The Axeman's Jazz (City Blues Quartet)

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She does have some interesting thoughts on the Axeman's victims, who were, as I mentioned, mostly Italian-Americans or Italian immigrants. Each of the three detectives ends up pinpointing a different person as the one responsible for the killings. Who do you think came closest to the truth? Countless people faced questioning, and even some of the victims themselves were suspected of being the Axeman of New Orleans, as was the case with one man named Louis Besumer (who was separately suspected of being a German spy).

Writer Julie Smith used a fictionalized version of the Axeman events in her 1991 novel The Axeman's Jazz. Dirk Gibson, a professor of communication and journalism at the University of New Mexico, specializes in serial murders. (Also product recalls and outer space studies... because, why not?). Police Believe Ax-Man May be Active in the City". Times-Picayune. August 6, 1918 . Retrieved May 2, 2012.The Axeman was almost certainly not a well-educated person. He was working class. He was probably a burglar," she says. "This was not a person who would be, at that time, well educated, but the person who wrote that letter was extremely educated."

Though he killed about a dozen people with such instruments over the course of a year and a half, he was never caught. Book Review: Red, White, and Blood by Christopher Farnsworth". Seattle pi. April 27, 2012 . Retrieved May 22, 2015. It was a young people's music, and many of the neighborhoods that produced jazz musicians were what demographers would call a crazy quilt." Bruce Raeburn Depending 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. Is the Axe-Man Type of Jekyl-Hyde Concept?". Times-Picayune. August 13, 1918 . Retrieved May 2, 2012.AllMusic (March 23, 2018), Squirrel Nut Zippers Axeman Jazz , retrieved December 9, 2019 {{ citation}}: |last= has generic name ( help) She woke up on the evening of August 5, 1918, to see a dark figure looming over her bed before bashing her face in with an axe. Anna managed to fight off the Axeman and was later found by her husband who immediately took her to the hospital.

The author included many biographical details of Louis Armstrong in the book – did these change the way you thought of Armstrong? If so, how?

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.

And it just so happened that the razor belonged to Andrew Maggio, one of Joseph’s brothers, who was one of the two people to discover Joseph lying in a pool of his own blood. Wild speculation ensued with everyone from demons in hell to the Italian mafia being suspected of the crimes. But the likeliest suspect was a known anti-Italian racist with a pre-existing criminal record. The Italian Mafia Did It Since there were no missing items, the police ruled out robbery as a motive for the murder which led them to ask about tensions that the Maggio couple may have had with their neighbours, friends, and family. Wikimedia Commons The cover art for sheet music written in responses to the killings committed by the Axeman of New Orleans.

This section contains a list of miscellaneous information. Please relocate any relevant information into other sections or articles. ( June 2023) Newton was also not able to find any information that Mrs. Pepitone (identified in some sources as Esther Albano, and in others simply as a "woman who claimed to be Pepitone's widow") was arrested, tried or convicted for such a crime, or indeed had been in California. Newton notes that "Momfre" was not an unusual surname in New Orleans at the time of the crimes. It appears that there actually may have been an individual named Joseph Momfre or Mumfre in New Orleans who had a criminal history, and who may have been connected with organized crime; however, local records for the period are not extensive enough to allow confirmation of this, or to positively identify the individual. Wilson's explanation is an urban legend, and there is no more evidence now on the identity of the killer than there was at the time of the crimes. [6]