096 - The Disappearance of Margaret Ellen Fox

Trace Evidence

Steven Pacheco

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 12 November 2019

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

On June 24th, 1974. fourteen year old Margaret Ellen Fox stepped onto the 8:40am bus to Mount Holly, NJ, some seven miles from her home. She'd recently been hired on as a babysitter and was eager to start her new job. However, Margaret would never return home.

When Margaret didn't arrive back home, her family began searching and soon discovered that not only did the number to her employer trace to a payphone but the man himself, John Marshall, did not exist. Several days later the Fox family received a call from the alleged abductor, demanding $10,000 and then they never heard from him again.

For the last forty-five years the mystery of Margaret's disappearance has haunted her family and Burlington, New Jersey. What became of the young woman and what is the true identity of her abductor?

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0:00.0	On June 24, 1974, 14-year-old Margaret Ellen Fox took a bus from Burlington to Mount
0:15.0	Holly, New Jersey to work a babysitting job for a man named John Marshall. She never returned
0:21.0	home. Her family contacted the Marshall residents only to discover the number they'd been
0:26.4	given, rang a pay phone outside of a grocery store. When police were notified, massive
0:32.4	searches were conducted in Mount Holly and surrounding areas, but no trace of Margaret
0:37.2	could be found. Four days after her disappearance, Margaret's abductor phoned the family and made
0:43.4	a ransom demand of $10,000. Shortly after gathering the money, the family received a letter
0:49.6	canceling the deal, and then they never heard from the abductor again. It didn't take
0:55.2	long for investigators to determine that John Marshall had been a fake name, and they had
0:59.7	absolutely no idea who could have taken Margaret. Over the next 45 years, the details surrounding
1:06.8	Margaret's disappearance has haunted the Fox family and the state of New Jersey. While the
1:12.4	cases grown cold, recent times have taught us that even the coldest cases can be solved decades
1:18.3	later. This is Trace Evidence, Episode 96, The Disappearance of Margaret Ellen Fox.
1:32.8	Welcome to Trace Evidence. I'm your host, Stephen Pacheco. Today, we examine the disappearance of
1:38.9	14-year-old Margaret Ellen Fox, and as I'm sure you can tell by my voice, I'm still getting over a
1:44.7	cold so apologies about that. Before getting into the case, just a few notes about the show.
1:50.9	Trace Evidence is a weekly true crime podcast focusing on a different unsolved case each week.
1:56.6	If you have questions, comments, or case suggestions, email me at traceevidencepod at gmail.com.
2:04.1	You can also follow me on Twitter at traceevpod on Instagram at traceevidencepodcast or join the
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2:24.0	As a final note, Trace Evidence is a complete one-man operation. So if you'd like to help support
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