Genre: True Crime
Sacrificial Axe: Voodoo Cult Slayings in the Deep South
Details: Was it simply a homicidal maniac on the loose, or was a deeper evil afoot? Could one person perpetrate over 40 atrocities? Was the serial killer even a man? People whispered voodoo, and white newspapers in the Jim Crow-era South fanned the hysteria. As the police slowly unraveled the mystery, they were stunned by the bizarre truth of the Axeman.