Dorothy Arnold
And Then They Were Gone
Little Monster Productions
4.3 • 971 Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2025
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
On a crisp winter day in 1910, a 25-year-old New York socialite left her family’s Upper East Side home to buy a new evening gown, and vanished without a trace. Over a century later, Dorothy Arnold’s disappearance remains one of New York’s greatest unsolved mysteries and its oldest missing persons case. Over the decades, there have been many theories about Dorothy’s fate; everything from secret elopements and amnesia to botched surgeries and buried bodies. But despite widespread publicity, Dorothy has never been found. Did something tragic happen to her on that cold December day, or did Dorothy Arnold simply choose a different path for herself?
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| 0:00.0 | Darkcast Network, indie pods with a dark side. |
| 0:08.2 | On a crisp winter day in 1910, a 25-year-old New York socialite left her family's Upper East Side Home to buy a new evening gown and vanished without a trace. |
| 0:20.6 | Over a century later, Dorothy Arnold's disappearance |
| 0:23.7 | remains one of New York's greatest unsolved mysteries and its oldest missing person's case. |
| 0:31.3 | Over the decades, there have been many theories about Dorothy's fate, everything from secret |
| 0:36.0 | elopements and amnesia to botched surgeries and |
| 0:39.3 | buried bodies. But despite widespread publicity, Dorothy has never been found. Did something |
| 0:46.1 | tragic happen to her on that cold December day? Or did Dorothy Arnold simply choose a different |
| 0:52.6 | path for herself. |
| 0:57.4 | When a person goes missing, there's a special kind of pain in the not knowing. |
| 1:01.2 | Today, I want to tell you the story of Dorothy Arnold. |
| 1:02.6 | I'm Conan Gallagher. |
| 1:03.6 | And I'm Ethan Flick. |
| 1:06.1 | And this is, and then they were gone. Yeah. Welcome back, everyone for once again. |
| 1:13.6 | Welcome back, everyone. |
| 1:28.0 | Welcome back. |
| 1:28.6 | Thank you for joining us once again. |
| 1:30.1 | I'm Kona. |
| 1:30.8 | And I'm Ethan. |
| 1:31.6 | And we're the husband and wife team behind this podcast. |
| 1:33.9 | Each week, I tell you the story of an unsolved missing person's case. |
| 1:37.5 | Ethan doesn't know anything about the case going into the episode and is here to provide his reactions and questions in real time, hopefully asking some of the same ones you have at home. Ah, I think I might get you there. How? I think I might know some of the facts behind this case. How do you know anything about this? Because it's the oldest case of a missing person in New York? So? I don't know. I've heard the story before. There's no way. Yeah. You don't know anything. You didn't know that Cindy's song went missing from your college while you were at that college. That's not true. I didn't know all the facts, but I did remember that case. I don't know. I think we need to roll it back. I don't think that's what you said at all. All right. |
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