The Texarkana Phantom Killer

Matt Elliott
13 min readAug 5, 2019

“In 1946 a man killed five people today he still lurks the streets of Texarkana”. Texas has had its fair share of famous criminals and murders happen in the state. Famous criminals like Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker, famous murders like that of President John F. Kennedy. In the year of 1946 the small town of Texarkana on the border of Texas and Arkansas would be plagued by a series of attacks and serial murders carried out by a masked man the local newspapers would dub, the phantom killer. The killers attacks would last between February thru May of 1946 and would leave 5 people dead and 3 others wounded…

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Matt Elliott

I’m just a simple aspiring writer who loves pop culture and looking to share my stories with others.