Texas Servant Girl Murders - 10pm June 10 - Austin/KLRU-Q

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Repeats at 2am.  Been wanting to catch this for a while.

History Detectives Special Investigations

Texas Servant Girl Murders

https://www.klru.org/episode/episode_40792?data={"nolaRoot":"HDSI"}

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The unsolved case of the Servant Girl Murders in 1884-85 Austin, Texas, is investigated. Over the course of a year, six African-American servants and two white women were brutally murdered. The modus operandi was similar in each instance: the assailant attacked the victim with an ax while she slept in bed; and then he dragged her outside, where he raped and mutilated her.

 

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This might be on the PBS app, I forgot to check there.

I really hope they don't get into whether or not The Servant Girl Annihilator is the same guy as Jack the Ripper.  That seems to distract from everything else.

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Why isn’t there a band in Austin named “The Servant Girl Annihilators”?

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Not seeing it in the Dish guide.

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13 minutes ago, kevwun said:

Not seeing it in the Dish guide.

I’m watching it on antenna.  18-3. 

In 1885, people were bitching about the Austin City Council, hahaha. 

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Ah, makes sense.  It must be on one of the extra channels that's only broadcast over the air.

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Competence of Austin PD questioned. 

All we need is bitching about traffic (too many damn horses and buggies!). 

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You maybe able to stream here. 

https://www.pbs.org/video/history-detectives-hdsi-texas-servant-girl-murders/

 

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1 hour ago, atomheartbevo said:

Competence of Austin PD questioned. 

All we need is bitching about traffic (too many damn horses and buggies!). 

Austin does seem to have a problem solving high publicity murders, unless the killer makes it completely obvious like Whitman and to a lesser extent the recent bomber guy (mailing bombs from a FedEx facility?). 

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27 minutes ago, JimmyJames said:

Austin does seem to have a problem solving high publicity murders, unless the killer makes it completely obvious like Whitman and to a lesser extent the recent bomber guy (mailing bombs from a FedEx facility?). 

If you believe that it was Nathan Elgin, the Travis County Sheriff had a fairly good idea of who the Servant Girl Annihilator was based on actual forensic evidence. The show mentioned they thought it was Elgin.  More info - http://www.servantgirlmurders.com/the-servant-girl-annihilator/

and being that it’s Austin, even though they had a prime suspect, they still tried to send innocent men to jail/death. I’m not talking about the 400+ African-Americans they rounded up, but the husbands of two of the victims.