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From "The Doe Network" - http://www.doenetwork.us/cases/1880dftx.html
Missing since June 1, 1948:
Virginia Carpenter
Date Of Birth: about 1927
Age at Time of Disappearance: 21 years old
Height and Weight at Time of Disappearance: 5'3"; 120 lbs.
Distinguishing Characteristics: White female. Long brown hair; brown eyes.
Clothing: She was wearing a striped chambray dress, a white hat and red platform shoes and bag.
Virginia Carpenter was last seen in Denton, Texas on June 1, 1948.
Miss Carpenter was all dressed up for a train ride in a striped chambray dress, a white hat and and red platform shoes and bag when she left Texarkana. She got off the train six hours later in Denton and took a taxi to the campus of what is now Texas Woman's University. She stepped out of the cab in front of Brackenridge Hall at the Texas State College for Women a little after 9 p.m. that Tuesday almost half a century ago. She gave the cab driver the ticket for her trunk and a dollar to fetch it the next day from the train station. She walked over to talk to two young men she appeared to know. ``Well, hi. What are you doing here?'' she asked them. The cab driver drove away. And Virginia Carpenter melted into history … never heard from again.
The cab driver delivered her trunk the next morning. It sat on the porch for days. In 1948, police questioned Miss Carpenter's boyfriend for 12 hours the first time around and interviewed him more than a dozen times after that. He also passed a polygraph test. Police searched the cab driver, looking for scratches or bruises. They grilled the cabby, Jack Zachary, numerous times. He was 45, with little education and a reputation for physical abuse. According to yellowing reports in the still-open Denton police files, Mr. Zachary was a ``bootlegger, part-time mechanic and automobile trader'' who beat his wife and kids.
And in 1957, Zachary's wife, who was married to someone else by then, told Midland police she had lied when she said he was home that night by 10. Actually, according to the police files, she said he had come in at 2 or 3 a.m. the next morning. And each year on June 1, when the Denton Record-Chronicle rehashed the unsolved case, Mr. Zachary traveled from Midland to Denton and bought a paper, his wife told the officers. He became nervous, uneasy, and she believed he had something to do with the girl's disappearance. He was never charged.
The coeds at TSCW were terrified that summer and fall. They kept looking for a yellow convertible that police first thought was involved in the disappearance. Later, the convertible was eliminated from the investigation.
Another theory could never be proven. The year before her disappearance, five Texarkana teens were murdered by a person who has never been identified. The press dubbed him the ``Phantom Killer.'' Miss Carpenter and her family were friends with three of the five victims. Did she know something someone didn't want revealed? Did the Phantom Killer follow her to Denton? Those cases, like hers, were never solved.
In May of 1998, police were given a tip by a man in his 70s who claimed to know who killed Ms. Carpenter and where she was buried. Police said the informant was close to some of the people who were allegedly involved in Ms. Carpenter’s disappearance. The sheriff said the two suspects in the murder are now dead. As a result of the tip, investigators started sifting through dirt at an earthen dam east of downtown Denton in search for the remains of Virginia.
From "The Doe Network" - http://www.doenetwork.us/cases/1880dftx.html
Missing since June 1, 1948:
Virginia Carpenter
Date Of Birth: about 1927
Age at Time of Disappearance: 21 years old
Height and Weight at Time of Disappearance: 5'3"; 120 lbs.
Distinguishing Characteristics: White female. Long brown hair; brown eyes.
Clothing: She was wearing a striped chambray dress, a white hat and red platform shoes and bag.
Virginia Carpenter was last seen in Denton, Texas on June 1, 1948.
Miss Carpenter was all dressed up for a train ride in a striped chambray dress, a white hat and and red platform shoes and bag when she left Texarkana. She got off the train six hours later in Denton and took a taxi to the campus of what is now Texas Woman's University. She stepped out of the cab in front of Brackenridge Hall at the Texas State College for Women a little after 9 p.m. that Tuesday almost half a century ago. She gave the cab driver the ticket for her trunk and a dollar to fetch it the next day from the train station. She walked over to talk to two young men she appeared to know. ``Well, hi. What are you doing here?'' she asked them. The cab driver drove away. And Virginia Carpenter melted into history … never heard from again.
The cab driver delivered her trunk the next morning. It sat on the porch for days. In 1948, police questioned Miss Carpenter's boyfriend for 12 hours the first time around and interviewed him more than a dozen times after that. He also passed a polygraph test. Police searched the cab driver, looking for scratches or bruises. They grilled the cabby, Jack Zachary, numerous times. He was 45, with little education and a reputation for physical abuse. According to yellowing reports in the still-open Denton police files, Mr. Zachary was a ``bootlegger, part-time mechanic and automobile trader'' who beat his wife and kids.
And in 1957, Zachary's wife, who was married to someone else by then, told Midland police she had lied when she said he was home that night by 10. Actually, according to the police files, she said he had come in at 2 or 3 a.m. the next morning. And each year on June 1, when the Denton Record-Chronicle rehashed the unsolved case, Mr. Zachary traveled from Midland to Denton and bought a paper, his wife told the officers. He became nervous, uneasy, and she believed he had something to do with the girl's disappearance. He was never charged.
The coeds at TSCW were terrified that summer and fall. They kept looking for a yellow convertible that police first thought was involved in the disappearance. Later, the convertible was eliminated from the investigation.
Another theory could never be proven. The year before her disappearance, five Texarkana teens were murdered by a person who has never been identified. The press dubbed him the ``Phantom Killer.'' Miss Carpenter and her family were friends with three of the five victims. Did she know something someone didn't want revealed? Did the Phantom Killer follow her to Denton? Those cases, like hers, were never solved.
In May of 1998, police were given a tip by a man in his 70s who claimed to know who killed Ms. Carpenter and where she was buried. Police said the informant was close to some of the people who were allegedly involved in Ms. Carpenter’s disappearance. The sheriff said the two suspects in the murder are now dead. As a result of the tip, investigators started sifting through dirt at an earthen dam east of downtown Denton in search for the remains of Virginia.
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