This Arkansas Murder House Will Utterly Disturb You
Carol Ann Carson
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It’s hard to discard humanity’s morbid curiosity. We’re always seeking details to try to solve catastrophes we come across, no matter if it’s a wreck we pass on the highway or our staying tuned to see if the culprit on the evening news is brought to justice. It’s hard not to get wrapped up in true crime, especially since there have been multiple serial killers in Arkansas. Sometimes that craving gets the best of us and we’re stuck with wanting to know the whole story. With somber earnest, let’s tiptoe through the Arkansas murder house, where tragedy struck in 1964.
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What are some notorious Arkansas murders?
Arkansas is one of those places that doesn’t make the news a whole lot, but when it does – it definitely goes hard. For example, in 1998, two teenaged boys committed a massacre at Westside Middle School, killing five. There is also the horrifying tale of Robert Gene Simmons (definitely not to be confused with the lead singer of hair band KISS), a mass murderer with more than 16 victims in under a week. He was executed for his horrific crimes by lethal injection in 1990. Finally, and most infamously, there is the tale of the West Memphis Three; when three young boys went missing and were later found in a wooded area having been brutally murdered, three local teenagers were almost immediately implicated in the crime, whose investigation had devolved into varied states of “satanic panic”. The cases against the boys were flimsy at best, and still, one was sentenced to death and the other two to life in prison. Thanks to a storm of controversy over the investigation and the people who conducted it – as well as the lack of actual evidence and no DNA matches – the three were released after 18 years in prison. The murders of the children that they were put away for, however, remain unsolved. Check this article out for more chilling Arkansas crimes.
What are some scary unsolved Arkansas mysteries?
Well, there’s always the triple-murder of the three children in West Memphis, of course, but there are several other eerie, creepy, or just downright scary unsolved mysteries in Arkansas. One of the most horrifying on every level is that of the Texarkana Phantom Killer, who killed five people in 1946 while wearing a burlap sack with slits cut for eyes. It was so unsettling and eerie that a film was made inspired by the events. There is also the unsolved, horrific murders of Don Henry and Kevin Ives, whose bodies were run over by a train and initially determined to have been the result of suicide. However, eventually, it was realized that they had been killed before being hit by the train – and their killer remains at large to this day. There are plenty more, but we think we’ll let you try to sleep tonight.