<P> On May 3, Helen Reed is seen by the Phantom leaving a grocery store . At home that night, Helen asks her husband Floyd, who is sitting in front of a window in his armchair, if he hears somebody walking outside . After he replies that he does not, the Phantom shoots him through their window . Helen inspects and sees Floyd dying . As she uses the telephone to call police, the Phantom breaks through the screen door and shoots her twice in the face . Despite her wounds, she drags herself out of the house and into a cornfield while the Phantom inspects Floyd's body . The Phantom stalks her with a pickaxe, but leaves when she gets help at a nearby house . News of this attack causes the town to panic, and people begin boarding up their windows . </P> <P> Later, Morales and Ramsey receive a report about a stolen car that matches the one from the Turner and Cook murders . While investigating a sand pit, they encounter the Phantom . Morales shoots at him but misses, causing him to run into the woods . The Phantom escapes by jumping past a moving train, but is shot in the leg . While the officers are waiting for the train to pass, the Phantom escapes . They continue their search, but never find him . Years later during the Christmas season of 1976, the film The Town That Dreaded Sundown premieres in Texarkana and the shoes of the Phantom are seen on someone standing in line . </P> <Ul> <Li> Ben Johnson as Captain J.D. Morales, is based on the lead investigator, Captain of Company B Texas Rangers, M.T. "Lone Wolf" Gonzaullas . </Li> <Li> Andrew Prine as Deputy Norman Ramsey, is a fictional character slightly based on Bowie County Sheriff Bill Presley . </Li> <Li> Dawn Wells as Helen Reed, is based on the real - life victim Katie Starks . </Li> <Li> Jimmy Clem as Sgt . Mal Griffin </Li> <Li> Jim Citty as Police Chief R.J. Sullivan </Li> <Li> Charles B. Pierce as Patrolman A.C. Benson ("Sparkplug"), a comic - relief fictional character . </Li> <Li> Robert Aquino as Sheriff Otis Barker </Li> <Li> Bud Davis as The Phantom </Li> <Li> Mike Hackworth as Sammy Fuller, based on the first victim Jimmy Hollis </Li> <Li> Christine Ellsworth as Linda Mae Jenkins, based on victim Mary Jeanne Larey </Li> <Li> Steve Lyons as Roy Allen, based on victim Paul Martin </Li> <Li> Cindy Butler as Peggy Loomis, based on victim Betty Jo Booker </Li> <Li> Joe Catalanatto as Eddie LaDoux </Li> <Li> C. Alexander Dawson as hotel doorman </Li> </Ul> <Li> Ben Johnson as Captain J.D. Morales, is based on the lead investigator, Captain of Company B Texas Rangers, M.T. "Lone Wolf" Gonzaullas . </Li>

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