December 6, 1967: “Tent Girl” Murdered
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🗓️ 6 December 2019
⏱️ 13 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | At Barclays, we're here for the land of football. |
| 0:06.4 | We're here for the Premier League, |
| 0:09.0 | and the Barclays Women's Super League. |
| 0:12.1 | We're here for the football chance for giving more girls a chance. |
| 0:18.0 | We're here for the grassroots and all the muddy booths. From schools to stadiums, we're here for it all. |
| 0:27.6 | Barclays, here for the land of football. Today is Friday, December 6th, 2019. |
| 0:37.0 | On this day in 1967, 24-year-old Barbara Ann Hackman Taylor, was murdered. |
| 0:46.6 | For 30 years, her body remained unidentified, and she was simply referred to as Tent Girl, thanks to the material covering her corpse. Welcome to Today in True Crime, a parcast original. |
| 1:09.0 | Due to the graphic nature of today's crimes, listener discretion is advised. |
| 1:13.4 | Extreme caution is advised for listeners under 13. |
| 1:17.3 | Today we're covering the murder of Barbara Ann or Bobby Hackman Taylor, more widely known as Tent Girl. |
| 1:26.2 | Let's go back to the cold evening of December 6th, |
| 1:29.8 | 1967 in Lexington, Kentucky. |
| 1:38.8 | America was in turmoil. |
| 1:41.1 | The Vietnam War raged overseas and protests against the war raged at home. |
| 1:47.0 | Older conservatives and young hippies talked past each other in opinion columns and on news stations. Civil rights were still a hot |
| 1:56.5 | button issue despite the fact that Linden B Johnson had signed the Civil Rights Act three years before in 1964. |
| 2:08.7 | But none of this national turbulence |
| 2:10.9 | was evident in the Taylor household, where George Earl was. was |
| 2:15.0 | preoccupied with his personal troubles. |
| 2:18.0 | Besides, the three children were too young to understand the news. |
| 2:22.0 | The younger two, Sunny and Shelly, were just... young to |
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