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Wicked Words - A True Crime Talk Show with Kate Winkler Dawson

Tenfold More Wicked - The Annihilator: The Midnight Assassin

Wicked Words - A True Crime Talk Show with Kate Winkler Dawson

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True Crime

4.8 • 7.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

In 1884 and 1885, a series of terrible murders all points to one serial killer, dubbed the Servant Girl Annihilator. Eugene Burt, then a teenager, accompanies his father, the city physician, to one of the crime scenes—and he makes a terrible discovery. Twelve years later, Burt is beginning to act erratically after his father dies. Support this podcast by shopping our latest sponsor deals and promotions at this link: https://bit.ly/4dsqzI1 Buy my books: katewinklerdawson.com If you have suggestions for historical crimes that could use some attention, particularly in your own family, email [email protected] Follow me on social: @tenfoldmore (Twitter) / @tenfoldmorewicked (Facebook and Instagram) 2023 All Rights Reserved Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is exactly right.

0:06.0

This story contains adult content and language.

0:09.0

Listener discretion is advised. So, here we are at the site of the Burke Home.

0:17.0

2.07. at the site of the Burnt Home, 207 East 9th Street and as you saw from the map it was fairly

0:31.6

quiet neighborhood collection of Victorian homes,

0:34.3

was just one block off the avenue. That was what Congress Avenue was known as

0:38.7

for years. People just call it the avenue. Everybody knew what you were talking about you were saying

0:44.2

that there were some financial issues it was brothers constantly help and

0:47.4

set a business you gene would just take the money and never set up that cigar

0:51.2

store in new or lens and then he would cheat and

0:53.7

bezel and lie they gave him a job at the shoe store and he was doing this over and

0:57.4

over and over again he was going and changing the books taking money out of

1:01.5

the till and getting caught at it.

1:03.7

It is a 19th century narrative.

1:05.3

And just denied and denied and denied.

1:07.5

It was pathological about it. But before all of that happened,

1:17.0

Eugene Bert was accused of one of the most gruesome tragedies in Austin's history.

1:24.0

There were the Servant Girl Annihilator Murders, the series of murders that we mentioned

1:29.1

in the last episode. The Annihilator's first victim was a black private cook in her mid-20s named Molly Smith.

1:44.0

She was murdered on December 30th of 1884.

1:47.7

Molly was attacked in her bedroom, dragged outside,

1:50.9

raped, and killed.

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