Servant Girl Annihilator
Unidentified serial killer active 1884–85 in Austin, Texas
Servant Girl Annihilator
The Servant Girl Annihilator, also known as the Midnight Assassin, was an unidentified American serial killer who preyed upon the city of Austin, Texas, in 1884 and 1885. The moniker "Servant Girl Annihilator" originated with the writer O. Henry. The series of eight axe murders were referred to by contemporary sources as the Servant Girl Murders. The December 26, 1885, issue of The New York Times reported that the "murders were committed by some cunning madman, who is insane on the subject of killing women." The murders represent an early documented example of a serial killer operating in the United States, three years before the Jack the Ripper murders in Whitechapel. Soon after the Whitechapel murders, there was speculation the crimes might be committed by the same culprit who had been active in Austin, but no link was ever definitively established. According to historian Philip Sugden in The Complete History of Jack the Ripper, the conjecture originated in October 1888, when an editor...
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