Welcome to another edition of Time Suck Short Sucks.

I'm in comments and today I will be sharing the story of the servant girl annihilator.

Sounds like the title of a B horror movie.

But the annihilator was all too real.

From December of 1884 to December of 1885, three years before Jack the Ripper terrorized women in the Whitechapel area of London,

a serial killer who had come to be known as both the servant girl annihilator and the midnight assassin absolutely terrorized young women in Austin, Texas.

As the name suggests, most of the victims were servants who worked for wealthy families.

In almost every case, they were bludgeoned with an axe as they slept,

and in most cases, dragged out of their beds and raped before the killer fled the crime scene as well.

Would law enforcement working without any of the modern forensic tools detectives now have at their disposal,

such as DNA evidence, fingerprints, security camera footage, blood splatter analysis, and more be able to find out who was the Midnight Marauder, the servant girl annihilator, and put them

behind bars.

Words and ideas can change the world.

I hated her, but I wanted to love my mother.

I have a dream.

I'll plead not guilty right now.

Your only chance is to leave with us.

Out of eight known annihilator victims, five were African-American women, and one was an African-American

girl who was only 11 years old.

The attack spanned almost exactly a full year. The first victim was killed on December 30th,

1884, and the final two victims, who were both white women, were bludgeoned to death in separate

incidents just an hour apart on Christmas Eve 1885. I'm noting the race of the victims because race

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