Georgia Hardstark
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4,112 appearances
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2 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard Feb 2025
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So when the internet's created, he saves up enough money for... He works low-income jobs, saves up enough money to buy a computer, and then he trolls chat rooms and search engines and missing personal listings, searching for details that match Tent Girl. And he creates a website devoted to finding her identity. And this is before any of the web sleuthing shit is going on.
In his mind, he's just going to email as many people as possible until he finds out who this missing person is. So, Cuts of the Night, January 1998. And Todd has been online for hours looking at random stuff when he comes across a classified ad from a woman who's searching for her missing 24-year-old sister, Barbara Ann Hackman Taylor.
Todd sees the three words, Lexington, 1967, missing, and he knows it's her immediately. So in December 1967, 24-year-old Barbara Ann Hackman was a mother and a waitress. She had married young and then mysteriously disappeared. They thought it was a teenager originally when they found the body missing.
But she's actually 24, which is just another reason why cops... It wouldn't have taken someone amateur to find this person because you're looking for a teenager. You're not going to find someone with totally different statistics. Right, right. You know what I mean? Yeah.
So Matthews arranges to have Tent Girl's body exhumed. And in April 1998, DNA tests prove that Barbara Ann Hackman is Tent Girl.
Wow.
I know. Wow. The family chooses to have Barbara's remains kept in the original spot with the original headstone. They just added a little stone underneath with her real name, nickname, date of birth, presumed date of death, and the inscription loving mother, grandmother, and sister. I know. She's a grandmother at 24? No, I think she had her daughter and now she's a grandmother. Okay. All right.
So he died before Tent Girl was identified. But Barbara's husband, George Earl Taylor, never filed a missing persons report. And he told Barbara's family that she had left him for another man.
All right. So you know how she was fucking found in a tarpaulin. Am I saying that right? That was commonly used by carnival workers to store big tents. Guess what George's job was.
Yes, he was a carnival worker. He died of cancer in October 1987. And I hope he rots in hell.
Good.
Yeah. Good. Glad. Fuck yourself. Fuck yourself.
Isn't that crazy? Like, what is what? There's nothing besides like besides fingerprints that could have like made it more of a like, here's who done it. Yeah. Yeah.
I won't. Did they like tie it back to the carnival he was working at?
Those are great questions. I was just excited that they put that together, but gosh, I wish they had done that before he died of cancer.
Can I do a different story? No. I'm kidding. All right. So, so the ending of this is pretty amazing that Todd Matthews goes on to help create the Doe Network, which which I'm obsessed with. It's an online database containing thousands of profiles for unidentified does. Jane and John does and baby does and amateur sleuths try to connect unidentified bodies with missing people. Amazing.
Like people who are like nurses and fucking janitors and all these crazy people who like are doing this for free in their free time. Just sit there and try to find matching characteristics to get these people.
found and get them you know so is it like web sleuthing where anyone can do it yeah enter the information they started they started regulating it because i think that a lot of um a lot of police were getting annoyed with all the calls they were getting like i think
it's this person I think it's that person so there's like for each each town or each city there's there's like a main person that and it has to go through like a crazy vetting process now so if you're like I think this missing person is this unidentified body they have to like it has to be checked out by like a bunch of people who have been certified by the donut work to do that.
But yeah, you can kind of just like look for, it's almost like that game where you, what was the memory one where you turn over a face and you turn it back over and you have to remember where the face is. It's called memory. Thank you. So he also co-founded NAMUS. I think it's supposed to be NAMUS, but there's no E. The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System.
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