Texas Oblivion: Mysterious Disappearances, Escapes and Cover-Ups

by E.R. Bills

Overview

On February 2, 1963, a tanker with thirty-nine men aboard departed Beaumont and never returned. In the mid-spring of 1882, Billy the Kid's friend, foe and equal escaped Huntsville Penitentiary and vanished. On December 9, 1961, a young boy in Wichita Falls disappeared without a trace. On November 18, 1936, a father and son were swallowed by a "Walled Kingdom." On December 23, 1974, three girls went to a Fort Worth mall and were never seen or heard from again. This collection explores twenty baffling disappearances that investigators have studied for decades, to no avail. Homicide, patricide, filicide, genocide, devil worship, the Devil's Triangle, the Devil's River, the assassination of JFK, UFO abductions, legal limbo, literal limbo—oblivion. Award-winning author E.R. Bills drags the facts of these mystifying cases back from the void.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781467147378
Publisher:	The History Press
Publication date:	04/12/2021
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Award-winning writer E.R. Bills is the author of Texas Obscurities: Stories of the Peculiar, Exceptional and Nefarious (The History Press, 2013), The 1910 Slocum Massacre: An Act of Genocide in East Texas (The History Press, 2014), Black Holocaust: The Paris Horror and a Legacy of Texas Terror (Eakin Press, 2015), Texas Far & Wide: The Tornado with Eyes, Gettysburg's Last Casualty, the Celestial Skipping Stone and Other Tales (The History Press, 2017) and The San Marcos 10: An Antiwar Protest in Texas (The History Press, 2019). Bills has also written for the Austin American-Statesman, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas Co-Op Power magazine and the Fort Worth Weekly. He currently lives in North Texas with his wife, Stacie.

Table of Contents

Preface 7

1 Voyage to Oblivion 9

2 Of Like Kidney 20

3 Without a Trace 24

4 Galveston Girls 30

5 Thin Air 38

6 Lost Fathers 42

7 Virginia Carpenter 46

8 Walled Kingdom 53

9 Tugboat Terror 60

10 Baby Bray 63

11 Missing Trio 66

12 Hood's Hubris 81

13 Cat Got Their Tongues 87

14 Forgotten Massacre Victims 98

15 Port Lavaca Puzzle 108

16 "Woolly" Bully 111

17 Fate of the San Antonio 117

18 Euclid's Getaway 121

19 Moffat Mystery 127

20 Gilmer Girl's Ghost 133

Notes 145

Bibliography 155

Index 169

About the Author 175

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