Villisca: Living with a Mystery (2004)

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115 min - Documentary

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When an entire family is wiped out by an axe murderer on a June evening in 1912, a small Iowa town spirals into chaos and division... See full summary »

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Credited cast:
	Larry Brandstetter	...	Himself-Director of "A Terrible Stillness"
	Ervalene Brown	...	Herself
	Rebecca Christian	...	Herself-Playwright "A Terrible Stillness"
	Pauline Day	...	Herself
	Janis Sue Enarson	...	Herself-Former Villisca Mayor
	Edgar V. Epperly	...	Documentary, historian
	Carolyn Cole Gage	...	Herself-Publisher Villisca Review
	Robert Moore Jr.	...	Himself
	Robert K. Ressler	...	Himself - Founder of F.B.I. Behavioural Sciences Unit
	Thomas Rusk	...	Himself
	Bruce Stillians	...	Documentary, historian
	Nancy Stillians	...	Herself-Playwright

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When an entire family is wiped out by an axe murderer on a June evening in 1912, a small Iowa town spirals into chaos and division. "Villisca" tells the epic true story of the Villisca, Iowa Children's Day murders. Following just two months after the sinking of the Titanic, the still-unsolved crime built and ruined political careers, created a lasting community split over the guilt or innocence of a local man--a state Senator--and produced dozens of litigations including three of America's most sensational trials. Written by Kelly Rundle

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