The Texarkana Moonlight Murders (Part One: The Phantom)

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True Crime, Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 30 September 2018

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Texarkana is a metropolitan area that is split between Texas and Arkansas. In the 1940's, as World War Two began raging overseas, the area became a hotbed of manufacturing and storage for the war effort.

Just months after the end of the war - in February of 1946 - a masked menace began lashing out at young couples in lovers' lanes. The first two victims lived to tell their tale, but the next several victims wouldn't be as lucky.

As the hunt began to find this madman, the case would attract the attention of county, state, and even federal officials. Eventually, the killer perpetrating these acts would earn a nickname: the Phantom.

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0:45.5	Friday, February 22, 1946. 25-year-old Jimmy Hollis and 19-year-old Mary Jean Larry were
0:54.8	on a double date with Jimmy's brother, Bob. The two couples had gone out to dinner earlier
0:59.8	that evening and then enjoyed a movie at a local theater. Sometime after 11 p.m., they
1:05.3	decided to call it a night and begin heading home. Jimmy had been driving the other three
1:10.2	around, and since his date, Mary lived with her family out in Hooks, Texas, about 20
1:16.5	miles west. Bob and his girlfriend asked to be dropped off first. Jimmy and Mary happily
1:22.7	obliged, as this would give them a little bit of time to themselves. On the way out to
1:28.0	Mary's house, which again was in a small town to the west, the young couple decided to
1:33.1	stop by a secluded lover's lane. This was an unpaid, unnamed area just off of Richmond
1:39.5	Road. Despite being just outside of a suburban area, about a hundred or so yards away from
1:45.3	the nearby Beverly Housing Development, this road was very quiet, still surrounded by
1:51.1	trees decades later. The area that is now known as the 700 block of Richmond Road, near
1:56.9	what is now Stevenson Street, was as isolated as any spot in Texarkana. It was quiet,
2:04.3	desolate, and secluded. The perfect place for two young lovers to slip off and enjoy one
2:10.5	another's company. The two arrived at the quiet spot at around 11.45 p.m. They were
2:16.6	there for about 10 minutes before a presence appeared at the driver's side door. It was a man,
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