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Darkness - Episode 4: The Light of the Moon | Devilish Deeds

<p>As the bloody year of 1885 draws to a close and 1886 begins, the police are no closer to solving the vicious crimes that rattled Austin. Even more than a century later, no one knows for sure who killed these women or why. This episode explores the various theories, from the effects of the moon to the possibility that Jack the Ripper started in Texas.</p>

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Episode 4: The Light of the Moon | Devilish Deeds

Murder will out, run down the midnight assassins.

Keep your doors bolted and windows securely festive.

By now, more than a year after the murders began,

dozens of people have been arrested in connection with the

Jimmy Phillips spends time and jail for his wife's murder.

With a lack of answers, the city is left with nothing but random theories.

The most compelling and unsettling theory is published in the

Do same men humbly plot them carry into effect horrible murders

under the glare of the light of the moon?

A Statesman reporter looks back across eight murders.

Molly Smith, Eliza Shelley, Mary Raimi, Gracie Vance,

Orange Washington, Yule of Phillips, Susan Hancock, and Irene Cross.

All eight of the murders took place within a week of a full moon.

You might hear the term lunatic now and think that I refers to someone who was mentally ill,

which isn't exactly wrong, but the history of the term is hidden in the word itself.

Jim Miles, the owner of Walking Towards of Austin, and the tour guide you've heard

throughout this podcast, explains it for us.

So that there's this theory in the newspapers that it's a gang of men,

of black men, being driven mad by a full moon.

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	You're listening to The Drag.
0:13.0	Murder will out, run down the midnight assassins.
0:17.0	Keep your doors bolted and windows securely festive.
0:22.0	By now, more than a year after the murders began,
0:26.0	dozens of people have been arrested in connection with the
0:29.0	eight murders and many other attacks.
0:31.0	Jimmy Phillips spends time and jail for his wife's murder.
0:35.0	With a lack of answers, the city is left with nothing but random theories.
0:39.0	The most compelling and unsettling theory is published in the
0:43.0	Austin Daily Statesman on January 14th.
0:47.0	Do same men humbly plot them carry into effect horrible murders
0:52.0	under the glare of the light of the moon?
0:55.0	A Statesman reporter looks back across eight murders.
0:58.0	Molly Smith, Eliza Shelley, Mary Raimi, Gracie Vance,
1:03.0	Orange Washington, Yule of Phillips, Susan Hancock, and Irene Cross.
1:09.0	All eight of the murders took place within a week of a full moon.
1:13.0	You might hear the term lunatic now and think that I refers to someone who was mentally ill,
1:19.0	which isn't exactly wrong, but the history of the term is hidden in the word itself.
1:24.0	Jim Miles, the owner of Walking Towards of Austin, and the tour guide you've heard
1:28.0	throughout this podcast, explains it for us.
1:31.0	So that there's this theory in the newspapers that it's a gang of men,
1:36.0	of black men, being driven mad by a full moon.
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