Today’s Hard-Bitten Yet Truly Morbid Fact!
Jake Bird was a hard-bitten drifter who comes closest to the traditional stereotype of the axe-wielding psycho. Roaming around Tacoma in 1947, Bird hacked a mother and daughter to pieces with an axe he found in their woodshed. Alerted by the victims’ dying shrieks, neighbors summoned the police, who managed to subdue Bird after a violent struggle. Bird pled innocent until forensic analysis established that the stains on his trousers were human blood and brain tissue. Before his execution in 1949, he confessed to no fewer than forty-four murders throughout the United States, a number of them committed with his weapon of choice – the axe.
Jake Bird: Drifter With An Axe To Grind.
Culled from: The A to Z Encyclopedia of Serial Killers