Mazie Mae Sigmon-Parlmer & Jay Farley

Unresolved

Unresolved Productions

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

"Meet me at 2:00 PM at the Greyhound bus station. You know he's dead. If you want to know who killed him, I have the proof."

In the summer of 1979, two youngsters in West Virginia struck up a fling. 25-year-old Mazie Mae Sigmon-Palmer was recently divorced and 18-year-old Jay Farley was fresh out of high school. Both were in transitory phases of their lives and recognized that their relationship was likely temporary, but they seemed to be enjoying it while it lasted.

On the evening of July 14th, the two met up at a nightclub in downtown Charleston, called the Roaring Twenties. There, they hung out for a bit and even talked with some friends of theirs. But at some point that night, both would vanish. It wasn't until years later that evidence surfaced revealing what had happened to one of them, but the circumstances of their initial disappearance - and what led up to it - remain clouded in mystery...

Researched & written by Bethany Branson

Hosted & produced by Micheal Whelan

Music composed and created by Micheal Whelan

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0:00.0	This episode contains graphic content that may not be suitable for all ages.
0:08.0	Listen or discretion is advised.
0:10.0	If you or someone you know is struggling or in crisis, help is available.
0:15.0	Call or text 988 or chat with someone at 988 Lifeline.org.
0:21.0	Those outside of the US, reach out to someone at your local crisis center or hotline.
0:26.0	Please do not suffer in silence. When looking at the state of West Virginia from above, it's a place covered almost entirely in forest.
0:50.0	From a satellite view, the scars of old strip mines loom larger than any of the state cities,
0:56.0	and even those are just small breaks in the trees.
0:58.8	The capital, Charleston, is the most populous city in the state, but even that has never broken a population of 100,000.
1:06.0	Back in the late 70s and early 80s, when today's story takes place, there were only about 65,000 inhabitants.
1:13.0	This is the story of Maisie May Sigmund Palmer and Jay Farley.
1:18.0	Charleston is a city built with the landscape in mind.
1:25.0	It winds along both sides of the Kanoa River in a valley, and where the valley ends the foothills of the Appalachians surround it.
1:33.0	Following along the Conawa River though, and either direction will take you to other small cities.
1:38.3	Just to the east of Charleston is the city of Dunbar, where a boy named John Eric Farley Jr. grew up.
1:44.9	John Jr. preferred to go by Jay and to just graduated high school in 1979.
1:50.8	His father, John Senior, and his stepmother Goldie, had wanted to move closer to Charleston
1:55.3	Proper just a few years prior.
1:57.7	So Jay stayed behind and lived with his grandmother.
2:01.0	He wanted to finish out his high school years in the same place he had started them.
2:05.0	Jay and his grandmother, Desi, were very close, and both Desi and his parents recall him being a well-behaved child growing up.
2:12.0	At just 18 and fresh out of high school, being a well-behaved child growing up.
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