EP 76: The Servant Girl Annihilator PT 2
On today's episode, the conclusion of a two-parter, Paul and Kate return to Austin, Texas as more bodies are found brutally murdered in an eerily similar fashion. After a possible unique print is left at a few crime scenes, the town is on the lookout for a specific offender.
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.
“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.
City Data (2010)
https://www.city-data.com/forum/austin/922264-historic-austin-texas-street-names-trees.html