Georgia Hardstark
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4,112 appearances
38 recordings
2 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard Feb 2025
Georgia Hardstark’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yeah.
No one needs help finding anything unless it's like a movie and they're like on a mission to get this one thing. No one needs help finding anything.
Yeah. Like, I don't want to be sped through this.
No, totally. That's a long Zen journey that you want to take when you're there.
Yeah.
Ready for mine?
Yeah.
Okay. Mine is about the tent girl and the dough network.
Do you know them?
No, D-O-E as in like Jane Doe.
Like, doe a dead body. A female dead body. Oh, my God. I had to.
You did it.
Did it.
Did it.
All right. So on May 17th, 1968, a well digger named Wilbur Riddle was killing time between jobs picking up glass insulators on a dirt road. It was just outside Lexington, Kentucky. So he's scavenging.
He comes across a large green tarpaulin, and that was commonly used by carnival workers to store the big, like, big top tents in. And inside, he finds the new decomposing body of a young woman. She appeared to be in her teens, and she had been dead for months. They couldn't figure out her exact cause of death, but it was thought that she'd been knocked out with a blow to the head.
And then tied up inside the bag to slowly suffocate. And the way they knew this is that her nails were worn down and broken. Oh, no. As if she had been trying to escape. Nightmare. Yes. She couldn't be identified and became known as the tent girl. Sorry, is 68 you said? Yeah. Okay.
It became a local legend and her grave had a headstone that they had put a sketch of what the police had sketched what she might have looked like. And it said, tent girl found May 17th, 1968 on highway, US Highway 25 North, died about April, like all these weird statistics about her. So it was a place where local teens would visit to cause trouble and to scare each other.
And like on Halloween night, you had to go touch the gravestone and run away and stuff. And so a couple decades later, there's a teenager who moves into town named Todd Matthews. And he hears about the story of Tent Girl by a girl he's got a crush on. Nine months later, he and this girl get married. And it turns out her name is Lori Riddle. Her father was Wilbur Riddle, who found Tent Girl. Ooh.
So Todd Matthews becomes obsessed with the case. And for decades, he's determined to find out the true identity of Tent Girl. Todd's two siblings had died at birth and it really stuck with him. And so he says that he felt like Tent Girl had become his sibling until he could find her real family, which is so fucking sweet. I might cry.
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