Killer Legends
( Silent )
Joshua zeman:
Every town has its legends.
Every neighborhood
has its boogeymen...
A killer with a hook
for a hand...
A drifter
who snatches children...
The witch who lives
in the woods.
Ours growing up in
staten island was cropsey,
about an escaped mental patient
off the street.
when five neighborhood children
went missing.
It was these disappearances
that led us to examine
the real crimes behind
of an arm and a leg sticking
out from a shallow grave.
Joshua:
And what wediscovered was a connection
to an institution
with a shocking history.
This is what it looked like,
but how can I tell you
about the way it smelled.
It smelled of filth,
it smelled of disease,
and it smelled of death.
Joshua:
Understandinginspired us to investigate
other urban legends
and the true crimes
that may have influenced them,
was a truth more horrific
than any fiction.
This is where
we thought that cropsey lived,
It's very easy
for an urban legend
to come out of
something like this.
Yeah, and we didn't
think anything of it
until kids started going missing
on staten island,
and then we were like,
cropsey is real.
But do you think
every urban legend
Yes, I think you have to have
some form of like truth
to gonna go off of.
There's a lot of
other urban legends
in a lot of other communities
that have some form of truth
behind them.
And what's interesting
is all these communities
have all these places.
Rachel mills:
or fascinated by the old house
at the end of the block.
These are the stories
that fuel your nightmares,
and these are the places
that fuel your nightmares.
Joshua:
So why are you here tonight?
People who died here
are supposed to be the ghosts.
in the woods here?
- Oh yeah, I do, I do.
Somebody said they were doing
freaky experiments
and crap like that.
Joshua:
Why do we believethese urban legends?
Maybe we need to believe
because the reality is too much
for some of us to bear.
An old legend that actually
happened this time...
- Many more cases
of contaminated treats...
Female voice:
I know she suffered, a lot.
Voice on tape:
He pulled a knife
and tied me up
with electrical tape.
Joshua:
And so instead,we created our own monsters.
News reporter 1:
The36-year-old building contractor
who reportedly dressed
like a clown...
News reporter 2:
buried under his house.
the truth is more terrifying
than we could ever imagine.
- I got seven down
and ( Indistinct ).
Seven down!
I've got a child victim...
I need rescue.
Joshua:
For Rachel and me,this is an attempt
to uncover the source
of our nightmares
as we pull back the curtains
on what it is we all fear...
because urban legends,
as scary as they may be,
something much more dangerous...
the reality that may have
started it all.
The hook is one of the oldest
and also one of the scariest
urban legends.
A teenage couple
while parked at a lover's Lane.
As the two are
about to go all the way,
the radio interrupts them.
has escaped
The frightened girl
demands to go home
as the frustrated boy
guns the engine.
Later, as the boyfriend
goes to open his date's door,
he sees dangling
from the door handle,
the maniac's bloody hook,
ripped from the socket.
The hook urban legend
probably came to be
in the mid-1950s.
One of the interesting
appearances of the hook
was in November 1960
when it actually appeared
in the dear Abby column,
and it's something that a
lot of people would have read.
Joshua:
But dear Abbywasn't warning teenagers
about escaped madmen
with hooks for hands.
Urban legends
are more mysterious than that
Despite its name,
the hook is a cautionary tale
warning teenagers everywhere
about the dangers of sex.
Stephen winick:
The hookurban legend captured something
in the era that people
were interested in.
and in teenage car culture.
Joshua:
For the teenagersin texarkana, Texas,
this wasn't just
some cautionary tale.
a masked man
known as the phantom
attacked four couples,
most of whom were parked
on lover's lanes.
The attacks, which killed five,
were said to coincide with
the full moon,
hence the nickname
the moonlight murders.
numerous suspects,
allowing his enduring legacy
to haunt this town
for more than six decades.
So this is South robeson
and this old highway 67.
The murder site
but that's what we've got to
kind of figure out.
Joshua:
It was a rainywhen a passing motorist noticed
Richard Griffin's oldsmobile
parked on a lover's Lane
off highway 67.
Inside he found Griffin, age 29,
and Polly Ann Moore, 17,
lying in the backseat.
Both had been shot
in the back of the head.
Joshua:
Hey, guys,how are you doing?
we're investigating
the phantom killer.
They had a lot of speculations
on who did it,
but it was never...
no one was ever
brought to justice.
Did you hear stories growing up?
All I ever heard was
don't go to spring lake park.
Why? It's kind of creepy out there,
so we were always afraid
to go there.
Joshua:
But did you still go?
Well, I can take you
out there to the road
Right about there.
Uh-huh.
Joshua:
On that side?
On that side.
Joshua:
Like the couplein the urban legend,
Griffin and Moore
had been attacked
while parked on lover's Lane,
highlighting the warning
behind this campfire tale,
but what the residents
in texarkana didn't know...
because it wasn't reported
in the papers...
were the horrific details
behind this real-life crime.
They had found evidence
of blood and a blanket...
Uh-hm.
And they believe
that she was raped
out in front of the car
and then put back in the car.
James Presley:
didn't cause
a lot of excitement.
All kinds of crimes
were going on in texarkana,
but they didn't recognize
until sometime later
that this is a different
kind of crime.
The term "serial killer"
wasn't in vogue then...
And no one recognized
this as a serial killing.
The main suspect
was youell swinney
who was an ex-convict.
Joshua:
Youell swinneyand his newlywed bride,
a former prostitute named Peggy,
had been arrested
for stealing cars.
Under questioning,
the wife confessed
that her husband
was the phantom,
but refused to sign a statement.
Although the case
quickly fell apart,
away for life
as a habitual car thief.
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