188. Tent Girl (Special Guest: Todd Matthews - The Doe Network) | USA

In May 1968, local well-digger, Wilbur Riddle discovered the body tied up in a canvas, 30 miles north of Georgetown, KY. She could not be identified and a Kentucky Post & Times Star reporter gave her the name ‘Tent Girl’. She became part of local history, and would remain unidentified for another 30 years…

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Resources

Book

The Skeleton Crew: How Amateur Sleuths are Solving America’s Coldest Cases

YouTube

Solving a 30-year-old mystery by using the internet

Web

Tentgirl.com

Find-a-Grave

Wikipedia

Georgetown, KY

Articles

A body in Kentucky: The 30-year-long mystery of ‘Tent Girl’

Tent Girl: The story of one of the first cold cases solved by internet sleuths

Created & Produced by Sonya Lowe

Narrated by Noel Vinson

Music: “Nordic Medieval” by Marcus Bressler

Background track: Doblado Studios: https://www.youtube.com/c/DobladoStudios

This True Crime Podcast was researched using open source or archive materials.

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