{"id":40183,"date":"2011-06-11T15:48:09","date_gmt":"2011-06-11T19:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=40183"},"modified":"2011-06-13T15:26:26","modified_gmt":"2011-06-13T19:26:26","slug":"villicsa-at-99-in-memory-of-the-moores-and-the-stillingers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/villicsa-at-99-in-memory-of-the-moores-and-the-stillingers\/","title":{"rendered":"Villicsa at 99: In memory of the Moores and the Stillingers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Shared grave of Lena Gertrude Stillinger (1900-1912) and Ina May Stillinger (1903-1912) in the Villisca, Iowa Cemetery. The monument to the Moore family is the light gray stone in the center of the three shown in the background. Photo from summer solstice 2010 by Eric Francis.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

June 9-10 was the 99th anniversary of the mass murder of the Moore family and the Stillinger sisters in Villisca, Iowa. The family of six and two house guests were killed in their beds by someone who was never convicted of the crime. The perpetrator was one of the United States’ first serial killers, and this particular incident was a turning point in American consciousness. The story is the focal point of Book of Blue<\/em>, a nonfiction novel I’ve been writing since 2007. I don’t believe that our society has ever fully recovered from this event, which was a massive sensation at the time, making news and spreading panic from coast to coast. Over the next year I will gradually publish my writing on this incident as the centennial approaches — beware that most of what you will read on the Internet is simply not credible. Those killed that night were Josiah B. Moore, his wife Sarah (nee Montgomery), and their four children Katherine, Herman, Boyd and Paul; and two family friends, Lena and Ina May Stillinger. Though the identity of the killer is easy to figure out, he was never tried for this crime and it technically remains America’s oldest unsolved mass murder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

June 9-10 was the 99th anniversary of the mass murder of the Moore family and the Stillinger sisters in Villisca, Iowa. The family of six and two house guests were killed in their beds by someone who was never convicted of the crime. The perpetrator was one of the United States’ first serial killers, and … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40183"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}