It was

on August 20th, 1979 and 35-year-old Margaret Pizio was clocking into her overnight shift at the Swiss

Shelly motor inn in Seacunk, Massachusetts.

Margaret was a divorced mother of four children.

Three of them lived with her at the time.

And so when she had to work one of her three jobs, the kids stayed home with their grandfather.

Margaret should have returned home the next morning, but as it got later and later with no sign of her,

the growing unease in the house was palpable.

And then the phone rang.

And it was a reporter from a local radio station who wanted to talk to somebody about my mom's murder.

Beth Pizio was just a few days shy of her ninth birthday when her mother was killed.

Over four decades later, Margaret's murder remains unsolved.

Beth hopes that by sharing her mother's story, it'll reach the person or persons who have been

withholding information all these years, information that could

answer the question that looms over Beth to this day.

Why?

I'm Kylie Lowe and with Beth Pizio. This is the case of Margaret Pizio on Dark Down East. I was born in Riverside, Rhode Island in 1970.

It was a very residential area, very heavily suburban.

All of the families around us were, you know, middle class.

My dad is an electrician, and so he would have been you know working class blue collar and my mom

didn't work. I'm the third of four kids and it was just a very it was a very straightforward standard suburban

upbringing I think at least at first there were a ton of kids in the neighborhood. My mom

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