The Texarkana Moonlight Murders also known as the Phantom murders have some amazing correlations with the Zodiac case .Four known attacks in Texarkana & one eerily similiar to the Domingoes /Edwards attack & later in Ft. The teenager was often seen reading her Bible and carrying her tennis racket around her small Texas town. No one expected Santa Claus to walk into the First National Bank in Cisco TX two days before Christmas, but that's exactly what happened. The bank was left riddled with bullet holes and two officers were dead.
Out of the darkness, a man wearing a white cloth mask – presumably a pillowcase with eye holes – appeared at the car window and shone a flashlight into their eyes. Swinney’s wife was seen driving a stolen car, and the husband and wife were arrested. Swinney’s wife confessed that her husband was the killer, but her story was inconsistent, changing details each time she was subject to questioning. Katie Starks survived her injuries and fully recovered.



Four days after being admitted to Pine Street Hospital, he did not fully regain consciousness. On March 9, after 12 days, Jimmy was finally released from the hospital. The hospital also told him that recovery from multiple skull fractures would be a long and arduous process, and that he would not be able to return to his job as an insurance agent for at least six months.
On Friday, October 14, 1966 in a local hospital at the age of 69 from a heart attack he had suffered a few hours earlier. He is buried at the far-left true crime documentary side of Hillcrest Cemetery . He was the first lawman on the scene of Mary Jeanne Larey's attack and the first and second double-murders.

She was also a member of the Delta Beta Sigma sorority. She was one of four officers in her high school band, and played the Bundy E-flat alto saxophone second in Jerry Atkins' orchestra, The Rythmaires, who played at proms and other events. In 1937, several years after the death of her father, her mother, Bessie, married her stepfather, Carl Brown, an employee of the Gifford-Hill Company. Betty and Paul Martin had been friends since they went to kindergarten together on the Arkansas side until she moved to 3105 Anthony Drive on the Texas side.
This Thursday, October 29th, The Town That Dreaded Sundown will be shown at Spring Lake Park for Free. Peggy was imprisoned for her own involvement in the car theft, but eventually released. On the morning of March 24, authorities found the bodies of 29-year-old Richard L. Griffin and 17-year-old Polly Ann Moore in a 1941 Oldsmobile on what was then known as a lovers’ lane. Richard was found between the two front seats on his knees, with his head in his hands. His pants pockets were inside out, thought to be the result of someone trying to rob him. In this episode, we examine some the victims that were murdered.

Presley had served 20 years in elected office, including terms as county commissioner, county treasurer, and sheriff. He was a veteran of World War I and had served overseas in France with the American Expeditionary Forces. He was a member of the Chapelwood Methodist Church, American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, and was a 32nd degree Mason and a Shriner.
On May 3, a bullet fired from outsdie the home of Virgil Sparks killed him. But she escaped as the Phantom ripped open a screen door to get into the house. Polly Ann Moore, 17, and Richard Griffin, 29, were parked on a lonely road near Texarkana on March 29, 1946.
This film is just a bit of a mess really, so If you enjoy a good slasher movie, then do yourself a favour...avoid this one as it will be 1 hour 20 minutes of your life you won't get back. The first word out of my mouth to my wife after watching this film was "lame" as that is exactly what this film is, not to mention boring, unoriginal, devoid of atmosphere, believability , and - in part - cheesy. Some of the dialogue was pretty cringeworthy as well (the gay scene and the "call me Lone Wolf" speech just to name two) so add that that into the mix with the other descriptions and you have yourself a lame film. The 'whodunnit' side of things is done well enough, I certainly didn't pick it.

Although Hollis believed he was a young, dark-tanned, white man under 30 years old, Larey believed he was a light-skinned African American. With no description from the other incidents, it cannot be certain if the same perpetrator or perpetrators were responsible, though it is generally assumed that the crimes were the work of a single individual. Some believed he was being secretly held at the Bowie County Jail or flown to another jail.
He indicated in several of the notes found by investigators that he took his own life so that his father, J. D. Tennison of Memphis, Tenn., and his mother, Mrs. Jimmie Tennison of Texarkana, would not have to worry about him. A. Schroeder, instructor in chemistry at the University, showed he had swallowed cyanide of mercury, the coroner reported.

According to the man's story, he could not have been in Texarkana at the time of the Starks murder. Youell Swinney was a 29-year-old car thief and counterfeiter. He was arrested in July by Tackett, who was investigating car thefts after realizing that on the night of the Griffin-Moore murders a car had been stolen in the area and a previously stolen car had been found abandoned. Tackett was able to locate the former car and arrested Swinney's wife Peggy when she came to retrieve it. Peggy confessed in great detail that Swinney was the Phantom Killer and had killed Booker and Martin. Her story changed in some details across several interviews, and police believed she was withholding information due to fear of Swinney or of incriminating herself.
Serial Killer as defined by the FBI at the 2005 symposium. 12, Gonzaullas gave a warning to "teenage sleuths" in the Gazette, saying, "it's a good way to get killed." Over 400 people were looked at and fingerprinted and compared to the latent prints found at the scenes in this case, and it still yielded no matches. He stated on several occasions "They don't want me for stealing cars, they want me for something else." What had been fear among the citizens of Texarkana turned into panic. People began nailing their windows shut, covering their windows with sheets and blankets, and making homemade booby traps on their doors and windows.

Robertson said that the city was unable to rent or hire a copy from a local video store due to legal restrictions; instead, a copy is rented from a distributor for $175 to $200 per show. The film was released on Blu-ray on May 21, 2013, by Scream Factory. Tackett recalled that nine people tried to convince him that they were the Phantom. Running away would not do any good, the police would find me where ever I went and would bring me back to it all. If I had done what they told me to do this would have never happened.