160 - The Disappearance of Shirley McKeown

Trace Evidence

Steven Pacheco

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.7 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2021

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Seventy-one year old Shirley McKeown left home early on the morning of Saturday, August 24th, 2002. Her destination was just seven miles across town, her daughter's new house, where painters were working. It should have been a quick trip, but Shirley never arrived.

Within twenty-four hours she was reported missing, but she had seemingly vanished without a trace. It wouldn't be until ten days later when her car was found that investigators knew something terrible had happened.

The backseat was soaked in blood, enough to show that someone had been mortally wounded. While detectives would be lead towards two persons of interest Shirley's fate, and location, have never been discovered.

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0:00.0	On a quiet summer morning, 71-year-old Shirley McEwen pulled out of her driveway for the
0:14.4	last time.
0:16.1	Heading across town to her daughter's new home, Shirley was helping out with the remodel
0:20.7	while her daughter was out of town.
0:23.2	On this morning, though, she never made it to her destination.
0:27.6	Ten long days passed before the first clue emerged, Shirley's white Cadillac Deville was found
0:33.5	abandoned and concealed beneath brush tree branches in a tarp just a mile from her daughter's
0:39.6	home.
0:40.6	The back seat was soaked in blood and what had begun as the search for a missing woman
0:45.0	transformed into the search for her body and the hunt for a killer.
0:50.4	Witnesses had seen four men in the car, surveillance video captured them 30 miles away in
0:55.8	the white Cadillac.
0:57.6	This evidence eventually led to two people, but the evidence necessary for an arrest
1:02.3	linger just out of reach.
1:04.6	Now police rely on locals, people who know the truth, to come forward and break the
1:09.8	case open or remain silent and allow the killers to strike again.
1:15.3	This is Trace Evidence, Episode 160, The Disappearance of Shirley McEwen.
1:30.1	Welcome to Trace Evidence.
1:31.7	I'm your host, Stephen Pichecco.
1:34.4	Today, we examine the mysterious and frustrating disappearance of Shirley McEwen.
1:40.0	Before getting into the case, just a few notes about the show.
1:44.0	Trace Evidence is a weekly true crime podcast focused on unsolved murders and disappearances.
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