Youell Swinney was sentenced to life in prison in 1947 for being a habitual car thief. For twenty-six years, he insisted he was innocent of murder. Then in 1973, his conviction was overturned on constitutional grounds. The man everyone believed was the Phantom Killer walked free. He went right back to stealing cars. He died in 1994, never charged with the murders. Two years after the killings, a University of Arkansas freshman named Henry Tennison left a suicide note confessing to murdering Betty Jo Booker and Paul Martin. Then he left another note saying to disregard all other messages. In 1976, filmmaker Charles B. Pierce turned the tragedy into a horror movie. The families were devastated. Today, Texarkana screens that film every Halloween at Spring Lake Park, the actual crime scene where Betty Jo's body was found. Seventy-eight years later, the case remains officially unsolved. Was Youell Swinney the Phantom? The evidence is compelling but never proven. Sometimes evil leaves nothing but questions.

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