True Crime Tuesdays on the Fearsome Fiction Podcast: The Phantom Barber of Pascagoula—A Hair-Raising Unsolved Crime

This week’s case comes with an element of dark humor, although nothing’s funny about a stranger breaking into people’s homes. Nobody died in this story. Nobody was even hurt, not at first. What we’ve got instead is something stranger—a criminal whose weapon of choice was a pair of scissors, whose target wasn’t a wallet or a life, but his victim’s hair. And for one summer in 1942, an entire Mississippi town lived in terror of a man who broke into bedrooms in the dead of night for no reason anyone could explain. And there’s more: even after an arrest and a conviction, people still aren’t sure the right man ever paid for it.