EPISODE · Aug 20, 2024 · 28 MIN
Virginia Carpenter Part 3: “Jimmie-Girl Come Home”
from Gone Cold - Texas True Crime · host TTC Productions
Edgar Ray Zachary – the cab driver who drove Virginia Carpenter from the train station to the campus of Texas State College for Women in Denton – remained the prime suspect in her disappearance for nearly the entirety of the past several decades. His name popped up at detectives’ every turn, and his propensity for domestic violence suggested he was capable of heinous crimes, since he’d committed them. But a lead in 1998, 50 years after 21-year-old Virginia vanished, an old timer wanted to get something off his chest – long ago, he’d been privy to a confession in the form of braggadocio. It was, perhaps, the most promising lead the case had ever seen. Part 3 of 3.You can support Gone Cold – Texas True Crime and listen to the show ad-free at patreon.com/gonecoldpodcastFind us at https://www.gonecold.comFollow gone cold on Facebook, Instagram, Threads, TikTok, YouTube, and X. Search @gonecoldpodcast at all or just click linknbio.com/gonecoldpodcastThe Denton County Sunday Morning Enterprise, The Denton Record Chronicle, Inside Detective Magazine article “A Mother’s Appeal: If You’re Alive, Jimmie-Girl, Come Home” by Hazel Carpenter, and police files were used as sources for this episode. #WhereIsVirginiaCarpenter #PhantomKiller #TexarkanaMoonlightMurders #Denton #DentonTX #Texarkana #TexarkanaTX #Texas #TX #TWU #TexasWomensUniversity #TrueCrime #TexasTrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast #Podcast #Unsolved #GoneCold #GoneColdPodcast #UnsolvedMysteries #TrueCrime #Missing #Homicide #UnsolvedMurder #ColdCase #Vanished #Disappearance #DisappearedBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/gone-cold-texas-true-crime--3203003/support.
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Edgar Ray Zachary – the cab driver who drove Virginia Carpenter from the train station to the campus of Texas State College for Women in Denton – remained the prime suspect in her disappearance for nearly the entirety of the past several decades. His name popped up at detectives’ every turn, and his propensity for domestic violence suggested he was capable of heinous crimes, since he’d committed them. But a lead in 1998, 50 years after 21-year-old Virginia vanished, an old timer wanted to get something off his chest – long ago, he’d been privy to a confession in the form of braggadocio. It was, perhaps, the most promising lead the case had ever seen. Part 3 of 3.You can support Gone Cold – Texas True Crime and listen to the show ad-free at patreon.com/gonecoldpodcastFind us at https://www.gonecold.comFollow gone cold on Facebook, Instagram, Threads, TikTok, YouTube, and X. Search @gonecoldpodcast at all or just click linknbio.com/gonecoldpodcastThe Denton County Sunday Morning Enterprise, The Denton Record Chronicle, Inside Detective Magazine article “A Mother’s Appeal: If You’re Alive, Jimmie-Girl, Come Home” by Hazel Carpenter, and police files were used as sources for this episode. #WhereIsVirginiaCarpenter #PhantomKiller #TexarkanaMoonlightMurders #Denton #DentonTX #Texarkana #TexarkanaTX #Texas #TX #TWU #TexasWomensUniversity #TrueCrime #TexasTrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast #Podcast #Unsolved #GoneCold #GoneColdPodcast #UnsolvedMysteries #TrueCrime #Missing #Homicide #UnsolvedMurder #ColdCase #Vanished #Disappearance #DisappearedBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/gone-cold-texas-true-crime--3203003/support.
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