Episode Summary
On May 17, 1968, a woman was found in the woods, murdered and wrapped in tent fabric. For over 30 years, she remained unidentified in a Kentucky grave with a donated headstone that bore the name “Tent Girl”. But 90’s internet and a superhero named Todd Matthews come together to give this girl a name and give her family the answers they waited so many decades for.
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Episode Info
If you want to read a in depth story on here case you can find that HERE.
This is the photo sketch police were made in1968 in an attempt to help identify “Tent Girl”.
This is the scene where they first find “Tent Girl”.
This is Candace, the girl who was also found Murdered and wrapped in a tarp but her case has been formally closed.
Barbara Ann Hackman who was identified as “Tent Girl” in 1998.
Todd Matthews at Barbara Ann Hackman's grave.
This is Superhero Todd who used his Crime Junkie passion combined with 90’s internet (the best kind of internet) to finally give “Tent Girl” her name back!!
Episode Source Material
- Internet Sleuthing may help identify ‘Tent Girl’
- Thirty years later, ‘Tent Girl’ homicide victim identified
- Amatuer sleuths restore identity to the dead
- NamUs
- The Case of ‘Tent Girl’/Barbara Ann Hackmann Taylor
- Vanished in the night: Who murdered Candace Clothier?
- A Body in Kentucky: The 30-year-long mystery of “Tent Girl”
- Who Killed Jane Doe – Tent Girl on Investigation Discovery
- The Story of Tent Girl