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September 22, the body of 28-year-old Charlene Price was found in a New Orleans park, just one mile from where Britton was found. An autopsy determined that she had been beaten and strangled. Price had a history of drug abuse, but it is unknown if she was a prostitute.
15 wrz 2023 · Some of the victims were found strangled while others were drowned to death and their bodies were left decaying in canals and rivers throughout New Orleans.
3 lis 2016 · Seven of the 27 bodies discovered between 1991 and 1995 in the New Orleans area were found in Destor’s jurisdiction. Most of the victims, police said, were African-American women involved in drugs and prostitution. Five of the victims were men, but some of them were reportedly transgender.
31 sie 2020 · There were four people brutally murdered and eight grievously injured by the Axeman. They were all New Orleans (and the neighbouring Gretna) residents, predominantly Italian-Americans and they...
For over a year, from May 1918 to October 1919, the city of New Orleans, Louisiana was in a frenzied panic over a roaming serial killer dubbed the “Axeman”. The first to succumb to the sharp blade of the Axeman was an Italian grocer named Joseph Maggio and his wife, Catherine, on May 23, 1918.
They had found the door to the safe in Joseph's house open and the safe empty, which indicated a robbery, but money under Joseph's pillow and found in drawers was left behind, along with Catherine's jewelry, wrapped and placed beneath the safe. A black tin box, empty, was found in one corner.
Joseph Maggio, a grocer, and his wife Catherine were brutally assaulted in their home. The attacker used an axe that belonged to the Maggios to slash their throats and then deliver fatal blows to their heads. Neighbors discovered the gruesome scene the next morning. There was no sign of forced entry, and the door had been chiseled open.
