According to psychiatrists who examined Bird after he was arrested and in jail, he was a psychopath who derived satisfaction from seeing women cowering in terror. Most of his victims were female, most were white (Bird was African American), and the majority were murdered in their homes with hatchets or axes. At age 19, he left home and began “roaming,” leaving a trail of murders in at least 11 states and suspected of others. Tacoma Axe Killer aka Bird, Jake (Decem– July 15, 1949) was born in rural Louisiana. Joseph Taborsky was sentenced to death and executed on May 17, 1960, the last person to be electrocuted in Connecticut’s “Old Sparky” electric chair. In the trial for the six murders, Arthur Culombe was given a life sentence. Taborsky was sentenced to death in 1951, but was acquitted at his retrial because the chief witness against him was declared insane.
Rosenthal was killed by a shot in the chest. On January 5, 1957, Bernard “Buster” Speyer and Ruth Speyer were both killed by a shot to the head. On December 26, Samuel Cohn was shot in the chest, killing him. After Taborsky teamed up with Arthur Culombe, they murdered Edward Kurpewski and Daniel Janowski on December 15, 1956. His first victim was Louis Wolfson, who was shot in the face on March 23, 1950. 1923) robbed and murdered at least six holdup victims between 19 in Connecticut. (Ma– May 17, 1960) and Culombe, Arthur (b.
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