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A few years ago I ran across newspaper articles of this missing person case from the Texas panhandle. Aspects the case really touched me and I posted it - along with several other - missing spouses cases on a mystery-history blog I write. Noting that it was going on 65 years since this case...

I posted a reply but do not think it went through. This forum is confusing :[ Yes, the bodies of the Arkansas victims were found along a route that headed toward the SW. Hot Springs was to the north of the events (a known criminal hang out from the 1920's and onward); most were found as if shot...

My original research has led me to wonder if similar murders occurred beyond Oklahoma and I am finding several in three states that are very interesting. One major issue is the lack of information or follow-up stories. I have found that in the 1950's several female bodies or skeletons were...

I have been unable to find much about her. There may be a possibility, if she did run away, she may have adopted her mother's last name from a previous marriage and gone back to the Chicago area where they had been living. I can find no photo of her in local school yearbooks (but did find...

Writing and researching for some of the books I write involves a lot of background digging and sometimes all the information is not found in archives, old newspapers, or on library shelves. I am looking for information some people who went missing in the 1950's in Oklahoma. They appeared -...

re: Death of Elizabeth Short aka Black Dahlia. Has anyone noted the section of her thigh that was cut out? Does anyone know of a source on comparative studies of similar actions on mutilated bodies? I know of one case in Kansas City in 1941 where a section of a hip or thigh was cut out and...

Thanks! Most of these do not probably involve an axe. I have done previous research on a wide variety of those. I wrote a book looking at murders along railroads in Oklahoma from about 1900 to 1920, When Death Rode the Rails. Fascinating...

I am doing a research project locating or identifying possible victims of a killer often called a "butcher" and whose victims were often "dismembered", "mutilated" and similarly mistreated. I am interested in the area of Oklahoma, New Mexico, Texas, Missouri and Illinois. Come features...

I am doing some research into some missing individuals as part of a research project. I have been looking at some in the 1940's and 1950's in and around Oklahoma. Tracking connections and similarities to victims found elsewhere.