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An account he owns section of the Leafy Georgetown Cemetery was a single grave standing

alone. The headstone simply read, Tent Girl. A police sketch of the unidentified young

homicide victim, as well as details about her height, the color of her hair, and the

date of her discovery did not make up for the fact that she had no name, and her family

did not know about her demise. A local man, Wilbur Riddle, discovered the

body tied up in a canvas 30 miles north of Georgetown in May of 1968. The body was

transported to Lexington for an autopsy, but the examiner could not determine her identity.

A Kentucky Post and Time Star report gave her the name Tent Girl. She became part of

her family's local history and would remain unidentified for another 30 years.

On the 17th of May 1968, well-digger Wilbur Riddle was walking around a grassy hill

on Route 25 near Georgetown, Kentucky. He was gathering glass insulators that had fallen

down from telephone poles when he made a strange discovery. The first thing that caught

his attention was a pungent smell. He followed the odor and came upon a green tent canvas,

rolled up around something lying on a flat rock. When Wilbur prodded it with his foot so

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