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Barbara Ann "Bobbie" Hackmann Taylor (September 12, 1943 – c. December 1967), also known as the "Tent Girl", was notable as an unidentified homicide victim for nearly 30 years after her body was found on May 17, 1968, near Georgetown, Kentucky. [1]
Jan 23, 2018 · Who Killed Jane Doe? featured the story of ‘The Tent Girl’ on Investigation Discovery in January 2018. On May 17, 1968, a man walking in the woods in Georgetown, Kentucky discovered a body wrapped in a tent.
Apr 29, 2019 · When well-digger Wilbur Riddle stumbled upon the body of an unidentified young woman in 1968, the media quickly nicknamed her "Tent Girl" because of the material in which her body was wrapped. Todd Matthews first heard about Tent Girl in 1987 from Riddle's daughter, whom Matthews eventually married.
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In 1967, Hackmann Taylor lived in Lexington, KY, with her husband George Earl Taylor, a carnival worker, and their infant daughter. When she went missing, Taylor claimed his wife had left him for another man and maintained the ruse until he passed from cancer in October 1987.
Wilbur Riddle worked in the Kentucky countryside digging wells. On May 17, 1968, while looking for telephone pole insulators along US Route 25 near Sadieville, KY, Riddle came upon a parcel wrapped in a tent. When he prodded the object with his foot, it rolled down a hill, revealing the shape of a human body within. Riddle called the authorities fr...
Todd Matthews initially heard the tale of Tent Girl at a Halloween party in 1987. When the attendants began swapping ghost stories, Lori Riddle, Wilbur Riddle's daughter, shared her father's tale of discovering the remains of a girl wrapped in a canvas tent nearly 20 years prior. Seventeen-year-old Matthews latched onto the story. He and Lori event...
The family chose to have Hackmann's remains re-interred in Georgetown Cemetery, with an additional stone base placed under the original grave marker, bearing her birth name, nickname, date of birth, presumed date of death, and the inscription "Loving Mother, Grandmother & Sister". The Hackmann family excluded Barbara's married name from her gravest...
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”.
Feb 17, 2015 · A 17-year-old Matthews listened as friends tried to spook each other with scary tales -- but one story told was true. Lori Riddle, the woman who would become Matthews’ wife within a year, spoke of...
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Forensic artists need to have a background in art, but they also need to know anatomy to draw accurately and sculpt faces in clay. They also work with anthropologists to figure out the missing or the suspect’s age, sex and race, Mann said. “Beyond that, it’s really an art.”.
