'Haunting Villisca' movie to receive Iowa premiere

The first Iowa screening of the much-anticipated, recently completed feature film, "Haunting Villisca," which was shot on location at the Villisca Axe Murder House and in the Montgomery County Courthouse where the trials were held, will take place March 29 and 30 at the historic Rialto Theatre in Villisca, Iowa.

"Haunting Villisca" is inspired by the tragic, unsolved 1912 Villisca Axe Murders of 8 people and the present day paranormal investigations of the J. B. Moore Home where the crime took place.

In one of the worst crimes of the century, J.B. Moore, his wife Sarah and their four children; Herman, Boyd, Katherine and Paul were slain in their beds by an unknown assailant. Two unfortunate child houseguests, Lena and Ina Stillinger, friends of the Moore children who were just staying the night, were also bludgeoned to death. The case intrigue included a love triangle, a business rivalry and a rumored "killing for hire" plot linked to Villisca millionaire F.F. Jones. Despite the two trials and a grand jury investigation which involved a deranged pervert preacher, the Reverend L.G. Jacklin Kelly, the Villisca axe murders remain unsolved.