The Phantom Killer /// Part 1 /// 887

The Phantom Killer /// Part 1 /// 887

Author: TRUE CRIME GARAGE November 26, 2025 Duration: 55:08
Few of the True Crime stories we have covered become a legend. This story has. In part that might be because the murderous monster that committed several murders in Texarkana in 1946 seemed to come out of nowhere. The hunter quickly was named the Phantom Killer. Then 10 weeks after the attacks began, the Phantom vanished. The Phantom Killer stalked and hunted young adults and teens on the streets of Texarkana always on the weekend from February 22nd through May 3rd. Texarkana became the "Town that Dreaded Sundown." The killer truly was a phantom in every sense. To this day the folks in the Texas, Arkansas border town still talk about the Phantom Killer and the Texarkana Moonlight Murders.

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Duration: 49:42
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Death and Questions /// Kevin Davis /// Part 1 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 46:58
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Kierra Coles /// Part 2 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 45:15
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Kierra Coles /// Part 1 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 56:21
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The Phantom Killer /// Part 2 /// 888 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:10:02
Few of the True Crime stories we have covered become a legend. This story has. In part that might be because the murderous monster that committed several murders in Texarkana in 1946 seemed to come out of nowhere. The hu…
Ellen Greenberg ////// 886 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:18:51
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Robin Abrams /// Part 2 /// 885 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 51:46
On October 4, 1990 - former Will County Sheriff’s Deputy Robin Abrams vanished without a trace. She remains missing to this day. Robin Renea Abrams was just 28 years old when she went missing. According to the Daily Sout…
Robin Abrams /// Part 1 /// 884 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 45:00
On October 4, 1990 - former Will County Sheriff’s Deputy Robin Abrams vanished without a trace. She remains missing to this day. Robin Renea Abrams was just 28 years old when she went missing. According to the Daily Sout…
Dark Side of the Mountain /// Part 2 /// 883 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 51:31
Two men - each possibly grappling with his own version of a mid-life crisis - vanish 10 months apart from the same, tiny town in the Colorado Rockies under eerily similar circumstances. In September of 1987, a 47-year-ol…
Dark Side of the Mountain /// Part 1 /// 882 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 49:39
Two men - each possibly grappling with his own version of a mid-life crisis - vanish 10 months apart from the same, tiny town in the Colorado Rockies under eerily similar circumstances. In September of 1987, a 47-year-ol…