Villisca Axe Murders

[bos]

Some of my friends stayed at the house a couple years ago and they left freaked out. They said the house just has a bad vibe when you walk in. They were skeptics and walked away fully believing the place was haunted. They said there is hardly a room you dont feel like you are being watched.

Its not hard to get that feeling in a place where a group of people died the way they did. Its unsavory. Your mind goes wild.

[Scott34]

100 Years After Iowa Ax Murders, Case Remains Unsolved | KCRG-TV9 | Cedar Rapids, Iowa News, Sports, and Weather | Local News

This is on the KCRG website that gives you some updated info. Says they took the house back to the way it was at the time. I would really like to check this place out. I think it would be neat to see something like this just because I want to have confirmation for myself that something does exist.

[Scott34]

Its not hard to get that feeling in a place where a group of people died the way they did. Its unsavory. Your mind goes wild.

I watched the video that I gave up above and just don't understand why you would feel the need to hit everyone 15 times with an ax. And for someone to do this and not leak any info or something doesn't come out is pretty amazing.

[bos]

I watched the video that I gave up above and just don't understand why you would feel the need to hit everyone 15 times with an ax. And for someone to do this and not leak any info or something doesn't come out is pretty amazing.

Yeah I would think a hired hit would be more professional. This sounds like someone with severe anger or a psycho in general.

Another thing I dont quite understand is why a house full of that many people were so helpless. I mean he had to have startled someone when he hit the first person. Could there have been multiple killers? Could it have been someone staying there that they trusted? Could they have been drugged?

[bringmagicback]

Yeah I would think a hired hit would be more professional. This sounds like someone with severe anger or a psycho in general.

The other thing that doesnt make since is he took the bodies and put them back into bed and covered them up. Then he covered all the windows with blankets. WTF.

[CycloneErik]

I watched the video that I gave up above and just don't understand why you would feel the need to hit everyone 15 times with an ax. And for someone to do this and not leak any info or something doesn't come out is pretty amazing.

I'm not an expert, but I watch TV.

Once a person gets tho the point that they're willing to murder someone (or a family) with an ax, I imagine that they aren't really stopping to count the # of strikes anymore. Rage has to have taken over, and that would express itself in striking over and over and over.

There really might not have been much to leak in 1912. That part doesn't surprise me at all.

[Mr Janny]

I was the exact same way, go check it out and spend some time in the house, might change your mind (or confirm your thoughts). I can honestly say that events in the house the times I visited changed my life (serious) to the point where I will never step foot in the place ever again.

IMO with all the coverage and popularity of the story the last 10 or so years, I think that it has led to less activity from people I know that frequent it.

I never beleived but after I was opened up to it, I started pursuing it. Ive seen crazy stuff that cannot be explained any other way. Ive seen stuff fly across a room, people physically injured, objects moved, hidden, and reappear. Have watched people walking around and then just vanish to find out they werent actually there in the first place. Had lights turned on in my car, house, ect when I was the only person around. Saw a little girl running around in a friends house (no kids). Had a guy point out where the bathroom was at the Stanley Hotel in Estes (where the shining was written) that didnt actually exsist. When I told the employees there, they pointed at a giant portrait and said was it him? I said ya, and they go ya he is really helpful.

I was the exact same way you were so I will never argue with a person because it just doesnt make sense and is to unreal to beleive until you see it.

Thank goodness you were able to help out Bruce Willis, though. And all the while he thought he was the one helping you. Way to go, kid!

[Scott34]

I'm not an expert, but I watch TV.

Once a person gets tho the point that they're willing to murder someone (or a family) with an ax, I imagine that they aren't really stopping to count the # of strikes anymore. Rage has to have taken over, and that would express itself in striking over and over and over.

There really might not have been much to leak in 1912. That part doesn't surprise me at all.

Very true. Just hard to fathem someone having that much anger towards people seemed to be church oriented. That person has to be so unstable its not even funny.

[wartknight]

How decomposed would the bodies be now? Anything left with the burial technology of the early part of the century? I'm wondering if there's any chance of finding any DNA on the bodies?
If they were to find DNA, would it be too watered down after 100 years worth of "mixing" or would they be able to find a familial match? Compare it to the familial DNA of some of the suspects and see what happens?

[bos]

How decomposed would the bodies be now? Anything left with the burial technology of the early part of the century? I'm wondering if there's any chance of finding any DNA on the bodies?
If they were to find DNA, would it be too watered down after 100 years worth of "mixing" or would they be able to find a familial match? Compare it to the familial DNA of some of the suspects and see what happens?

Hi mam, we are here to tell you that your great uncle was an axe murderer. Thank you for your time and have a nice holiday weekend.

[Angie]

Important related question - when is it an "ax" vs. an "axe"?

[dtISU]

Important related question - when is it an "ax" vs. an "axe"?

One is a cologne for teenagers. You're welcome.

[bos]

Important related question - when is it an "ax" vs. an "axe"?

When you need that extra point on Words With Friends.

[Mr Janny]

Important related question - when is it an "ax" vs. an "axe"?

An "ax" is used to chop wood, fight fires, kill orcs.
"Axe" is a vile smelling body spray used by d-bags in lieu of cologne.

[Angie]

One is a cologne for teenagers. You're welcome.

True enough! Although "cologne" is being generous. ;-)