June 1st, 1948.

Denton, Texas.

21 year old Virginia Carpenter takes a train trip from her hometown of Texarkana to enroll at the Texas State College for women.

That evening, Virginia is dropped off at her dorm by a cab driver who claims he

last saw her speaking with two unidentified males.

Virginia is never seen again, and it would be three days before she is reported missing.

There are numerous theories about Virginia's disappearance, including that the cab driver himself was responsible,

or that she was a victim of the infamous Texarkana phantom killer,

but there are no answers about what actually happened to her.

After that, the trail went cold. Oh, uh, uh, and uh, and uh, and uh,

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uh, and uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, Hello everyone and welcome to our latest episode of the Trail went cold.

I'm your host Robin Warder and today we are going to be jumping back several decades to cover a mystery which has gone unsolved for nearly 70 years.

The 1948 disappearance of Virginia Carpenter.

This is yet another example of a case which I've decided to cover because it is loosely tied to a listener suggestion.

I've had multiple listeners requests that I cover the Texarkana Moonlight murders, which involves the 1946 slings of several people by an unidentified serial killer nicknamed the phantom killer.

Well that case has already been covered on multiple true crime podcasts such as thinking sideways and

true crime garage, so I thought I tried something a little different and examined the lesser

known mystery of Virginia Carpenter, a Texarkana resident who went missing after traveling to the city of Denton just two years after the moonlight murders.

Since Virginia personally knew some of the victims of these murders there has been speculation that these two cases might be connected

But we'll delve into that momentarily

I previously featured this case in an article I wrote for listverse.com titled 10 people who mysteriously vanished while traveling,

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