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Davis, Miriam C.
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Serial murders -- Louisiana -- New Orleans.
Serial murderers -- Louisiana -- New Orleans.
Serial murder investigation -- Louisiana -- New Orleans.
Grocers -- Crimes against.
False imprisonment -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Case studies.
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Davis, Miriam C.
Serial murders -- Louisiana -- New Orleans.
Serial murderers -- Louisiana -- New Orleans.
Serial murder investigation -- Louisiana -- New Orleans.
Grocers -- Crimes against.
False imprisonment -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Case studies.
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The Axeman of New Orleans : the true story / Miriam C. Davis.
by
Davis, Miriam C.
Chicago Review Press, [2017]
Call #:
364.15232 D263a
Subjects
Serial murders
--
Louisiana
--
New Orleans.
Serial murderers
--
Louisiana
--
New Orleans.
Serial murder investigation
--
Louisiana
--
New Orleans.
Grocers
--
Crimes
against
.
False imprisonment
--
Louisiana
--
New Orleans
--
Case studies.
ISBN:
9781613748688 (hc.)
Description:
xiii, 306 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits, facsimile, photographs ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Evil descends
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The cleaver
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Dagoes, sugarcane, and muffulettas
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The Davi murder
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The black hand
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The cleaver returns
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A German spy?
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Axeman hysteria
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The mysterious axeman's jazz
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"Hung by the neck until dead, dead, dead"
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Verdict
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False lead
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Rosie and Saint Joseph
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The final chapter?
Summary:
"From 1910 to 1919, New Orleans suffered at the hands of its very own Jack the Ripper-style killer. The story was recently the subject of an FX television series American Horror Story. But the full story of gruesome murders, sympathetic victims, accused innocents, public panic, the New Orleans Mafia, and a mysterious killer has never been written. Until now. The Axeman repeatedly broke into the homes of Italian
grocers
in the dead of night, leaving his victims in a pool of blood. Iorlando Jordano, an innocent Italian grocer, and his teenaged son Frank were wrongly accused of one of those murders; corrupt officials convicted them with coerced testimony. Miriam C. Davis here expertly tells the story of the search for the Axeman and of the eventual exoneration of the innocent Jordanos. She proves that the person mostly widely suspected of being the Axeman was not the killer. She also shows what few have suspected - that the Axeman continued killing after leaving New Orleans in 1919. Thirty years after Jack the Ripper stalked the streets of Whitechapel, the Axeman of New Orleans held an American city hostage. This book tells that story"--Provided by publisher.
Genre:
True crime.
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