Austin, TX 1885 - A fiendish killer stalks the night, cleaving the skulls of women with his axe and dragging them from their beds into a darkness filled with knives and terror. As the nation's first serial killer, this guy inspired some poetic prose. Also, we dive into the toe-curling history of the Texas prison system.

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Sources:

• Hollandsworth, Skip (4/5/2016). Esquire.com, How Police Failed to Find America's First Serial Killer.