This College Student Vanished In 1948 After Arriving On Campus For Her Summer Term

Virginia also claimed to know the pair and spoke with them as Edgar drove off in the taxi.

Tragically, though, that was the last known sighting of Virginia. She never ended up checking into her dorm. And after Edgar picked up and delivered her trunk to Brackenridge Hall, it sat unopened.

To this day, the identities of the two men Virginia had greeted also remain a mystery.

The 21-year-old’s disappearance was not reported until four days after her disappearance. On June 4 of that year, Kenny Branham– Virginia’s boyfriend– contacted her mother after he could not get ahold of his girlfriend.

Afterward, Virginia’s mother reached out to TSCW and learned her daughter had never checked into campus. So, the following day, Denton authorities were contacted, and Virginia was reported missing.

According to some of Virginia’s past boyfriends, she became easily infatuated. So, they suggested that the 21-year-old might have run off with a new man.

Virginia’s family, though, strongly believed that she would never just leave without informing them.

So, investigators first focused on Virginia’s boyfriend, Kenny, and the cab driver, Edgar. Kenny underwent a polygraph test regarding Virginia’s disappearance, but he ultimately passed.

Kenny also insisted that his girlfriend had no reason to run off. And according to both him and Virginia’s mother, the 21-year-old was genuinely excited about starting her summer semester at TSCW.

This pushed investigators to believe that Virginia must have been taken. So, the cab driver Edgar became the focus of their investigation.

Edgar was the final person to see Virginia alive. But upon questioning, both Edgar and his wife claimed that they had been at home together from 10:00 p.m. onward on June 1, 1948.