The Cleaver, The Fiend & The Axeman's Jazz of New Orleans

Dark Histories

Ben Cutmore

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🗓️ 19 July 2024

⏱️ 84 minutes

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In the humid nights of New Orleans in the early years of the 1900’s, a shadowy figure prowled the moonlit streets. “They have never caught me and they never will. They have never seen me, for I am invisible, even as the ether which surrounds your earth. I am not a human being, but a spirit and a fell demon from hottest hell. I am what you Orleanians and your foolish police call the axman.” Whilst almost certainly not written by any real Axeman, this letter, published in the press during the peak of a series of attacks by a violent perpetrator, struck fear into the hearts of citizens who were already terrified of the brutal, seemingly random violence that had been wrapping the city in a terrifying mystery for almost a decade. SOURCES Davos, Miriam C. (2017) The Axeman Of New Orleans. Chicago Review Press Inc., Chicago, USA. Tallant, Robert (1952) Ready To Hang. Pelican Publishing Co., New Orleans, USA. New Orleans Dept. of Police (1911) Report of Homicide. Report No.29. New Orleans, USA. The Times Democrat (1910) Mysterious Assault. Sun 14 Aug 1910, p4. New Orleans, USA. The Times Democrat (1910) New Clew To Assailant Of Rissetto’s. Wed 21 Sep 1910, p4. New Orleans, USA. The Times Democrat (1910) She Wore No.4 Shoe. Thurs 22 Sep 1910, p4. New Orleans, USA. The Times Democrat (1910) Rissetto Assault Remains A Mystery. Fri 23 Sep 1910, p5. New Orleans, USA. ------- For almost anything, head over to the podcasts hub at darkhistories.com Support the show by using our link when you sign up to Audible: http://audibletrial.com/darkhistories or visit our Patreon for bonus episodes and Early Access: https://www.patreon.com/darkhistories The Dark Histories books are available to buy here: http://author.to/darkhistories Dark Histories merch is available here: https://bit.ly/3GChjk9 Connect with us on Facebook: http://facebook.com/darkhistoriespodcast Or find us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/darkhistories & Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dark_histories/ Or you can contact us directly via email at [email protected] or join our Discord community: https://discord.gg/cmGcBFf The Dark Histories Butterfly was drawn by Courtney, who you can find on Instagram @bewildereye Music was recorded by me © Ben Cutmore 2017 Other Outro music was Paul Whiteman & his orchestra with Mildred Bailey - All of me (1931). It's out of copyright now, but if you're interested, that was that.

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0:00.0	In the humid nights of New Orleans in the early years of the 1900s, a shadowy figure
0:07.0	proud the moonlit streets. They have never caught me and they never will. They have never
0:12.0	seen me, for I am invisible even as the
0:14.8	other which surrounds your earth. I am not a human being, but a spirit and a fell
0:19.7	demon from the hottest hell. I am what you allenians and your foolish police call the
0:25.2	axe man." Whilst almost certainly not written by any real axe man, this letter
0:30.5	published in the press during the peak of a series of attacks by a violent perpetrator
0:35.2	struck fear into the hearts of citizens who were already terrified of these brutal, seemingly random violence
0:41.8	that had been wrapping the city in a terrifying mystery
0:44.3	for almost a decade. This is dark histories where the facts are worse than fiction.
0:55.0	Hello and welcome to Dark History, season 8 episode 14.
1:00.0	I'm your host Ben, as always, and it's fantastic to be back on the mic. This episode is a little
1:04.4	bit late as you might have noticed. I basically picked a monster of an episode to work on
1:09.8	after being already strapped for time from the last episode which was delayed.
1:14.6	So never fear this episode's done now and it is late to make up for it, it's a big one and the next
1:21.7	episode will be on time as usual. The next episode will be a little
1:25.0	bit sooner than normal two weeks. So yeah, anyway, we should definitely just get on with it because
1:30.0	this is going to be a long one so I'll stop rambling and we'll go straight for it.
1:34.0	This is the Cleaver, the Fiend and the Axman's Jazz of New Orleans.
1:39.6	Divided in two by the Mississippi River, the city of New Orleans sits on the southern coast of the United States in the southeast state of Louisiana.
1:51.0	Once a key link in the chain for smugglers and pirates and nowadays an
1:56.1	industrial powerhouse line with skyscrapers its port resting on the Gulf Coast
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