The Murderous Axeman Of New Orleans Really Had A Fondness For Jazz
The Murderous Axeman Of New Orleans Really Had A Fondness For Jazz Fans of American Horror Story are likely familiar with the legend of the Axeman of New Orleans, America’s own Bayou Jack the Ripper. Over the course of a decade, between 1911 and 1919, a mysterious drifter attacked and murdered several people, a lot of whom were Italian grocers, with no other apparent motive than carnage and possibly racism. At one point, the killer even sent a mocking letter to newspapers claiming that he would spare anyone in New Orleans who played jazz. As mysteriously as the Axeman appeared, though, he was gone, disappearing into myth in 1919 after the murder of a grocer named Mike Pepitone. Oddly, one year later, a man named Joseph Mumfre was shot to death near Pepitone’s widow. While no evidence ever linked Mumfre to the other Axeman murders, lots of circumstantial evidence pointed in his direction. All What's You Should Know— where you'll discover the most interesting things that you Shou...