may 3, 1946 - Virgil & Katie Starks HOMICIDE & ATTACK

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Sometime before 9pm, Virgil, 37, and his wife Katie, 36, were in their home on a 500 acre farm off Highway 67 East, almost 10mi northeast of Texarkana. Virgil was sitting in an armchair reading the newspaper when he was shot twice in the back of the head from a closed double window. Hearing the sound of broken glass, Katie came from another room and saw Virgil stand up, then slump back into his chair.

Realizing he was dead, Katie ran to the phone to call the police. She rang twice before being shot twice in the face from the same window. She fell but soon regained her footing and tried to get a pistol from another room, but was blinded by her own blood.

Hearing the killer at the back of the house, Katie fled out the front door. She ran barefoot across the street to the home of her sister and BIL; no one was home, so she ran to neighbor A.V. Prater's house. She gasped that "Virgil's dead," then collapsed. Prater and another neighbor, Elmer Taylor, took Katie to the hospital. Katie was questioned in the operating room; she survived.

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CONFIRMATION OF COMPLETION DATE: May 31, 2025
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LUNAR PHASE: waxing crescent
ZODIAC SIGN: taurus
DAY OF WEEK: Friday
HOLIDAYS: Apr. 21 = Easter (12 days before)

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