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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.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
Minnesota Vikings quarterback Sam Darnold (14) calls a play during the second half of an NFL football game against the Detroit Lions, Sunday, Jan. 5, 2025, in Detroit.
Lloyd Gomez (December 6, 1923 – October 16, 1953), known as The Phantom Hobo Killer, was an American serial killer who robbed and murdered nine vagrant men across California from 1950 to 1951. [1] The murders were only linked to Gomez after he was arrested for a different crime and confessed to them.