While Fruitloops takes a short break, we’re rewinding to a chilling episode from 2021. Wendy & Beth dive into one of America’s earliest, and most disturbing, unsolved cases: The Austin Axe Murderer.
Between December 30, 1884 and December 24, 1885, an unknown killer terrorized Austin, Texas, brutally murdering eight people before disappearing into history. No suspect. No arrest. No answers – just fear, unanswered questions, and a mystery that still lingers more than a century later.
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Footnotes
Articles/Websites
Wikipedia contributors. (12/11/2020). Servant Girl Annihilator. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 12/15/2020 from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Servant_Girl_Annihilator&oldid=993582147
Hollandsworth, Skip. (July 2020). Capital Murder. Texas Monthly. Retrieved 12/12/2020 from https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/capital-murder/
Criminal Minds Wiki. (n.d.). The Servant Girl Annihilator. Retrieved 12/13/2020 from https://criminalminds.fandom.com/wiki/The_Servant_Girl_Annihilator
Haile, Bartee. (04/29/2020). Ax murderer preyed on city of Austin in 1880s. Hays Free Press. Retrieved 12/13/2020 from https://haysfreepress.com/2020/04/29/ax-murderer-preyed-on-city-of-austin-in-1880s/
The Servant Girl Murders. (n.d.). Retrieved 12/13/2020 from http://www.servantgirlmurders.com/
American Killers. (n.d.). The Axeman of Austin: Austin, Texas, 1884-1885. Retrieved 12/13/2020 from http://americankillers.org/cms/index.php/the-axeman-of-austin
Salinas, Rebecca. (04/24/2015). Look back at the serial killer that terrorized Austin in the 1880s. My San Antonio. Retrieved 12/13/2020 from https://www.mysanantonio.com/150years/major-stories/article/A-look-back-at-the-serial-killer-that-terrorized-6222438.php&cmpid=rel
Vatomsky, Sonya. (04/25/2017). How the ‘Servant Girl Annihilator’ Terrorized 1880s Austin. Mental Floss. Retrieved 12/17/2020 from https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/94680/how-servant-girl-annihilator-terrorized-1880s-austin
American Hauntings. (01/29/2014). THE SERVANT GIRL ANNIHILATOR: UNSOLVED AMERICAN MYSTERY. Retrieved 12/17/2020 from http://troytaylorbooks.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-servant-girl-unsolved-and.html
Books
Hollandsworth, Skip (2016). The Midnight Assassin. New York, NY: Henry Holt and Co.
Podcasts
Polcyn, Greg; Richardson, Vanessa (hosts). Serial Killers. (11/18/2019). The Servant Girl Annihilator Pt.1 [Audio podcast]. Retrieved 12/12/2020 from https://www.stitcher.com/show/serial-killers/episode/the-servant-girl-annihilator-pt-1-65348413
Polcyn, Greg; Richardson, Vanessa (hosts). Serial Killers. (11/25/2019). The Servant Girl Annihilator Pt.2 [Audio podcast]. Retrieved 12/12/2020 from https://www.stitcher.com/show/serial-killers/episode/the-servant-girl-annihilator-pt-2-65523683
Crime and Theerie. (5/27/2020). The Servant Girl Annihilator aka Austin Axe Murderer. [Audio Podcast]. Retrieved 12/13/2020 from https://www.stitcher.com/show/crime-and-theerie
Crime and Theerie. (6/10/2020). Annihilator or Ripper. Retrieved 12/13/2020 from https://www.stitcher.com/show/crime-and-theerie
Mars, Roman (Host). 99% Invisible. (01/27/2015). 150-Under the Moonlight. [Audio Podcast]. Retrieved on 12/13/2020 http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_eye/2015/01/28/roman_mars_99_invisible_on_the_false_legend_behind_austin_s_moonlight_towers.html
Perry, Jon. Nicole and Jen (hosts). Talk Murder to Me. (11/26/2019). Midnight Butcher Shop// The Servant Girl Annihilator. [Audio Podcast]. https://podcasts.google.com/?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuc3ByZWFrZXIuY29tL3Nob3cvNDU0ODQ0My9lcGlzb2Rlcy9mZWVk&ep=14
Video
PBS. History Detectives: Texas Servant Girl Murders.
https://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/video/2365286604/
History
Austin History Center. (n.d.). Brief History of Austin. Retrieved 12/12/2020 from http://library.austintexas.gov/ahc/brief-history-austin
Wikipedia contributors. (08/30/2020). History of Austin, Texas. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 12/12/2020 from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=History_of_Austin,_Texas&oldid=975738134
Bullock Museum. (n.d.). African Americans. Retrieved 12/12/2020 from https://www.thestoryoftexas.com/discover/campfire-stories/african-americans
Texas Beyond History. (n.d.). Guy Town. Retrieved 12/13/2020 from https://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/guytown/index.html
Hudspeth, Brewster. (n.d.). Austin’s “Guy Town”. Texas Escapes. Retrieved 12/13/2020 from http://www.texasescapes.com/AustinTexas/Guy-Town-Texas.htm
Music
“Abyss” by Alasen: ●https://soundcloud.com/alasen●https://twitter.com/icemantrap ●https://instagram.com/icemanbass/●https://soundcloud.com/therealfrozenguy●
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“Christmas Hip Hop” by Blake http://ccmixter.org/files/blakeht/29357
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“Christmas Rap” & “Furious Freak” by Kevin MacLeod
https://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/full_list.php
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