1. "Axe murder site"
Posted by stefani on Feb-2nd-03 at 7:29 PM

Charlie Crowel has put together a rather interesting site related to all manner of axe-hatchet murders, culled from his most interesting archive of newspaper articles relating to crime.

I invite you pay it a visit. You won't be disappointed.

http://hometown.aol.com/wtn1975/page1.html

Cool site, Stefani!  I like the story about the guy who was hacked with an axe by his young Irish housekeeper.  Hmmm.....any similarities to the Borden murders? 

The totally weird one to me was the guy who tried to commit suicide by slashing his throat but the blade was too dull so he used the hatchet to pound the knife into his throat. That guy really wanted to die. Why didn't he think to cut his wrists?

Oh, I know!  How awful, you would think that he would have tried something else.  It reminded me of a story that was told to me of a pawn shop located in downtown Phoenix, Arizona.  Apparently there was this guy that the police were after and he ducked into this pawn shop and picked up a power saw and asked the owner if it worked.  The owner proceeded to plug it in to show the guy that it worked and the fugitive grabbed it and proceeded to cut his own throat with it rather than go to jail.