As the bloody year of 1885 draws to a close and 1886 begins, the police are no closer to solving the vicious crimes that rattled Austin. Even more than a century later, no one knows for sure who killed these women or why. This episode explores the...
Austin’s city leaders begin to panic amid the bloodshed and bring in outside detectives to help the city’s underperforming police force. Although six Black women have been killed in less than a year, the city and the nation show much deeper concern...
A few months after the death of the first victim, another Black woman working as a servant in Austin is killed. And then another. With three murder victims and a clear pattern, modern officials would know that a serial killer is likely behind the...
As the capital of Texas celebrates the coming of a new year with exuberance, a dark shadow eclipses the city as an unknown killer stalks the streets. A Black woman working as a servant to a rich white Austinite is murdered, and her boyfriend barely...
In 1885, the Servant Girl Annihilator preyed upon the city of Austin’s domestic servants and sent an otherwise tranquil city into a state of distrust and near bedlam with eight violent murders carried out with an axe. The University of Texas...
In 1885, a few years before Jack the Ripper went on a killing spree in London, an axe-wielding killer stalked the streets of the dusty frontier town of Austin, Texas. The victims, mostly Black women who worked as servants for Austin’s wealthy white...
The Drag’s Megan Parker and Meena Anderson intend to change the manner in which serial killings are discussed with “Devilish Deeds,” a new podcast coming soon from The Drag. Throughout our Q&A, the hosts expanded on a variety of...
