On the night of September 23rd, 1992, 23-year-old Dale Dinwiddie had plans to attend a U-2 concert

with around a dozen of her friends in Columbia, South Carolina. After the concert, the group went out

for drinks and ended up at one of their favorite bars, jungle gyms. At around 1 o'clock in the

morning, Dale was separated from her friends after getting lost in a large crowd.

One by one, her friends headed home in separate vehicles, each of them assuming that Dale had caught a ride with someone else.

But the next morning, panic spread as Dale's parents realized she never made it home.

Hey guys, and welcome to the Moms and Mysteries podcast, a true crime podcast featuring myself,

Mandy and my dear friend, Melissa.

Hi, Melissa.

Hi, Mandy.

How are you?

I am doing wonderful. How are you? Good. I don't know why I said it that way. As soon as I said it, I was like, I said something wrong, but I don't even know what it was. It wasn't wrong. It was a little unsure.

True. Mandy, I have to say, you have maybe found the secret to life. And I've been hearing you say this for years. I know. Don't be shocked. It's getting up like two hours earlier than everyone in your house. I swear by it.

Footloose and fancy free. My house is clean. It's a cheap code for life. It truly is. And I started to tell my husband about it. And I was like, absolutely not. I can't have you ruining this time for me. Oh, my gosh. I know. I know. I've been waking up early forever. You're amazing. And I love it. But now my husband has decided he wants to start waking up early. And I'm like, I love you. I do. I really love you.

Absolutely. But I also love my time in the morning without anyone else awake.

I like knowing everyone is unconscious. But no, really, it really has like, I'm, I just feel like a new person.

It's, it's wonderful. I can always cry. I'm so excited. Yeah. And I've been listening to you forever and I'm like, no, I'm not doing that. I will wake up five minutes before everyone else. Oh, everything. It's just so pristine. I've never been happier.

Get back with me next week when I'm like, you know what, I needed a nap. I love that. But so far so good. After all this time, we're finally rubbing off on each other a little. I'm watching more TV and you're waking up early and getting things done. So there's, okay. You don't have to say I'm getting things done. I'm waking up early. They were getting done. I just wasn't happy about it. And some stuff

wasn't getting done. Well, then also you have time to sit and just enjoy the things that are done.

So that's that's what one thing I love. If there's one thing I love, well, I don't love cleaning, but I love sitting in a clean home.

So doing that in the morning is like my favorite thing in the world. Yeah. I mean, truly,

it's a cheat code for life. So congratulations, Mandy. That's amazing. Before we get into the episode,

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