She was in a daze when she was taken in serious condition to Michael Meagher Hospital, but still managed to hand a gold tooth the killer had shot out of her mouth to the driver. Crawling back to the bedroom to get a pistol, Katie suddenly changed her mind, deciding instead to leave a note for whoever found the scene first. Meanwhile, the killer circled around the back of the house, before barging through a screen door to get to the porch. As for the teens of Texarkana, they all chose to cope in their own ways. Some did their best to be careful, while also keeping things as normal as they could possibly be.
Hagerman had been riding her bike with her brother and, according to her mother Donna Norris, the pair were only supposed to go around the block. Just eight minutes after Norris took her eyes off of Hagerman, she was gone. Eyewitnesses reported that they had heard Amber screaming while she was being forced into a pickup truck.





A few weeks later, they were joined by another young boy and girl, Paul Martin and Betty Jo Booker. Booker was the Phantom’s youngest victim, at only 15 years old. Booker played the saxophone in a local band, and Martin came out to pick her up. Booker's body would not be found for another six, laying two miles from Martin.
Join your hosts Stephanie and Michael as they explore the spookiest and most disturbing cases of true crime, unexplained deaths, macabre history, serial killers, conspiracies, weird mysteries and the occult. Stories of morbid fascination and the human condition. Let us take you on a journey into darkness, and maybe have Crime documentaries a laugh or two. Tennison left behind a signed note in his Fayetteville room Friday saying he killed three of the five persons whose murders are attributed to the phantom killer. Ultimately, Swinney’s wife could not be compelled to testify against her husband, and prosecutors believed her to be an unreliable witness.

The screams from victims are both unrelenting and unnerving. Then there's the heavy breathing from the hooded killer, which are the only sounds he makes and about as chilling as the screams. By November 1948, authorities no longer considered the Starks’ murder connected with the other double murders and another person was eventually arrested and convicted.
Several rumors began to spread, including that the killer was caught, or that a third and even fourth double-homicide had been committed. In the early 80s young women were going missing, all within the same neighborhood in Fort Worth Texas. They would be found fully clothed, stabbed multiple times. The women all bore a striking resemblance to each other also.

The first two victims, Jimmy Hollis and Mary Larey, survived. The first double-murder, which involved Richard Griffin and Polly Ann Moore, happened four weeks later. The second double-homicide, involving Paul Martin and Betty Jo Booker, occurred exactly three weeks after the first murders. Finally, almost exactly three weeks later, Virgil Starks was killed and his wife, Katie, was severely wounded. The Texas Rangers came in to investigate, including the famous M. One investigator recalled that nine people tried to convince him they were the "Phantom".
Killings, robberies and other crimes were very common. It might make sense then, while the attack on Jimmy and Mary Jeanne was brutal, the community didn’t pay it much attention until another attack occurred a month later. Based on Freedom-of-Information requests made at different times, I have two sets of files that were distributed by the FBI as a result of those requests being made. Cartier replica sale I have posted the complete content of these two sets of FBI files online at the Texarkana Phantom Killer Theory Forum FaceBook Group Page. One thing that the FBI documents make clear is that there is not reliable evidence to conclude that Youell Swinney was the Phantom Killer.
Also, fingerprint tests turned up nothing conclusive, and even though the police spent more than a year trying to corroborate Peggy Swinney’s confession, even that began to crumble. In addition to the three confessions offered by his 21-year-old wife, the police were able to find some other evidence incriminating Yuval Swinney. The 29-year-old suspect was found to be in possession of a .32 Colt automatic pistol, which he had recently sold. Investigators were also able to find slag in one of Swinney’s pockets that matched samples taken from Virgil Starks’ welding shop. Dr. Anthony Lapalla described it as a natural phenomenon.

The first time the Phantom Killer struck, he attacked two victims at once, Jimmy Hollis and Mary Larey. Both survived but suffered severe injuries like skull fractures, and Larey was also sexually assaulted, but unfortunately neither could help identify the criminal. They were attacked on the city’s “lovers’ lane”, making them relatively easy targets for more than just a single victim.
These investigators were also able to find two .32-caliber shell casings at the scene, at least possibly from a Colt pistol. At least this gave them an idea of ​​the weapon used in this violent double murder. Police suspected that this was where one or both of the victims had been killed, and later tests indicated that the blood matched a sample of Polly Moore’s blood type. The passer-by initially thought the two men inside the Oldsmobile were asleep. However, it soon became clear that something was wrong. There was blood inside the vehicle and he quickly realized that the man and woman inside the car had been shot to death.

A small quantity of the poison was found stuck to the end of a fountain pen, which he had referred to in several of his notes. A box which had contained the poison tablets was found in a waste basket. "The numbers which form the combination to the box were found Saturday afternoon inside a fountain pen, which he requested in another note be returned to a local store, where he said it belonged." The sheriff said the fountain pen used in the note containing the admissions had been purchased only a few days before the message was dated." It is also important to point out that Washington County Sheriff Bruce Crider had as much opportunity as anyone to consider the chronological order in which H. Sheriff Crider is one high-profile authority who believed that the Confession note had been written AFTER the "Final Word" note.
After waking up from his coma, he couldn’t find his rifle. Investigators heard the young man’s confession, but he did not provide any further information. All his information about the murders was gleaned from radio and newspaper reporting. He was also found to be psycho-neurotic and discharged from the army. Believing the man to be in need of psychiatric help, the police eventually let him go.

Hollis was hospitalized for several days to recover from multiple skull fractures, but both survived the attack. Most of the town hid in fear inside their houses or hotels, sometimes even leaving town. Some youths took matters into their own hands by trying to bait the Phantom so they could kill him. The disappearance of Virginia Carpenter, a cold case in Texarkana in 1948, has been speculated as the work of the Phantom. Whilst sitting in his armchair reading the paper, he was shot twice in the back of the head through the window.