Virginia Carpenter Part 2: Chasing Phantoms

Gone Cold - Texas True Crime

Vincent Strange

True Crime, Society & Culture, News

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

The Denton Police had lost four days by the time they found out 21-year-old Virginia Carpenter was missing. But when they did, searches were organized quickly, and information was dispatched to law enforcement nationwide. When Texas Ranger Lewis C. Rigler entered the case, one of his immediate concerns was interviewing a handful of folks, including Virginia’s suitor, Kenny. Although his one eyebrow remained raised at the thought of this young man’s potential motives, Ranger Rigler could find nothing implicating him. Upon the discovery that the Carpenter Family was acquainted with three of the victims of a series of depraved and notorious crimes in Virginia’s hometown of Texarkana, the lawman couldn’t help but wonder if the infamous Phantom Killer also had a hand in her disappearance.

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The Denton County Sunday Morning Enterprise, The Denton Record Chronicle, Inside Detective Magazine article “A Mother’s Appeal: If You’re Alive, Jimmie-Girl, Come Home” by Hazel Carpenter, and police files were used as sources for this episode.

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0:00.0	The Gond Cole Podcasts may contain violent or graphic subject matter.
0:06.0	Listener discretion is advised. Denton Police didn't know about 21 year old Virginia Carpenter's
0:20.3	disappearance until she'd been gone for four days when her mother Hazel informed them.
0:27.1	They knew right away that the missing person's case was anything but typical, as is evident
0:32.2	with their quickly identifying and locating Virginia's cab driver,
0:36.6	40-year-old Edgar Ray Zachary.
0:39.9	By 730 the morning Hazel arrived in town, the police had checked all nearby medical facilities
0:45.8	for Virginia, both by name and description, had requested the assistance of Texas State
0:52.0	College for Women Night Watchman Ray Powell and gotten
0:55.8	Virginia's description out to the Texas Department of Public Safety.
1:00.9	Agencies across the country were soon to be notified.
1:05.1	She was five feet three inches tall and weighed 120 pounds, the description read, adding
1:11.2	that her hair was dark brown.
1:14.0	Virginia's eyes were so brown that her mother described them as almost black.
1:19.6	The description went on to say that her teeth were straight and even. The missing young woman was last seen in a green, brown, and white striped
1:29.7	chambrey dress, red platform shoes, a white hat, and carrying a red purse.
1:37.0	In 1948, getting law enforcement agencies a photograph was going to take a little longer, and police in Denton had a lot of work to do in the meantime.
1:47.0	Search parties were coordinated in the countryside and roads, wooded areas, brushy fields, and vacant properties were checked from Denton
1:56.4	to Texarkana.
1:58.6	Even Area Boy Scouts aided in the effort.
2:02.5	It was a particularly hot summer and as arid as usual.
2:07.2	The very day Virginia disappeared.
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