Fingerprinting: The Dangerous Axeman Of New Orleans

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Wack! Wack! Wack! That might have been you if you lived in New Orleans in 1918. But fortunately, it wasn't. Instead, it was 6 other innocent people from the area of New Orleans were murdered. There was much evidence collected but no one found a real suspect that fit the crime. Still today, researchers study the evidence and keep trying to come to a conclusion to who the dangerous Axeman of New Orleans was.

Many people noticed that the Axeman used the ax that the victims owned. He would take the ax from their sheds, break down their door, and go in for the kill. www.legendsofamerica.com states, “ As the killer's epithet implies, the victims usually were attacked with an ax, which often belonged to the victims themselves.” This saves time and money for the Axeman himself. Many people today wonder why the investigators didn’t use fingerprinting; well fingerprinting was not proven a valid source of investigating.
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https://www.smithsonianmag.com “I am very fond of jazz music, and I swear by all the devils in the nether regions that every person shall be spared in whose home a jazz band is in full swing at the time I have just mentioned. If everyone has a jazz band going, well, then, so much the better for you people. One thing is certain and that is that some of your people who do not jazz it on Tuesday night (if there be any) will get the ax.” This shows that he or she is totally in love with jazz music. If I were a New Orleans citizen, I would be absolutely blaring jazz

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