A TWISTED axeman has been found guilty of hacking his cousin to death with “chilling brutality” in a three-minute rampage.

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 ...

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 ...

In 1919, a jazz-loving killer known as the "Axeman" terrorized New Orleans P. L. Sperr/Hulton Archive/Getty The letter-writer called themselves a devil. The city called them the Axeman. And for one ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) – The year is 1918. The ...

It’s chilling to imagine the crimes: waking in the night to find your husband murdered in bed beside you, to see the glint of an axe in the darkness, to lie paralyzed with fear for children sleeping ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Often, to be in a book by the award-winning New Zealand novelist Catherine Chidgey is to be involved with ...

During the Axeman’s killing spree, a local newspaper published a letter allegedly from the killer claiming they’d spare anyone playing jazz Between 1918 and 1919, an unknown assailant dubbed the ...