Phantom: The Texarkana Moonlight Murders (Part 2)

Dark Histories

Ben Cutmore

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🗓️ 8 October 2018

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Part 2 of 2 In 1946, The American twin city of Texarkana was plunged into the depths of panic and fear. The population of the postwar suburb was subjected to a series of murders that shook the dual cities to their core, prompting curfews, rumours and unease to spread through the area like the rail tracks that crept from it’s central hub. Nights of midnight movies, drive-in cafes, the songs of Duke Ellington and big band orchestras were perforated with tales of a man with a white sheet over his head, holes cut out for eyes, performing brutal executions upon the vulnerable and unexpecting. For extended show notes, including maps, links and scripts, head over to darkhistories.com Support the show by using our link when you sign up to Audible: http://audibletrial.com/darkhistories or visit our Patreon for bonus episodes and Early Access: https://www.patreon.com/darkhistories Connect with us on Facebook: http://facebook.com/darkhistoriespodcast Or find us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/darkhistories & Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dark_histories/ Or you can contact us directly via email at [email protected] or join our Discord community: https://discord.gg/6f7e2pt Music was recorded by me © Ben Cutmore 2017 Other Outro music was Paul Whiteman & his orchestra with Mildred Bailey - All of me (1931). It's out of copyright now, but if you're interested, that was that. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:57.0	In the days following the funerals of Betty J. Booker and Paul Martin, a ballistics expert at the Austin Tech Lab confirmed that the bullets were linked between the killings.
1:10.0	This confirmed for the first time publicly that the killer was one and the same.
1:15.0	At the same time, Gonzales told the press that the case was the most mysterious he'd come
1:19.3	across in his 20-year career.
1:21.9	Neither report did anything to aid in quieting the fear-spiked rumor mill
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