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…