OK OK - Killer necrophile vexed '40s Tulsa

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Between 1942 and 1948, five Tulsa women were bludgeoned to death as they slept in the early morning hours. Just as disturbing, each of their bodies had been sexually assaulted after death.
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Richard said:

Just going on what newspaper articles said about the murders, it would appear that the first victim, Helen Brown, was bludgeoned to death. Her unborn baby also died as a result.

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1. Throwback Tulsa: 'Sweat box' tactics lambasted in reversal of ...
   tulsaworld.com/news/local/history/throwback...
   Panta Lou Liles, a 20-year-old Douglas Aircraft Co. worker, was murdered in her apartment on May 15, 1945. Her brutal murder was the fourth in a string of homicides police believed were committed ...
   
   
2. Panta Lou Liles, Leroy Benton - Murder - Newspapers.com
   www.newspapers.com/clip/8023061/panta-lou-liles...
   Panta Lou Liles, Leroy Benton - Murder. View the Full Page. Search the Largest Online Newspaper Archive. Show Hide article text (OCR) Save to Ancestry. Clipped from. Miami News-Record. Miami ...
   
   
3. Panta Lou Liles - Murder - Newspapers.com
   www.newspapers.com/clip/32790529/panta-lou-liles...
   Clipping found in Miami News-Record in Miami, Oklahoma on Nov 18, 1945. Panta Lou Liles - Murder
   
   
4. Benton v State :: 1948 :: Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals ...
   law.justia.com/cases/oklahoma/court-of-appeals...
   The facts in the case are that the deceased, Panta Lou Liles, was a young white married woman, 20 years of age, the wife of a soldier. She was brutally murdered by an unknown assailant while she slept alone in the bedroom of her apartment. The murderer may have gained entrance through a window in the kitchen in the back of her three-room apartment.
   
   
5. Tulsa’s 1940’s Serial Murders | The State Crime Bureau Journal
   statecrimebureau.wordpress.com/2010/03/16/tulsas...
   Mrs. Panta Lou Liles was found dead “under similar circumstances.” She had been a twenty year old war plant worker. 1948. On July 2nd, 1948 the killer struck a total of four victims at two locations. The first three victims survived after their screams awoke neighbors and the killer fled.
   
   
6. murder | The State Crime Bureau Journal
   statecrimebureau.wordpress.com/tag/murder
   Mrs. Panta Lou Liles was found dead “under similar circumstances.” She had been a twenty year old war plant worker. 1948. On July 2nd, 1948 the killer struck a total of four victims at two locations. The first three victims survived after their screams awoke neighbors and the killer fled.
   
   
7. Necrophile roamed Tulsa streets in 1940s series of five rape ...
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   The conviction, for the May 15, 1945, murder of 20-year-old Panta Lou Liles, described as a pretty redhead whose sailor husband was serving in the Pacific, was overturned. The serial killings had begun this way: The first victim was Helen Brown, a 19-year-old pregnant woman killed on July 10, 1942.
   
   
8. Charles Floyd | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderers
   murderpedia.org/male.F/f/floyd-charles.htm
   Another redhead, Panta Lou Niles, became the next victim on May 15, 1945. Bludgeoned in her sleep, by a man who entered through her open bedroom window, she was also raped after death. The killer was still in her room hours later, when a friend phoned to wake her for work.
9. murder | The State Crime Bureau Journal
   statecrimebureau.wordpress.com/tag/murder
   Mrs. Panta Lou Liles was found dead “under similar circumstances.” She had been a twenty year old war plant worker. 1948. On July 2nd, 1948 the killer struck a total of four victims at two locations. The first three victims survived after their screams awoke neighbors and the killer fled.