ekardh
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Its been a while that this thread was used.
But my 2 cents, what I find very suspicious is the role of the taxidriver, Edgar Ray Zachary, he was the last one seeing her. Dont get me wrong, I mean the guy is dead so I dont want to blame anybody till its proved that they did it indeed or till the day God judges this world and it will be known who the killer was if she was killed ofcourse.
But the taxidriver was accused of attempting for raping a girl years afther Virginia got missing. In fact, there is an newsarticle about it in the Abilene reporter news paper of Texas. On page 15 of august 20, 1957, for those with an account on websites containing historical newspapers you can search it up yourself. Or use google for an other newspaper also mentioning this case: https://news.google.com/newspapers?...AIBAJ&sjid=JVYDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3745,5189669&hl=nl
The taxidriver was also been in and out of trouble with the law years before Virginia got missing.
There is an book written by an old texas ranger Private that investigated the Viriginia Carpenter case, the book is called In the Line of Duty: Reflections of a Texas Ranger Private. You can see parts of the book trough google books, from page 82 till 89 you can read about this case. And also the mentioning of the attemted rape of the taxidriver and that the police thought the taxidriver was the main suspect for while. He past an polygraph test.
The taxidriver had an alibi, his wife told the police that he came home arround 10:00 p:m. But years later I found that she stated that she had lied about this and the her husband came home late in the night. I only found this on an website containing some info about this case.
So all clews are pointing in my opinion to the last person that saw her alive. But stil never convicted so only God knows.
Interestingly, the lead investigator of the time, Lewis C. Rigler, finally believed that Virginia ran away to start a new life for herself. I'm not sure how he arrived at that conclusion, as there was no evidence for it and every reason to suspect foul play. Perhaps it was just his way of dealing with the fact they never found out what happened to her.
Anyway, I agree with you. The taxi driver was the last confirmed witness to see Virginia, he was later accused of sexually assaulting another young woman, and apparently he was known to abuse his wife and kids. Not to mention his decision to leave Virginia's trunk on the lawn instead of delivering it to her dorm is very suspicious.