Episode 183 The Vanishing of Virginia Carpenter

Southern Mysteries Podcast by Shannon Ballard

Feb 2, 202623:16Society & Culture

In June 1948, 21-year-old Mary Virginia Carpenter left Texarkana for college in Denton, Texas. She was last seen after a taxi dropped her near Brackenridge Hall at Texas State College for Women. The letter she promised h...

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