Virginia Carpenter Part 3: “Jimmie-Girl Come Home”

Gone Cold - Texas True Crime

Vincent Strange

True Crime, Society & Culture, News

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Edgar Ray Zachary – the cab driver who drove Virginia Carpenter from the train station to the campus of Texas State College for Women in Denton – remained the prime suspect in her disappearance for nearly the entirety of the past several decades. His name popped up at detectives’ every turn, and his propensity for domestic violence suggested he was capable of heinous crimes, since he’d committed them. But a lead in 1998, 50 years after 21-year-old Virginia vanished, an old timer wanted to get something off his chest – long ago, he’d been privy to a confession in the form of braggadocio. It was, perhaps, the most promising lead the case had ever seen. Part 3 of 3.

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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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0:54.0	Sale offers can't be combined with other current offers.
0:59.0	See in store for T's and C's.
1:01.0	The Gone Call Podcasts May contain violent or graphic subject matter.
1:06.0	Listener discretion is advised. Edgar Ray Zachary Zachary, the cab driver who drove 21-year-old Virginia Carpenter to the dormitories from the train station after she arrived in
1:26.1	Denton to attend the Texas State College for Women on June 1st, 1948, never wavered in his telling of the version of events the night she disappeared.
1:38.3	Every time he was asked to come in for further questioning, the cabby was cooperative, and although dozens of hard-boiled investigators
1:46.0	had attempted to trip him up, he always told the same story.
1:50.7	In the mind of Texas Ranger Louis Calvin Wraggler, however, his story was full of holes and he'd been the prime suspect from the get-go.
2:00.0	Wraggler certainly was not alone.
2:07.1	Even though the man had been in the used car business for years, Zachary couldn't identify the make or model of the yellow or cream-colored
2:11.8	convertible that Virginia's two male friends had shown
2:14.9	up in outside her prospective dorm.
2:18.8	Since he was intimately familiar with Fords and Chevys, he could only say the car was either a Plymouth, Dodge, or Pontiac.
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