Ax Murders of Saxtown

An entire household massacred. A family feud. A sheriff found dead. Neighbor turned against neighbor. Reports of ghosts, bounty hunters, deathbed confessions, and legacy fortunes.In 1874, the Saxtown massacre rocked a nation reeling from economicdepression and shattered a small German immigrant farming communityin Illinois. The murder of the Stelzriede family led investigators throughforests and farmland, chasing footprints, bloody tobacco leaves, and themarks of an ax dragged away from the scene.Nicholas J. C. Pistor's The Ax Murders of Saxtown is a gripping tale of suspense and suspicion that exposes brand new information about the century-oldcrime and showcases the flaws of the nineteenth-century justice system.