![]() ![]() He always used a weapon owned by his victim (preferably an axe), leaving it at the crime scene. With this initial murder, the killer began to build an identity for himself based upon his murderous habits. An axe was repeatedly taken to his head, and though he didn’t die initially, he drew his last breath only minutes after being discovered by his brothers. The first victim was Joseph Maggio, who was brutalized late at night on while he slept alongside his wife. Nearly all of the Axe-Man’s victims were both Italian immigrants and grocers, though there are some deviations here and there from the killer’s modus operandi. In the book, Geary tackles the diabolical Axe-Man who walked the streets of New Orleans from May 1918 to October 1919. Geary, writer and artist both, is known for his nonfiction comics about mysterious murders taking place during the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: the series is called “A Treasury of XXth Century Murder,” and this volume is his latest in it. ![]() There’s an eerie quiet that hangs over the pages of Rick Geary’s The Terrible Axe-Man of New Orleans, an eerie quiet that can only be found in a story that’s fact rather than fiction. ![]()
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