They went to church that night. Josiah and Sarah Moore, their four young children, and two little girls who were spending the night all walked home from a Children’s Day program in the small town of Villisca, Iowa. By morning, every single one of them was dead. Someone entered their house while they slept and used an axe to crush their skulls — parents and children alike. Six of the victims were under the age of twelve. The killer covered their faces with cloth. Covered the windows. Left a slab of bacon in the parlor. And stayed in the house long enough to wash up. No one heard a scream. No one was ever convicted. More than a century later, the house still stands… and the question still hangs over it: Who walked into that quiet home in the middle of the night and destroyed an entire family?
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