This is the final episode in our latest season featuring missing persons, unsolved homicides,

and unresolved deaths across the United States.

The views, thoughts, and opinions expressed are solely the interviewee zone.

All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

This series discusses crime scenes in detail and violence.

Listener discretion is advised.

This is the fall line.

The disappearance of Mary Shotwell Little is one of Atlanta's most enduring mysteries. But for a long time,

I didn't know that. Growing up here, her missing person's case was not one that I saw

covered in the media. Of course, I wasn't looking for that coverage either. Atlanta has a lot of

cold cases, and I honestly couldn't give you a definite number, because there are

people I know are not listed on some of the departmental websites across the metro. It's a fragmented

system, though there are officials working to change that. Many victims are difficult to find

in any archive, because their unsolved disappearances or homicides have little or no media presence,

now or in the time when they went missing or were killed. In our experience, chancing upon an old

flyer or a single line on a police blotter is sometimes the difference between a case remaining

in obscurity or re-entering the public consciousness.

For other cases, it's more that younger generations aren't aware of events that once gripped

Atlanta. That seems to be the case in the disappearance of Mary Shotwell Little, and another

possibly related case, the murder of Diane Shields. Both women worked at the same bank here in

Atlanta in the mid-1960s. The connection between Mary and Diane, it may go beyond that shared

position. When Mary vanished, her desk at Citizens in Southern Bank, it sat empty for weeks.

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