Who Was the Axeman of NOLA?ĭepending on who you ask, the Axeman either had 12 victims or 13, either way, he must have been pretty bad at the whole murdering gig considering that many of his victims lived long enough to tell the tale and 3 of them managed to make a full recovery. So despite his sloppy victim survival rate of 50%, you got to hand it to the Axeman of New Orleans - he had a fine taste in music. The notorious axe-wielding murderer would often target Italian immigrants and couples in their homes, a rather risky choice of modus operandi given that he would have two people struggling against him and it increased the chances of having additional witnesses.īut some killers are risk-takers. Still, the case of the Axeman of New Orleans stands out for being the only string of murders committed in the name of jazz.

Many true crime cases about serial killers revolve around killing women for Freudian reasons. The Axeman was never caught, leading many to believe that he later resumed murdering people but with a different M.O to throw off investigators.Despite his infamous reputation, the Axeman had only killed six people while another six managed to survive his attacks.It wasn’t the axe murders that made the Axeman of New Orleans famous, but his seeming passion for Jazz music that led him to threaten the people of NOLA to play jazz in exchange for not targetting them.The Axeman of New Orleans was a serial killer who terrorized New Orleans, Louisiana from 1918 to 1919 and was known for killing his victims with an axe and other sharp objects he could find the victims’ homes.

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