Podcast appearances and mentions of Miriam C Davis

Between 1910 and 1919 Italian grocers in New Orleans lived in fear of the Axeman who apparently loved to jazz it up.  We are going to separate facts from the urban legend using the research from Miriam Davis's book. Thanks for listening. Resources:·        https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/axeman-new-orleans-preyed-italian-immigrants-180968037/·        The Axeman of New Orleans: The True Story by Miriam C. Davis·        https://countryroadsmagazine.com/art-and-culture/history/the-axeman-new-orleans/·        https://www.louisianafolklife.org/lt/articles_essays/italians.html#:~:text=Italian%20emigrants%20to%20Louisiana%20typically,parents%20in%20the%20cane%20fields.·        https://www.louisianalife.com/axed-in-new-orleans/·        https://medium.com/p/4575828d7e3·        https://serialkillercalendar.com/THE-AXEMAN-OF-NEW-ORLEANS.phpIf you enjoyed this episode, you can find us at:https://www.facebook.com/AbeerAcrimeAtalehttps://www.instagram.com/abeeracrimeatale/Let us know how we are doing!  Rate us on your favorite podcast platform. Or send us an email at: abeeracrimeatale@gmail.comIf you would like to support us, join our Patreon!  We have bonus episodes, opportunities for you to help decide the next episode and giveaways.  We have two levels and a we will send you a thank you card with a sticker just for joining!patreon.com/BCTPodcastThank you to all our wonderful listeners!

The greatest axeman of them all? It's time to tell the gruesome story of the fabled Axeman who terrorised New Orleans in 1918.Who was this mystery killer? What did he have against grocers? And should we listen to letters instructing us to play jazz or die?The secret ingredient is...jazz!Join us on Patreon to get extra episodes every week, and come and follow us on Instagram Twitter and FacebookSources include Legends of America, Crime & Investigation, Miriam C Davis's book The Axeman of New Orleans.The royalty free music over the Axeman's letter is from www.fesliyanstudios.com Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

Guest Info/Bio: This week I welcome author/historian Miriam C. Davis PhD. We discuss the new information she uncovered while researching the Axeman of New Orleans, and her theory on just who was responsible. Miriam graduated from Emory University magna cum laude with a degree in history and studied at the University of St. Andrews on a Bobby Jones Scholarship. She went on to earn an MA in medieval archaeology from the University of New York on a Fullbright Fellowship and a PhD in history from the University of California, Santa Barbara. After teaching for sixteen years at Delta State University, she left as Professor of History and is now a freelance writer and lectures for Smithsonian Journeys. Guest (select) Publications: Dame Kathleen Kenyon: Digging Up the Holy Land; The Axeman of New Orleans: The True Story Guest Links: www.axemanofneworleans.com www.miriamghost.com Stay on top of all the latest by following the show at:Instagram: @thefromthevoidpodastFacebook: @thefromthevoidpodcastTwitter: @thefromthevoidpodcast The From the Void Podcast is written, edited, mixed, and produced by John Williamson. 

On this week's episode of Arm Cast: Dead Sexy Podcast, host Armand Rosamilia is joined by Miriam C. Davis Miriam earned a Ph.D. in history from the University of California, Santa Barbara. After teaching for sixteen years at Delta State University, she is now a freelance writer and ghostwriter. Her most recent book is The Axeman of New Orleans: The True Story, listed by the New York Times Book Review as excellent summer true crime reading.

Imagine waking up in the middle night to find a strange man standing in you bedroom brandishing an axe. It sounds like the plot of a slasher movie, but for the people of New Orleans in the early 1900s, this was no fictional plot. The city was being terrorized. A deranged monster was repetitively breaking into the homes of Italian grocers. The unsuspecting victims, including children, were maimed or murdered as they slept. As the number of victims grew, so did the apprehension in the city, and the pressure on the police to bring the killer to justice. We explore the shocking turn of events with Miriam C. Davis, author of “The Axeman of New Orleans: The True Story”.

From 1910 to 1919, New Orleans suffered at the hands of its very own Jack the Ripper–style killer. The story has been the subject of websites, short stories, novels, a graphic novel, and most recently the FX television series American Horror Story. But the full story of gruesome murders, sympathetic victims, accused innocents, public panic, the New Orleans Mafia, and a mysterious killer has never been written. Until now. The Axeman repeatedly broke into the homes of Italian grocers in the dead of night, leaving his victims in a pool of blood. Iorlando Jordano, an innocent Italian grocer, and his teenaged son Frank were wrongly accused of one of those murders; corrupt officials convicted them with coerced testimony. Miriam C. Davis here expertly tells the story of the search for the Axeman and of the eventual exoneration of the innocent Jordanos. She proves that the person mostly widely suspected of being the Axeman was not the killer. She also shows what few have suspected—that the Axeman continued killing after leaving New Orleans in 1919.Only thirty years after Jack the Ripper stalked the streets of Whitechapel, the Axeman of New Orleans held an American city hostage. This book tells that story. THE AXEMAN OF NEW ORLEANS: The True Storey-Miriam Davis

The Axeman has become a figure of American folklore; a jazz-loving serial killer preying on Italian grocers in 1910s New Orleans. Miriam C. Davis, the author of "The Axeman of New Orleans", chats with me about the series of murders that terrified the city and helps separate myth from fact.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices