In all, Barnabet was responsible for 20 victims right here in Acadiana and South Louisiana. 'Heads and limbs would be separated from the torso and strewn all over the house,' reported the International News Service.' They also found a bible verse written in blood on a wall inside the home.īut, who could be responsible for such vile and violent murders? Victims Of Clementine BarnabetĪccording to 'all the victims were mutilated. Parents, children, even newborn babies were heartlessly, gruesomely slaughtered with an axe.Įven more bizarre, in the investigation of the Broussard family of five killings in Lake Charles, authorities found the three children's fingers had been spread and held open with pieces of wood. To make matters even more tragic, the murders, often referred to as 'The Midnight Axe Murders', wiped out entire families. In some of the murders, authorities found buckets left at the scene that had been used to collect the victim's blood. Reports show that all the murders occurred at night, and in every instance, an axe was used to fracture the skulls of the victims. Location wasn't the only common thread authorities discovered investigating the murders. 'Between 19, in towns along the Southern Pacific railroad line running through Louisiana and Texas, a minimum of twelve African-American families were murdered in their homes.'

Not only in Acadiana, but in East Texas as well.Īll of the towns where the murders took place shared a commonality of being located along the Southern Pacific railroad line.

Shortly after the Barnabets moved to Lafayette, a string of gruesome murders began in the Acadiana area.

The Barnabet family of seven moved to Lafayette in 1909 according to. Martinville in 1884 to Nina Porter and Raymond Barnabet. Lafayette serial killer Clementine Barnabet is believed to have violently murdered 'at least' 35 people in the Acadiana area and Texas, but that's only a small part of her gruesome, terrifying local legacy.Ĭlementine Barnabet was born in St.

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