Episode 280: Pamela Kay Wills and Patricia Ann Mizell

The First Degree

Alexis Linkletter and Jac Vanek

News, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.5 • 10K Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

On Friday, September 17, 1971, 10-year-old Pamela Kay Wills returns from Boyd Elementary School to her home in northern Jackson, Mississippi. That afternoon, Pamela and her friend, 11-year-old Patricia Ann Mizell, spend time together at Pamela’s house. The two girls tell Pamela’s father that they are going to walk the two-block journey to a nearby department store. Hours later, the Jackson Police Department is notified that Pamela and Patricia are missing. The ensuing investigation reveals little new information. It’s unclear if that’s due to a particularly careful child abductor or a lack of effort on behalf of the Jackson Police Department. On February 14th of 1975, two farmers discover the skeletal remains of Pamela and Patricia. They are located in a leafy ravine west of Vicksburg, Mississippi. In episode 280, Jac and Alexis unveil how two young girls vanished off the face of the Earth with zero explanation, few leads, and no evidence leading to their killer.

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0:00.0	It's a degree.
0:02.0	First degree. First degree. First degree. First degree. First degree. First degree.
0:06.0	The first degree.
0:08.0	You see it on the news.
0:10.0	See it on the table. You see it on Facebook.
0:12.0	These things are supposed to happen in movies. You see it on Facebook.
0:13.0	These things are supposed to happen in movies, not real life.
0:16.0	I just kind of always known like she was murdered. She was at the police
0:26.6	department meeting with detectives, you know weekly and there wasn't a lot
0:30.2	happening so she kind of went a little crazy and took matters into her own
0:35.8	hands and my grandmother is in some kind of like hysteria I guess and everyone kind of
0:41.8	thought that she had gone mad and then especially
0:44.4	because she's talking to sidekicks and do-do-do-do people and yada-yada. She was
0:48.8	somewhat labeled like a witch around town and they basically ran out of that area.
0:57.3	Welcome to the first degree,
0:58.5	the True Crime Podcast,
0:59.5	that you might end up on, my name is Jack Fannick.
1:01.6	I'm sitting here at the Lexis Link letter,
1:03.3	Happy 2024, Bitches?
1:06.4	I am shook that it's 2024 already.
1:09.0	It feels like a joke.
1:10.7	It feels like a futuristic year we'd hear in a movie.
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