On June 10th

All eight victims were killed with an axe in the night of June 9–10, 1912; the case was never solved despite national attention. The record dates it to 1912-06-10. A house in Villisca, Iowa with this much documented history gives the dossier substance underneath the lore. The record holds it as fact — documented, not retold. 'Villisca axe murders' documents the entry. It's the sort of fact that gi

Sometime after midnight on June 10, 1912, someone entered the Moore house in Villisca and murdered Josiah and Sarah Moore, their four children, and two visiting Stilinger girls — all eight killed in their sleep with the family's own axe, every mirror in the house covered. Despite suspects, a trial and a senate investigation, the case was never solved.

On June 10, 1977, James Earl Ray and six other inmates went over Brushy Mountain's wall during a yard break. The terrain was supposed to be the prison's real wall — Ray, the assassin of Martin Luther King Jr., was found in the forest after three days — but the escape proved even America's most remote penitentiary couldn't hold everyone.