During the Axeman’s killing spree, a local newspaper published a letter allegedly from the killer claiming they’d spare anyone playing jazz Bettmann Archive/Getty It's been over a century since the ...

106 years ago, in 1919, there was a serial killer in New Orleans called the Axeman. Apparently, he really liked jazz. As the story goes, he terrorized the city between May 1918 and October 1919, ...

Equally frightening and fascinating, the story of the Axeman murders stands out in a city of ghost stories. In 1918 and 1919 the Axeman terrorized the city, killing at least five people and seriously ...

Fully a century after the so-called Axeman of New Orleans terrorized the Crescent City with the brutal killing spree that gave him his name, he's still a subject of enduring fascination, and for one ...

It's been over a century since the Axeman brutally murdered at least five people and attacked over a dozen others in New Orleans. But other than an alleged love for jazz music, the identity of The Big ...