Thirty Years Without a Name: The Tent Girl Case
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Thirty Years Without a Name: The Tent Girl Case
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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 factory worker with a home computer?
In this episode, we follow two searches. The first is the search for her name: Todd Matthews hears the story at a Halloween party in 1987, marries the daughter of the man who found the body, chases the case for 11 years, builds TentGirl.com, and in January 1998 finds an online classified ad from an Arkansas woman looking for her sister. DNA from an exhumed grave confirms it: Tent Girl was Barbara Ann Hackmann Taylor, 24, a wife and mother of an eight month old from Lexington, just a short drive away. The second search is the one nobody talks about: the hunt for her killer, which never really began, because the prime suspect, her carnival worker husband, died in 1987, uncharged, eleven years before she even had a name.
Person: Barbara Ann "Bobbie" Hackmann Taylor, 24
Date: Found May 17, 1968; identified April 1998
Location: Georgetown, Scott County, Kentucky
Case: Unidentified homicide victim named after 30 years
Legal status: No one ever arrested or charged; the murder remains unsolved
- The husband's lie that stopped any missing person report
- The age estimate that froze the case for a generation
- Todd Matthews, the cold call to Arkansas, and the DNA match
- The family verdict carved into her new headstone
- How one case seeded the Doe Network and NamUs
The Tent Girl case gave Barbara Hackmann Taylor her name back and launched internet sleuthing, but the Tent Girl murder has never been solved.
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