Suspect
Henry Lee Moore
- Born
- 1 November 1874
- Died
- 30 September 1963, aged about 89
- Record
- Wikidata Q64748709 · Wikipedia
Suspect in The Villisca Axe Murders
No relation; convicted of murdering his mother and grandmother in Columbia, Missouri, in December 1912 and proposed as a link to other axe murders.
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.
Dated events
Josiah and Sarah Moore buy the house on East Second Street.
Henry Lee Moore kills his mother and grandmother in Missouri and is later suggested as the Villisca killer.
The Moore house is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.