39 | Anjette Donovan Lyles: Black Widow of Macon

10/18/23 • 21 min

Anjette Donovan Lyles ran a popular diner in downtown Macon, Georgia and she oozed Southern charm, wowing customers with her lemon pie and banana pudding. But behind the home-cooked meals and the bright red lipstick-smile, lurked a dangerous killer from whom none of her family members were safe...
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Sources:
13WMAZ, “Anjette Lyles Case: Murder on the menu”, YouTube, 2020, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HU8R_sDJFc
13WMAZ, “From the archives: Anjette Lyles case”, YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWhGSEetvnY&t=105s
“Anjette Donovan Lyles”, Murderpedia, https://murderpedia.org/female.L/l/lyles-anjette.htm
Dan, Tee Jay, “The Difference Between Madness and Mental Illness”, LinkedIn, Nov 2020, The Difference between Madness and Mental Illness (linkedin.com)
GroovyAmericanTourist, “Anjette Lyles The Black Widow of Macon Georgia”, YouTube, Mar 2020, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_6tMhfdBUo
Lyles v. State, Supreme Court of Georgia, Justia, 1959, https://law.justia.com/cases/georgia/supreme-court/1959/20465-1.html
Weldon White, Jaclyn, “Whisper to the Black Candle: Voodoo, Murder, and the case of Anjette Lyles”, Mercer University Press, 2006

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Ronald Ruse was a happy, easy-going young man who enjoyed surfing and softball in his home state of sunny California. But when he met girlfriend Linda Ricchio, everything changed for the worse. This is a sad and alarming story of obsession and stalking that culminated in disaster and ruined more than one life.
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Sources:
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-06-06-me-1646-story.html https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-03-29-me-95-story.html https://gunmemorial.org/1987/12/01/ronald-lewis-ron-ruse-jr# https://thecinemaholic.com/where-is-linda-ricchio-now/ https://mylifeofcrime.wordpress.com/2014/08/04/deadly-women-linda-ricchio-stalked-and-killed-ronald-lewis-ruse-jr-because-he-broke-up-with-her-sentenced-to-27-years-to-life-in-prison/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3658502/?ref_=ttep_ep16

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40 | The Mysterious Axeman of New Orleans

What kind of killer could chisel out the panel of a door and creep inside without waking a soul? How was he so light on his feet that nobody heard him coming on the dark, moonless nights on which he struck? That’s what the people of New Orleans were asking themselves when their city was terrorised by a mysterious Axeman who targeted Italian grocers, leaving nothing behind but blood, fear, and a discarded weapon - and taking nothing with him except the secret of his identity. He came and went like a phantom, spreading a wave of brutality through the City of Festivals that would not easily be forgotten. Who was the Axeman of New Orleans?
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Dead Jungle composed by Matthew C Morelli
Don’t Scare Me Papa
Mysterious Madeline by Lucas Pittman
Sources:
The Axe Man of New Orleans: The True Story by Miriam C Davis
A Treasury of XXth Century Murder Compendium 1 by Rick Geary
The Mysterious Axman's Jazz by Joseph John Davilla https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLDiNcNvCBw