Fishing is to Heal your heart. It will be ok. We introduce the most beautiful and peaceful game to you who's tired and exhausted from daily life. Enjoy fishing whales just with a simple control while listening to the sound of waves ASMR at the beautiful sea. Fishing and Life Story ☞ The main character so normal that he could be anyone in anywhere went fishing to the sea of the. Fishing and Life Story - The main character so normal that he could be anyone in anywhere went fishing to the sea of the memories with his dad on a very tiring day. He only has a shabby boat and a fishing rod, but he enjoys the peaceful fishing at the beautiful sea where the sun sets, shooting stars fall and the sky fades into the lighthouse. I fishing 3 life.

Game producer Jun Imaizumi announced six new projects related to the smartphone game 'Phantom of the Kill' during a Niconico live broadcast celebrating the game's one-year anniversary on Friday. One of the new projects is a 15-minute anime concept film.

Phantom of the Mall: Eric's Revenge is a 1989 horror film about a young man who apparently dies in a suspicious house fire after saving his girlfriend, Melody; a year later, at the new mall built over the site of the burned-out house, thefts and murders begin to occur as a mysterious figure secretly prowls around the shopping center and takes a keen interest in watching over and protecting Melody. Plot Summary: Game producer Jun Imaizumi announced six new projects related to the smartphone game 'Phantom of the Kill' during a Niconico live broadcast celebrating the game's one-year anniversary on Friday. One of the new projects is a 15-minute anime concept film.

Naoyoshi Shiotani (Psycho-Pass, Blood-C: The Last Dark) will direct the concept film at Production I.G Fuji & Gumi Games' strategy drama RPG follows mysterious girls who carry the names of legendary weapons (such as 'Masamune') as they search for their lost memories. The game allows players to collect characters and weapons, and enter dungeons to engage in turn-based tactical battles. Yuki’s earliest memory is of a stormy night in winter, wherein she was attacked by a vampire And then rescued by another.

Now 10 years later, Yuki Cross, the adopted daughter of the headmaster of Cross Academy, has grown up and become a guardian of the vampire race, protecting her savior, Kaname, from discovery as he leads a group of vampires at the elite boarding school.But also at her side is Zero Kiryu, a childhood friend who’s hatred for the creatures that destroyed everything he held dear, is now determined never to trust them. This coexisting arrangement seems all well and good, but have the vampires truly renounced their murderous ways, or is there a darker truth behind their actions? Is Kaname’s infatuation with Yuki the beginning of a forbidden romance, or is it something in her forgotten past that draws him to her? In this world of secrets, nothing is as it seems, and the price of misplaced trust may even be worse than death.

'I am the bone of my sword. Steel is my body, and fire is my blood. I have created over a thousand blades. Unknown to death. Nor known to life.

Have withstood pain to create many weapons. Yet, those hands will never hold anything. So as I pray, Unlimited Blade Works.' — from introEmiya Shirou finds himself an unwilling participant in a deadly competition where seven Mages summon heroic spirits as servants to duel each other to the death. They compete for the chance to make a wish from theHoly Grail, which has the power to grant any wish. Shirou is unskilled as a mage and knows nothing of the Holy Grail War, but he and his servant, Saber, enter into a temporary partnership with another Mage, Toosaka Rin. However, problems arise between Shirou and Rin's servant, Archer, who seems to despise him.

Detective Conan is famous anime about Shinichi - a seventeen year-old high school detective, one day. One day, he wakes up and finds that he has become a 7 years old child. In order to find the reason for this transformation and the one who is responsible for it, Shinichi hides his identity and lives with Ran - his childhood sweetheart, whose father happens to be a hopeless detective, and with that begins an adventurous series of murders and mysteries that he must solve in search for the ones who put him in his awkward situation. Kagome leads a fairly normal life, in spite of her weird family. Her house is a thousand-year-old Japanese temple, and her grandfather talks about the history of the house endlessly. Legend has it that the old well on the temple grounds keeps a vicious ancient monster at bay; Kagome never believed those legends, until now.

The well opens up and sucked Kagome inside transporting her to an ancient time of enchanted forests and giant demons.Kagome is soon confronted by her odd resemblance to Kikyou, the girl who controlled the magical Shikon no Tama talisman and imprisoned the legendary half-demon InuYasha. Upon entering this fantasy world, Kagome is attacked by a demon hunting the Shikon no Tama; she unwittingly releases InuYasha from his imprisonment, only to find that he's no hero. An epic horror-action-adventure! Spanning the generations of the Joestar family, each arc focuses on a certain member of the family and his/her battles with vampires, super vampires, and other Stand users.Phantom Blood stars Jonathan Joestar and the ambitious Dio Brando. It shows how the stone mask was found and how Dio first obtained and utilized his powers.

Once Jonathan and Robert E. Speedwagon realize Dio's intentions, they must team up with Will A. Zeppeli and learn Ripple (Hamon) to stop Dio.

The only way to escape is to ‘clear’ the game. Death in game means actual ‘death’ —- The ten thousand who have logged onto the as of yet mysterious game ‘Sword Art Online’ using their Nerve Gear have been forced into this perilous death game and are trapped inside. Protagonist Kirito, one of the many gamers, has greeted this ‘truth’. He plays as a solo player in the giant castle that is the stage for this game —- ‘Aincrad’.To meet the conditions of clearing the game and leaving this twisted virtual world, he must get through all 100 floors. Will Kirito have what it takes to clear the game, or will he die trying?

Yagami Light is an ace student with great aspects who’s bored out of his mind. One day he finds the Death Note, a notebook held by a shinigami (Death God). With the Death Note in hand, Light decides to create a perfect world. A world without crime or criminals.

However when criminals start dropping dead one by one, the authorities send the legendar more Yagami Light is an ace student with great aspects who’s bored out of his mind.One day he finds the Death Note, a notebook held by a shinigami (Death God). With the Death Note in hand, Light decides to create a perfect world. A world without crime or criminals. However when criminals start dropping dead one by one, the authorities send the legendary detective L to track down the killer.

Date apprehendedNever apprehendedThe Texarkana Moonlight Murders, a term coined by the news media, were a series of unsolved murders and other violent crimes committed in and around in the spring of 1946 by an unidentified known as the 'Phantom Killer' or 'Phantom Slayer'. The killer is credited with attacking eight people within ten weeks, five of whom were killed.The attacks happened on weekends between February 22, 1946 and May 3, 1946.

The first two victims, Jimmy Hollis and Mary Larey, survived. The first, which involved Richard Griffin and Polly Ann Moore, happened four weeks later. The second double-homicide, involving Paul Martin and Betty Jo Booker, occurred exactly three weeks after the first murders. Finally, almost exactly three weeks later, Virgil Starks was killed and his wife, Katie, was severely wounded.

The came in to investigate, including the famous.The murders sent the town of Texarkana into a state of panic throughout the summer. At dusk, city inhabitants heavily armed themselves and locked themselves indoors while police patrolled streets and neighborhoods. Although many businesses lost customers at night, stores sold out of guns, ammunition, locks, and many other protective devices. Several rumors began to spread, including that the killer was caught, or that a third and even fourth double-homicide had been committed.

Most of the town hid in fear inside their houses or hotels, sometimes even leaving town. Some youths took matters into their own hands by trying to bait the Phantom so they could kill him.After three months without Phantom attacks, the Texas Rangers slowly and quietly left town to keep the Phantom from believing he was safe to strike again.

The murders were reported nationally and internationally by several publications.The 1976 film was released internationally and is loosely based on the events, despite its claim that 'only the names have been changed'. Because the movie claimed that the 'story you are about to see is true, where it happened and how it happened,' the fabricated parts created much of the myth and folklore around the murders for several decades. The, a in Texarkana in 1948, has been speculated as the work of the Phantom.The prime suspect in the case was, who was linked to the murders by statements from his wife. Swinney's wife refused to testify against him, and he was never convicted. Two of the lead investigators in the case, however, believed him to be guilty, and the 2014 book The Phantom Killer: Unlocking the Mystery of the Texarkana Serial Murders by Dr. James Presley also points to Swinney as the culprit of all five attacks. Presley believes that there is enough evidence to close the case.

Contents.Crimes February 22, 1946: First attack At around 11:45 p.m. On Friday, February 22, 1946, Jimmy Hollis, age 25, and his girlfriend, Mary Jeanne Larey, age 19, parked on a secluded road known as a after having seen a movie together. The area was approximately 50 feet (15 m) off Richmond Road on an unpaved street, about 100 yards from the last row of city homes. Around ten minutes later, at 11:55 p.m., a man wearing a white cloth mask–which resembled a pillowcase with eye holes cut out–appeared at Hollis's driver-side door, and shined a flashlight in the window. Unsure if the man was pranking him, Hollis told him he had the wrong person, to which the man responded: 'I don't want to kill you, fellow, so do what I say.' Both Hollis and Larey were ordered out the driver-side door, and the man ordered Hollis to 'take off his goddamn britches.'

After he complied, the man struck him in the head twice with a pistol. Larey would later tell investigators that the noise was so loud she had initially thought he had been shot, when it had actually been his skull fracturing. Thinking the assailant wanted to rob them, Larey showed him Hollis's wallet to prove he had no money, after which she was struck with a blunt object. The assailant ordered her to stand, and when she did, told her to run. Initially, she tried to flee toward a ditch, but the assailant ordered her to run a different direction up the road.Larey spotted an old car parked off the road, but found it empty, and was again confronted by the attacker, who asked her why she was running. When she responded that he had told her to do so, he called her a liar before knocking her down and sexually assaulting her with the barrel of his gun.

After the assault, Larey fled on foot, running a half-mile to a nearby house; she attempted to call for a car passing by the residence, but was ignored.Larey was able to awaken the residents of the house and phone the police. Meanwhile, Hollis had regained consciousness and managed to flag down a passerby on Richmond Road. The motorist left Hollis at the scene and drove to a nearby funeral home where he was able to call the police. Within thirty minutes, Sheriff W. 'Bill' Presley and three other officers arrived at the scene of the attack, but the assailant had already left. They found Hollis' pants 100 yards away from the parked car.Larey was hospitalized overnight for a minor head wound.

Hollis was hospitalized for several days to recover from multiple skull fractures, but both survived the attack. Hollis and Larey gave conflicting reports to law enforcement as to what their attacker looked like: Larey claimed the man was wearing a white bag over his head with cutouts for the eyes and mouth, and that she could see under the mask that he was apparently African-American. Hollis alternately claimed the man was white, and around 30 years old, but conceded he could not distinguish his features as he had been blinded with a flashlight. Both agreed that the assailant was around 6 feet (1.8 m) tall.

Law enforcement repeatedly challenged Larey's account, and believed that she and Hollis knew the identity of their attacker and were covering for him. March 24, 1946: First double-murder. Sheriff Bill Presley and his deputies have a difficult task ahead of them as they attempt to solve the shocking double murder discovered Sunday morning. Texarkana residents can help in this investigation and at the same time, if they are not careful, they can hinder the investigation and cause the officers to spend many hours following blind trails. Persons who have information which might furnish a clue to the identity of the slayer or slayers or which might indicate a motive for the crime should not divulge such information on street corners or at cold drink stands but should immediately make it available to the officers.

Do not spread rumors regardless of how many bases for the fact there is in them. Do not say 'I heard' or 'they say' because the chances are that the person listening will repeat your information and enlarge upon it. Before long the story grows to such proportions as to necessitate a detailed investigation by the officers, thereby perhaps pulling them off the true trail and sending them up a blind alley. Stick to facts that you know of your own personal knowledge and relay those facts as quickly as possible to the officers.- March 27, 1946 edition of the Texarkana Gazette, suggesting to readers that they 'Can Help Solve Murders'Richard L. Griffin, age 29, and his girlfriend of six weeks, Polly Ann Moore, age 17, were found dead in Griffin's 1941 Oldsmobile sedan on Sunday, March 24, 1946 between 8:30 and 9:00 a.m. By a passing motorist.

The motorist saw the parked car on a lovers' lane named Rich Road (now South Robison) near a 100 yards south of close to a nightspot called Club Dallas. The motorist at first thought that both were asleep. Griffin was found between the front seats on his knees with his head resting on his crossed hands and his pockets turned inside out; Moore was found sprawled face-down in the back seat.

There is evidence however to suggest she was killed on a blanket outside the car and then placed there.Griffin had been shot twice while still in the car; both had been shot once in the back of the head, and both were fully clothed. A blood-soaked patch of earth near the car suggested to police that they had been killed outside the car and placed back inside. Congealed blood was found covering the, and it had flowed through the bottom of the car door.

A.32 cartridge shell was also found, possibly shot from a pistol wrapped in a blanket.No extant reports indicate that either Griffin or Moore were examined by a. Contemporaneous local rumor had it that a sexual assault had also occurred, but modern reports refute this claim. In response to the murders, police launched a citywide investigation along with the Texas and Arkansas city police, the, and sheriffs' departments, and the. By March 27, local police had interviewed around fifty to sixty witnesses, including patrons and employees of Club Dallas, a local bar near the crime scene. By March 30, police had posted a $500 reward in an effort to gain any new information on the Griffin and Moore case that would lead to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible; however, the rewards yielded no fruitful clues or suspects, instead producing over 100 false leads. April 13, 1946: Second double-murder.

Officers searching for clues down Morris LaneOn the evening of Saturday, April 13, Betty Jo Booker, age 15, was playing her in her regular weekly gig with her band, The Rythmaires, at the at West Fourth and Oak Street. Around 1:30 a.m.

Sunday morning, April 14, her friend Paul Martin, age 17, arrived to pick her up from the performance. This was the last time the pair were seen alive. Martin's body was found at around 6:30 a.m. That morning by Mr. Weaver and their son, lying on its left side by the northern edge of North Park Road. Blood was found further down on the other side of the road by a fence. He had been shot four times—once through the nose, again through the left fourth rib from behind, a third time in the right hand, and finally through the back of the neck.Booker's body was not found until approximately 11:30 a.m., almost 2 miles (3.2 km) away from Martin's body, behind a tree.

She was found by members of the Boyd family, along with their friend Ted Schoeppey, who had joined the search party. Her body was lying on its back, fully clothed, with the right hand in the pocket of the buttoned overcoat. Booker had been shot twice, once through the chest and once in the face. The weapon used was the same as in the first double-murder, a.Martin's 1946 Ford Club coupe was found about 3 miles (4.8 km) away from Booker's body and 1.55 miles (2.49 km) away from his body. It was parked outside Spring Lake Park with the keys still in it. The authorities were not sure who was shot first.

Sheriff Presley and Texas Ranger Captain Manuel Gonzaullas said that examinations of the bodies indicated that they both had put up a terrific struggle. Martin's friend, Tom Albritton, said he did not believe an argument had happened between the victims and that Martin hadn't had any enemies. Law enforcement was unable to locate Booker's saxophone at the crime scene; the saxophone was eventually discovered around six months later, on October 24, still in its black imitation leather case, in underbrush near where Booker's body had been found.A reward fund exceeding $1,700 was accrued for information leading to the person(s) responsible in the Griffin-Moore and Martin-Booker murders. Rumors circulated throughout the area, with one rumor suggesting a local minister had turned in his own son as a suspect in the Martin-Booker murders.

On April 18, Captain Gonzaullas issued a statement to the public during a press conference verifying that the murderer had not been caught and that the rumors circulating among the public and in the newspapers were 'a hindrance to the investigation and harmful to innocent persons.' May 3, 1946: Final crimes On Friday, May 3, sometime before 9 p.m., Virgil Starks, age 37, a farmer and, was in his modest, ranch-style house on a 500-acre farm off Highway 67 East, almost 10 miles (16 km) northeast of Texarkana. He turned on his favorite weekly radio show, and his wife, Katie, age 36, gave him a heating pad for his sore back.

He sat in his armchair in the sitting room, which was just off of the kitchen and the bedroom. While Katie was in her bedroom lying on the bed in her nightgown, she heard something from the backyard and asked Virgil to turn down the radio. Seconds later, while Virgil was reading the May 3rd edition of the Texarkana Gazette, two shots were fired into the back of his head from a closed double-window 3 feet (0.91 m) away. Katie did not hear the gunshots; instead, she heard what 'sounded like the breaking of glass'.

She thought Virgil had dropped something and went to see what happened. As she entered the doorway to the living room, she saw Virgil stand up and then suddenly slump back into his chair.

She saw blood, then ran to him and lifted up his head. When she realized he was dead, she ran to the phone to call the police.She rang the wall-crank phone two times before being shot twice in the face from the same window.

One bullet entered her right cheek and exited behind her left ear. The other went in just below her lip, breaking her jaw and splintering out several teeth before lodging under her tongue. She dropped to her knees but soon managed to get back on her feet. She ran to get a pistol from the living room, but was blinded by her own blood. She heard the killer tearing loose the rusted screen wire on the back porch. She thought she was going to be killed, so she stumbled toward her bedroom near the front of the house to leave a note.

Meanwhile, the killer ran to the back of the house and made his way up the steps and into the side-screened porch through the back screen door. She heard the killer coming through the kitchen window, so she turned around and ran through the dining room, through the bedroom, down a hallway, through another bedroom, and then into the living room and out the front door, leaving behind a 'virtual river of blood' and teeth throughout the house and across the street.

Barefoot and still in her blood-soaked nightgown, she ran across the street to her sister and brother-in-law's house. Because no one was home, she ran 50 yards more to A. Prater's house. Prater answered her call for help.

She gasped, 'Virgil's dead', then collapsed.Prater shot a rifle in the air to summon another neighbor, Elmer Taylor. Prater called to Taylor to bring his car because Mr. Starks had been shot. Taylor, along with Mr. Prater and their baby, rode with Mrs. Starks to Michael Meagher Hospital (now Miller County Health Unit) at 503 Walnut Street. Starks gave Mr.

Taylor, the driver, one of her teeth with a gold filling. She was in a semi-conscious state, slumping forward on the front seat. Although she lost a considerable amount of blood, she showed no signs of and her heart rate remained normal. Miller County Sheriff W.

Davis, who became head of the investigation, questioned Mrs. Starks in the operating room.

The news was printed on the front page the next morning, Saturday, May 4, reading 'MURDER ROCKS CITY AGAIN; FARMER SLAIN, WIFE WOUNDED'. Four days later, Sheriff Davis talked with Mrs. Starks again at the hospital.

Starks discounted a circulating rumor that Virgil had heard a car outside their home several nights in a row and feared of being killed. Investigation and post-events The Miller County Sheriff's Department was notified just minutes after the alarm reached City Police. Arkansas State Police Officers Charley Boyd and Max Tackett got the call on their radio and were the first officers at the scene. Some of the reports were contradictory.

One of the officers said that they found Starks still slumped in the blood-soaked chair, and that the chair had caught fire from the electric heating pad. 'Smoke was filling the room and was coming up all around the man and between his legs.' Yet Sheriff W. Davis said that when officers arrived at the scene, they found the chair on fire, but Starks' body was not burned because it had fallen on the floor.Immediately after reports of the slaying spread, blockades were set up several miles northeast and southwest on Highway 67 East. Sheriff Davis called in officers from the entire area to help in the investigation, including two agents from the FBI, Captain Gonzaullas and other Texas Rangers, Sheriff Presley and his deputies, Sheriff Jim Sanderson from Little River County, Arkansas State Police, local police, and many others. In the house, investigators found a trail of blood with scattered teeth.

On the dining room table were Mrs. Starks' supplies for making a dress. Gonzaullas, after seeing the 'virtual river of blood', stated, 'it is beyond me why she did not bleed to death.' There were only two bullet holes in the window, leading Sheriff Davis to believe an automatic rifle was used. Investigators declared that after the killer shot Virgil, he waited patiently outside the window to shoot Virgil's wife.Three clues were found at the scene. The first was the caliber of bullets. The second was a flashlight found in the hedge underneath the window that Starks was shot from.

The last clue was bloody prints around the house: shoe-prints on the kitchen floor and smudged fingerprints in other places. Sheriff Davis stated that although this murder could not be directly linked to the Phantom because the caliber was a.22, 'it is possible that the killer is one and the same man.' Those who had been driving in the area near the time of the slaying, along with several men found in the vicinity, were picked up for questioning.Early Saturday morning, bloodhounds were brought in from Hope by the Arkansas State Police. They found two trails that led to the highway before the scent was lost. That night, many officers patrolled lovers' lanes hoping to prevent another attack.

By Sunday night, more State Police officers were called in to help in the investigation and aid in protecting the local civilians. Officers had detained at least twelve suspects but only kept three for further questioning. Forty-seven officers were working around the clock to solve the mysteries. Among them were sheriffs of four counties, Captain Gonzaullas and his staff of Texas Rangers, and.The flashlight was sent to Washington, D.C.

For further inspection by the FBI. Meanwhile, Mrs. Starks was showing improvements at Michael Meagher Hospital. The unofficial theory for a motive amongst the majority of the 47 officers was that of 'sex mania' because large amounts of money in the home were not taken, nor was Mrs. Starks' purse, which was lying on the bed containing money and jewels.

The title on the front page of the Texarkana Gazette on Sunday, May 5, 1946 read: 'SEX MANIAC HUNTED IN MURDERS'.On the night of Virgil's death, the reward fund was up to $7,025. The following Tuesday, a mobile radio station was being sent from Austin, Texas. Gonzaullas stated that the unit, which was 'one of the best in the country', would be accompanied by a fleet of furnished with two-way radio equipment, which would allow the officers to converse not only with headquarters but between cars as well. A clerk from the Bowie County Board No.

1 stated that even though he contacted officers two weeks prior, no investigating officers had checked his files. Another clerk from the Miller County stated that no request for examination of her files had been made.

Both explained that their reports would reveal information such as thumbprints, rifleman awards, and mental and physical conditions of the registrants. That night, during a radio interview, Gonzaullas asked residents to help the investigation by refraining from spreading and repeating rumors. He stated, 'These only take the officers from the main route of the investigation. It is so important that we capture this man that we cannot afford to overlook any lead, no matter how fantastic it may seem.' The next day, the mobile radio transmitting station arrived in Texarkana late in the afternoon, along with ten police cars and twenty State Police officers. Captain Gonzaullas placed it into operation immediately.

A correspondent from the International News Service made reservations to come to the city and cover the story. Bob Carpenter from the Mutual Broadcasting Service in New York City arrived and was arranging a coast-to-coast broadcast directly from the KCMC studios (the Gazette and Daily News radio station) on 315 national stations. John Holman, chairman of the reward fund, asked people to send their donations in check form made out to either the Texarkana National Bank or the State National Bank. He said that the reward monies would be kept in deposit slips, which would make it easier to return the money back to the donors if needed.On Thursday morning, May 9, Sheriff Davis was notified that the flashlight found at the Starks murder scene contained no fingerprints. On Wednesday, May 29, a colored picture on the front page of the Texarkana Gazette showed the flashlight.

It was the Texarkana Gazette's first photograph. Jimmy HollisJimmy Hollis was a 25-year-old insurance agent at the time of the attack.

He was born on September 25, 1920. He lived at 3502 North, a house which no longer exists. On the night of his attack, he was at the movies on a double date with his brother, Bob, who was also an insurance agent. After the movie, he dropped his brother and his brother's date off. While he was taking his girlfriend home, they stopped on a lateral street off of Richmond Road, where the attack occurred.

Hollis suffered three skull fractures and was hospitalized for several days at Texarkana Hospital (also known as Pine Street Hospital), which stood at West Fifth and Pine Street, and no longer exists. After four days, he showed slight improvement but was still not fully conscious.He was released from the hospital on Saturday, March 9.

His doctor told him it would be 'some time' before he was completely well again and that he was not to work for six months. By the middle of May, he was still recovering from his injuries.

Three months after the attack, he stated, 'I still get nervous when I think about it. At night, on the street, even downtown.' Hollis was questioned several times by officers after the other killings. Starting at the end of April, he spent a week with Larey in Frederick, Oklahoma before residing in Shreveport, Louisiana. Hollis eventually married and had seven children.

He obtained a Bachelor of Arts in history and a Master of Science in – , subsequently working for the U.S. He loved to dress in Western clothing, which included a cowboy hat, a holster, and a pistol. He appeared in the 1971 television film They've Killed President Lincoln as Vice President. He eventually moved to Houston, where he began working for. Hollis died in his sleep at the age of 54.

His family remembered him for his jokes and sense of humor, as well as his love for the outdoors, including camping and hunting. Mary Jeanne Larey Mary Larey was 19 and lived at East Hooks Courts in when she was attacked. She had just been on a double date at the movies with Jimmy Hollis, Jimmy's brother, Bob, and Bob's girlfriend.

On the way home, Bob and his date did not want to ride all the way to Mary's house, so they were dropped off. Larey and Hollis then headed to the lovers' lane just off of Richmond Road, where the attack occurred. She was beaten and sexually assaulted with the perpetrator's pistol. She suffered a head wound which was stitched up at the hospital.

Afterward, she had frequent nightmares about her attacker. She later moved to Frederick, Oklahoma to live with her aunt and uncle, Mr. Her aunt said that for the first time in Mary's life, Mary was extremely nervous and would not go upstairs by herself or sleep alone.Three months later, Texarkana Gazette reporter Lucille Holland was flown to Frederick by a man named Paul Burns to interview Mary.

At the time of the interview, officers had not publicly linked Larey's attack with the more recent murders. The report appeared in the May 10th edition of the Texarkana Gazette. Larey said, 'I would know his voice anywhere. It rings always in my ears. Why didn't he kill me too?

He killed so many others.' She described her attacker as a light-skinned black man, which was different from Hollis' belief that the attacker was a dark-tanned white man. After the first double-murder, Larey went to Texarkana to talk to the police with the hope that they would connect the incidents and identify the murderer, but the Rangers questioned her story and insisted she knew who her attacker was. After the second double-murder, a Texas Ranger went to Frederick to question Mary again. Larey, native to Oklahoma, died in of cancer in 1965 at the age of 38.Richard Lanier Griffin.

The foot marker of Paul Martin in Hillcrest CemeteryBorn in on May 8, 1929, Paul Martin was a 16-year-old high school junior at the time of his death. He had worked in his family's ice plant in Kilgore when he was young. His brother, R. Martin, Jr., described him as a 'quiet kid'. He was a member of Beech Street Baptist Church, the same church as Betty Jo Booker.

He completed the ninth grade at Arkansas Junior High, and then attended the in in 1945 before going to school at Kilgore. He and Booker had been friends since attending Fairview Kindergarten (on the Arkansas side) together before she moved to the Texas side in 1944.On Friday, April 12, Martin drove to Texarkana from Kilgore.

That night, he stayed with a friend, Tom Albritton, at Martin's Texarkana residence at 1222 Locust Street (now 1224). The next day, he hung out with Booker at her house during the afternoon. He then picked her up from her regular Saturday night gig at the VFW Club on West Fourth and Oak Street on Sunday morning around 2 a.m.

He was found shot to death four hours later, his body lying on its left side at the north side of North Park Road, a mile and a half from his car. He was buried at his church, Beech Street Baptist, on April 16 at 10 a.m. During heavy rainfall. His mother stated that she had objected to his trip to Texarkana, not due to danger in the town, but because she feared he might wreck his car while driving alone.Betty Jo Booker. Betty Jo Booker's foot marker in Westlawn CemeteryBetty Booker was born on June 5, 1930. She was a 15-year-old junior at Texas High School at the time of her death. She was raised in the church and, like her friend Paul Martin, was a member of Beech Street Baptist Church.

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 would play 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.Betty was very popular, had many friends, and was well-liked in school. She had many boyfriends, but none that were serious. She loved music and swimming, and liked dancing in programs and recitals. She won many awards: scholastic, literary, and musical, as well as the citywide title of Little Miss Texarkana in 1934, representing the Presbyterian Book Store. She was a near straight-A student who was planning to become a medical technician. After her death, The Rythmaires never played again.

The night before her attack, she played at her regular Saturday night gig at the VFW building on West Fourth and Oak Street. She was then picked up by her friend Paul Martin, and was headed to a slumber party. She was killed early Sunday morning, and her body was removed by an East Funeral Home ambulance.Several classmates and her band leader, Jerry Atkins, attended her funeral two days later at her church, Beech Street Baptist. It was held on April 16 at 2 p.m., four hours after Martin's, also during heavy rainfall. Texas High School dismissed its students at noon that day so that they could be at her funeral.

Hundreds of young people attended the separate funerals. Betty's mother could not control her grief as she watched the long line of teenagers file by Betty's casket. Atkins was one of the pallbearers.

She was then buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, located between 3006 State Line Avenue and 3085 County Avenue. Miss Booker was survived by her mother (died in 1977), stepfather, both grandparents, three aunts, and three uncles.Friends do not know how or why Betty ended up at Spring Lake Park, because they knew she and Martin were just friends. Even after all this time, classmates of Booker and Martin do not want to be identified. The murders are still vivid. 'We were all extremely frightened and extremely upset. And in a way, we still are,' said one classmate in 1996.

Jerry Atkins stated, 'What happened was so tragic, and for many of us who lived through it, the frustration and sadness will always be there.' Booker said, 'I trust the men who are handling the investigation into my daughter's death. I'm sure they'll find whoever did it. If he is caught, I would like to kill him. If they would let me, I would kill him myself.' Booker's parents stayed at their Texas home until October, 1946, when they moved to 1417 Locust Street (now 1407?). Walter Virgil Starks.

Virgil Starks' foot marker in Hillcrest CemeteryVirgil Starks was born on April 3, 1909. He was a 37-year-old who lived in a modest, ranch-style home on a 500-acre farm for five years, which was located about ten miles northeast of Texarkana, on Highway 67 East. He lived not far from his brother, Charlie (died in 1960), and only two miles away from his father, Jack (died in 1951). He married Katherine Ila Strickland on March 2, 1932.

Known as a progressive farmer, he was also a welder who would do welding work for neighboring farmers. He had no known enemies and was said to be a neighbor of excellent reputation, and was respected and trusted by everyone who knew him. He was a member of the First Methodist Church on Sixth and Laurel Street for years.On Friday, May 3, around 8:50 p.m., Virgil was relaxing in his chair in the sitting room, just off of the kitchen and bedroom, with a heating pad on his back. He was listening to his favorite radio program and reading the Friday, May 3 edition of the Texarkana Gazette when he was shot from a closed double window three feet behind him, which faced the highway. He was shot in the back of the head by two slugs and died almost instantly.

His funeral, which his recovering wife could not attend, was held the following Monday at his church at 2:30 p.m. More than 500 people attended his funeral, more than 60 of whom were his and his wife's relatives. He was buried in Hillcrest Cemetery on Highway 67 West, the same cemetery as Paul Martin was buried in. He was survived by his wife, parents, sister (Mrs. Millard Boyce, Jr.), brother (Charlie), two nieces, and one nephew.Katherine Ila 'Katie' Starks.

Katie Starks Sutton's foot marker in Hillcrest CemeteryKatie Starks was born on September 25, 1909 in. Katie was 36 at the time of her attack.

She was married to Virgil Starks and lived at their farmhouse of five years, which was on 500 acres of farmland, off Highway 67 East, almost ten miles northeast of Texarkana. Her sister, Mrs. Allen, lived directly across the street from Katie. She was the daughter of Jim Strickland. Katie and Virgil went to school together growing up because their parents lived on neighboring farms in Red Springs, Texas.A friend had stated that Katie and Virgil were two of the best people he had ever known. After discovering her husband had died, she ran to telephone the police.

She rung the phone twice when she was shot two times in the face. One bullet entered her right cheek and exited behind her left ear, and the other went in just below her lip, breaking her jaw and splintering out several teeth before lodging under her tongue. She ran to a neighbor's house, who then took her to the hospital where she recovered.Katie eventually remarried. At 84 years old, on Sunday, July 3, 1994, she died in a local hospital as Katie Starks Sutton. Her funeral was held at 10 a.m. On Wednesday, July 6. She was survived by her husband, Forrest Sutton, three sisters (Gertie Starks and Lois Russell of Texarkana, and Mary Johnson of Houston, Texas), and a number of nieces and nephews.

She was buried next to Virgil, and is now between both husbands. She was the retired office manager of American Optical and a member of the First United Methodist Church.Investigators. The grave marker of Tillman B. Johnson in Rondo Memorial Park Miller County Chief Sheriff's Deputy Tillman Byron Johnson Tillman Johnson was born on May 24, 1911 in. He moved to Texarkana in the 1930s and started working for the Miller County Sheriff's Department in 1938.

He served in the military for two years during World War II before returning home and working on the Virgil Starks murder case. He soon became one of the leading investigators in the case. Johnson did not believe that the Phantom committed the Starks murder. He was a member of First United Methodist Church of East Sixth Street. He was the last surviving lawman of the Phantom slayings and was the 'go to' man for the case. He had been contacted by many interested individuals, including television crews, from all over the world, including China, Sweden, and Australia. He kept many personal files of the case, most of which became the only case files, because many of the original files, photographs, and police notes eventually went missing from both police departments.

Johnson firmly believed the identity of the Phantom was that of the prime suspect, Youell Swinney.Johnson departed from the sheriff's office in 1957 and became an, which he retired from in the 1970s. He then became a private investigator. Johnson died on Wednesday, December 10, 2008 in a local hospital at the age of 97.

He was survived by two sons, a daughter-in-law, one daughter, a son-in-law, two grandsons- and granddaughters-in-law, one granddaughter, and twelve great-grandchildren. He is buried near the grave of his police peer, Max Tackett, at the farthest-west side of Rondo Memorial Park (not to be confused with Rondo Cemetery) in Miller County, Arkansas.Arkansas State Police Detective Max Andrew Tackett. Max Tackett's grave marker in Rondo Memorial ParkMax Tackett was born on August 13, 1912 in, and moved to Texarkana in 1941. He was a member of the Arkansas State Police from 1941 to 1948, having served as a trooper, then as a special investigator during that period. Tackett was the Texarkana Arkansas Police Chief from 1948 until his retirement in 1968. In 1951, he became the president of the.

He was a World War II combat veteran who had served in Belgium, France, the Netherlands, and Germany. Max was also a member of the Beech Street Baptist Church and the. Max was said to be colorful, outspoken, and even a controversial figure in the police department. Max became the arresting officer of the lead suspect, Youell Swinney, after realizing that on each night of the murders, a car was stolen and later abandoned.Tackett died on Sunday, March 12, 1972 at midnight (March 13) in a local hospital at the age of 59. His funeral was on the following Wednesday at 2 p.m. At the Texarkana Funeral Home Chapel.

He was buried in Rondo Memorial Park. Survivors included his wife, Mrs.

Caroline Tackett, a son, John Tackett of Birmingham, Alabama, a daughter, Mrs. Sandra Zaleske of, two brothers, Boyd Tackett of Texarkana and John Zane Tackett of, and two sisters, Mrs. Rankin of Nashville, and Mrs. Minnie Raines of.Bowie County Sheriff William Hardy 'Bill' Presley. The headstone of William H. 'Bill' Presley in Eylau CemeteryWilliam Presley was born on April 25, 1895 in the Red Springs community of Bowie County. He was a member of the Men's Bible Class at the First United Methodist Church on Fourth Street and State Line Avenue.

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.

He was a member of the Chapelwood Methodist Church, and was a 32nd degree and a. He was a long-time friend of Texas City Chief of Police Jack N. Runnels, and he knew the Starks family well. He was the first lawman on the scene of Mary Jeanne Larey's attack and the first and second double-murders.Presley died on Saturday, May 27, 1972 at 1:38 a.m. In a local hospital at the age of 77. His funeral was held on the following Monday at 10 a.m. He is buried in Eylau Cemetery, off of Gun Club Road, which is off of South Lake Drive in Bowie County.

His grave is near the end of the second row from the entrance.Texas City Chief of Police Jackson Neely 'Jack' Runnels. Runnel's grave markerJack Runnels was born on September 26, 1897.

Runnels was a long-time friend of Bowie County Sheriff Presley. He and Presley were the first officers called to the scenes of both double-murders. Runnels was also the leading investigator of Booker's saxophone after it had been found. He was a law enforcement officer for 30 years, serving as chief of police for 20 of them, having been re-elected ten times. He retired in 1953 and became a farmer.Runnels died at 11:15 a.m. 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 was survived by his wife, three sons (R.

Gray of, Bob Gray of Shreveport, and Captain Preston E. Gray of the U. Air Force), three daughters (Mrs.

Denny Worley of New Orleans, Mrs. Walter Espy of San Antonio, and Mrs. Burch of Texarkana), six grandchildren, and three sisters (Mrs. Patsy Strayhorn, Mrs. Turquette, and Mrs.

Ernest Ford). His funeral was held at 4 p.m. On Monday, October 17.

He is buried at the far-left side of Hillcrest Cemetery (front row of section H).Texas Ranger Captain Manuel Trazazas 'Lone Wolf' Gonzaullas. Main article:Manuel Trazazas Gonzaullas was born on July 4, 1891 in to parents who were naturalized American citizens. He married in 1920, and enlisted in the Texas Rangers that same year. He was in charge of controlling gambling, bank robbery, bootlegging, narcotic trafficking, prostitution, riots, and general lawlessness from the Red River to the and from El Paso, Texas to the during the 1920s and 1930s. He was made captain of the Company B Texas Rangers in 1940.

In 1946, while hunting the Phantom, he swore to stay in Texarkana until the killer was apprehended, but left three months after the last murder.Gonzaullas believed the attack on Hollis and Larey was not committed by the Phantom. He also believed that someone else murdered Virgil Starks. Gonzaullas retired from the Rangers in 1951 and moved to Hollywood to become a technical consultant for radio, television, and motion pictures (most notably, the long-running 1950s radio and TV show, 'Tales of the Texas Rangers').

Gonzaullas, a Mason and a Presbyterian, died of cancer on February 13, 1977 at the age of 85 in Dallas, Texas. He is buried in Sparkman/Hillcrest Memorial Park in Dallas, Texas.J. Mahaffey, Texarkana Gazette editor during the spree of the Phantom, described Gonzaullas.he was one of the best-looking men I have ever seen and wore a spotless khaki suit and a white, ten-gallon hat. He packed two ivory-handled revolvers on his hips, and did not deny that he was the Ranger who sat in the cashier's office at the Crazy Water Hotel in and gunned down two ex-convicts who sought to rob the place.

He was so good-looking that my girl reporters would not leave him alone. He really didn't have time to hunt down the Phantom. He was too busy giving out interviews and trying to run the Gazette. All of the other officers working on the case were intensely jealous of Lone Wolf and complained bitterly every time his picture appeared in the paper.' Mahaffey also stated that after the murder of Virgil Starks, the police declared the farmhouse off-limits to everybody.

'Several nights later, I was holding forth in the Arkansas police station, when a call came through that a neighbor had seen strange lights in the farmhouse. We sped to the scene and I hid behind a car while Police Chief Max Tackett and three other patrolmen approached the house. Chief Tackett yelled into the house that the place was surrounded and the Phantom might as well give up. Who do you suppose walked out? None other than Lone Wolf Gonzaullas of the Texas Rangers and a woman photographer from Life and Time magazines. Lone Wolf explained rather sheepishly that he had been re-enacting the crime and the young lady was taking pictures of him.

Police Chief Tackett turned to me and shouted at the top of his voice, 'Mahaffey, you can quote me as saying that the Phantom Murders will never be solved until Texarkana gets rid of the big city press and the Texas Rangers.' 'Tillman Johnson said, 'Whenever he came down the stairs from his hotel room, he called for the press. He was a showman. He was a handsome man, I'd say, and he made a good appearance, and of course he had a reputation for being a killer. So the press all followed Gonzaullas.' He also said, 'No, he didn't do any real police work himself.

He'd get in that car and ride around, ask a lot of questions about what the other officers had found, then he'd release it to the press like it was his information. It got to where after a while some officers wouldn't tell him anything.' Louis 'Swampy' Graves, a Texarkana Gazette reporter in 1946, described Gonzaullas as a handsome man with a lot of personalities. 'He was well-built and wore a suit and a battle jacket with bright buttons. He was very clean-looking, with an olive complexion, and wore pearl-handled pistols, one on each hip.

He looked like a typical Texas Ranger,' said Graves. 'He would have been perfect in the. He fit the description going around in those years about the number of Texas Rangers needed to quell a riot. One Riot, One Texas Ranger.' Related news Earl McSpadden On Tuesday, May 7, 1946 (four days after Starks' murder) at approximately 6 a.m., the body of a man was found on the tracks 16 miles (26 km) north of Texarkana, near. He was lying face-down beside the tracks with his head pointed north.

The man's left arm (severed at the elbow) and leg (severed at the hip) were on the inside of the tracks, and had been cut off by a freight train that had passed by at 5:30 a.m. The body was taken to the Phillips Funeral Home in for examination. The coroner's jury's verdict stated, 'death at the hands of persons unknown', and that 'he was dead before being placed on the railroad tracks.'

Little River CountySheriff Jim Sanderson, however, scoffed at the coroner's report and said that the man died when he fell under the wheels of a passing freight train. The coroner examined the body a second time and found further evidence of murder. The Little River County coroner explained, 'We found a deep cut over the man's temple two inches wide and one and one-half inches long, which is sufficiently deep to cause death. We also found cuts about the man's hands and wrists, which would indicate that the man grappled with another person who had a knife. All of these wounds were clean and indicated that the cuts were made with a sharp instrument.

The wounds which we believed the man received when his body was struck by the train were full of dirt and were jagged.' The coroner believed that the man was dead for a full two hours before being placed on the tracks, and that there was not enough blood around the wounds which caused his death. Blood was found on the street near the crime scene, supporting the coroner's theory. Sheriff Sanderson still believed that the man's death was accidental, regardless of the coroner's report, saying, 'I think the man fell from the train and was killed.' The coroner maintained the verdict that the man had died of knife wounds.The man was identified as Earl Cliff McSpadden from a social security card which was issued in Baltimore, Maryland. McSpadden's brother, R.

McSpadden, contacted an attendant at the Ashdown Funeral Home after hearing about Earl's death over the radio. His brother reported that Earl was employed by a company that 'travels around a lot'. Earl was said by his brother to be a transient oil storage tank builder. His brother was not sure where Earl was living at the time. It was also found that Earl had registered at the in Shreveport. The body was taken by a Prewitt Funeral Home ambulance from the funeral home to Dallas.Because the murder is unsolved, locals have speculated that McSpadden was the Phantom's sixth victim.

A prominent rumor exists claiming that McSpadden was the Phantom, and had committed suicide by jumping in front of a train, taking his secrets with him in death.Blood-stained clothing On Monday, July 9, 1956, a worker tearing down the Spring Lake Park School found men's clothing with dark red stains in the attic under a table scarf with the same stains. The school was located near the scene where Martin's car was found, across the railroad tracks.

The clothing was sent to the state laboratory in Austin, Texas by Texas city police to determine if the stains were human blood. It was evident that the clothing had been there for a long time because it was deteriorating. It consisted of white linen trousers and a white linen shirt and undershirt.Before the test results came in, officers were cautious in linking the clothing to certain 'particular murders' in the area. Officers received a written report claiming that the stains were blood, but it failed to give a blood type. Officers were concerned and made a long-distance phone call to the Bureau of Investigation of the State Department of Public Safety, and were told that there had been a mistake, and that the letter should have said that the stains were 'not' blood.

The stains turned out to be paint stains. The 'blood'-stained clothing was speculated as being hidden by the Phantom; a rumor which still persists as of mid-2013.Tradition Every October near Halloween, the movie, which is loosely based on Texas Ranger Captain M. 'Lone Wolf' Gonzaullas' investigation into the murders, is the last movie shown to the public during 'Movies in the Park' at either Spring Lake Park or at the Southwest Center in Texarkana. The free event is sponsored by the Texarkana. This showing of the movie has been a tradition since 2003. About 600 people attended the showing in 2008.The director of the Texarkana Parks & Recreation Department, Robby Robertson, advised in 2009 that many people had requested DVD copies of the movie.

Robertson said, 'It's still shown only on VHS tape and those aren't even available anymore.' 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.In popular culture. This section does not any. Unsourced material may be challenged and.Find sources: – ( June 2017). In 1976, a native of Texarkana, made, based on the moonlight murderer. In 2014, a meta-sequel to The Town That Dreaded Sundown with the was released.

In 2007, the band The Bad Detectives recorded the song 'Texarkana Moonlight', which is about the crimes. In 2010, a play called 'The Phantom Killer' debuted in Manhattan at the Abingdon Theatre Company's Dorothy Strelsin Theatre. It was written by Jan Buttram, who grew up in the Oak Grove community near. In the movie (2012), a short flashback segment shows a couple setting a trap for the 'Texarkana Moonlight Murderer'. In 2017, the CW series aired the episode 'The Town That Dreaded Sundown'.Media based on the events Books Non-fiction.

Corroborating Evidence by William T. Arkansas Online.

Retrieved 2020-03-10. Gangland Wire. Retrieved 2020-03-10. Texarkana Terror. July 10, 1946. Pp. 40–41.

Presley, James (May 6, 1971). ' Texarkana Gazette article'. Texarkana Gazette. ' Texarkana Daily News article'. Texarkana Daily News.

April 15, 1946. P. 2. ^ 'Texarkana Gazette special limited edition tabloid: The Phantom Killer at 50: A Retrospective'. P. 16. ^, p. 3., pp. 3–4.

^, p. 4. ^, pp.  Little singham cartoon dikhao. 4–5. ^, p. 5., pp. 5–6. ^, p. 6.

^, pp. 6–7., pp. 7–8. Walsh, Field (April 13, 2013).

Archived from on December 17, 2015., p. 18., p. 17., pp. 17–19. ^, p. 285., pp. 18–19. ^, pp. 18–23. 'Moonlight Murders'. Texarkana Gazette. Texarkana, Texas. P. 2.

^, p. 23. ^, p. 27., p. 26., pp. 26–8., p. 286. Texarkana Daily News, Wednesday, April 17, 1946, page 2. Retrieved 15 March 2015. Texarkana Daily News, Monday, April 15, 1946, front page., p. 185., p. 48. The Paris News.

Paris, Texas. April 16, 1946. P. 1 – via Newspapers.com., pp. 48–9., p. 49. ^ Texarkana Gazette, Saturday, May 4, 1946, page 2. ^ Texarkana Gazette, Sunday, May 5, 1946, front page.

Texarkana Daily News, Saturday, May 4, 1946, front page. ^ Texarkana Daily News, Tuesday, May 7, 1946, front page. Life magazine, June 10, 1946, p.