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<p>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 survives. In a city rife with violence, the brutality of the killing shakes up its citizens. And the terror has only just begun.</p>

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Episode 1: Wicked Work | Devilish Deeds

Hi, it's Katie, the executive producer of Darkness.

What you're about to hear is season one of Devilish Deeds, a historical true crime podcast

Over the next four episodes, you'll hear the story of one of the first ever serial killers

who attacked mostly black women working as servants in Austin, Texas in the 1880s.

If you enjoyed this podcast, look for Devilish Deeds in Apple podcasts, Spotify, or your

favorite podcasting app because season two is coming later this year.

Last season we'll cover another historical true crime case, the Phantom Killer who terrorized

The story you're about to hear contains mentions of physical and sexual violence.

Please keep this in mind as you continue to listen to this podcast.

I'm meeting my coworker and my professor at the flagship Whole Foods at the edge of

Austin's crowded six street, or a tour about murder.

Cars fly by and music pours out of the bars and restaurants in Austin's busiest entertainment

Around a dozen people wait on the street corner gathered in a semicircle around a tour

We're about to travel back in time to an America's first and own serial killer, target

of African American women, and it all started where I'm standing right now.

On August 1, 1966, a sniper climbed the steps of the University of Texas at Austin’s 27-story tower. Seventeen people were killed and more than 30 others were injured. Fifty-six years later, mass shootings make headlines nearly every week. And the University of Texas tower looms over campus, a reminder of one of the first mass school shootings in United States history that has long been forgotten.

In season four of “Darkness,” host Sara Kinney walks through the day of the University of Texas Tower shooting and outlines its legacy among the decades-long epidemic of gun violence in schools. Hear from survivors, heroes and family members about their day in 1966, their lives since then and the state of gun control today.

0:00.0	Hi, it's Katie, the executive producer of Darkness.
0:04.3	What you're about to hear is season one of Devilish Deeds, a historical true crime podcast
0:08.5	we originally released in May of 2022.
0:11.8	Over the next four episodes, you'll hear the story of one of the first ever serial killers
0:15.7	who attacked mostly black women working as servants in Austin, Texas in the 1880s.
0:20.7	If you enjoyed this podcast, look for Devilish Deeds in Apple podcasts, Spotify, or your
0:24.9	favorite podcasting app because season two is coming later this year.
0:28.5	Last season we'll cover another historical true crime case, the Phantom Killer who terrorized
0:33.1	Texarkana, Texas in 1946.
0:37.1	You're listening to The Drag.
0:44.3	The story you're about to hear contains mentions of physical and sexual violence.
0:48.4	Please keep this in mind as you continue to listen to this podcast.
0:53.3	It's a Friday night in Austin, Texas.
0:55.1	I'm meeting my coworker and my professor at the flagship Whole Foods at the edge of
0:58.8	Austin's crowded six street, or a tour about murder.
1:03.0	The air is still, but six street isn't.
1:05.9	Cars fly by and music pours out of the bars and restaurants in Austin's busiest entertainment
1:10.6	district.
1:12.1	Around a dozen people wait on the street corner gathered in a semicircle around a tour
1:15.7	guide.
1:16.7	We're about to travel back in time to an America's first and own serial killer, target
1:20.7	of African American women, and it all started where I'm standing right now.
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