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The Conspirators Podcast

Ep. 50 - The Annihilator

The Conspirators Podcast

The Conspirators Podcast

Society & Culture, History

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2017

⏱️ 27 minutes

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A full three years before Jack the Ripper stalked the streets of London, there was another vicious serial killer who terrorized people in the city of Austin, Texas. The killer known sometimes as The Servant... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Now available at boots and at duerX.co. UK. It's difficult to say why some murderers become famous, whereas others don't.

0:35.0

If I were to ask you who the most famous serial killer of all time is,

0:39.0

there's a good chance you might say Ted Bundy,

0:41.0

or maybe John Wayne Gacy, or perhaps the Zodiac Killer.

0:46.1

But there's an even better chance you might say Jack the Ripper.

0:50.9

If I had to pick a most famous serial killer, Jack would be at the top of my list.

0:55.0

To the best of my knowledge, no other serial killer in history has inspired so many books, movies, TV shows, and even video games. In London's Whitechapel District in 1888, Jack the Ripper

1:07.7

brutally murdered five women, then seemingly disappeared forever. As a result the Ripper has attained a near legendary status in the history of crime.

1:17.0

Yet just three years earlier, another serial killer stalked the streets of Austin, Texas,

1:22.0

killing eight people in a series of crimes

1:25.3

that were equally as brutal as those committed by the Ripper.

1:29.3

Yet the story of the Fiend, sometimes known as the Servant Girl Annihilator, is almost forgotten to history.

1:36.4

By the end of the 19th century, the state of Texas was finally starting to re-emerge from the long

1:40.3

painful years of reconstruction following the Civil War.

1:44.8

Back during the war, the city of Austin was still the rustic cow town you'd expect to

1:48.1

see as the backdrop to any number of cowboy movies.

1:52.1

In 1865, the town had a population of 5,000 people and cattle and hogs

1:56.8

roamed the streets freely. But over the next 20 years the city managed to

2:01.6

reinvent itself. In 1884 Austin's population had ballooned up to 23,000 residents in what was

2:08.8

becoming a thoroughly modern city. People rode on mule-drawn streetcars. These party-line telephones attended

2:16.4

one of the three local universities, took painting classes at Miss Barber's

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