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Episode 304: Mary Louise Watkins: The Con Man, Pt. 1

Unfound

Ed Dentzel

True Crime

41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2022

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Mary Louise Watkins was a 54 year old divorcee from Modesto, CA. She had 5 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. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/538275656566610 Charley Project: https://charleyproject.org/case/mary-louise-watkins NAMUS: https://www.namus.gov/MissingPersons/Case#/17856?nav The Unfound Website Page: http://theunfoundpodcast.com/2022/05/30/mary-louise-watkins-the-con-man-pt-1/ If you have any information concerning the disappearance of Mary Watkins, please contact the Modesto Police Department at (209) 572-9500. Where You Can Find Unfound: On These Following Podcast Platforms: Spotify, iTunes, Stitcher, Podbean, and many others. Especially outside the United States. Social Media sites: YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and the newest one, TikTok. Listener support sites: Patreon.com/unfoundpodcast. Paypal.me/unfoundpodcast The website: theunfoundpodcast.com The email address: [email protected]. And please mention Unfound at all true crime websites and forums. Thank you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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

0:37.0

She had five children and worked in the medical field.

0:42.0

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

0:51.0

She was never seen again.

0:56.0

I'm Ed Duncel and this is Unfound.

1:26.0

Over the past almost six years of Unfound, I have not talked too much about serial killers.

1:40.0

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

1:47.0

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

1:56.0

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

2:02.0

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

2:09.0

However, if I were to be pressed to answer which Unfound missing people could be gone

2:15.0

as the result of serial killers, I would say Debbie Lowe, Brandy Myers, and Brenda Condon.

2:24.0

That's it. Three out of 255 disappearances covered.

2:30.0

That's 1.3% for you business majors.

2:35.0

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

2:41.0

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.

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