The midnight assassin: panic, scandal, and the hunt for America's first serial killer

"A killer who gives to history a new story of crime"

December 1884-April 1885. "Doctor Steiner reports a woman lying near Ravy's"

April 1885-August 1885. "Who was it? Who did this to you?"

September 1885-Christmas Day 1885. "A woman has been chopped to pieces! It's Mrs. Hancock! On Water Street!"

December 26, 1885-January 1886. "The whole city is arming. If this thing is not stopped soon, several corpses will be swinging from the tree limbs"

February 1886-May 1888. "A prominent State officer and an active candidate for the Governorship of Texas ... knows something about Eula Phillips' murder"

September 1888-August 1996. "I would suggest that the same hand that committed the Whitechapel murders committed to Texas murders"

"If no one could catch the killer back when he was alive, what makes you think you can catch him now?"