OK OK - Killer necrophile vexed '40s Tulsa

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Tulsa World:

Throwback Tulsa: Fiendish serial killer terrorized city in ‘40s

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Between 1942 and 1948, five Tulsa women were bludgeoned to death as they slept in the early morning hours. Just as disturbing, each of their bodies had been sexually assaulted after death.
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the story at link above

 

[Richard]

Panta Lou Liles, a 20-year-old Douglas Aircraft Co. worker, was murdered in her apartment near downtown Tulsa on May 15, 1945. Her brutal murder was the fourth in a string of homicides police believed were committed by the same killer. This story is from The Tulsa Tribune.

On 17 November 1945, Leroy Benton, age 35, was found guilty of the murder of Miss Liles. His conviction was later overturned on the grounds that his "confession" was coerced.

LINKS:
Panta Lou Liles, Leroy Benton - Murder - Newspapers.com

Panta Lou Liles - Murder - Newspapers.com

Benton v State

 

[Richard]

Panta Lou Campbell Liles
BIRTH 5 Dec 1924
Tulsa County, Oklahoma, USA
DEATH 15 May 1945 (aged 20)
Tulsa, Tulsa County, Oklahoma, USA
BURIAL
Memorial Park Cemetery
Tulsa, Tulsa County, Oklahoma, USA
PLOT Section 8, Lot 302, Space 4


Panta Lou Liles was the daughter of Richard Elza Campbell and Nora Ethel Hill.

On August 16, 1940 in Mayes County, Oklahoma, Panta married William Avery Liles.
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At 5:30 a.m. on the morning of May 15, 1945, a night nurse called the detective squad of the Tulsa Police Department to report an ominous conversation.

She had reason to be worried because Tulsa was being stalked by a “sex maniac,” a “fiend” who had committed a string of brutal murders of women in their homes near downtown, the Tulsa World and the Tribune reported.

LINK:

Panta Lou Campbell Liles (1924-1945) - Find a...

 

[Kell1]

The child of the first victim , what was the manner of death of that victim if anyone knows

 

[Richard]

Just going on what newspaper articles said about the murders, it would appear that the first victim, Helen Brown, was bludgeoned to death. Her unborn baby also died as a result.

 

[Kell1]

Just going on what newspaper articles said about the murders, it would appear that the first victim, Helen Brown, was bludgeoned to death. Her unborn baby also died as a result.

Thanks i didnt see the child wasnt born yet

 

[Richard]

LINKS:

1. Throwback Tulsa: 'Sweat box' tactics lambasted in reversal of ...
   tulsaworld.com/news/local/history/throwback...
   Panta Lou Liles, a 20-year-old Douglas Aircraft Co. worker, was murdered in her apartment on May 15, 1945. Her brutal murder was the fourth in a string of homicides police believed were committed ...
   
   
2. Panta Lou Liles, Leroy Benton - Murder - Newspapers.com
   www.newspapers.com/clip/8023061/panta-lou-liles...
   Panta Lou Liles, Leroy Benton - Murder. View the Full Page. Search the Largest Online Newspaper Archive. Show Hide article text (OCR) Save to Ancestry. Clipped from. Miami News-Record. Miami ...
   
   
3. Panta Lou Liles - Murder - Newspapers.com
   www.newspapers.com/clip/32790529/panta-lou-liles...
   Clipping found in Miami News-Record in Miami, Oklahoma on Nov 18, 1945. Panta Lou Liles - Murder
   
   
4. Benton v State :: 1948 :: Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals ...
   law.justia.com/cases/oklahoma/court-of-appeals...
   The facts in the case are that the deceased, Panta Lou Liles, was a young white married woman, 20 years of age, the wife of a soldier. She was brutally murdered by an unknown assailant while she slept alone in the bedroom of her apartment. The murderer may have gained entrance through a window in the kitchen in the back of her three-room apartment.
   
   
5. Tulsa’s 1940’s Serial Murders | The State Crime Bureau Journal
   statecrimebureau.wordpress.com/2010/03/16/tulsas...
   Mrs. Panta Lou Liles was found dead “under similar circumstances.” She had been a twenty year old war plant worker. 1948. On July 2nd, 1948 the killer struck a total of four victims at two locations. The first three victims survived after their screams awoke neighbors and the killer fled.
   
   
6. murder | The State Crime Bureau Journal
   statecrimebureau.wordpress.com/tag/murder
   Mrs. Panta Lou Liles was found dead “under similar circumstances.” She had been a twenty year old war plant worker. 1948. On July 2nd, 1948 the killer struck a total of four victims at two locations. The first three victims survived after their screams awoke neighbors and the killer fled.
   
   
7. Necrophile roamed Tulsa streets in 1940s series of five rape ...
   www.reddit.com/r/tulsa/comments/b0bbvm/...
   The conviction, for the May 15, 1945, murder of 20-year-old Panta Lou Liles, described as a pretty redhead whose sailor husband was serving in the Pacific, was overturned. The serial killings had begun this way: The first victim was Helen Brown, a 19-year-old pregnant woman killed on July 10, 1942.
   
   
8. Charles Floyd | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderers
   murderpedia.org/male.F/f/floyd-charles.htm
   Another redhead, Panta Lou Niles, became the next victim on May 15, 1945. Bludgeoned in her sleep, by a man who entered through her open bedroom window, she was also raped after death. The killer was still in her room hours later, when a friend phoned to wake her for work.
9. murder | The State Crime Bureau Journal
   statecrimebureau.wordpress.com/tag/murder
   Mrs. Panta Lou Liles was found dead “under similar circumstances.” She had been a twenty year old war plant worker. 1948. On July 2nd, 1948 the killer struck a total of four victims at two locations. The first three victims survived after their screams awoke neighbors and the killer fled.

 

[Richard]

Was Charles Floyd the Tulsa killer?

LINK:
Charles Floyd | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderers

 

[barefootpoet]

I'd say so re knowing details of crime(s) not publicized