Mary Louise Watkins was a 54-year-old divorcee from Modesto, California.

She had five children and worked in the medical field.

On May 17, 1979, Mary packed up everything she owned and said she was running off to get married.

She was never seen again.

I'm Ed Dunsell, I'm the I'm I'm I'm I, I have not talked too much about serial killers.

Mainly because I'm not convinced many of the disappearances we've covered have been part

of any kind of spree.

In fact, I don't even like using the M word murder or the K word kill or the D word dead because

I don't like attaching finality to something that might not be final.

I try to hold out hope that all these missing people are still alive somewhere.

However, if I were to be pressed to answer which unfound missing people could be gone as the result of serial killers, I would say Debbie Lowe, Brandy Myers, and Brenda Condon.

That's it.

Three out of 255 disappearances covered.

That's 1.3% for you business majors.

Well, that percentage is going up today with the disappearance of Mary Watkins.

In fact, the percentage will continue to go up over the summer, as I hope to cover at

least two other disappearances

connected to the same killer

who has successfully hid his victims to this point.

So this starts a series I'm calling the Con Man.

And now a summary of the case.

This is brought to you by my friend Megan Linus's website,

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