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They were attributed to an alleged unidentified perpetrator known as the Phantom of Texarkana, the Phantom Killer, or the Phantom Slayer. [1] This hypothetical suspect is credited with attacking eight people, five of them fatally, in a ten-week period. The attacks occurred at night on weekends between February 22 and May 3, targeting couples.
Youell Lee Swinney (February 9, 1917 – September 15, 1994) was an American criminal and the only major suspect in the Phantom Killer case in Texarkana in 1946, although he was never officially charged with any of the murders.
On October 31, 2013, in the city of Texarkana, Arkansas, the local drive-in theater is hosting the Halloween annual showing of the 1976 film The Town That Dreaded Sundown, based on the true story of the Phantom Killer who murdered several people in Texarkana in 1946. Corey Holland and Jami Lerner leave to talk and kiss but The Phantom kills ...
The Town That Dreaded Sundown is a 1976 American thriller horror film [5] [6] directed and produced by Charles B. Pierce, and written by Earl E. Smith.The film is loosely based on the 1946 Texarkana Moonlight Murders, crimes attributed to an unidentified serial killer known as the Phantom Killer.
News of the “Phantom of Heilbronn” first spread across Germany – and throughout Europe – in 2007, when a 22-year-old police officer in the southern city of Heilbronn was murdered and DNA ...
St. Elizabeths Hospital, where Askins was a patient between 1939 and 1951. In 1938, 19-year-old Askins was a member of the science club at Miner Teachers College.On December 28, he served cyanide-laced whiskey to five prostitutes at a brothel in Washington, D.C., and offered a reward to whoever could swallow it the fastest. 31-year-old Ruth McDonald drank all of it and was found dead by ...
“Deep End” by Ali Hazelwood (Feb. 4) "Deep End" by Ali Hazelwood From the author of “Bride” and “The Love Hypothesis” comes a contemporary college romance about a competitive diver and ...
A serial killer used America’s vast train network as his personal hunting ground in the 1990s. The desperate hunt for Angel Maturino Resendiz, alias Rafael Resendez-Ramirez – chronicled in ...