Mary Badaracco

The Vanished Podcast

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True Crime, Society & Culture, Cold Case, Investigative, Find The Missing, Vanished, Missing Persons, Documentary, News, Disappeared, Exhibit C

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🗓️ 8 January 2024

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

38-year-old Mary Badaracco disappeared from Sherman, Connecticut, in August of 1984. At the time, Mary had been married to her husband, Dominic, for 14 years. According to Dominic, Mary left him and took almost all of her belongings and $100,000 in cash that he had stashed inside their home. Dominic didn't report Mary missing; according to Mary's daughters, he discouraged them from reporting their mother missing to local authorities. The last time that one of Mary's daughters had heard from her was on August 19. Dominic said he saw Mary on August 20, but she was gone when he returned from work.

Following Mary's disappearance, one of Mary's daughters went to Mary and Dominic's home and found Mary's car parked in the driveway. How had she left without her car? Even more disturbing, the windshield was shattered. Just as Mary had, the vehicle later disappeared, too. In the months that followed, Dominic divorced Mary and moved on to a new relationship. Years later, the case heated up when a member of the Hell's Angels came forward with a tip about what happened to Mary, which may just be the closest they have ever come to finding answers. However, this is a case that many people seem too afraid to speak about. For four decades, rumors have swirled about what happened to Mary Badaracco. The truth has always been just out of reach and clouded by dangerous people. The story of Mary's disappearance spans the spectrum from motorcycle gang members with ties to organized crime to threats against a local politician and even bribery of a judge.

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0:00.0	Wundery Plus subscribers can listen to the vanished ad free right now.
0:05.0	Join Wundery Plus in the Wundery App or Apple Podcasts. I look at it this way I'm not a big political figure or anything. I'm just a daughter trying to find
0:27.2	that what happened to her mother. Justice would be beautiful. She didn't deserve it.
0:32.1	We reported her missing and here for our life and we're still to this day and fear for our life.
0:38.0	Especially with how we were treated by the police. I wish I had money so that I could hire people to solve the case.
0:45.0	We're going on 40 years, 39 years of this disaster. I would love to know what
0:51.0	happens to my mom so that maybe we can enjoy whatever years we have left.
0:56.3	And we can breathe because we've never been able to do that.
0:59.8	It's a generational curse that I just want to see an end to. I had a really hard time this year
1:06.2	because this year she was missing more than she was alive.
1:10.0	38 year old Mary Batteracko disappeared from Sherman, Connecticut in August of 1984.
1:17.0	At the time, she had been married to her husband Dominic for 14 years.
1:21.0	According to Dominic, Mary left him, taking almost all of her belongings and $100,000 in cash.
1:28.8	He didn't report Mary missing, and according to Mary's daughters, he discouraged them from reporting their
1:34.1	mother missing to local authorities. The last time that Mary had spoken to one of her
1:38.5	daughters, who were young adults at the time, was August 19th.
1:43.0	Dominic said that he saw her on the 20th,
1:45.0	but she was gone by the time that he returned from work.
1:48.0	Following Mary's disappearance,
1:50.0	one of her daughters went over to the house
1:52.0	and saw Mary's car still parked in the driveway.
1:55.0	How had she left without her car?
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