Aaron Mahnke

And yet it fell on deaf ears, and she returned home.

Over the course of the investigation, over 400 persons of interest were brought in for questioning, although only two of them would be considered serious suspects.

The first was H.B.

Tennyson, a local teenager who took his own life in 1948 and left a note admitting to the crimes.

Despite this written confession, though, Tennyson's friends came forward with an alibi for the Martin Booker murders.

He had been playing cards with them at the exact same time.

The second suspect was one Ewell Swinney.

You see, each attack had coincided with the report of a stolen car, and each car was found abandoned after the crimes were committed.

Swinney was well-known around town as a prolific car thief.

When his girlfriend was seen driving around town in a stolen car, they were both arrested.

When questioned, the girlfriend gave details of the murder that had not been made public.

Frustratingly, though, her story's details changed as she retold it.

And during the investigation, she married Swinney, meaning that she cannot be compelled to testify against him in court.

And so law enforcement decided to not prosecute.

Many have argued that she may have been purposely unreliable.

She'd known things about the crime scene that could only have been known by someone who had been present.

She knew where bodies had been found, even the location of the saxophone that Swinney had cast away.

But it turns out that she hadn't been the only one questioned who made an incriminating statement.

When arrested, Swinney himself came extremely close to admitting guilt when he asked, Do you think they'll give me the chair for this?

Once he realized through further questioning that the authorities had less information than he realized, though, he calmed down and refused to cooperate further.