 Other murders reported as possibly being linked to these crimes include the numerous unsolved axe murders along the Southern Pacific Railroad from 1911–1912, the unsolved Axeman of New Orleans killings, as well as several other such murders during this time period.The murders in Colorado Springs were closely related in execution to those in the Moore house.Nine months before the Villisca murders, H.C. Wayne, his wife and child, and Mrs. A.J.