Texarkana Moonlight Murders

In the spring of 1946, Texarkana was trying to return to normal.

The war was over. Families were settling back into familiar routines. Teenagers went to dances. Couples drove out to quiet roads. Many people still left their doors unlocked, because that was the kind of place they believed they lived in.

Then, between February and May, that sense of safety shattered.

Across the Texas-Arkansas border, a series of brutal nighttime attacks left five people dead, three others wounded, and an entire community afraid of the dark. The newspapers gave the attacker a name: the Phantom Killer. But who was he?

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