The Servant Girl Annihilators - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Servant Girl Annihilators write by D. W. Skrabanek. This book was released on 2014-09. The Servant Girl Annihilators available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The end of 1884 marked the beginning of a mysterious series of brutal killings that left the citizens of Austin, the capital city of Texas, bewildered and terrified. By the end of 1885, the so-called servant girl murders had claimed the lives of at least five black women and girls, one black man, and two white women, most all hacked to death with an ax or a hatchet. The murders produced a marvelous tale of rape, murder, revenge. prostitution, drunkenness, miscegenation, and official ineptitude. This book chronicles those murders and subsequent events. The intent is to give readers the same thorough sense of the crimes Austinites might have experienced through local, state, and national media. 432 pages, 8.5 x 11 inches; maps, photos, index. "Extremely thorough and meticulous . . . a valuable reference source for future researchers of Austin history." (J. R. Galloway, www.servantgirlmurders.com)
The Servant Girl Murders
The Servant Girl Murders - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Servant Girl Murders write by J. R. Galloway. This book was released on 2010. The Servant Girl Murders available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Servant Girl Murders documents the true story of a series of mysterious murders that occurred in Austin, Texas during the year 1885.
The Midnight Assassin
The Midnight Assassin - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Midnight Assassin write by Skip Hollandsworth. This book was released on 2016-04-05. The Midnight Assassin available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A New York Times bestseller, The Midnight Assassin is a sweeping narrative history of a terrifying serial killer--America's first--who stalked Austin, Texas in 1885. In the late 1800s, the city of Austin, Texas was on the cusp of emerging from an isolated western outpost into a truly cosmopolitan metropolis. But beginning in December 1884, Austin was terrorized by someone equally as vicious and, in some ways, far more diabolical than London's infamous Jack the Ripper. For almost exactly one year, the Midnight Assassin crisscrossed the entire city, striking on moonlit nights, using axes, knives, and long steel rods to rip apart women from every race and class. At the time the concept of a serial killer was unthinkable, but the murders continued, the killer became more brazen, and the citizens' panic reached a fever pitch. Before it was all over, at least a dozen men would be arrested in connection with the murders, and the crimes would expose what a newspaper described as "the most extensive and profound scandal ever known in Austin." And yes, when Jack the Ripper began his attacks in 1888, London police investigators did wonder if the killer from Austin had crossed the ocean to terrorize their own city. With vivid historical detail and novelistic flair, Texas Monthly journalist Skip Hollandsworth brings this terrifying saga to life.
A Twist at The End
A Twist at The End - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Twist at The End write by Steven Saylor. This book was released on 2001-12-09. A Twist at The End available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A chilling crime tale based on actual events from more than one hundred years ago, follows a serial killer dubbed by O.Henry as "The Servant Girl Annihilator" who roamed the streets of Austin, Texas, along with a fascinating group of characters both real and fictional.
Austin Murder & Mayhem
Austin Murder & Mayhem - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Austin Murder & Mayhem write by Richard Zelade. This book was released on 2015. Austin Murder & Mayhem available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Beneath Austin's shiny veneer lies a dark past, filled with murder, lechery and deceit. Legislators, lawmen and lawyers killed, robbed and lied just as well and just as often as the drifters and grifters preying on newcomers. The nation's first known serial killer made his debut in Austin in the form of the Servant Girl Annihilator, who is still rumored to be Jack the Ripper. After the Willis brothers murdered their neighbors over rumored buried gold, a lynch mob hanged the boys from live oaks on present-day Sixth Street. Freshman representative Louis Franke died after he was robbed and beaten on the steps of the statehouse. Author Richard Zelade delivers a fascinating look at the seedier side of Austin history.
