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1. Texarkana moonlight murders unsolved serial killers movie#
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His car was found about a mile and a half away, about 400 yards from the entrance to Spring Lake Park. He was shot to death, receiving four shots. His body was found somewhere around the 6700 block of North Park road. Blood was found on the other side of the road a short distance up the street from his body. lying beside the north side of North Park Road. The victims were Betty Jo Booker, 15, and her friend Paul Martin, 16. and 5:30 a.m., resulting as the second double murder. The third attack happened early Sunday morning, April 14, between 2:00 a.m.

Texarkana moonlight murders unsolved serial killers Patch#

A bloodstained patch of earth found 20 feet (6.1 m) away suggested that both victims were killed outside the car and put back in it. Both had been shot in the back of the head, by a. Both were found the next morning in Griffin’s car on a rural Bowie County road, outside Texarkana. The attack happened somewhere near Stevenson street off Richmond.Ī month later, on the evening of March 23, Richard Griffin, 29, and his girlfriend, Polly Ann Moore, 17, were murdered. Mary did not stay in the hospital but received stitches to her head. Jimmy stayed in the hospital for several months. Mary ran off to get help when the attacker saw headlights and was scared off. Jimmy made his way to Richmond road where he flagged down a passing motorist who then contacted help. Mary Jeanne Larey was sexually assaulted with the perpetrator's pistol. Jimmy Hollis received three fractures to his skull after being hit twice with a heavy blunt object.

"Jimmy" Hollis, 24, and Mary Jeanne Larey, 19. The first attack happened on February 22, 1946, close to midnight. Main article: Texarkana Moonlight Murders He has been described by two surviving victims as a six-foot-tall man wearing a white mask over his head with holes cut out for his eyes and mouth although they can't agree whether he was a light-skinned black man or a dark-tanned white man. The "Phantom Killer" title was not associated with the killer until the April 16, 1946, issue of the now defunct Texarkana Daily News, an evening companion to the Texarkana Gazette morning paper. Despite the name and rumors, he did not attack when the moon was full. The Phantom Killer was also known as The Texarkana Phantom or simply The Phantom, The Phantom Slayer and The Moonlight Murderer because he often killed late at night. The attacks took place at approximately three-week intervals. He is Texarkana's only known serial killer and is credited with a number of attacks in Texarkana, Texas and Arkansas between February 22 and May 3, 1946.

Texarkana moonlight murders unsolved serial killers movie#

The Phantom Killer is an unidentified serial killer thought to be responsible for a series of slayings known as the Texarkana Moonlight Murders, which inspired the 1976 movie The Town That Dreaded Sundown.