Wess Haubrich
NuR Pub
Published in
8 min readJun 9, 2017

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“The Villisca Republic”, June 10, 1912.
Villisca, IA

This piece contains very lurid descriptions of a very brutal crime scene. One so brutal and bizarre it knocked the Titanic disaster off of many of the front pages in American newspapers when it happened 105 years ago and remains unsolved to this day. Please do not read this if you are squeamish or easily troubled. The lurid description…

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Wess Haubrich
NuR Pub

Horror, crime, noir with a distinctly southwestern tinge. Staff writer, former contributing editor; occultist; anthropologist of symbols.