SinisterCrimes

Suspect

Frank Fernando Jones

Born
26 August 1855
Died
29 January 1941, aged about 86
Record
Wikidata Q26266137 · Wikipedia

Suspect in The Villisca Axe Murders

Villisca businessman and Iowa state senator, Josiah Moore's former employer; accused by a private detective but never charged.

1912–1917 · Villisca, Iowa · Unsolved

Eight people, six of them children, were killed in one house in a small Iowa town in June 1912. Two men faced the law. Neither was convicted. Read the case.