Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jun. 12—LEON — Edgar Epperly said it doesn't feel any different giving his presentation on the anniversary date of the Villisca ...

It's been a century since Josiah and Sarah Moore, their four children and two visiting children were hacked to death with an ax while they slept, and the tiny town where they lived in Iowa has never ...

HUDSON -- Edgar Epperly, author of the new true crime book “Fiend Incarnate: Villisca Iowa Axe Murders of 1912,” will host a talk and book signing at 6:30 p.m. Thursday March 3 at at the Hudson Public ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- It's been a century since Josiah and Sarah Moore, their four children and two visiting children were hacked to death with an ax while they slept, and the tiny town where they ...

DES MOINES, Iowa - It's been a century since Josiah and Sarah Moore, their four children and two visiting children were hacked to death with an ax while they slept, and the tiny town where they lived ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- An ax infamous for its role in Iowa's most notorious mass murder -- the 1912 Villisca ax murders -- will be donated to the Villisca Historical Society. The killings of eight ...

``Villisca: Living with a Mystery'' will be screened at 7 p.m. Saturday at the Mary Fluhrer Nighswander Theater, Annie Wittenmyer Complex, 2822 Eastern Ave., Davenport. Tickets are $10. Call (563) 326 ...

Epperly, a retired education professor at Luther College in Decorah, said after some years passed, Villisca began to take a "perverse pride" in the killings, which gave the isolated community an ...