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Billy the Axeman[4] (also referred to as the Ax-Man,[5] the Midwest Axeman,[6] and the Man from the Train[3]) was the name of a suspected serial killer thought to be responsible for a series of family murders that occurred mainly in the U.S. Midwest between September 1911 and June 1912.
Attacks attributed to this killer are characterized by the slaying of a whole family in their beds by crushing their skulls with a blunt instrument, usually an axe.[7] The families often lived in very close proximity to the rail road, which is assumed to be what the killer used for transportation.[3] Possible signature characteristics include the destruction and covering of the victim's faces and the staging of one of the female victims in an manner that indicated lust murder.[1]
The notion of such a killer was first introduced by the press in 1911, and over the past 100 years, many different theories have been advanced. Most theories focus on a series of crimes, which ranged from 1911 to 1912 and claimed between 24 and 30 victims depending on the crimes included.[8][4][9] More recently the authors Bill James and Rachel McCarthy James published The Man from the Train, in which they argue for a much longer crime series spanning from 1898 to 1912.[3] This revised theory attributes over 90 deaths to him, which would make him one of the most prolific serial killers in US history.[10]
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