Random Creepy Unsolved Mysteries From Texas (12 items)

(#9) Servant Girl Annihilator
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“The Servant Girl Annihilator” was active in Austin between 1884 and 1885 and claimed the lives of at least eight women. In most cases, the unknown killer would enter women's homes and knock them unconscious. Then he would take them outside and use an ax to finish them.

Authorities never identified the culprit, although some think he may have been Jack the Ripper on a trip to the US.
(#6) The Austin Yogurt Shop Murders

On December 6, 1991, an Austin police officer saw a fire coming from an I Can't Believe It's Yogurt! shop on his patrol. After the blaze was extinguished, investigators found the bodies of four girls between the ages of 13 and 17 in the charred remains of the store. The girls had been bound with their own clothing and fatally shot.

Over 50 people have confessed to the killings, including Kenneth McDuff, a known serial killer who was ruled out as a suspect and later executed in 1998. Authorities arrested four other men. Two of them, Robert Springsteen Jr. and Michael Scott, were convicted of the crime, but the state has since released them due to 6th amendment violations and lack of evidence.
(#7) Megan Curl

At approximately 4 am on March 26, 2000, the Lufkin Fire Department arrived on the scene of a fire at Fox Run Apartments. After firefighters extinguished the blaze, they recovered the body of 26-year-old Megan Curl.

According to investigators, an unknown assailant had bound Curl to her bed, assaulted her, and killed her prior to setting her remains on fire. A neighbor reported Curl had a visitor - a man Curl said she had met at a club prior that evening and who followed her home. Police never identified the suspect.
(#12) Sun Family Murders

The 2014 murder of a family of four rocked the Chinese community in Cypress. An unknown assailant shot Maoye Sun, his wife Mei Xei, and their sons, Titus and Timothy, four times each at close range while they slept. Authorities did not discover the crime until Sun’s work notified them of his absence.

No suspect has ever been found, though a former Chief Security Officer of China, Zhou Yongkang, may have admitted he ordered the hit while being questioned about a different crime. Some believe that Sun, an engineer, may have known about Zhou's dealings in the Chinese oil industry in the '90s, though this has not been confirmed.
(#1) The Ice Box Murders

On June 23, 1965, Houston police officers forced their way into the house of Fred and Edwina Rogers at the request of their nephew Marvin, who was concerned that his phone calls had gone unanswered for a couple of days. The police checked the house, and an officer found what he thought to be numerous pieces of a butchered hog in the refrigerator. As he was closing the refrigerator door, the officer saw two human heads in the vegetable bins. The heads were those of Fred and Edwina. The couple had been murdered.

Fred and Edwina's son, 43-year-old Charles Rogers, disappeared right after, and remains the only suspect in a case that is officially unsolved.
(#5) The Texarkana Moonlight Murders

Between February 22, 1946 and May 3, 1946, weekends became dangerous in and around Texarkana, Texas, now known as “the town that dreaded sundown.” A perpetrator known as "the Phantom Killer" attacked couples within a three-month period, claiming five lives. The incidents only occurred late at night and were usually three weeks apart.

The Texas Rangers, including the famous M. T. "Lone Wolf" Gonzaullas, were drafted to help catch the Phantom Killer, whom witnesses described as a man wearing a sack with cut-out eye holes. Recent investigations point to Youell Swinney as a likely culprit, but he was never arrested or convicted for the slayings.