Of course, as in any case of this type, it’s the peculiarities of certain crimes that are the most interesting aspects of the case. In each case, the back door was left open. Each ax was left on the premises after the murder.Īll the victims were arranged in one or more beds after they were killed. The killer never brought his own ax rather he used an ax owned by the family or a neighbor. All victims were killed by blunt force trauma to the head inflicted by a pole ax (an ax whose metal head is sharp on one side, blunt on the other). Each murder was of a black family living in a house. To a large degree, the Ax-Man murders followed a set pattern. Whether by coincidence or not, several of the suspects and victims were affiliated with railroad lines. If law enforcement agreed on one thing about the Ax-Man case, it must have been that the Ax-Man traveled by train. While the events in the Rose Cherami case take place on lonely rural highways or back roads, all the incidents in Axes of Evil occur in close proximity to rails that were used frequently by prominent railroads, and especially the Southern Pacific. As a result, both cases retain a decided air of mystery, and are more than a little creepy. Both are full of eerie details and bizarre coincidences that are hard to explain. Both cases were set in obscure, out-of-the way places. The case in the new book - that of the Ax-Man who plagued Southwest Louisiana a century ago - is similar to that of Rose Cherami in a broad sense. Kennedy - a connection whose story was so fraught with drama and mystery that director Oliver Stone portrayed it in his movie JFK. That work looked at a possible connection between the south Louisiana prostitute Rose Cherami and the shooting of John F. In Axes of Evil, Elliott teases out a case very similar to the one he painstakingly examined in his first book A Rose by Many Other Names: Rose Cherami & The JFK Assassination. (Any who feels he is the only true crime writer in the area may wish to read the late Nola Mae Ross’ fascinating volume Crimes of the Past in South Louisiana.)
Elliott stakes out his place as the paramount true crime writer of Southwest Louisiana. With the publication of his new book Axes of Evil, Todd C.
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