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An Ybor City ax murderer led to marijuana regulation. Now there’s a movie in the works.
Known as the Dream Slayer, Victor Licata killed his family in 1933 and the murders led to the criminalization of marijuana.
![This 1950 Tampa Tribune article reports on how law enforcement arrested Ybor City ax murderer Victor Licata who escaped a mental institution five years earlier. The story of Licata might now be made into a feature film.](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 900 506"/%3E "This 1950 Tampa Tribune article reports on how law enforcement arrested Ybor City ax murderer Victor Licata who escaped a mental institution five years earlier. The story of Licata might now be made into a feature film.")
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