Remember the book from a few years back. It's in our library. Just a fantastic serious nonfiction true crime masterpiece. The lady here is a awesome human database on this little known crime spree a true serial murderer of the most prolific sort. I couldn't believe the numbers he racked up. The book really connected some dots.
It must have been a strong man skilled with swinging an axe, pick, or sledge hammer to have the stamina/accuracy to hit his mark (the heads only) SO many times …and in such anxious conditions. They estimated 160-240 axe chops …most people would be exhausted after only a fraction of that work. I would suspect the killer would have to have been either a lumberjack, miner, or railroad worker to physically accomplish what he did that night. The fact that the killer used a weapon which was already at the property makes me think it wasn’t planned by FF Jones or anyone else to carry-out a hit on Joe Moore …that killer would have brought his own weapon. It was, most likely, someone who traveled light …looking for his instrument of death to pick-up/discard on-site …as to make a quick get-away. A transient thrill-killer. *Although my “crazy theory” has Joe Moore killing them all to escape a marriage/life he no longer wanted …to pursue something more exciting somewhere far away. He would have had to have killed a hobo with a similar build …have stashed the body in the barn …put him next to Sara in his bed that night after the murders …and then totally obliterate the man’s face (which is what happened) to make it appear as he himself had been killed with his family. {More of a fan fiction than a plausible theory …but I just tried thinking out-of-the-box since the case has never been solved}
There is a picture of the bearded man with moustache in question posing with Mary "Katherine" Moore on the day before the murders. Yes... he did look like a fairly-well stocked and muscular fellow. The only thing that separates him from the 1898 police description report from West Brookfield is that the man had greying hair, which is not surprising, since Villisca happened fourteen years later, at which time the killer was presumably entering middle age.
WAIT was this suspect in San Francisco at any point? Maybe 1906 - meaning that the aftermath of the earthquake may have caused the interval before the 1909 murders?
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Book was checked out when I requested. Read it in a week. Very good book
I just finished the book for my book club. I can’t believe that I was able to find this interview.
Remember the book from a few years back. It's in our library. Just a fantastic serious nonfiction true crime masterpiece. The lady here is a awesome human database on this little known crime spree a true serial murderer of the most prolific sort. I couldn't believe the numbers he racked up. The book really connected some dots.
It must have been a strong man skilled with swinging an axe, pick, or sledge hammer to have the stamina/accuracy to hit his mark (the heads only) SO many times …and in such anxious conditions. They estimated 160-240 axe chops …most people would be exhausted after only a fraction of that work. I would suspect the killer would have to have been either a lumberjack, miner, or railroad worker to physically accomplish what he did that night. The fact that the killer used a weapon which was already at the property makes me think it wasn’t planned by FF Jones or anyone else to carry-out a hit on Joe Moore …that killer would have brought his own weapon. It was, most likely, someone who traveled light …looking for his instrument of death to pick-up/discard on-site …as to make a quick get-away. A transient thrill-killer.
*Although my “crazy theory” has Joe Moore killing them all to escape a marriage/life he no longer wanted …to pursue something more exciting somewhere far away. He would have had to have killed a hobo with a similar build …have stashed the body in the barn …put him next to Sara in his bed that night after the murders …and then totally obliterate the man’s face (which is what happened) to make it appear as he himself had been killed with his family.
{More of a fan fiction than a plausible theory …but I just tried thinking out-of-the-box since the case has never been solved}
There is a picture of the bearded man with moustache in question posing with Mary "Katherine" Moore on the day before the murders.
Yes... he did look like a fairly-well stocked and muscular fellow.
The only thing that separates him from the 1898 police description report from West Brookfield is that the man had greying hair, which is not surprising, since Villisca happened fourteen years later, at which time the killer was presumably entering middle age.
WAIT was this suspect in San Francisco at any point? Maybe 1906 - meaning that the aftermath of the earthquake may have caused the interval before the 1909 murders?