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Podcast: Gone Cold - Texas True Crime
Episode: Virginia Carpenter Part 3: “Jimmie-Girl Come Home”
Description: 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, perh...