James has written two true crime books , '' Popular Crime : Reflections on the Celebration of Violence '' ( 2011 ) and '' The Man from the Train '' ( 2017 ) , the latter with his daughter Rachel McCarthy James . In '' The Man From the Train '' , published in 2017 , the Jameses attempt to link scores of murders of entire families in early 20th century America to a single perpetrator . Those murders include the Villisca axe murders . The Jameses propose a solution to the murders based on the signature elements these killings share in common with each other
Villisca axe murders
Villisca axe murders
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