6 creepy crimes to read about in bed tonight

“The Axeman of New Orleans”

Of course, you may know the Axeman as a character on last season’s “American Horror Story: Coven,” and there was a good deal of truth in his character. He attacked victims (often female) with axes he found in their own New Orleans homes, though he’d refrain from savagely murdering them if they were playing jazz music. Once, he wrote in to a newspaper claiming he was going to attack that night, and New Orleans retaliated by playing jazz music in packed-to-the-gills dance halls. He was never caught or identified.