New Orleans Trunk Murders (1920s)
On 27 October, 1927, the discovery of two young women hacked to pieces and placed in a pair of travel trunks shocked the French Quarter. Severed fingers littered the floor near a blood-soaked mattress. Clothes from the trunks lie tossed about, a gold wedding ring embedded in a wound in one of the women’s backs. The bathroom was splattered with blood. The bedroom was soaked with the blood of two sisters, Theresa and Leonide Moity, who were married to a pair of brothers, Henry and Joseph Moity. Henry Moity, husband of Theresa Moity, confessed to the gruesome crime. He claimed Theresa was having an affair with their landlord, neglected their children, and had plans to leave him. Henry blamed Leonide for being a driving force for his wife’s bad behavior. He was sentenced to prison in 1928, but his story certainly didn’t end there.