Publisher's Synopsis
The Unsolved Murder of the Moore Family and the Stillinger Sisters
The Villisca Axe Murders: America's Chilling Small-Town Tragedy
On a summer night in 1912, the peaceful town of Villisca, Iowa, became the setting of one of America's most haunting unsolved crimes.
Josiah and Sarah Moore, their four young children, and two visiting Stillinger sisters were murdered in their sleep-struck down by an unknown hand that vanished into the darkness, leaving behind only silence and questions.
Over a century later, the mystery remains:
Who swung the axe?
Why did no one hear their cries?
And why has justice never come?
The Unsolved Murder of the Moore Family and the Stillinger Sisters plunges readers deep into the forensic evidence, small-town rivalries, flawed investigations, and whispered secrets that still echo through Villisca's dusty roads and shuttered windows.
Through immersive narrative and meticulous research, this book reconstructs not just the crime, but the lives that were stolen-and the lives that were forever haunted.
Step beyond the headlines. Walk the dirt roads.
And discover a tragedy America could not forget-and could never explain.
