Decades later, the case of the Phantom Killer continues to elude investigators, both professional and amateur. Theories abound about who the killer could have been, spurred by more than a thousand pages of investigation materials released by the FBI...
An attacker ambushes Virgil Starks in his home, shooting and killing him. His wife, Katie, narrowly escapes to the neighbor’s house to call police. Evidence from the Starks attack leads to several suspects, but no arrests are made.
Betty Jo Booker’s friends are expecting her at a sleepover, but she never shows up. She’d been with a friend, Paul Martin, who is also nowhere to be found. The next morning, a family driving through Spring Lake Park finds the body of the teenage boy...
A month after the first attack, a motorist out for a Sunday drive finds an abandoned car. The bodies of two young people are inside. Polly Ann Moore and Richard Griffin have been shot. Overnight rain has washed away most evidence of the crime. The...
It’s February 1946 in Texarkana, Texas, a small East Texas city seeing rapid growth in the wake of Prohibition. Two young lovers go to a movie, then take a drive to Spring Lake Park, where they’re brutally attacked by an unknown assailant. As Jimmy...
In 1946, a serial killer murdered five people over the course of 10 weeks in Texarkana, Texas before disappearing. Theories abound about who the killer may have been, but decades later, the case is still unsolved. In season two of “Devilish Deeds,”...
AUSTIN, Texas — The Drag Audio Production House is thrilled to announce the upcoming release of “Devilish Deeds” Season 2: The Texarkana Phantom Killer, a five-episode narrative series that delves into one of Texas’s most notorious...
As the bloody year of 1885 draws to a close and 1886 begins, the police are no closer to solving the vicious crimes that rattled Austin. Even more than a century later, no one knows for sure who killed these women or why. This episode explores the...
Austin’s city leaders begin to panic amid the bloodshed and bring in outside detectives to help the city’s underperforming police force. Although six Black women have been killed in less than a year, the city and the nation show much deeper concern...
A few months after the death of the first victim, another Black woman working as a servant in Austin is killed. And then another. With three murder victims and a clear pattern, modern officials would know that a serial killer is likely behind the...
