Thirty Years Without a Name: The Tent Girl Case
Thirty Years Without a Name: The Tent Girl Case
In May 1968, a man collecting glass insulators beside U.S. Route 25 in Scott County, Kentucky, kicked open a bundle of canvas and found the body of a young woman. Investigators estimated her age at 16 to 19, the press called her Tent Girl, and a town buried her in 1971 under a donated headstone reading "Unidentified." Why did no missing person report exist anywhere in the country? How did one wrong number on an autopsy sheet aim thirty years of searching at the wrong people? And why did the man who finally named her turn out to be a Tennessee…
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