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This episode contains disturbing accounts of violence and sexual assault. Listener discretion is advised.

There are over 100,000 cold cases in America.

Only 1% are ever solved.

This is one of those rare stories.

It's 1969 in San Diego, California.

Tom Giacinto is a former cab driver.

It's in 1969.

This is where I picked Mary up at the Stargarder Nightclub, where she was dancing.

When you are a brand new cab driver, you don't get the best cab,

and you don't get the best hours.

So I had to work with Graveyard Shift.

About two o'clock, people started coming out of the club.

And Mary was standing by the Star and Garner,

and she said, are you taking me home?

So I said, yes. I met her probably

about a week or two prior. I picked her up on at least two other occasions, and so I actually

was able to get to know her. I'd been in the Navy, so you become pretty judgmental, I guess, sometimes, of folks.

And she was a good woman. I just, I knew she was. I drove her home here, of course, and it's my

understanding that I was the last person to see her alive. The night is young at the star in

Garder, a hot spot of San Diego Nightlife.

But one of the club's most beloved dancers, 23-year-old Mary Scott, is a no-show for her shift.

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