Virginia Carpenter, Missing, June 1948 TX.
Virginia Carpenter Vital Statistics at Time of Disappearance Missing Since: June 1, 1948 from Denton, Texas Classification: Endangered Missing Age: 21 years old Height and Weight: 5'3, 120 pounds Distinguishing Characteristics: Brown hair, brown eyes. Clothing Description: A striped chambray dress, red platform shoes and a white hat. Details of Disappearance Carpenter was last seen in Denton, Texas on June 1, 1948. She left her home in Texarkana, Texas and took a train to Denton, six hours away. At the station she took a taxicab to Texas State College for Women, now called Texas Women's University. She was planning to complete a summer term there. The cab driver later state he stopped in front of Brackenridge Hall at 9:00 p.m. and Carpenter gave the driver a ticket for her trunk and paid him a dollar so he would fetch it for her from the train station the next day. After getting out of the cab, Carpenter approached two young men she appeared to know and began to speak to them, and the cab driver drove away. She has never been heard from again. She was carrying a red bag at the time of her disappearance. Carpenter's boyfriend passed a polygraph in connection with her disappearance, but authorities learned the cab driver, Jack Zachary, had a reputation for being abusive. His wife stated he had been home with her from 10:00 p.m. on the night Carpenter vanished. Ten years after Carpenter's disappearance, Zachary's wife told police she had lied to them and her husband had not actually arrived home until 2:00 or 3:00 a.m. on June 2. He was been charged in connection with Carpenter's case, however. Numerous leads and possible sightings of Carpenter have surfaced throughout the decades since her disappearance, and police searched for her remains as recently as 1998, but no evidence has been uncovered and none of the accounts have been proven. Carpenter's disappearance remains unsolved. Investigating Agency If you have any information concerning this case, please contact: Denton County Sheriff's Office 940-349-1600 http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/c/carpenter_virginia.html