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WWL-TV: HNOC Explores the Axeman of New Orleans as Halloween History Lesson
October 29, 2025
“Great Day Louisiana” invited HNOC Senior Interpreter Joanna Robinson to discuss New Orleans’s infamous jazz-loving serial killer.
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Learn more about the impact of the Axeman on popular culture in our Collection Highlight post featuring period sheet music inspired by the Axeman’s letter to the Times Picayune in 1919.
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The Mysterious Axman’s Jazz
At the turn of the 20th century, a music-loving serial killer proclaimed that only jazz lovers would be safe from his reign of terror.
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