Mary Virginia Carpenter, a 21-year-old student, disappeared on June 1, 1948, after arriving in Denton, Texas, to attend a summer term at Texas State College for Women now known as Texas Woman's University. Hailing from Texarkana, Texas, Carpenter had traveled six hours by train to Denton with aspirations of becoming a laboratory technician. She had previously studied journalism at the University of Arkansas but had a change of heart regarding her career path. Financial necessity and her mother's
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