WHBF Entertainment Reporter Jonathan Turner interviews Epperly about Iowa's Worst Mass Murder, the 1912 Villisca Axe Murders

Iowa author has ax to find in Bettendorf talk

by: Jonathan Turner
WHBF-TV4

Ed Epperly has been obsessed with a mass murder in a tiny Iowa town for over 65 years.

The unassuming 87-year-old retired college professor will bring his fiendish tales of the 1912 Villisca, Iowa axe murders to the Bettendorf Public Library on Friday, Oct. 14. The 1:30 p.m. free talk is part of the library’s October Community Connections.

Epperly is the author of the new true-crime book “Fiend Incarnate: Villisca Axe Murders of 1912.”  Decades in the writing, “Fiend Incarnate” looks at the notorious Iowa crime that led to nearly a decade of investigations and trials. Villisca (pop. 1,132) is in southwest Iowa, about two hours from Des Moines).

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