Murder Shelf Book Club Podcast
True Crime
Epi 54: “The Remarkable Ghoul”- The Midnight Assassin: Panic, Scandal and the Hunt for America’s first serial killer by Skip Hollandsworth- Pt 2
Like phantoms, a killer or killers walks among the people of Austin, Tx. Desperately seeking solutions, blood hounds, private detectives, and the famous Chicago Pinkerton Detective Agency are employed to catch the ‘remarkable ghoul’, who slaughters women, vanishing in the inky darkness. Fear continues to rise as the victims shift from black servant women to white society wives, death the great equalizer. Who is the Midnight Assassin? Can he be stopped?
Note: This story is set in the late 19th century and reflects the stereotypes, prejudices, and language of the era.
Source material, recipe and wine information, photographs are on Jill’s blog at www.murdershelfbookclub.com
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