# Ardenwald axe murders

Unsolved · 1911

The Ardenwald axe murders is an unsolved mass murder that occurred in the early morning of June 9, 1911, in Ardenwald, Oregon, United States, then a neighboring community of Portland. The victims were the Hill family: William Hill, his wife Ruth, and Ruth's two children from a previous marriage, Philip and Dorothy. All four victims had been bludgeoned to death with an axe.

Original record: https://en.wikipedia.org/?curid=62703687
Case page: https://realjustice.ai/cases/ardenwald-axe-murders-w62703687

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## Sources

1. Wikipedia record (CC BY-SA 4.0), https://en.wikipedia.org/?curid=62703687


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