Read more: Man convicted in Texas City girl's 1996 slaying Kevin Edison Smith was accused of burying one victim in the area, Krystal Baker. Status: Edward Harold Bell claimed to be killer, but prosecutors have not found evidence backing this claim. Source: Crime Library, Encyclopedia of ArkansasĬurt Youngblood/Associated Press Show More Show Less 32 of36 Killer: UnknownĬrime: Since the '70s, law enforcement has uncovered around 30 bodies in an area of land inside Texas City that has since been dubbed "The Killing Fields." Most of the victims were young girls and women, ages 12 to 23.
A local newspaper dubbed the series of attacks and murders the "Texarkana Moonlight Murders." (AP Photo, File) Associated Press/AP Show More Show LessĬrime: Between February and May of 1946, an unknown person murdered five people and wounded three others in the Texarkana area, usually late at night. Eventually his brain and body were cremated and the ashes were divided between his mother and father after a judge decided the brain should be cremated.
Dahmer was beaten to death by a fellow inmate while serving life prison sentences in 1994. Whether it's a genocidal dictator or a gunman behind a mass shooting, debate often flares over where the notorious should be laid to rest. 13, 1992, file photo Jeffrey Dahmer enters the courtroom on in Milwaukee where he changed his plea to guilty, but insane in the mutilation slayings of 15 young males.
(AP Photo/Mark Elias) Mark Elias/ASSOCIATED PRESS Show More Show Less 14 of36 In a Jan. Dahmer is charged with four counts of first-degree intentional homicide however, police officials suspect him of as many as seventeen slayings. Jeffrey Dahmer appears in Milwaukee County Circuit Court while hearing the charges being brought against him, July 25, 1991, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.