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The Midnight Assassin

Panic, Scandal, and the Hunt for America's First Serial Killer
A few landmarks remain from 1885: the granite-pink state capitol, of course, as well as the governor’s mansion; the Driskill Hotel; the Corinthian-columned administrative building of the State Lunatic Asylum, which is now known as the Austin State Hospital; Millett’s Opera House, which has become a private dining club; a few other downtown buildings; and a handful of private homes that had been built for the city’s wealthiest residents. And scattered around the city are fifteen moonlight towers. .... In the 1970s, city officials were able to get the towers designated as state and national historical landmarks. In their written applications to obtain such designations, the officials never mentioned the murders. They didn’t explain that Austin residents in the late 1880s had wanted the towers erected because they were still very anxious about what lurked in the dark. The