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Austin, 1885. The story goes that something came in the dead hours of the night, into the small back rooms where the city's cooks slept. The dogs did not bark. No one heard footsteps. And in the morning, out in the yard, someone would find the prints of a man's bare feet. That is the legend. The record is darker. Beginning on December 31, 1884, in a city of some twenty-three thousand people, someone killed Mollie Smith, Eliza Shelley, Irene Cross, eleven-year-old Mary Ramey, Orange Washington and Gracie Vance, most of them attacked in the back rooms and quarters where they slept. A young William Sydney Porter, the future O. Henry, joked in a letter about the "Servant Girl Annihilators," and the name stuck. Police arrested Black men by the hundred, about four hundred by the end of the year, and the city paid little real attention until Christmas Eve, when the killer went into the main houses and Susan Hancock and Eula Phillips died within about an hour of each other. The authorities charged the husbands. Nobody was ever proven guilty. The footprints led to a creek, a river or a stable, and then they stopped. This episode also takes apart the story that Austin's famous moonlight towers were raised to light the killer out of the dark, and explains where that legend really came from. This is Texas After Dark, a Halloween season of Texas ghost stories and the true history underneath them, told by Pops. A Pops audio documentary. Sources and inference: Drawn from case records as summarized by historians, contemporary newspaper reporting, O. Henry's 1885 letter, a published geographic-profiling study and Austin historical markers; the cold open is framed aloud as legend, and inferences and single-source claims are voiced as such. CHAPTERS 0:00 Imagine the Room Behind the House 1:29 A Capital Built of Pink Granite 2:25 Bare Tracks in the Snow 3:36 A Cold Joke in a Letter 4:40 Trails That Simply Stopped 5:53 Four Hundred Arrests 7:10 Christmas Eve in the Main Houses 9:16 They Charged the Husbands 10:06 A Missing Toe and a Ship to London 10:59 The Moonlight Tower Myth 11:59 Coda: The Names and the Footprints #TexasAfterDark #GhostStories #ServantGirlAnnihilator #AustinHistory #TexasHistory #Halloween

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