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Tuesday for all new episodes of Cold Case Files too. Now onto the episode. Mary Pazio's new Elizabeth

chart when she was 12 or 13. When her only nicknames were simple derivatives of her name like

Betty, Bet or Beth. Mary and the other neighbors all believed that Elizabeth was going places

that she was someone special. We all had had all the families that had a hard time during the

depression and I think we saw Betty as someone who could escape the poverty who would go somewhere.

She'd been born in Massachusetts in July of 1924. Her father, Clio, abandoned Elizabeth,

her four sisters, and her mother Phoebe during the Great Depression. He's rumored to have

faked his own suicide. And so Phoebe short was left alone to care for her five daughters.

Elizabeth was only five years old. Throughout her childhood, Elizabeth had health issues related to

asthma. To combat her illness, she spent her summers at home with her family. But then traveled

to Florida with family friends for the winter. Her main source of entertainment was movies,

and she was enthralled with them. As Elizabeth grew into her teenage years, she repeatedly expressed

her desire to become an actress. It was also during these same years that she discovered that her

father was very much alive and living in California. She wrote them letters, and in this way they

reconnected and stayed in touch. Early in 1943, when she was 17, Elizabeth decided to move to

California to live with her father and to bring herself one step closer to start him. It seemed

though as if the letters weren't enough to help father and daughter to form the relationship that

they might have hoped. Cleo and Elizabeth frequently argued, and by mid-1943,

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