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21: The Axeman of New Orleans

Outlore with Eleanor Neale

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The Unofficial Suspect in the Axeman Case

The Axeman was a jealous white man and he was racist. He didn't like that these Italian immigrants were being really successful in his city. And so he went about killing them. But at the same time some of these killings between 1910 and 1912 can have other explanations. Some of them I believe to have been mafia killings, some of them explained by a fight with a friend or something and they killed each other. It's up to you what you believe.

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