Along Came a Spider: Dorothy Jane Scott

Cold Case Murder Mysteries

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🗓️ 24 August 2019

⏱️ 79 minutes

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On the night of May 28, 1980 a 32-year-old single mother named Dorothy Jane Scott, who had recently been stalked by an unknown man, left her 4-year-old son in the care of her parents as she went to a staff meeting being held at work. During the meeting, she noticed a coworker seemed ill, and had some type of swollen, red mark on his arm that was getting worse. After taking him to the hospital with another coworker along for the ride, they learned he'd been bitten by a Black Widow. Once he was released, and had gone to the hospital pharmacy to fill a prescription, Dorothy went out to the parking lot alone to pull her car up to the emergency room doors. Yet, as her coworkers came outside to meet her, she was nowhere to be found. Moments later, her car sped right past them, and disappeared in the distance. Dorothy Jane Scott was never seen alive again. Nearly 40 years later, we're still searching for answers. Join host Ryan Kraus for a deep dive into this fascinating, yet harrowing unsolved mystery.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody welcome back to cold case murder mysteries. I'm your host Ryan Kraus
0:10.4	lowering you down the rabbit hole of yet another fascinating unsolved murder in an effort to uncover the truth.
0:17.0	Today, we're looking at a case from way back in 1980 in which a 32-year-old single mom named Dorothy Jane Scott was abducted outside the
0:26.4	UC Irvine Medical Center on May 28th after receiving a series of strange phone calls that suggested she was being stalked and her life was in danger.
0:37.1	On the surface, this incident is nearly inexplicable, a total mystery that perpetually exists beneath the cover of a dark cloud that seems
0:46.6	to shroud the nuances required to extract truth from the matter.
0:51.3	Yet what became immediately apparent to me, upon researching the facts and related
0:56.0	circumstantial information, is that the perpetrator's identity, while it can't be proven
1:01.6	in absolute terms by calculating the totality of evidence,
1:05.4	can actually be approximated through geographical movement.
1:09.6	In the same way we can establish circumstantial guilt by putting people in certain places at certain times,
1:16.5	we can do the same here to narrow the list of potential suspects to a specific type of person.
1:23.0	So it's 1980, and 32-year-old Dorothy and her 4-year-old son are living at her aunt's home in Stanton, California.
1:31.0	Disneyland is just east of the residence, while the ocean isn't much farther, having
1:36.2	Long Beach situated to the west.
1:38.9	She's not dating anyone at the time, and supposedly chooses quiet nights and home with her son over any type of night life.
1:46.6	The boy's father is living back east in Missouri, suggesting the romantic relationship between the two parents
1:53.4	has been entirely severed at some point.
1:56.4	Dorothy's parents lived nearby, however, in Anaheim
2:00.0	and often watch the four-year-old boy while she works.
2:03.0	Google puts the drive between Stanton and Anaheim
2:06.7	at about 19 to 22 minutes.
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