At approximately 6:00 a.m. Jerry Atkins was awakened when he received a phone call from a female, asking him where Betty was. He explained that he hadn’t seen her since about 1:30 that morning, following the dance.

At approximately 6:30 a.m, Mr. and Mrs. G.H. Weaver and their son were traveling along North Park Road, enroute to Prescott, when they spotted a body on the north side of the road! They immediately contacted the police. The body was that of sixteen-year-old Paul Martin. He had been shot four times, once in the face, once through a rib, once in the hand and once in the neck, which exited his skull near the right ear.

An inspection of the crime scene found that there was blood across the road along a fence row, indicating that the murder took place at that location. But where was Betty?

As the word quickly spread, a search party was organized, consisting of friends and relatives. It was Ted Schoeppey, James Boyd and George Boyd, all friends of the Booker family, who found Betty’s body at approximately 11:30 a.m. behind a tree, a few yards from Morris Lane (now Moores Lane) between Cooks Lane and Fernwood Lane. She was fully clothed with her right hand in the pocket of her overcoat. She had been shot twice, once through the fifth rib on her left side and once in the face, through the left cheek, by her nose. It was later revealed that she, too, had been sexually assaulted before being killed.

Police were notified immediately. They determined that the weapon used was a .32 caliber revolver, as used in the previous attacks.

Paul’s car was found about three miles away from where Betty’s body was found; it was about a mile and a half from Paul‘s body. It was found about 400 yards from the main entrance of Spring Lake Park. Law enforcement noted that her saxophone was not in the car. They were hoping that it could provide some clues such as fingerprints. The search was begun for the saxophone. The serial number of the saxophone was circulated to pawn shops and music stores in the area, in hopes that the criminal may have tried to get cash for it, but that never happened.

Company B of the Texas Rangers arrived in Texarkana, led by the colorful and well known, Captain M.T. "Lone Wolf" Gonzaullas. The Texas Rangers had a reputation of not stopping an investigation until the criminal was caught. Gonzaullas questioned the members of the Rythmaires. His presence in Texarkana added to the newspaper coverage of the case, though it appears that cooperation between the various law enforcement agenices was not good.

Up to that point, all the attacks had occurred on the Texas side of Texarkana, but that changed on May 3, 1946.

Virgil Starks, thirty-six years of age, was in his home, located on highway 67, about 12 miles from Texarkana, Arkansas with his wife, Katy, thirty-five years of age. He was in the living room, when suddenly the window shattered and he fell with two bullet wounds to the back of his head. Hearing the glass break, Katy ran into the living room to see what had happened. When she saw her husband lying on the floor she immediately picked up the telephone to call for help and was shot twice in the face by someone standing in the darkness, outside the back door of the house. She was wounded but still alive. She ran out of the front door to a neighbor’s home across the road to get help. The sheriff’s office was called and Mrs. Starks was taken to the Michael Meagher Hospital in Texarkana. She was listed in critical condition but eventually recovered from her wounds.

By the time the police arrived, the shooter had escaped. But, he had left muddy footprints throughout the house, apparently made when looking for Katy to finish her off or possibly looking for things to steal. This time, the police learned, the firearm used was a .22 caliber pistol, not the .32 caliber pistol used in previous attacks.

This was believed to have been the last attack by the Phantom.

Two days after this last attack, a man was found dead on the train tracks north of Texarkana. His name was Earl McSpadden and many believe he was the Phantom, who had committed suicide. A coroner’s report stated that the man had been stabbed to death before being thrown on the railroad tracks. Some believe he was just another victim of the Phantom.