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Samenzwering, verborgen agenda's en geheime geschiedenis. De zoektocht naar de wereld die achter de façade van alledag ligt.
Een weinig tot niet verkende invalshoek in een oude onopgeloste zaak waar de schijn in dat geval gewekt wordt dat het om een bepaalde geplande opzet zou gaan met een bepaald doel dat iets verder lag dan zomaar wat rondmoorden.
The Texarkana Moonlight Murders,
A term coined by the news media, were a series of unsolved murders and other violent crimes committed in and around Texarkana in the spring of 1946 by an unidentified serial killer 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 double murder, 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 from the first murders. The Texas Rangers came in to investigate, including the famous M. T. "Lone Wolf" Gonzaullas. Finally, almost exactly three weeks later, Virgil Starks was killed and his wife, Katie, was severely wounded.
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.[1] 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 of no more 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.[2][3][4][5]
The 1976 film The Town That Dreaded Sundown 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. A cold case in Texarkana in 1948 of the disappearance of Virginia Carpenter has been speculated to be the work of The Phantom.
The prime suspect in the case was Youell Swinney, who was linked to the murders by statements from his wife. Swinney's wife refused to testify against him, and he was never convicted, but two of the lead investigators in the case 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.
Bovenstaande van Wikipedia gelinkt met onderstaand verhaal over de verdwijning van Virginia Carpenter; waarbij men blijkbaar nooit echt of nooit het pad ingeslagen is dat Virginia een aandeel gehad zou kunnen hebben in het plaatje hierboven omdat het een taboe aanraakt van iemand die voorgoed verdwenen lijkt en een latere moordzaak, er speelt een bepaalde ehtiek mee die binnen de kaders en buiten de pers om misschien doorbroken had moeten worden om de zaak op te lossen.
En gezien de vreemde twist zou er iets in gezeten kunnen hebben van een bredere organisatie rondom de moorden; wat het plaatje mogelijk ook in een veel bredere context kan zetten. Onderstaand is van cracked.com die wel op de feiten blijven maar het qua stijl wat aantrekkelijker maken om te lezen, mocht de stijl niet helemaal bevallen is er onderstaand nog een link.
Het verhaal van Virginia Carpenter
On June 1, 1948, 21-year-old Virginia Carpenter was on the train from Texarkana to Denton when she met and befriended a middle-aged schoolteacher who was also enrolling in courses for the summer. The two women agreed to share a cab to the college dorms, because fuck walking across town with 1940s luggage. But when they dropped Virginia's friend off at the college, Virginia realized that she'd forgotten one of her bags at the train station, and took the cab back to the station alone, ignoring her friend's offer to accompany her.
Virginia was told that her suitcase hadn't arrived yet, and that a train station employee would deliver it to her dorm in the morning. The cab took her back to her dorm, and as they pulled up, the driver saw a yellow convertible parked outside the building with two young men sitting in the front seats. Since Virginia seemed to know the men, the cab drove away, and that was the last anyone ever saw of her.
It Gets Weirder:
Well, that's not quite accurate. Sightings of a woman matching Virginia's description continued for days after her supposed disappearance. She was spotted with two men in a yellow convertible at a gas station in Aubrey, ten miles from where she was last seen. Later, an Arkansas bus station ticket agent saw a woman matching her description get off a bus from Texarkana on June 11. The woman asked about local hotels and then hung around the station for a while, biting her lip, looking out the doors, and generally going out of her way to act as suspicious as possible. She met up with an unknown man and walked out of the station only moments before someone called and asked if a "Miss Virginia Carpenter" was there.
The last sighting was on the side of the highway outside Chino, Texas, where she was dirty, hungry, and hitchhiking. She told the group who picked her up that her name was Virginia and that she had run away. Unfortunately, none of them knew who she was until they saw her case on the news much later. It seems Virginia was going out of her way to haunt middle America without dying first.
Wait, there's more! Three of Virginia's friends became victims of a serial killer called the Texarkana Phantom. The Phantom was never caught, but the police investigation concluded that there was probably no connection between the killings and Virginia's bizarrely prolonged disappearance (which is actually weirder if true). Unless, of course, Virginia was the Texarkana Phantom, which is probably as reasonable a theory as any at this point.
-cracked.com
Texas Hill Country - Virginia Carpenter, the oldest cold case
[ Bericht 0% gewijzigd door Beathoven op 10-02-2019 16:14:51 ]
The Texarkana Moonlight Murders,
A term coined by the news media, were a series of unsolved murders and other violent crimes committed in and around Texarkana in the spring of 1946 by an unidentified serial killer 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 double murder, 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 from the first murders. The Texas Rangers came in to investigate, including the famous M. T. "Lone Wolf" Gonzaullas. Finally, almost exactly three weeks later, Virgil Starks was killed and his wife, Katie, was severely wounded.
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.[1] 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 of no more 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.[2][3][4][5]
The 1976 film The Town That Dreaded Sundown 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. A cold case in Texarkana in 1948 of the disappearance of Virginia Carpenter has been speculated to be the work of The Phantom.
The prime suspect in the case was Youell Swinney, who was linked to the murders by statements from his wife. Swinney's wife refused to testify against him, and he was never convicted, but two of the lead investigators in the case 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.
Bovenstaande van Wikipedia gelinkt met onderstaand verhaal over de verdwijning van Virginia Carpenter; waarbij men blijkbaar nooit echt of nooit het pad ingeslagen is dat Virginia een aandeel gehad zou kunnen hebben in het plaatje hierboven omdat het een taboe aanraakt van iemand die voorgoed verdwenen lijkt en een latere moordzaak, er speelt een bepaalde ehtiek mee die binnen de kaders en buiten de pers om misschien doorbroken had moeten worden om de zaak op te lossen.
En gezien de vreemde twist zou er iets in gezeten kunnen hebben van een bredere organisatie rondom de moorden; wat het plaatje mogelijk ook in een veel bredere context kan zetten. Onderstaand is van cracked.com die wel op de feiten blijven maar het qua stijl wat aantrekkelijker maken om te lezen, mocht de stijl niet helemaal bevallen is er onderstaand nog een link.
Het verhaal van Virginia Carpenter
On June 1, 1948, 21-year-old Virginia Carpenter was on the train from Texarkana to Denton when she met and befriended a middle-aged schoolteacher who was also enrolling in courses for the summer. The two women agreed to share a cab to the college dorms, because fuck walking across town with 1940s luggage. But when they dropped Virginia's friend off at the college, Virginia realized that she'd forgotten one of her bags at the train station, and took the cab back to the station alone, ignoring her friend's offer to accompany her.
Virginia was told that her suitcase hadn't arrived yet, and that a train station employee would deliver it to her dorm in the morning. The cab took her back to her dorm, and as they pulled up, the driver saw a yellow convertible parked outside the building with two young men sitting in the front seats. Since Virginia seemed to know the men, the cab drove away, and that was the last anyone ever saw of her.
It Gets Weirder:
Well, that's not quite accurate. Sightings of a woman matching Virginia's description continued for days after her supposed disappearance. She was spotted with two men in a yellow convertible at a gas station in Aubrey, ten miles from where she was last seen. Later, an Arkansas bus station ticket agent saw a woman matching her description get off a bus from Texarkana on June 11. The woman asked about local hotels and then hung around the station for a while, biting her lip, looking out the doors, and generally going out of her way to act as suspicious as possible. She met up with an unknown man and walked out of the station only moments before someone called and asked if a "Miss Virginia Carpenter" was there.
The last sighting was on the side of the highway outside Chino, Texas, where she was dirty, hungry, and hitchhiking. She told the group who picked her up that her name was Virginia and that she had run away. Unfortunately, none of them knew who she was until they saw her case on the news much later. It seems Virginia was going out of her way to haunt middle America without dying first.
Wait, there's more! Three of Virginia's friends became victims of a serial killer called the Texarkana Phantom. The Phantom was never caught, but the police investigation concluded that there was probably no connection between the killings and Virginia's bizarrely prolonged disappearance (which is actually weirder if true). Unless, of course, Virginia was the Texarkana Phantom, which is probably as reasonable a theory as any at this point.
-cracked.com
Texas Hill Country - Virginia Carpenter, the oldest cold case
[ Bericht 0% gewijzigd door Beathoven op 10-02-2019 16:14:51 ]
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