The Head and Hands Murder
This case proved a bit difficult from the start. When I find a case to add to my list I generally will put the state in which it occurred, or country, although admittedly I purposely tend to try and stay away with cases from other countries due to the differences in laws. Sometimes I add a year or something else to help me do a search when I am ready. This case was listed in notes as “head and hands murder-Indiana-1930's.” I had based this on seeing a list of men executed in Indiana and the nickname given. So when I began my search I started with those parameters. I immediately kept finding things that referred to Kentucky and Ohio and very little it seemed about Indiana. After several attempts, and double checking things I was wanting to make sure I was finding the case I intended to find. In the end I discovered that everything I was finding was in fact all the same case. On June 12, 1936 a Kentucky farmer found an axe and what was described as “bloody debr...