The Man from the Train The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery

That was according to The Man from the Train by Bill James, which is such a good book. And he's a retired detective who like goes into this case and looks at it from a detective's point of view from now.

I highly, highly recommend that book. I'll link it.

And according to the book The Man from the Train by Bill James, which I can't say it enough. Go buy that book.

I'm not kidding you. Go buy the book. It'll just, you won't stop. You will just blow through those. Just keeps coming and it just keeps coming.

According to the man from the train, read it again. Love that book.

Bill James in his book says that often this particular serial killer would kill everyone in their sleep and they would be found where they lay.

For someone who loves this book so much, I fuck it up a lot.

But that book is by the author Bill James and his daughter, Rachel McCarthy James.

And if you are looking for a true crime book that is going to be factually dense and yet absolutely horrifying as a story where you think, oh, my God, how do I never know about this? Read the man from the train.

I will keep on recommending it until year 28 of this podcast.

OK, I have another book recommendation, but I took this one from our friend of the family, Rachel McCarthy James, who is the co-author of my favorite, favorite book, The Man From the Train.

If you haven't read The Man From the Train and you like true crime, it is. Stop yelling at my mind blowing. I just want to reread it.

I have recommended this book now so many times it's called the man from the train it's um by bill james and he's uh yeah he's an analyst he writes a lot about baseball but he wrote this book and um uh so he basically he has this theory there have been axe murders of families in homes around the united states from 1898 through 1912 and in so i will now list the similarities oh god oh god of the man from the trains mo and to the villisca axe murders i'm buying this book immediately it's such a good book i never listened to you before but no i see

it's called the man from the train it links it all up and that is the unbelievable and still unsolved villisca axe murder story amazing great fucking job thank you kindly

To a horrible and mysterious, this makes me want to point back to once again one of my favorite true crime books of all time, The Man from the Train, which is unbelievable.

And it has that thing where the idea that someone comes into a small town where people are just the assumption of safety because they're far away from people, they're away from the big city or whatever and decimates a family and then just walks away and nothing ever happens from that is just crazy.

I feel like back then it was just so easy to just blend in and be a nameless, faceless person going through town.

Yeah, that's crazy. And you could hop on trains again.

Read The Man from the Train if you're that. So good.

If you haven't read the man on a train and you're looking for quarantine entertainment, I know I've recommended it a hundred times, but it is a. I still haven't read it.

That book's amazing.

It's called the man from the train by a man who's normally a baseball writer named Bill James, but he also wrote the book popular crime.

So he's linking the Velasca acts murders and a bunch of other really grisly murders. It's one guy that used to ride the train and it's just incredible.

They did so much research.

It's one of those really satisfying, like if you know about this crime and this crime and this crime, he's like, it's all one guy.

I have recommended this book now so many times it's called the man from the train it's um by Bill James and he's uh yeah he's an analyst he writes a lot about baseball but he wrote this book and um uh so he basically he has this theory there have been axe murders of families in homes around the united states from 1898 through 1912 and in so i will now list the similarities oh god oh god of the man from the trains mo and to the villisca axe murders i'm buying this book immediately it's such a good book i never listened to you before but no i see

it's called the man from the train it links it all up and that is the unbelievable and still unsolved villisca axe murder story amazing great fucking job thank you kindly

It's called the man from the train by a man who's normally a baseball writer named Bill James, but he also wrote the book popular crime.

So he's linking the Velasca acts murders and a bunch of other really grisly murders. It's one guy that used to ride the train and it's just incredible.

They did so much research.

And also the way he writes, like sometimes I feel like when I read true crime books, it's very like, uh, it gets very prosy and like kind of like the very overly descriptive this guy. It's like, he's just talking to you or he was like, well, we'll talk about that later.

It's really cool narrative and then it's just really clear. And it's one of those really satisfying, like if you know about this crime and this crime and this crime, he's like, it's all one guy.