Missing Mothers, Part 3: Patty and Suzanne

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🗓️ 21 February 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

After her mother’s mysterious, late-night disappearance one August night in 1976, an Idaho-born woman must unpack her early childhood memories, local law enforcement’s suspicions regarding her own father, and the possible intersection with another case: a Jane Doe homicide victim discovered just two hours away.

Season 17, Missing Mothers, covers the stories of two daughters, their missing mothers, and cases—and people—who have intersected with their searches.

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0:00.0	This episode briefly mentions alleged intimate partner violence and alleged sexual assault.
0:10.0	All parties discussed are assumed innocent unless proven guilty in a court of law. This is the fall line.
0:25.0	Back in August of 1976 and the small city of Lewiston, Idaho, a young wife and mother disappeared.
0:32.0	24-year-old Patricia Patty Otto,
0:35.0	born Patricia O'Malley, was last seen by her estranged husband, Ralph Otto,
0:40.0	42.
0:41.0	Things had been tense at the auto home.
0:43.0	According to family reports, Ralph's statements to police and his own medical records.
0:48.0	He was an alcoholic and he'd sought both in and outpatient treatment.
0:52.0	That spring, Patty had moved out. and he'd sought both in and outpatient treatment.
0:53.1	That spring, Patty had moved out for a while.
0:56.1	They'd filed for divorce, but she'd eventually returned.
1:00.1	Part of Ralph's regimen included a high dose of Valium to help control alcohol withdrawal symptoms.
1:06.1	Patty's return home hinged on Ralph's continued sobriety.
1:10.0	But by that August, multiple sources note that Ralph was drinking again, and he and Patty were in a bad place.
1:18.0	The Lewiston Tribune reported that on the night of August 31st, Patty attended a night class.
1:24.0	To do so, she'd left her young daughters, Natalie, who was five, and Dallas, who was three, with her parents.
1:30.0	That was easy enough, because they lived nearby.
1:34.0	When her secretarial class was over, she'd stopped at her parents' house to visit for a little while.
1:39.0	Then she retrieved her sleeping girls, and she returned to the Otto residence.
1:44.2	After Patty brought the girls home,
1:46.2	she had an argument with Ralph.
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