Episode 3: The Servant Girl Annihilator & the Austin Moon Towers

Austin, Texas, 1884. There is a killer on the loose, seemingly targeting servant women and girls. Join me and my guest co-host, Emily, as we dive into this unsolved case and explore possible theories. This episode ran a bit long and I decided to just go with it :-)
A HUGE thank you to Chris Marshall with Sans Bar for this week’s mocktail recipe. You can find the full recipe HERE.
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SOURCES & RESOURCES

Hollandsworth, Skip. Midnight Assassin: The Hunt for America’s First Serial Killer. New York: Picador, 2015.

https://library.austintexas.gov/ahc/brief-history-austin

http://www.servantgirlmurders.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonlight_tower

https://theculturetrip.com/north-america/usa/texas/austin/articles/how-a-19th-century-serial-killer-led-to-austins-moonlight-towers/

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/austin-moonlight-towers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Austin,_Texas

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Servant_Girl_Annihilator

https://www.statesman.com/story/news/history/2019/05/23/on-christmas-day-1871-austins-first-railroad-altered-city-forever/5079567007/

https://www.kvue.com/article/news/history/austin-moonlight-towers-origins-history/269-88b34d2f-0d99-4c7d-851e-ae9258b880f2

https://austonia.com/servant-girl-annihilator

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

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https://newspaperarchive.com/the-austin-weekly-statesman-may-27-1886-p-5/