Squirrel Cage Jail is located in Pottawattamie Count Council Bluffs, Iowa The unique jail was built in 1885 on the site of an old church morgue; one of 18 revolving jails built — and the only one with three stories. Today, it’s one of only three left standing. What’s a revolving jail you ask? The jail’s pie-shaped cells revolve inside a cage that only has one opening. To let prisoners…
EP 21: Villisca Axe Murders
Villisca Axe Murders occured in a small town, Villisca is in south west Iowa. The Villisca axe murders occurred between the evening of June 10, 1912, and the early morning of June 11, 1912, in the town of Villisca in southwestern Iowa. All eight victims, including six children, had severe head wounds from an axe. Sometime around midnight between Sunday, June 9, and Monday, June 10, 1912, a person or…