Mary Beth "Pixie" Grismore (10 of Spades, Indiana)

The Deck

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🗓️ 22 June 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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In February 1978, a 26-year-old mother of two disappeared from her rural Indiana home the day she was scheduled to move to Iowa with her new husband. Months later, she was found strangled to death in the trunk of her own car in Ohio. For more than forty years, Mary Beth “Pixie” Grismore’s case has haunted law enforcement as they sift through the unanswered questions surrounding her disappearance and murder. Although the case has been ice cold for years, police are hopeful that the tip they need to bring new life to the investigation is right around the corner.

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0:00.0	Our card this week is Mary Beth Pixie Grismore, the 10th spades from Indiana.
0:10.1	In 1978, Pixie was a young newlywed, excited about moving from Indiana back to her home
0:15.4	state of Iowa to be with her new husband.
0:18.2	That's when she vanished from her own home in the middle of the night, leaving behind
0:22.8	few clues and a chilling mystery that's been unsolved for more than four decades.
0:28.2	I'm Ashley Flowers and this is The Deck.
0:58.2	It was 8 a.m. on Wednesday, February 22, 1978, and a woman who will call Eleanor had just
1:10.4	arrived at her sister Pixie's house.
1:13.0	She was to be there bright and early along with Pixie's two best friends, Dottie and Bev,
1:17.5	who were all helping Pixie pack the last of her things before a moving truck got there
1:21.6	at 10.30.
1:22.6	You see, Pixie was moving out of the house she shared with her ex-husband and their two
1:27.0	young sons, which was on the family's farm.
1:30.0	She was picking up everything and moving her and her two boys to the middle of nowhere town
1:34.4	Horton, Iowa, some 400 miles from her tiny rural town of Marshall, Indiana, and she was
1:40.1	moving to be with her new husband, David.
1:44.4	But when Eleanor got to Pixie's house at 8, she saw Dottie and Bev but noticed Pixie's
1:49.1	car wasn't in the driveway.
1:51.7	Dottie and Bev said that they hadn't actually seen her yet either, but they were able to
1:56.1	let themselves inside because Pixie rarely locked her doors, something most of her friends
2:00.6	knew.
2:01.9	Minutes ticked by and there was still no sign of Pixie.
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