DVD: villisca (mystery murder)

DVD: villisca

DVD:

Exploring Villisca's Axe Murder House & Reverend Kelly's Confession

Fourth Wall Films, 2003

Dr. Edgar V. Epperly has researched the Villisca axe murders since 1955. His visit to the Moore murder house for the first time in 15 years was caught on camera. Moving from room to room during the early stages of renovation (1994), Epperly describes the crime scene and early investigation on the morning of June 10, 1912. A severe summer thunderstorm rolls in as the detailed tour progresses. Plus: In 1917, the Reverend Lyn George Jacklin Kelly ...

Villisca: Living with a Mystery

6 reviews
Robert Ressler, Faye Jean Bandstetter

Passion River, 2005

What does an axe murder do to a small American town?
What a wonderful piece of work! A documentary that is at once informative, intriguing and terrifying - a "horror flick" not due to gruesome special effects and jolting surprises, but rather to the grisly reality that demented acts do occur, and they shape us profoundly from our personal psychologies to our communal attitudes. Having spent my life on the West Coast, I'd never heard of this ...

Villisca: Living With a Mystery

2 reviews

Passion River, 2007

Iowa, not Ohio
I am just in the process of ordering this movie, so I cannot comment on the content. However, I was disturbed by a review of this film that placed the murders in Ohio, not Iowa. The murders took place in Villisca, Iowa, in 1912. I've read enough reviews and seen enough footage to know that this should be an apparent fact to anyone seeing the film. I am giving this film high marks in the ...