Unsolved True Crime Cases from the South’s Past – Where the Past Doesn’t Rest

From moonlit lovers’ lanes to quiet front porches… and from highways that erase identities to a small Southern town shattered by gunfire—this episode dives deep into four of the most chilling true crime cases in Southern history.

We begin with The Texarkana Moonlight Murders (1946)—the infamous Phantom Killer who stalked couples under cover of darkness, wore a mask, wrote taunting letters, and was never caught.

Then we move to Columbus, Mississippi, where a series of elderly stranglings (1996–1998) turned a quiet town into a place of whispered fear, raising the terrifying possibility that the killer was someone familiar… someone local.

Our noir closer follows The Man in the Suitcase, an unidentified victim found near an interstate in South Carolina in 1968—a traveler erased by highways, anonymity, and time.

And finally, we return to North Carolina for the 1933 Taylorsville Bank Robbery, a failed heist at the Merchants & Farmers Bank that left a beloved cashier dead, a town traumatized, and three members of the same family executed—one of the most tragic and shocking crimes in state history.

These are not just stories of violence—but stories of place, silence, and what happens when justice never comes.

If you enjoy unsolved true crime, Southern mysteries, historical cold cases, and stories where the past refuses to stay buried, this episode is for you.#podcast #TrueCrime #subscribe