The Baffling Disappearance of a Coed: Virginia Carpenter

Published: Feb. 10, 2020, 3 a.m.

b'On June 1st, 1948, Mary Virginia Carpenter stepped off Texas-Pacific train 31 in Denton and stepped into oblivion. \\u201cThe world swallowed her up,\\u201d Texas Ranger Lewis Rigler later said of the 21-year-old\\u2019s disappearance. There was little to no trace of Virginia, that much is true, and the likely suspect\\u2019s involvement couldn\\u2019t be proven or even clearly ascertained. As the years went on, however, that suspect, the person who is thought to have seen her last, became an even more likely one. Still, nothing solid against him could ever be found. Rigler, quoted above, never shook the feeling that Virginia\\u2019s disappearance was somehow connected to the Texarkana Phantom Killings.

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