The Housemaids Killer: Hugo Schenk and the Danube
In 1883 Vienna, a charming fraudster promised marriage to housemaids — then robbed them, murdered them, and sank their bodies in the river. Host Alexander Lawson tells the story of Hugo Schenk, Austria’s “Viennese Housemaids Killer”: four confirmed victims, a prison-made accomplice, a stack of letters to women still waiting for a wedding, and a skull that still sits in Vienna’s crime museum. A cold, short killing year on the banks of the Danube.
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