True Crime Friday: Jake Bird, the Bird Hex serial killer
Jake Bird was born on December 14, 1901, in the State of Louisiana. He murdered at least eleven people across the United States between 1930 and 1947. Bird confessed to at least forty-six murders before he was executed by the State of Washington. Jake Bird gained the moniker of the Bird Hex Serial Killer because he put a verbal hex by announcing "All you guys who had anything to do with this case are going to die before I do." Five people connected with the trial died from heart attacks within a year and they died before he was executed. Bird murdered white women going out of the serial killer method of murdering in his own community. Birds’ choice of weapon was an axe or hatchet. In those days, Bird challenged the stereotype of serial killers only being white males and murdering within their own communities. The Early Childhood of Jake Bird Jake Bird grew up in a neglectful environment. Not much is known about Jake’s early childhood. He stated that he was abused and neglecte...
