Murdered || The Harper Brothers & the Alabama Axe Murderess
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The episode explores the 1959 Torso Murders in Alabama, focusing on the Alabama Axe Murderess, Viola Hyatt.
Quick note from WTC: If you wouldn't mind taking a moment to leave us a 5 star review or rating wherever you're listening right now- it would help our stories get pushed into podcast player algorithims! Each 5 star review helps us continue to grow and get more stories to more listeners. xox G & A In the summer of 1959, a farmer picking blackberries along U.S. Highway 11 in Etowah County, Alabama, made a discovery no one could have prepared for: a human torso. No arms. No legs. Face beaten past recognition. The next day, ten miles away, a second torso turned up along the same highway. Alabama had never seen anything like it — and the woman at the center of it all wasn't a gangster, a drifter, or a "madman." She was a 30-year-old farm girl named Viola Hyatt, and history would remember her as the Alabama Axe Murderess. This week, Amber and Gina dig into one of the strangest, most forgotten true crime cases in American history — the 1959 Torso Murders of Etowah County. Who were Lee and Emmett Harper? What drove Viola to pick up a 12-gauge shotgun and a double-sided ax? And why did she take the real reason to her grave in 2000, after a lifetime of refusing to say a single word…
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