EP 75: The Servant Girl Annihilator PT 1

In this week's episode, the first of a two-parter, Kate and Paul head to 1884 Austin, Texas. After a string of grisly murders, the entire town is on edge as black domestic workers specifically seem to be the ones being targeted. 

Sources:

“The Midnight Assassin: The Hunt for America’s First Serial Killer” by Skip Hollandsworth.

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250118493/themidnightassassin

“The Servant Girl Murders Austin, Texas 1885” (website) J.R. Galloway.

https://www.servantgirlmurders.com/about/

“Investigations: Texas Servant Girl Murders” (PBS History Detectives) 

https://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/investigation/texas-servant-girl-murders/index.html

 “Capital Murder” by Skip Hollandsworth (Texas Monthly) 2000.

https://www.texasmonthly.com/true-crime/capital-murder/

“The Servant Girl Annihilator: Austin’s oldest unsolved murder case” by Katey Psnencik (KVUE) 2014.

https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/hidden-austin/the-servant-girl-annihilator-austins-oldest-unsolved-murder-case/269-260196137

“How Police Failed to Find America’s First Serial Killer” by Skip Hollandsworth (Esquire) 2016.

https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/books/a43408/midnight-assassin-skip-hollandsworth/

“Austin Serial Killer: Servant Girl Murderer Terrorized City in 1800s” by Erica Pauda (KXAN) 2023.

https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/austin-serial-killer-servant-girl-murderer-terrorized-city-in-1800s/

City Data (2010)

https://www.city-data.com/forum/austin/922264-historic-austin-texas-street-names-trees.html