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Great Unsolved Cases: The Axeman of New Orleans (1918-1919)

The feared “boogeyman,” who created a mass hysteria in New Orleans around the turn of the 20th century, first appeared on May 23, 1918 when a local Italian American grocer named Joseph Maggio and his wife were found butchered in their sleep with an axe which was found in the room still covered with the couple’s blood. The Axeman killed at least 8 more people until it stopped and the killer was never found.

In most cases, the back door of a home was smashed, followed by an attack on one or more of the residents with either an axe or straight razor. The crimes were not robberies, and the perpetrator never removed items from his victims' homes.

The majority of the Axeman's victims were Italian-American, leading many to believe that the crimes were racially motivated. Many media outlets sensationalized this aspect of the crimes, even suggesting Μafia involvement despite lack of evidence. Some crime analysts have suggested that the killings were related to sex, and that the murderer was perhaps a sadist seeking female victims. Criminologists Collin and Damon Wilson hypothesize that the Axeman killed male victims only when they obstructed his attempts to murder women, supported by cases in which the woman of the household was murdered but not the man.

On March 13, 1919, a letter purporting to be from the Axeman was published in newspapers saying that he would kill again at 15 minutes past midnight on the night of March 19, but would spare the occupants of any place where a jazz band was playing. That night all of New Orleans' dance halls were filled to capacity, and professional and amateur bands played jazz at parties at hundreds of houses around town. There were no murders that night.

Crime writer Colin Wilson speculates the Axeman could have been Joseph Momfre, a man shot to death in Los Angeles in December, 1920 by the widow of Mike Pepitone, the Axeman's last known victim. However, true crime writer Michael Newton searched New Orleans and Los Angeles public, police and court records as well as newspaper archives, and failed to find any evidence of a man with the name "Joseph Momfre" (or any reasonable facsimile) having been assaulted or killed in Los Angeles. Newton also was not able to find any information that Mrs Pepitone was arrested, tried or convicted for such a crime, or indeed had been in California. Newton notes that "Momfre" and variants was not an unusual surname in New Orleans at the time of the crimes. It appears that there actually may have been an individual named Joseph Momfre or Mumfre in New Orleans who had a criminal history, and who may have been connected with organized crime; however, local records for the period are not extensive enough to allow confirmation of this, or to positively identify the individual. Wilson's explanation is an urban legend, and there is no more evidence now on the identity of the killer than there was at the time of the crimes.

In 1919 local tune writer Joseph John Davilla wrote the song "The Mysterious Axman's Jazz (Don't Scare Me Papa)". Published by New Orleans based World's Music Publishing Company, the cover depicted a family playing music with frightened looks on their faces.

In 2013, the miniseries American Horror Story: Coven  features a heavily fictionalized version of the Axeman of New Orleans, played by Danny Huston.

Sources: 1) http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial_killers/weird/axeman/index.html
2) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axeman_of_New_Orleans

The H-A-R-D L-U-C-K tattooed guy!!

    William Edward "Billy" Cook (December 23, 1928 – December 12, 1952)

Billy Cook was born in Joplin, Missouri, in 1928.He lost his mother at the age of 5 and he had a difficult childhood .His father after the death of his wife left his children to an abandoned mine .All the children were  placed into foster care except Billy.A woman finally took care of Billy but they hadn't a "stong" family relationship.Τhe coming years as a teenager was a passage between reformers institutions.In 1950 he came came back to Joplin and he met again  his father.He told him his intention was now to “live by the gun and roam.”.His crazy death route starts On December 30, 1950.His first victim was a texan mechanic Lee Archer who was driving his car near Lubbock, Texas.Lee picked up Βilly and soon he was
into the trunk of his own car!!Lee was a lucky one.He escaped when Billy made a slow turn and opened the trunk wih the help of  a tire iron.Billy left the car near Oklahoma because it ran out of fuel.Then he found his new victims.Carl Mosser from Illinois,picked up Billy who was en route to New Mexico with his wife, three children, and a dog.He pulled his gun and forced Carl to drive around aimlessly for 72 hours!!!!!Mentally unstable and increasingly tired, Billy shot the entire family and their dog shortly afterward. He dumped their bodies in a mine shaft near Joplin, Missouri.He left the car near Oklahoma with a receipt
of his gun , providing police with a name for their suspect.Near California he kidnapped Homer Waldrip.
Homer was a deputy sheriff .Billy forced Homer to drive for 40 miles when he finally told him to stop the car.He orderd Homer to lay down.He was ready to kill him but fortunately for him, changed his mind.Later he said that he was thinking to kill him with a bullet in the head but he changed his mind because Hommer's wife.Deputy's wife Cecilia  had worked with Billy for a short period of time in Blythe.As he told later to police Cecillia was "nice to him, she treated him like a human being and had been nicer than anyone had ever been to him in his life."Billy continued his crazy death road!He kidnapped another guy,Robert Dewey, from Seattle.During driving Robert tried to escape from Billy but he was wounded by his gun.Finally Billy murdered Dewey with a shot to the head.Billy doesn't stop.He kidnapes another two guys James Burke and Forrest Damron, who were on a hunting trip.He forced them to drive across the Mexican border and on down to Santa Rosalia.Billy was recognized by Santa Rosalia police chief Luis Parra, who simply walked up to him, snatched the .32 revolver from his belt, and placed him under arrest. Billy Cook was then returned to the border and handed over to waiting FBI agents.Cook was returned to Oklahoma City to answer for the Mosser killings, and sentenced to 300 years in prison. In 1951, a California jury sentenced him to death for killing the salesman from Seattle, Robert Dewey. On December 12, 1952, Cook was executed in the gas chamber at San Quentin Prison. "I hate everybody's guts," he said at the time of his arrest, "and everybody hates mine."Billy's life with tje inspiration for the 1953 film noir The Hitch-Hiker, directed by Ida Lupino

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Masked gunmen fired shots toward a police vehicle in the southern port city of Marseilles, French police officials said, hours before Prime Minister Manuel Valls was due to visit on Monday.

The men were armed with Kalashnikov rifles, said Pierre-Marie Bourniquel, regional director of public security. There were no immediate reports of injuries.
Another police source told AFP that shots had been fired into the air.
It was not immediately clear if the shooting was related to Valls’ visit. He is on a two-day trip to Marseille to commend the recent drop in the city’s crime rates.
Elite police troops were being sent to the scene in the northern suburbs of Castellane after the shots were fired, Bourniquel told Reuters by telephone.
(FRANCE 24 with REUTERS, AFP)

God Save The Queen": Michael Fagan (1982)

On the night of 9 July 1982, Queen Elizabeth woke up in her apartments at Buckingham Palace to find a man sitting on the end of her bed.He was drunken cat burglar Michael Fagan, 33, and he later confessed it was the second time he had breached security to break into the supposedly ‘impregnable’ palace.At the time, the Royal family were under assassination threat from the IRA.The crime was an extreme embarrassment to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and the head of Scotland Yard’s Royal Protection Squad was sacked.Since it was then a civil wrong rather than a criminal offence, Fagan was not charged for trespassing in the Queen's bedroom. He was charged with theft (of the wine), but the charges were dropped when he was committed for psychiatric evaluation. He spent the next six months in a psychiatric hospital before being released on 21 January 1983.

Great Heists: Antwerp Diamond Heist (2003).

 

This 2003 robbery was dubbed the “Heist of the Century” — with large quantities of gold, diamonds and jewelry getting lifted from the Antwerp diamond center. The estimated worth of the missing items was than $100 million, but as it turns out there was more to the story. Leonardo Notarbartolo orchestrated the robbery, and lived beside the diamond center for three years prior to the crime. As part of his sophisticated ruse, Leonardo posed as an Italian diamond merchant in order to gain credibility at the center.More than 123 out of 160 safe-deposit boxes were forced open, each of which was made of steel and had a unique key/combination lock. Leonardo was arrested, though his entire crew got away. Years later, he gave an interview to Wired magazine, in which he claims the whole thing was an insurance fraud attempt by a diamond merchant who hired him. Apparently, the actual score was closer to $20 million — leaving the lion’s share of the theft to be suffered by the insurance company.