The Murder of Carol Jenkins-Murder In A Sundown Town
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Carol Jenkins was born to Elizabeth Jenkins on October 19, 1947, in Franklin, Indiana. Jenkins’ mother divorced her father when Carol was still a baby. Jenkins’ mother married Paul Davis, a local factory worker nearby, Rushville, Indiana. Davis raised her as his own while he and Elizabeth went on to have five more children, all of whom looked up to Carol as their big sister.
As a teenager, Carol wanted to move to Chicago and become a model.
In 1965, shortly after graduating from Rushville High School, she got a job at the plant the Ford Motor Company. Carol worked there until a union strike temporarily shut the plant down. Looking to supplement her income, she took a job as a door-to-door saleswoman selling encyclopedias for Collier’s.
In September 1968, 20-year-old Carol was dressed in a white cotton turtleneck, a pair of olive-green wool pants, a brown jacket, and a bright yellow paisley scarf, was off with three companions on her first day of selling encyclopedias door-to-door. To imp…
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