Bill James, the famed baseball statistician, started researching the horrific murder cases in the early 1900s where entire families living near railroad tracks were being axe murdered across the country at an alarming rate. He hired his daughter Rachel to help him with the research and together they discovered the true depth of depravities committed by "The Man from the Train" over a decade and a half. Using modern methods and in depth investigative research the authors even believe they identified the killer a hundred years after the fact. The case they lay out is very compelling and I for one believe they have found the culprit.
Side note - it's kind of startling to the modern reader how common it was for axes to just be laying around in the early 1900s for wandering killers to find and use.
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