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Fact #93162

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A serial killer known as The Axeman Of New Orleans commits the first of many gruesome murders when he kills Italian grocer Joseph Maggio and his wife Catherine. The Axeman will commit at least ten other murders and will never be caught. His exploits will be recorded in the 1919 song The Mysterious Axman's Jazz [Don't Scare Me Papa] by Joseph John Davilla. Later songs on the same theme include, Axeman Of New Orleans by The Tombstones, Axeman by Amebix and Deathjazz by the One Ton Project.