According to Lawless’ book, the original owners of this plantation house in Mississippi owned slaves. There are walls here that have been etched marks that may have been made by slaves to track the passage of time. He noted that this place was “emotionally draining to photograph.”
The evil “Phantom Killer” brought all his victims to the road behind this house in Texarkana, Arkansas. The murders were known as “the Moonlight Killings.” This macabre murder was never brought to justice. Some sources believe his gruesome killings were actually the early crimes of the more infamous Zodiac Killer.