When someone brings up serial killers in Washington most people think of Ted Bundy or the Green River Killer, not Jake Bird.
Jake Bird’s story is wildly gruesome and eerie because not only is he responsible for hacking a mother and daughter to death with an axe in Tacoma, Washington in 1947 during a burglary gone bad, but he is also suspected of killing over 46 other people throughout the United States making him one the worst serial killers ever.
As he was attempting to burglarize the Tacoma residence, the homeowner, Bertha Kludt tried to stop him. Jake Bird attacked and killed her horrifically with an axe. Bertha’s daughter, Beverly, who was upstairs and heard her mother screaming, ran downstairs to help and confronted the killer, only to suffer the same fate as her mother – being hacked to death with the axe…