responsible for all the murders. The African-American community and some practitioners of voodoo believed the killer was a white man who had magic powers that enabled him to become invisible, as no dogs outside or in fenced-yards adjacent to locations where murders occurred were heard to bark or raise any alarm. The series of murders stopped when additional police officers were hired, rewards were offered and citizens formed a vigilance committee to patrol the streets at night. Contemporary newspapers reported that the murderer(s) had apparently fled the area, as no more murders were officially attributed to the killer by the authorities. Victims Mollie Smith, 25, was murdered the night of 30 December 1884. Walter Spencer was seriously wounded. Clara Strand and Christine Martenson, two Swedish servant girls, were seriously wounded the night of 19 March 1885. Eliza Shelly was murdered the night of 6 May 1885. Irene Cross murdered by a man with a knife on the night of 22 May 1885. Clara Dick was seriously wounded in August 1885. Mary Ramey, 11, was murdered the night of 30 August 1885. Her mother, Rebecca Ramey was seriously wounded. Gracie Vance and her boyfriend, Orange Washington, were murdered on the night of 28 September 1885. Susan Hancock was murdered the night of 24 December 1885. Eula Phillips was murdered the night of 24 December 1885. Eyewitness accounts According to a July 2000 article in the Texas Monthly, there was an eyewitness who claimed to have seen the murderer, but reported contradictory information to the police. The killer was variously reported to have been white or dark-complexioned; or a "yellow man" wearing lampblack to conceal his skin color; or a man wearing a Mother Hubbard style dress; or a man wearing a slouch hat; or a man wearing a hat and a white rag that covered the lower part of his face. There were also reports that the killer worked with an accomplice, or belonged to a gang of murderers. Nathan Elgin On July 15, 2014, the PBS TV show History Detectives aired an episode on the killings. Using a combination of historical research and modern techniques, including psychological and geographic profiling, they identified a suspect: Nathan Elgin, a 19-year-old African-American cook. Elgin worked in close proximity to the crime scenes and was missing his little toe, which was similar to a footprint believed to have been left by the killer. In