Mary Jimmie Carpenter

Murdered

What happened to Mary Virginia \Jimmie\ Carpenter in 1948?
On June 1, 1948, 21-year-old Mary Virginia "Jimmie" Carpenter, a resident of Texarkana, Texas, arrived in Denton to attend summer classes at Texas State College for Women (now Texas Woman's University). After disembarking from a train, she took a taxi to Brackenridge Hall, her designated dormitory. The taxi driver, Edgar Ray "Jack" Zachary, reported that upon arrival around 9:30 p.m., Carpenter approached two men in a cream-colored convertible parked near the dormitory. She appeared to recognize ...Read More