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Who Killed These Girls?: The Unsolved Murders That Rocked a Texas Town

The Servant Girl Murders: Austin, Texas 1885

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1991, Austin Texas, Jennifer Haribson and Eliza Thomas, both 17 were working at the local frozen yogurt shop that day they were set to close the shop. Jeniffer’s younger sister Sarah and her friend Amy Ayers (ages 15 and 13) had been at the mall and were helping close so they could get a ride home with Jennifer.

shortly before midnight, a patrolling police officer noticed a fire coming from the yogurt shop. After the flames were put out, they found the bodies of the four girls. They were all nude and each had been shot in the head execution style with a .22 lead bullet.

Sarah was found with her hands bound behind her back, and she had been gagged and raped. Jennifer was not bound bust she was gagged. Eliza had been gagged and had her hands bound behind her back. All three had been charred and shot in the back of the head.

Amy, however was found in a seperate part of the shop, her body was not charred but had recieved 2nd and 3rd degree burns on over 25% of her body. She had been shot like the other girls, but the initial shot did not kill her and she was shot a second time in the head.

It is believed that the girls had been stacked together but Amy was able to pull herself off and crawl to another part of the store, it is also believed that the girls were dead before the fire was started.

The girls murder(s) were never found and nobody has been charged, there were many suspects and lost of people who witnessed men with strange behavior in the shop that night. But as of today the Austin cold case department is still working on this case.

and then we go way back in time.

1885, times were a bit different then. The Texas Monthly reported a mad man had murdered seven women (five black, two white) as well as one black man and additionally had injured six other women and one man. All of the victims were attacked in their homes, most of the women then being dragged outdoors (unconscious but still alive) and murdered there.

While some of the women were mutilated, they were all posed in a similar fashion. One man was arrested but this as later overturned. The murders stopped, as additional police were hired and rewards were offered for information.

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