Like the elusive Axeman of New Orleans, Cleveland’s Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run, and San Francisco’s Zodiac, the Phantom Killer left a haunting mystery behind. But he has left a crimson mark on history as one of those who got away. Texarkana’s phantom was not America’s first serial slayer he certainly was not the worst, either in body count or sheer brutality. Nearly a month elapsed between the first and second crimes the sixth murder occurred a mere four days after the fifth. Neither, as some authors still assert, did the attacks take place at neatly measured three-week intervals.
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A local newspaper dubbed him the Phantom Killer, and it stuck.įor reasons still unclear, other reporters called the faceless predator the “Moonlight Murderer,” suggesting that his actions were determined by a lunar cycle-though, in fact, none of the crimes occurred on a full moon. Survivors told police that their assailant was a man, but little else is known. Striking five times within a ten-week period, always at night, the prowler claimed six lives and left three other victims wounded, traumatized for life. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, ?including photocopying or recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without ?permission in writing from the ?publisher.Ĭover photograph © 2013 /Thinkstockįifteen years before German author Siegfried Kracauer coined the term “serial murder,” a masked killer terrorized the town of Texarkana, on the Texas–Arkansas border. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGUING DATA ARE AVAILABLEīRITISH LIBRARY CATALOGUING DATA ARE AVAILABLE The Unsolved Case of the 1946 Phantom Killer
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