Texas Oblivion: Mysterious Disappearances, Escapes and Cover-Ups

by E.R. Bills

On February 2, 1963, a tanker with thirty-nine men aboard departed Beaumont and never returned. In the mid-spring of 1882, Billy the Kid's friend, foe and equal escaped Huntsville Penitentiary and vanished. On December 9, 1961, a young boy in Wichita Falls disappeared without a trace. On November 18, 1936, a father and son were swallowed by a "Walled Kingdom." On December 23, 1974, three girls went to a Fort Worth mall and were never seen or heard from again. This collection explores twenty baffling disappearances that investigators have studied for decades, to no avail. Homicide, patricide, filicide, genocide, devil worship, the Devil's Triangle, the Devil's River, the assassination of JFK, UFO abductions, legal limbo, literal limbo--oblivion. Award-winning author E.R. Bills drags the facts of these mystifying cases back from the void.

Genres: True Crime

176 pages, Paperback

First published April 12, 2021

About the author

E. R. Bills is a writer from Fort Worth, Texas. He received a BA in Journalism from Southwest Texas State University and does freelance writing for publications around Texas.

Reviews

[J.W. Ellis · Rating 3 out of 5]

I'm not sure what I was expecting. Something more paranormal, maybe. Texas has such history. Sigh. Not to take away from those listed in here as missing. Loss of life and unknown endings are never good.

[Jennie Rosenblum · Rating 5 out of 5]

This author takes his research to an extreme level. His books are presented not just to entertain but inform. This is a collection of true tales of disappearances that have bewildered Texans for generations. Each is presented logically for events that have no logic as to why these people have not been found. An intriguing collection that had me thinking. Easy to see why this book won First Place in Non-Fiction at the North Texas Book Festival.

[Allison Turner · Rating 4 out of 5]

All such interesting stories! I’ve lived in Texas my whole life and haven’t heard of any of these.