Today is Sunday, May 17th, 2020.

On this day in 1968, the decaying body of an unidentified young woman was found off Route 25 in Backwoods, Kentucky.

She was dubbed Tent Girl by the media, thanks to the fabric her body was wrapped in.

Three decades later, an internet sleuth unraveled the mystery of her real name. Welcome to today in True Crime, a parcast original.

Due to the graphic nature of today's crimes

listener discretion is advised. Extreme caution is advised for listeners under 13.

Today we're covering the discovery of the so-called tent girls body which 30 years later

finally got a real name. Let's go back to May 17th, 1968 in the woods outside Lexington, Kentucky. Wilbur Riddle was a water well digger most days.

Not today though.

Today he was out in the woods by Eagle Creek off Route 25, no wells to dig around here.

Still, he was working. His eyes were carefully trained on the forest floor, his feet kicking up fallen leaves and branches.

He was looking for the bell-shaped glass insulators that sometimes fell from overhead power lines.

He had a buddy that could sell them as fanciful paper weights,

$5 each, not bad.

But he wouldn't just find pretty glassware amidst the undergrowth, not today.

As the hot May sun beat down through the shifting leaves above, his foot caught on something.

Something solid, but with some give. A rotten log?

No, he looked closer. It was a green burlap sack, the kind they carried big top tents in for

carnivals and the like. But there were no carnivals out by Eagle Creek.

Wilbur squatted down and pulled the tan cord holding the sack closed.

As the fabric fell away, recoiled almost tumbling over

That was no tent that was a body

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