June 1, 1948.

Denton, Texas.

21-year-old Virginia Carpenter takes a train trip from a 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 Elasar

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.

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 request that I cover the Texarkana Moonlight murders, which

involves the 1946 slangs 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

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