A Known Enemy: The Horrific “Butter Knife Slayings” of Karen and Gordon Alexander

Karen Alexander and her younger brother Gordon

The Mystery Man

On the morning of April 8, 1981, Weldon Alexander returned home from his overnight shift at the Cooper Tire & Rubber Company in Texarkana, Arkansas to find the front door of his home standing open. Curious as to why his children — fourteen-year-old Karen and her thirteen-year-old brother Gordon — had neglected…