Tonight we discuss the heinous murders that shook the Texarkana during the mid-1940s. These vicious attacks that occurred are likely the origin of plenty of cautionary tales, urban legends, and eventually contributed to what we have come to know as the slasher movie.
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Copeland, Cody. “The Creepy Truth about the Texarkana Murder Mystery.” Grunge.Com, 6 Feb. 2021, www.grunge.com/328601/the-creepy-truth-about-the-texarkana-murder-mystery.
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Gazette, Karl Richter Texarkana. “FBI Releases Archive on Texarkana’s Phantom Killer; over 1,000 Pages Available Online.” Arkansas Online, 7 Feb. 2020, www.arkansasonline.com/news/2020/feb/07/fbi-releases-archive-texarkanas-phantom-killer-ove.
Presley, James. The Phantom Killer. Reissue, e-book, Pegasus Crime, 2016.
Murder in the moonlight. Directed by Jeff Waldridge. Studio Out the window. Released 2018. Stream on Amazon Video.
