#017 Ade Family Axe Murders l Music City Murder
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67-year-old Jacob Ade and his wife, Pauline, had lived along Clarksville Road for 20 years. Well-liked and prosperous, they had over 400 acres of farmland and a five room house, valued at just over $10,000—which would be easily over a quarter-million dollars in today’s money.
On the night of Tuesday, March 24, 1897, at about 9:30, one of the Ade’s neighbors woke up to see that the Ade house was on fire.
They hurried over to help and discovered a gruesome crime scene.
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