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The Phantom Killer: Unlocking the Mystery of the Texarkana Serial Murders by James Presley (November 15, 2014) The Texarkana Moonlight Murders: The Unsolved Case of the 1946 Phantom Killer by Michael Newton (May 14, 2013) Texas Confidential: Sex, Scandal, Murder, and Mayhem in the Lone Star State by Michael Varhola (July 19, 2011)
[2] [6] [7] [8] At any one time, the museum has approximately 15 cars on display, as well as a few motorcycles and a variety of automobilia. Among the highlights of the collection are a Civil War vintage horse-drawn hearse , a Ford Model T and Model A , a Nash Metropolitan , a Studebaker dragster , and a 2015 Chevrolet Corvette .
The first discovery consisted of a woman's torso which was found wrapped in burlap, floating near the Wisdom Light moorage on 12 April 1946; [160] this led the media to dub the case the Wisdom Light Murder. The Texarkana Moonlight Murders were a series of murders committed by the unidentified "Phantom Killer" between 22 February and 3 May 1946 ...
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Swinney was a known criminal with a history of counterfeiting and car theft. He was convicted of car theft in 1947 and as a repeat offender, [ 2 ] he received life in prison . However, he was released from prison in 1973 following a habeas corpus proceeding which found that a prior conviction in 1941 used for sentence enhancement purposes was ...
A series of unsolved murders and violent crimes in 1946, dubbed the Texarkana Moonlight Murders, began with two attacks which targeted couples at lovers' lanes in the Texarkana area. [7] In Palos Verdes, California, a gang of teens robbed multiple cars on a lovers' lane in October 1955, and were caught raping a thirteen-year-old girl. [8]
By the end of 1946, over 11,000 cars (total Kaiser and Frazer) were shipped to dealers and distributors, many of which sold to end users. [2] During the summer of 1948, the 300,000th car came off the production line. [3] In 1950, Kaiser-Frazer began production of a new compact car, the Henry J [4] and ended production of the Frazer automobiles. [5]
Kalinin, who died on June 3, was replaced by Nikolai Shvernik. [41] France gave overseas department status to Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Martinique and Reunion. [42] In northern California, two separate U.S. Army plane crashes killed 33 servicemen. A B-29 bomber with seven men on board struck a 3,820-foot mountain peak near Livermore, California.