23. FBI File No. 62-80864: memo dated May 8, 1948.
24. Bob Rayburn’s Colt Woodsman Home Page, http://colt22.com/index.html (accessed November 8, 2012).
25. FBI File No. 62-80864: letter dated May 28, 1946.
26. Ibid.: memo dated June 1, 1946; laboratory work sheet dated June 3, 1946.
27. Ibid.: invoice dated June 6, 1946; memo dated June 21, 1946.
28. Ibid.: laboratory work sheet dated June 3, 1946.
29. Geringer, “The Phantom Killer”; Sanchez, “The Phantom Killer.”
30. FBI File No. 62-80864: memo dated May 8, 1946.
31. Ibid.: cable dated May 9, 1946.
32. Ibid.: memos dated April 20 and December 6, 1946.
33. Ibid.: memo dated May 8, 1946.
34. Ibid.: letter dated May 15, 1946.
35. Ibid.: memo dated May 8, 1946.
36. Ibid.: laboratory report dated May 10, 1946.
37. “Blood type,” Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_type (accessed November 12, 2012).
38. FBI File No. 62-80864: memo dated May 8, 1946.
39. “Texarkana Moonlight Murders,” The Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture.
40. FBI File No. 62-80864: memo dated May 27, 1946.
41. Ibid.: memo dated Aug. 23, 1946.
42. Ibid.: lab report dated May 10, 1946.
43. Texarkana Gazette, May 7, 1946.
44. Ibid.
45. Ibid.
46. Ibid.
47. Ibid.
48. Ibid.
49. Ibid.
50. FBI File No. 62-80864: memo dated May 7, 1946.
51. Texarkana Gazette, May 5, 1946, and May 4, 1971.
52. Malsch, pp. 165–6.
53. Dallas Morning News, Jan. 12, 2003.
54. Dallas Observer, Feb. 1, 2001.
55. Phantom Killer, Texarkana.
56. Glenn Ferguson email correspondence with the author, June 13, 2012.
57. Dallas Observer, Feb. 1, 2001.
58. Texas Ranger Files: letters dated Aug. 15, 1946; Feb. 24, 1947; March 1, 1947; Oct. 21, 1947.
59. Ibid.: letter dated Jan. 16, 1951.
60. Dallas Morning News, Aug. 16, 2001.
61. Ibid.
62. Phantom Killer, Texarkana.
Chapter 7
1. Arkansas Democrat, May 7, 1946; Arkansas Gazette, May 8, 1946.
2. Arkansas Democrat, May 7, 1946; Arkansas Gazette, May 8, 1946.
3. Dillinger; Hardel.
4. Arkansas Democrat, May 7, 1946.
5. Ibid.
6. Social Security Numerology, http://socialsecuritynumerology.com/info.php?num=147-09-4323 (accessed November 22, 2012).
7. Arkansas Democrat, May 7, 1946.
8. Arkansas Gazette, May 8, 1946.
9. Arkansas Democrat, May 7, 1946; Arkansas Gazette, May 8, 1946.
10. Dillinger.
11. Ibid.
12. Wilson and Pitman, p. 402.
13. Malsch, p. 166.
14. Dallas Observer, Feb. 1, 2001.
15. Arkansas Gazette, July 25, 1976.
16. Ibid.
17. Dallas Morning News, Aug. 18, 1996.
18. Ibid.
19. Ibid., Aug. 25, 1996.
20. Texarkana Gazette, May 6, 1971.
21. Ibid.
22. Ibid., May 8 and 9, 1946.
23. Ibid., May 9, 1946.
24. Ibid.
25. Ibid., May 10, 1946.
26. Ibid., May 8, 1946.
27. Arkansas Gazette, May 7, 1946.
28. Texarkana Gazette, May 9, 1946.
29. Ibid.
30. Texarkana Gazette, May 10 and 11, 1946.
31. Dallas Morning News, May 10, 1946.
32. Texarkana Gazette, May 10, 1946.
33. Ibid.
34. Texarkana Gazette, May 11, 1946.
35. Ibid., May 12, 1946.
36. Arkansas Democrat, May 11, 1946.
37. Ibid.
38. Ibid.
39. Ibid.
40. Ibid.
41. Ibid., May 12, 1946.
42. Ibid.
43. Texarkana Gazette, May 12, 1946.
44. Arkansas Democrat, May 13, 1946.
45. Arkansas Gazette, May 13 and 14, 1946.
46. Texarkana Gazette, May 15, 1946.
47. Ibid.
48. Arkansas Democrat, May 16, 1946.
49. Ibid., May 15, 1946; Arkansas Gazette, May 16, 1946.
50. Arkansas Democrat, May 12, 1946.
51. Texarkana Gazette, May 7, 1971.
52. Ibid.
53. Ibid.
54. Ibid., May 5, 1971; Dallas Observer, Feb. 1, 2001.
55. Dallas Observer, Feb. 1, 2001.
56. Texarkana Gazette, May 13, 1946.
57. Ibid., May 12, 1946.
58. Ibid.; Joplin (MO) Globe, May 12, 1946.
59. Arkansas Democrat Magazine, May 11, 1954.
60. Ibid.
61. Ibid.
62. Ibid.
63. Arkansas Gazette, May 14, 1946.
64. Ibid., May 15, 1946.
65. Ibid.
66. Texarkana Gazette, May 19, 1946.
67. Ibid., May 5, 1971.
68. Arkansas Gazette, July 25, 1976.
69. Texarkana Gazette, May 5, 1971.
70. Geringer, “The Phantom Killer.”
71. “Ottis Toole,” Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottis_Toole (accessed December 3, 2012).
72. Arkansas Gazette, July 25, 1976.
73. Ibid.
74. Texarkana Gazette, May 6, 1971.
75. Ibid.
76. “East Texas League,” Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Texas_League (accessed December 3, 2012).
Chapter 8
1. Life, June 10, 1946, pp. 40–1.
2. Texarkana Gazette, May 9, 1971.
3. Dallas Observer, Feb. 1, 2001.
4. Texarkana Gazette, May 9, 1971.
5. Case, “The man who caught the phantom killer...,” p. 12.
6. Texarkana Gazette, May 9, 1971.
7. Case, p. 12.
8. 1930 Census Records, http://www.censusrecords.com/Search?FirstName=peggy&LastName=stevens&State=Texas&CensusYear=1930#Search?FirstName=peggy&LastName=stevens&State=Texas&CensusYear=1930&_suid=134235409872302481431406890634 (accessed July 15, 2012); Ancestry.com, http://records.ancestry.com/Results.aspx?fn=Peggy&ln=Stevens (accessed July 15, 2012).
9. Caddo Parish Clerk’s Office, http://webserver.caddoclerk.com/cgi-win/cobolcgi.exe?runcobol+cgimarname2.cob+A=’01160170+G1+19200303+20120705+SWINNEY%YOUELL%L+SWINNEY—>‘+1=rmcgix32.dll (accessed July 5, 2012).
10. Glenn Ferguson, personal communication dated June 13, 2012.
11. Sanchez, “The Phantom Killer.”
12. “The Phantom Killer of Texarkana USA.”
13. Ibid.
14. Case, p. 12.
15. U.S. Census, January 1, 1920, State of Arkansas, County of Cleveland, enumeration district 25, p. 2-A, family 27; Jim Tackitt personal communication, July 23, 2012.
16. 1920 U.S. Census; Arkansas State Penitentiary file; Social Security Death Index, http://ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi (accessed Jan. 7, 2011).
17. 1930 U.S. Census; Jim Tackitt personal communication, July 23, 2012; Arkansas State Penitentiary file; FBI File No. 877089.
18. FBI File No. 877089.
19. Ibid.
20. Jim Tackitt personal communication, July 23, 2012.
21. FBI File No. 877089.
22. Ex Parte Swinney, 499 S.W.2d 101 (1973); Arkansas State Penitentiary File.
23. “Arkansas Department of Corrections,” The Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture, http://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?search=1&entryID=5704 (accessed July 27, 2012).
24. Ibid.
25. Talley v. Stephens, 247 F. Supp. 683 (E.D. Ark. 1965).
26. Holt v. Sarver I, 300 F. Supp. 825 (1969); Holt v. Sarver II, 309 F. Supp. 362 (1970).
27. Hutto v. Finney, 437 U.S. 678; 98 S. Ct. 2565; 57 L. Ed. 2d 522 (1978).
28. “Arkansas Department of Corrections,” The Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture.
29. Arkansas State Penitentiary File: letter dated March 7, 1941.
30. Ibid.: letter dated April 15, 1941.
31. Ibid.: letter dated April 18, 1941.
32. Ibid.: letter dated July 17, 1943.
33. Ibid.: documents dated July 20 and Aug. 1, 1943.
34. Texas Department of Corrections File No. 103738.
35. Dallas Morning News, Jan. 5, 2003.
36. Texarkana Gazette, May 9, 1971.
37. Case, p. 12.
38. Ibid.
39. Ibid.
40. Ibid., p. 11.
41. Geringer, “The Phantom Killer”; FBI File No. 62-80864: memo dated July 15, 1946.
42. Texarkana Gazette, May 9, 1971.
43. Case, pp. 11–12.
44. Ibid., p. 12; Texarkana Gazette, May 9, 1971.
45. Ibid.
46. Case, p. 12.
47. Texarkana Gazette, May 9, 1971.
48. Ibid.
49. Dallas Observer, Feb. 1, 2001.
50. Texarkana Gazette, May 9, 1971.
51. Phantom Killer, Texarkana.
52. “History of Forensic Science,” Forensic Science Central, http://www.forensicsciencecentral.co.uk/history.shtml (accessed July 17, 2012).
53. Texarkana Gazette, May 9, 1971.
54. FBI File No. 62-80864: lab work sheet dated July 15, 1946.
55. Ibid.: undated photographs and memo dated July 17, 1946.
56. Ibid.: memo dated July 15, 1946; letter dated July 26, 1946.
57. Ibid.: letter dated July 21, 1946; lab report dated August 6, 1946.
58. Ibid.: letter dated July 25, 1946; lab work sheet dated July 26, 1946.
59. Ibid.: memo dated July 29, 1946.
60. Texarkana Gazette, May 9, 1971.
61. Phantom Killer, Texarkana.
62. “The Phantom Killer of Texarkana USA.”
63. Ibid.
64. Texarkana Gazette, May 9, 1971.
65. Case, p. 12.
66. “Polygraph,” Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygraph (accessed July 14, 2012).
67. “John Augustus Larson,” Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Augustus_Larson (accessed July 17, 2012).
68. “Polygraph,” Wikipedia.
69. Ibid.
70. “Admissibility of Polygraph Tests in Court,” LegalMatch, http://www.legalmatch.com/law-library/article/admissability-of-polygraph-tests-in-court.html (accessed July 17, 2012).
71. “Polygraph,” Wikipedia.
72. Glenn Ferguson, personal communication, June 13, 2012.
73. Dallas Observer, Feb. 1, 2001.
74. “Truth drug,” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_drug (accessed July 14, 2012); “Sodium thiopental,” Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_thiopental (accessed July 14, 2012).
75. “William Heirens,” Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Heirens (accessed July 18, 2012).
76. Case, p. 12.
77. Dallas Observer, Feb. 1, 2001.
78. Glenn Ferguson, personal communication, June 13, 2012.
79. Case, p. 19.
80. “Texarkana Moonlight Murders,” Wikipedia.
81. Ibid.
82. Glenn Ferguson, personal communication, June 13, 2012.
83. Dallas Observer, Feb. 1, 2001.
84. Ex Parte Swinney, 499 S.W.2d 101 (1973); Texas Department of Corrections File No. 108516.
85. Phantom Killer, Texarkana.
86. Texas Department of Corrections File No. 326380.
87. Glenn Ferguson, personal communication, June 15, 2012.
88. Ancestry.com, http://records.ancestry.com/Results.aspx?fn=Peggy&ln=Stevens (accessed July 15, 2012).
89. “Texarkana metropolitan area,” Wikipedia.
90. Malsch, pp. 167–8.
91. Dallas Morning News, Aug. 25, 1996.
92. Texas Ranger Files: Alphabetical Names Index and Notes, http://txkphantom.site11.com/name_index.html (accessed July 18, 2012).
93. Dallas Morning News, Aug. 25, 1996.
Chapter 9
1. FBI File No. 62-80864: transcription of letter postmarked May 3, 1946.
2. Ibid.: transcription of letter postmarked June 24, 1946.
3. Ibid.: transcription of 1946 letter lacking postmark.
4. Ibid.: photocopy of letter postmarked Dec. 12, 1946.
5. Ibid.: letter from W. H. Presley to J. Edgar Hoover, dated Dec. 19, 1946; FBI report to Presley, dated Jan. 3, 1947.
6. Ibid.: photocopy of letter postmarked Jan. 3, 1947.
7. Ibid.: letter from W. H. Presley to J. Edgar Hoover, dated Jan. 7, 1947; FBI report to Presley, dated Jan. 23, 1947.
8. Ibid.: transcription of letter postmarked March 21, 1947.
9. Ibid.: transcription of letter postmarked May 2, 1947.
10. Ibid.: memos dated June 12 and June 30, 1947.
11. Ibid.: memos dated May 12 and June 12, 1947.
12. Ibid.: transcription of letter postmarked April 29, 1947.
13. Ibid.: memo dated May 12, 1947.
14. Ibid.
15. Ibid.: transcription of letter postmarked May 5, 1947.
16. Ibid.: memos dated May 12 June 12, and June 27, 1947.
17. Ibid.: memo dated June 12, 1947.
18. Ibid.: memos dated June 12, June 16, June 24, and July 3, 1947.
19. “Albert Fish,” Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Fish (accessed June 29, 2012).
20. FBI File No. 62-80864: memo dated June 24, 1947.
21. Ibid.
22. Ibid.
23. Ibid.
24. Ibid.
25. Ibid.
26. Ibid.: memo dated June 28, 1947.
27. Ibid.: transcription of letter postmarked Jan. 29, 1947.
28. Ibid.: memo dated June 28, 1947.
29. Ibid.
30. Ibid.: memos dated July 23, July 31, and September 29, 1947.
31. Ibid.: memos dated July 22 and July 29, 1947.
32. Ibid.: memos dated July 12, July 23, and July 31, 1947.
33. Ibid.: summary of memoranda filed between July 11 and July 22, 1947.
34. Ibid.: memo dated July 15, 1947.
35. Ibid.: memo dated July 28, 1947.
36. Ibid.: memos dated Sept. 26, 1947.
37. Ibid.: memo dated Nov. 15, 1947.
38. Ibid.: memos dated Nov. 15 and Nov. 27, 1947.
Chapter 10
1. Texas Ranger Files: letter dated Aug. 15, 1946.
2. Phantom Killer, Texarkana; Glenn Ferguson, personal communication, June 13, 2012.
3. Dallas Observer, Feb. 1, 2001.
4. Fort Lauderdale Daily News, Oct. 11, 1946.
5. Texas Ranger Files: letter dated Oct. 11, 1946.
6. Ibid.: letter dated Oct. 23, 1946.
7. “Savage Model 1907,” Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savage_Model_1907 (accessed July 13, 2012).
8. “Astra 400,” Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astra_400 (accessed July 13, 2012).
9. “Beretta M 1935,” Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beretta_M_1935 (acccessed July 13, 2012).
10. “CZ vz. 27,” Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%8CZ_vz._27 (accessed July 13, 2012).
11. “MAB Model D pistol,” Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAB_Model_D (accessed July 13, 2012).
12. “Sauer 38H,” Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sauer_38H (accessed July 13, 2012).
13. Texas Ranger Files: letter dated Oct. 31, 1946.
14. Ibid.: letter dated Nov. 16, 1946.
15. Ibid.: letter dated Dec. 1, 1946.
16. Janice Knowlton and Michael Newton, Daddy Was the Black Dahlia Killer (New York: Pocket Books, 1995).
17. Dallas Times Herald, Feb. 10, 1947.
18. Texas Ranger Files: letters dated
Feb. 24 and 28, 1947.
19. FBI File No. 62-80864: letter dated Jan. 22, 1947.
20. Ibid.
21. Ibid.: memo dated Jan. 23, 1947.
22. Ibid.: FBI Lab report dated Feb. 4, 1947.
23. Ibid.
24. Ibid.: FBI Lab work sheet dated Jan. 24, 1947.
25. Ibid.: FBI Lab report dated Feb. 4, 1947.
26. Ibid.: memos dated Feb. 6, 12 and 15, 1947.
27. Ibid.: memo dated Feb. 20, 1947.
28. Ibid.: teletype dated Feb. 25, 1947.
29. Ibid.: teletype dated Feb. 26, 1947.
30. Texas Ranger Files: letter dated March 1, 1947.
31. FBI File No. 62-80864: memo dated March 4, 1947.
32. Texas Ranger Files: letter dated March 11, 1947.
33. FBI File No. 62-80864: memo dated April 12, 1947.
34. Ibid.: memo dated May 6, 1947.
35. Ibid.: memos dated April 17, 21, 22 and 29, 1947.
36. Ibid.: memo dated April 24, 1947.
37. Ibid.: memo dated May 2, 1947.
38. Ibid.: memo dated May 13, 1947.
39. Ibid.
40. Ibid.: letters and memo dated Sept. 6, 13 and 18, 1947.
41. Ibid.: memo dated Sept. 27, 1947.
42. Ibid.: memo dated Oct. 22, 1947.
43. Ibid.: memos dated Oct. 27 and 31, 1947.
44. Texas Ranger Files: letter dated Oct. 19, 1947.
45. Ibid.: letter dated Oct. 21, 1947.
46. Texarkana Gazette, Nov. 10, 1947.
47. Ibid.
48. Ibid., Nov. 10 and 12, 1947.
49. Texas Ranger Files: letter dated Jan. 16, 1951.
50. Ibid.: letter dated Nov. 17, 1947.
51. Ibid.
52. Ibid.: communiqué dated Nov. 18, 1947.
53. FBI File No. 62-80864: memo dated March 5, 1948.
54. Ibid.: memos dated March 12 and 20, 1948.
55. Ibid.: memo dated May 6, 1948.
56. Ibid.: letter dated May 21, 1948.
57. Ibid.: memo dated Oct. 11, 1948.
58. Ibid.: memos dated Oct. 18 and 19, 1948.
59. Ibid.: memo dated Oct. 15, 1948.
60. Ibid.
61. Ibid.: memo dated Oct. 22, 1948.
62. The Doe Network: Case File 1880DFTX, http://doenetwork.org/cases/1880dftx.html (accessed November 13, 2012).
63. Ibid.
64. Ibid.
65. Ibid.
66. Dallas Morning News, Aug. 25, 1996.
67. Ibid.; Valley Morning Star (Harlingen, TX), Nov. 8, 1948.
68. Valley Morning Star, Nov. 8, 1948.
69. Breckenridge (TX) American, Nov. 8, 1948; Dallas Morning News, Aug. 25, 1996.
70. FBI File No. 62-80864: letter and memos dated Nov. 8 and 9, 1948.
71. Texarkana Historical Items.
72. FBI File No. 62-80864: memo dated Nov. 19, 1948.
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