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Nov 2023
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Episode 5: Websleuths | The Texarkana Ph...

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Decades later, the case of the Phantom Killer continues to elude investigators, both professional and amateur. Theories abound about who the killer could have been, spurred by more than a thousand pages of investigation materials released by the FBI. 

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