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Disappearance of Virginia Carpenter

Year
1948
Where
Virginia
Source
Wikipedia
Evidence
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What the record says

Mary Virginia "Jimmie" Carpenter was a 21-year-old American missing person from Texarkana, Texas, who went missing in Denton in the summer of 1948. Carpenter was last seen by a taxi driver around 9:30 p.m. on Tuesday, June 1, 1948.

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