This week, Kaydra begins to unravel a tangled web in Austin, TX. This is the story of the Servant Girl Annihilator, America's first serial killer. In part 1, we will get into some of the grisly murders, the relevant history of Austin at that time, messy politics, and the killer's M.O.

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SOURCES:
1) "Unsolved Murders" True Crime Stories from Parcast (episodes 70 and 71)
2) Wikipedia
3) https://www.servantgirlmurders.com/the-servant-girl-annihilator/
4) https://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/investigation/texas-servant-girl-murders/index.html
5) https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/austin-serial-killer-servant-girl-murderer-terrorized-city-in-1800s/
6) http://www.servantgirlmurders.com/
7) https://the-line-up.com/servant-girl-annihilator-austin
8) https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/books/a43408/midnight-assassin-skip-hollandsworth/
9) https://www.texasmonthly.com/true-crime/capital-murder/