Stars Over New Orleans with Aliza Kelly

In 1919, the Axeman of New Orleans sent a letter to the newspapers promising to spare any home where a jazz band was playing at 12:15 a.m. on a specific Tuesday night. The city threw a massive jazz party, and no one was killed that night. The letter was signed with a single initial: T. This strange episode is just one piece of a decade-long mystery that began with a meat cleaver attack in 1910 and ended with a widow shooting the prime suspect in her Los Angeles living room—a suspect who may have been the killer all along.

Astrologer Aliza Kelly joins the hosts to unpack the case through the lens of planetary alignments, revealing patterns that connect the Axeman to Jack the Ripper, the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, and even the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Axeman's Signature and the Astrology of a Killer

The Axeman of New Orleans was responsible for at least 12 attacks and six confirmed murders between 1910 and 1919, targeting Italian-American grocers almost exclusively. The killer's signature was chillingly consistent: he would chisel out the bottom panel of a back door, enter while his victims slept, and attack them with an axe—always leaving the weapon behind. He never stole anything.