Sometime after midnight on June 10th, 1912 six children and two adults were found bludgeoned to death by an axe which was left at the scene. Accusations regarding the culprit spread quickly throughout the small town, tearing apart friendships and making everyone suspect one another. Unfortunately the crime-solving technology of 1912 was not sophisticated enough to identify the murderer and the case has gone unsolved to this day. Everyone from historians to psychics have tried to definitively solve the case, but no verdict was ever reached.
After changing hands a number of times since the crime, the house was sold to local museum operator Darwin Linn in 1994. Linn immediately began renovations on the home, restoring it to a near perfect replica of its condition at the time of the murders and the site was branded the Villisca Axe Murder House.
Currently visitors can tour the historic crime scene which is now free from gore. Daring visitors can even opt to stay overnight in the house for $400 a night.
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