He has a second theory that the Axeman was upset about the shuttering of the New Orleans red-light district, Storyville, in 1917. Detective lieutenant Michael Talbot heads the official investigation; his former partner, Luca d'Andrea, recently freed from prison for corruption, is tasked by the mafia to discover whodunnit; and 19-year-old Sherlock Holmes fan Ida Davis, a secretary for the Pinkerton Detective Agency, decides to branch out on her own. No evidence existed which could have proved the man guilty, yet police arrested him nonetheless, stating that Oubicon had offered conflicting accounts of his whereabouts on the morning of the attack. But it led to some saying, including LaRocca himself, that LaRocca and his band, The Original Dixieland Jazz Band, invented jazz. The robbery was said to be the only possible explanation for the attacks, yet no money or valuables were removed from the couple's home.

The large plantations had been broken up after the North's victory and thousands of African-Americans poured into the city, living with whites, Creoles, Jewish people and more.Criminologists Colin and Damon Wilson hypothesize that the Axeman killed male victims only when they obstructed his attempts to murder women, supported by cases in which the woman of the household was murdered but not the man. The Axeman of New Orleans’ strange demands even led to the creation of “ The Axeman’s Jazz,” also known as “Don’t Scare Me Papa”, a ragtime piano song that sounds way too upbeat for a song made at axe point.

Upon regaining consciousness, Boca ran to the street to investigate the intrusion, and found that his head had been cracked open. And That's Why We Drink, a paranormal and true crime podcast, did an episode on The Axeman on its 39th episode, "A Girl Named German and La La Land 1 1/2. Just prior to her death, Lowe told authorities that she suspected it was Louis Besumer who had attacked her. So despite his sloppy victim survival rate of 50%, you got to hand it to the Axeman of New Orleans — he had a fine taste in music.The retired detective cited similarities in the manner by which the two sets of homicides had been committed, as reason to assume that they had been conducted by the same individual. Anna claimed to have no memory of the night after the attack began but survived to give birth to a healthy baby girl. Not only was his razor used as the murder weapon but he literally lived next door to his brother and sister-in-law. While there were a few people suspected of being the shadowy axe murderer, namely Andrew Maggio, the authorities were never able to get a conclusive or even remotely solid idea of who the Axeman of New Orleans was.

A sentence from the Axeman's letter to The Times-Picayune is spoken at the beginning of Fila Brazillia's song "Tunstall and Californian Haddock. Nothing had been taken from the home, yet, once again, a panel on the back door of the home had been chiseled away. Depending on who you ask, the Axeman either had 12 victims or 13, either way, he must have been pretty bad at the whole murdering gig considering that many of his victims lived long enough to tell the tale and 3 of them managed to make a full recovery. Sisters Pauline and Mary were staying at their uncle Joseph’s house on the eve of August 10, 1918, when they were awoken by the noise from a fight between the Axeman of New Orleans and their uncle.Wikimedia Commons The cover art for sheet music written in responses to the killings committed by the Axeman of New Orleans.