In 1885, a man dubbed the Servant Girl Annihilator by the press brutally attacked young servant girls in their beds. The man was never caught and some authorities in London even wondered if the man from Austin could have left Texas and gone to London and was actually Jack the Ripper. The crimes were very similar and the time frame makes sense. What do you think?

Sources:

The Midnight Assassin: Panic, Scandal, and the Hunt for America's First Serial Killer by Skip Hollandsworth

www.servantgirlmurders.com

https://www.pbs.org investigations

https://austin.culturemap.com news

https://www.kvue.com news local

http://genealogytrails.com travis

https://www.historicmysteries.com servant girl annihilator murders of austin tx