Henry Lee Moore was born November 1, 1874 in Boone County, Missouri. He was the eldest son of Enoch and Georgia Ann Wilson Moore. There were three other sons born of the couple. Henry's father was a farmer and served in the Civil War. His mother was a nurse. Two of Henry's brothers, Tilden and Turner Moore as well as his father passed away before 1910. Henry's remaining brother, Charles died in 1960 in Stockton, California.
In 1900, Henry was living with a family in Franklin County Iowa and working as a farmhand. It is suspected that Henry may have fathered a child with the young daughter of the farmer.
Henry was sentenced to the Kansas State Reformatory in in Hutchinson Kansas on a forgery charge and was released on April 11, 1911.
He was convicted of the axe murders of his mother and maternal grandmother in Columbia, Missouri in 1912. Testimony during Henry's trial indicated that he had lived with his mother and grandmother during the winter of 1911 and the summer of 1912. He left to take a job on the railroad.
Henry Lee Moore served 36 years of a life sentence before being paroled by the govenor of Missouri on . The govenor commuted his sentence on July 30, 1956. Henry Moore was 82 years old and had been living at the Salvation Army Center in St. Louis. It is unknown when he died or where he was living at the time.
M.W. McClaughry, a federal officer assigned to the Villisca Axe Murder case, announced in May of 1913 that he had solved not only the Villisca murders but 22 others that had been committed in the Midwest around the same time frame. All the crimes were of brutal nature, most with axes as the murder weapon, and the cases involved other strikingly similar evidence. McClaughry received information from his father (who was the warden of Leavenworth, Kansas Federal Penitentiary at the time) about Moore's conviction for the axe murders of his mother and grandmother. It was his belief that Mr. Henry Moore had committed all of the murders. For whatever reason, McClaughry's announcement went largely ignored, and Henry Moore was not convicted of any of the other crimes.
In 1900, Henry was living with a family in Franklin County Iowa and working as a farmhand. It is suspected that Henry may have fathered a child with the young daughter of the farmer.
Henry was sentenced to the Kansas State Reformatory in in Hutchinson Kansas on a forgery charge and was released on April 11, 1911.
He was convicted of the axe murders of his mother and maternal grandmother in Columbia, Missouri in 1912. Testimony during Henry's trial indicated that he had lived with his mother and grandmother during the winter of 1911 and the summer of 1912. He left to take a job on the railroad.
Henry Lee Moore served 36 years of a life sentence before being paroled by the govenor of Missouri on . The govenor commuted his sentence on July 30, 1956. Henry Moore was 82 years old and had been living at the Salvation Army Center in St. Louis. It is unknown when he died or where he was living at the time.
M.W. McClaughry, a federal officer assigned to the Villisca Axe Murder case, announced in May of 1913 that he had solved not only the Villisca murders but 22 others that had been committed in the Midwest around the same time frame. All the crimes were of brutal nature, most with axes as the murder weapon, and the cases involved other strikingly similar evidence. McClaughry received information from his father (who was the warden of Leavenworth, Kansas Federal Penitentiary at the time) about Moore's conviction for the axe murders of his mother and grandmother. It was his belief that Mr. Henry Moore had committed all of the murders. For whatever reason, McClaughry's announcement went largely ignored, and Henry Moore was not convicted of any of the other crimes.
Henry Lee Moore was born November 1, 1874 in Boone County, Missouri. He was the eldest son of Enoch and Georgia Ann Wilson Moore. There were three other sons born of the couple. Henry's father was a farmer and served in the Civil War. His mother was a nurse. Two of Henry's brothers, Tilden and Turner Moore as well as his father passed away before 1910. Henry's remaining brother, Charles died in 1960 in Stockton, California.
In 1900, Henry was living with a family in Franklin County Iowa and working as a farmhand. It is suspected that Henry may have fathered a child with the young daughter of the farmer.
Henry was sentenced to the Kansas State Reformatory in in Hutchinson Kansas on a forgery charge and was released on April 11, 1911.
He was convicted of the axe murders of his mother and maternal grandmother in Columbia, Missouri in 1912. Testimony during Henry's trial indicated that he had lived with his mother and grandmother during the winter of 1911 and the summer of 1912. He left to take a job on the railroad.
Henry Lee Moore served 36 years of a life sentence before being paroled by the govenor of Missouri on . The govenor commuted his sentence on July 30, 1956. Henry Moore was 82 years old and had been living at the Salvation Army Center in St. Louis. It is unknown when he died or where he was living at the time.
M.W. McClaughry, a federal officer assigned to the Villisca Axe Murder case, announced in May of 1913 that he had solved not only the Villisca murders but 22 others that had been committed in the Midwest around the same time frame. All the crimes were of brutal nature, most with axes as the murder weapon, and the cases involved other strikingly similar evidence. McClaughry received information from his father (who was the warden of Leavenworth, Kansas Federal Penitentiary at the time) about Moore's conviction for the axe murders of his mother and grandmother. It was his belief that Mr. Henry Moore had committed all of the murders. For whatever reason, McClaughry's announcement went largely ignored, and Henry Moore was not convicted of any of the other crimes.
In 1900, Henry was living with a family in Franklin County Iowa and working as a farmhand. It is suspected that Henry may have fathered a child with the young daughter of the farmer.
Henry was sentenced to the Kansas State Reformatory in in Hutchinson Kansas on a forgery charge and was released on April 11, 1911.
He was convicted of the axe murders of his mother and maternal grandmother in Columbia, Missouri in 1912. Testimony during Henry's trial indicated that he had lived with his mother and grandmother during the winter of 1911 and the summer of 1912. He left to take a job on the railroad.
Henry Lee Moore served 36 years of a life sentence before being paroled by the govenor of Missouri on . The govenor commuted his sentence on July 30, 1956. Henry Moore was 82 years old and had been living at the Salvation Army Center in St. Louis. It is unknown when he died or where he was living at the time.
M.W. McClaughry, a federal officer assigned to the Villisca Axe Murder case, announced in May of 1913 that he had solved not only the Villisca murders but 22 others that had been committed in the Midwest around the same time frame. All the crimes were of brutal nature, most with axes as the murder weapon, and the cases involved other strikingly similar evidence. McClaughry received information from his father (who was the warden of Leavenworth, Kansas Federal Penitentiary at the time) about Moore's conviction for the axe murders of his mother and grandmother. It was his belief that Mr. Henry Moore had committed all of the murders. For whatever reason, McClaughry's announcement went largely ignored, and Henry Moore was not convicted of any of the other crimes.
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