In 1912: Eight people murdered in their beds, killer never found
On the night of June 9, 1912, eight people — the six-member Moore family and two visiting girls — were bludgeoned to death with an axe in their home in Villisca, Iowa; the crime remains officially unsolved more than 110 years later.
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