The Phantom Killer: Unlocking the Mystery of the Texarkana Serial Murders: The Story of a Town in Terror (57 page)

Texas Ranger Captain M. T. “Lone Wolf” Gonzaullas.
Courtesy of the Tillman Johnson Collection
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James M. Hollis as a college graduate.
Courtesy of Peggy Francisco
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Newspaper editor J. Q. Mahaffey.
Courtesy of Prudence Mackintosh
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Bowie County (Texas) Sheriff W. H. “Bill” Presley.
Courtesy of Billie Edgington
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As the pressure mounts on the unsolved murders in the spring of 1946, Sheriff Bill Presley (in felt hat) is flanked by Texas Rangers and Texas state troopers en route to the Sheriff’s office in Texarkana.
Courtesy of the Billie Presley Edgington Collection
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Inside the Starks home, May 1946. Note the two bullet holes in the windowpane, through which two shots were fired per hole, indicating that an automatic weapon was used. The curtain was open.
Photo courtesy of the Tillman Johnson collection
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This is the wall crank phone where Katie Starks tried to call for help but was shot.
Photo courtesy of the Tillman Johnson collection
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Youell Swinney mug shots, (left) entering the Texas Prison system in 1944 for robbery by assault, (right) re-entering the Texas prison system for larceny in 1981.
Photos courtesy of Texas Dept. of Corrections
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Peggy Swinney.
Courtesy of the Robert Stevens collection
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Youell Swinney at his 1972 Evidentiary Hearing, as covered in the
Texarkana Gazette
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Tillman Johnson and Max Tackett, with Byron Johnson, Tillman’s son.
Courtesy of the Tillman Johnson Collection
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The arrest of Youell Swinney, July 15, 1946, Miller County, Ark., sheriff’s office: left to right, Miller County chief deputy Tillman Johnson, Arkansas State policeman Charley Boyd, suspect Youell Lee Swinney, Arkansas State policeman Max Tackett, Atlanta resident Hibbett Lee, Atlanta city marshal Homer Carter.
Courtesy of the Tillman Johnson Collection, photo by Ted Dougan
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THE ARKANSAS PEACE OFFICER
1952
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MILLER COUNTRY SHERIFFS OFFICE

W. E. DAVIS
Sheriff