The Axeman's Jazz (City Blues Quartet)

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And That's Why We Drink, a paranormal and true crime podcast, did an episode on The Axeman on its 39th episode, "A Girl Named German and La La Land 1 1/2." BuzzFeed Multiplayer (July 28, 2017), The Terrifying Axeman of New Orleans, archived from the original on December 12, 2021 , retrieved April 23, 2019 According to scholar Richard Warner, [7] the chief suspect in the crimes was Frank "Doc" Mumphrey (1875–1921), who used the alias Leon Joseph Monfre/Manfre. Mr. Mumphrey's Garden District jazz business, previously struggling, was noted by many in the community as seeming to do unusually good business once the city was compelled by threat of violence to hire jazz bands and play jazz records.

It wasn’t the axe murders that made the Axeman of New Orleans famous, but his seeming passion for Jazz music that led him to threaten the people of NOLA to play jazz in exchange for not targetting them. Unfortunately, Joseph Romano was a senior at the time and suffered severe head trauma that resulted in his death two days after the incident. Bloody Clothes Found on Scene of Maggio Crime". Times-Picayune. May 23, 1918 . Retrieved May 2, 2012. While we may never know, we do know what calmed his murderous urges. A letter, purporting to be from the Axeman, published in various newspapers, read that “every person shall be spared” where “a jazz band” is playing, causing residents to crowd jazz halls and play jazz records late into the night of March 19, 1919. No murders were recorded that evening. The notorious axe-wielding murderer would often target Italian immigrants and couples in their homes, a rather risky choice of modus operandi given that he would have two people struggling against him and it increased the chances of having additional witnesses.The police then took Andrew in for questioning, initially believing him to be the killer until he was able to convince them that he had seen a man lurking around the Maggio residence before the murder. Louis Besumer and Harriet Lowe And it just so happened that the razor belonged to Andrew Maggio, one of Joseph’s brothers, who was one of the two people to discover Joseph lying in a pool of his own blood. Since there were no missing items, the police ruled out robbery as a motive for the murder which led them to ask about tensions that the Maggio couple may have had with their neighbours, friends, and family.

In American Horror Story: Coven, starting with episode "The Axeman Cometh", the Axeman is portrayed by Danny Huston. Andrew Maggio Released; Says He is Innocent". Times-Picayune. May 27, 1918 . Retrieved May 2, 2012. The Axeman was never caught, leading many to believe that he later resumed murdering people but with a different M.O to throw off investigators. a b "Brother's Razor Involves Him in Double Killing". Times-Picayune. May 24, 1918 . Retrieved May 3, 2012. Book Review: Red, White, and Blood by Christopher Farnsworth". Seattle pi. April 27, 2012 . Retrieved May 22, 2015.

Gibson, Cameron (2006). Serial Murder and Media Circuses. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing. ISBN 0275990648. The letter printed in the book is a real letter received by the Picayune newspaper at the time. What do you think the intention of the real-life letter-writer was? Dirk Gibson, a professor of communication and journalism at the University of New Mexico, specializes in serial murders. (Also product recalls and outer space studies... because, why not?). Simone protects her brother despite the fact he is a killer. She rationalises that he is mentally disturbed and not responsible for his crimes. How would you react in such a situation? Would you shelter a loved family member, or give them up to the authorities? Davis, Miriam C. (2017). The Axeman of New Orleans. Chicago Review Press Incorporated. ISBN 978-1-61374-871-8.

Jazz music blared into the New Orleans air from both crowded clubs and homes where families huddled inside throughout the evening of March 19, 1919. Christopher Farnsworth's 2012 novel Red, White, and Blood centers on a murderous spirit called the Boogeyman, which has inhabited numerous bodies throughout history, including the Axeman of New Orleans. [25] That said, the Axeman was rather sloppy and inconsistent for a serial killer which is why some people believe there were actually multiple Axemen who were, to put it simply, just going along with the theme as best as they could. A Racist Did ItStuff You Missed In History Class did a two-part miniseries on the Axeman in which they toyed with the idea of his murderous acts having begun prior to 1918. [29]

González Cueto, Irene (September 7, 2016). "Tocad, si queréis vivir: Jazz para el asesino del hacha - Cultural Resuena". Cultural Resuena (in European Spanish) . Retrieved October 12, 2016.It's a controversial record in jazz history specifically because there was no improvisation," says Hofbauer. It was jazz-like, but not jazz. But it led to some saying, including LaRocca himself, that LaRocca and his band, The Original Dixieland Jazz Band, invented jazz. The Axeman was almost certainly not a well-educated person. He was working class. He was probably a burglar," she says. "This was not a person who would be, at that time, well educated, but the person who wrote that letter was extremely educated." Ray Celestin's 2014 novel The Axeman's Jazz is a fictionalized version of the Axeman of New Orleans's case. [26]