Thursday, January 5, 2023

The Midnight Assassin by Skip Hollandsworth on the Murder Shelf Book Club: Episodes 53, 54, 55

 

Photos and Sources for The Midnight Assassin by 

Skip Hollandsworth





                                                            Austin, Texas 1880s


A velocipede, commonly ridden in the late 1800s into the 20th century.


     
Victims Eula Phillips and Susan Hancock










10 Mental Health Benefits of Pets, PsychCenter, 

Carol Commons-Brosowske, The Bone-Chilling Story of the First Serial Killer in Austin, Texas Will Haunt Your Dreams, Only In Your State.com, Aug 26, 2016.

Dengue Fever, Statistics and Maps, Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Nov 2022.
Joe Turner, Servant Girl Annihilator Murders of Austin, Texas, Historic Mysteries.com, 2022.

Eugenics, National Human Genome Research Institute, May 10, 2022.

Galloping Horse, Soundfishing, Nov 2022.

Joe Turner, The Servant Girl Annihilator Murders of Austin, Texas, Historic Mysteries, 

N'dea Yancy-Bragg, Jack the Ripper identified by DNA evidence, forensic scientists claim, USA Today, June 18, 2019. 

Pets and Mental Health, Mental Health Foundation, Oct 2022.

Rebecca Salinas, Look Back at the Serial Killer who terrified Austin in the 1880s, MySanAntonio.com, April 27, 2015.

Released by Death: Miss Genie Watkins passes away surrounded by her parents, her betrothed and friends, Weekly Gazette- Ft Worth, July 22, 1887.

Serenity Lapid, 10 Serial Killers of the Old West, ListVerse.com, Oct 18, 2018.

Skip Hollandsworth, Capital Murder, Texas Monthly.com, July 2000

Skip Hollandsworth, Murders In the Night, Texas Monthly.com, May 2016.

Skip Hollandsworth, Texas Monthly, Oct 2022.

Skip Hollandsworth, The Midnight Assassin, The 1885 Murders in Austin, Tx, YouTube, 2018.

Skip Hollandsworth, The Midnight Assassin: Panic, Scandal and the hunt for America's First Serial Killer, Henry Holt & Company, New York, New York, 2015.

Sarah Marshall-Pescini, Franka S. Schaebs et al, The Role of Oxytocin in the Dog-Owner Relationship,  National Library Of Medicine, Oct 12, 2019.


The History Guy, The Servant Girl Annihilator, YouTube.com, 2019.

The Servant Girls Murders, Austin, Texas,1885, Nov 2022.

Velocipede, St Joseph's Herald, St Joseph Michigan, Jan 16, 1869.

Who is Safe? Two Young Ladies of Gainesville aroused from their quiet slumber by assassin, The Fort Worth Gazette, July 15, 1887












Ep 53, 54, 55- The Midnight Assassin Pecan Pie recipe and wine pairing!

 Paleo-Pecan Pie and Lustau Dry Oloroso Don Nuno

 for Midnight Assassin by Skip Hollandsworth (Epi 52, 53, 5)


 Ingredients:

1   9 inch pie shell

1/2 cup of maple syrup

2 Tbsp. coconut sugar

2 Tbsp. molasses

2 eggs

1 egg yolk

1 tsp vanilla

1/4 tsp lemon juice

2 Tbsp. coconut oil

 1  1/2 cup chopped pecans

1/4 cup pecan halves to decorate. 
 Directions

1. Preheat oven to 375 F.
2. Combine all ingredients except pecans. Stir well to mix completely.
3. Add chopped pecans and mix.
4. Pour into pie crust, use pecan halves to decorate top of pie.
5. Bake 30 minutes until middle of pie is no longer "jiggly".
6 Cool pie before serving- I like a dollop of whipped cream on top!



  

Lustau Dry Oloroso Don Nuno (750ml)

Sherry from Jerez, Spain