeps. It’s this side of the past, the savage, unrelenting and often unexplained side of it that Rick Geary has taken to heart and attempted to document and explore in his series A Treasure of XXth Century Murder and barring the act of homicide, the latest entries in said series, Black Dahlia and The Terrible Axe-Man of New Orleans couldn’t be more different. ![]() Events so appalling that they envelope the future like a black glove, patterning, moulding and leaving their mark on it for generations to come. History, much like species that helped to shape it, is filled with terrible, dark and twisted moments. ![]()
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