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The Texarkana Moonlight Murders

2013-05-21 Social Science
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Release : 2013-05-21
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Book Synopsis The Texarkana Moonlight Murders by : Michael Newton

Download or read book The Texarkana Moonlight Murders written by Michael Newton. This book was released on 2013-05-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1946, years before the phrase "serial murder" was coined, a masked killer terrorized the town of Texarkana on the Texas-Arkansas border. Striking five times within a ten-week period, always at night, the prowler claimed six lives and left three other victims wounded. Survivors told police that their assailant was a man, but could supply little else. A local newspaper dubbed him the Phantom Killer, and it stuck. Other reporters called the faceless predator the "Moonlight Murderer," though the lunar cycle had nothing to do with the crimes. Texarkana's phantom was not America's first serial slayer; he certainly was not the worst, either in body count or sheer brutality. But he has left a crimson mark on history as one of those who got away. Like the elusive Axeman of New Orleans, Cleveland's Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run, and San Francisco's Zodiac Killer, the Phantom Killer left a haunting mystery behind. This is the definitive story of that mystery.

The Phantom Killer

2014-11-15 True Crime
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Release : 2014-11-15
Genre : True Crime
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Book Synopsis The Phantom Killer by : James Presley

Download or read book The Phantom Killer written by James Presley. This book was released on 2014-11-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The salacious and scandalous murders of a series of couples on Texarkana's "lovers lanes" in seemingly idyllic post-WWII America created a media maelstrom and cast a pall of fear over an entire region. What is even more surprising is that the case has remained cold for decades. Combining archival research and investigative journalism, Pulitzer Prize nominated historian James Presley reveals evidence that provides crucial keys to unlocking this decades-old puzzle.Dubbed "the Phantom murders" by the press, these grisly crimes took place in an America before dial telephones, DNA science, and criminal profiling. Even pre-television, print and radio media stirred emotions to a fever pitch. The Phantom Killer, exhaustively researched, is the only definitive nonfiction book on the case, and includes details from an unpublished account by a survivor, and rare, never-before-published photographs.Although the case lives on today on television, the Internet, a revived fictional movie and even an off-Broadway play, with so much of the investigation shrouded in mystery since 1946, rumors and fractured facts have distorted the reality. Now, for the first time, a careful examination of the archival record, personal interviews, and stubborn fact checking come together to produce new insights and revelations on the old slayings.

The Texarkana Moonlight Murders

2017-01-04
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Release : 2017-01-04
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Book Synopsis The Texarkana Moonlight Murders by : Iris Hulse

Download or read book The Texarkana Moonlight Murders written by Iris Hulse. This book was released on 2017-01-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Texarkana Moonlight Murders was a term created for the unsolved murders committed in and around Texarkana in the spring of 1946 by an unidentified serial killer known as the "Phantom Killer". The killer attacked eight people within ten weeks, five of whom were killed with the attacks occurring late at night, hence the name "Moonlight Murders." The murders sent the town of Texarkana into a state of panic throughout the summer as people sought to arm themselves and kept indoors at night.

Media and the Murderer

2020-08-18 True Crime
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Release : 2020-08-18
Genre : True Crime
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Book Synopsis Media and the Murderer by : Rebecca Frost

Download or read book Media and the Murderer written by Rebecca Frost. This book was released on 2020-08-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some criminals become household names, while others--even those who seek recognition through their crimes--are forgotten. The criminal's actions are only a part of every famous true crime story. Other factors, such as the setting and circumstances of the crimes and the ways in which others take control of the narrative, ultimately drive their notoriety. Through a comparison of the tellings and retellings of two famous cases more than a century apart--the Jack the Ripper killings in 1888, and the murder trials of Steven Avery as documented in Making a Murderer--this book examines the complicated dynamics of criminal celebrity.

Rising from Rape

2020-07-31 True Crime
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Release : 2020-07-31
Genre : True Crime
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Book Synopsis Rising from Rape by : Pamela Braswell

Download or read book Rising from Rape written by Pamela Braswell. This book was released on 2020-07-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a new attorney, Pamela Braswell was confident her career was about to skyrocket. Instead, she narrowly escaped death at the hands of a serial rapist and killer--his only surviving victim. Twenty years later, the moratorium on executions in California that put his execution on hold ended, but the governor announced he wouldn't enforce the death penalty. Braswell's firsthand true crime narrative gives a victim's perspective of the harrowing investigation, the revelations in the press, the grand jury indictment and capital murder trial. Through it all, her refusal to be a victim transforms her view of the world--and its heroes.

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