The Trail Went Cold - Episode 204 - Mari Ann Fowler

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Christmas Eve 2002. Port Allen, Louisiana. After leaving her home on a road trip to visit her husband in prison for the holidays, 65-year old Mari Ann Fowler stops at a strip mall to purchase some food from a Subway sandwich shop. When she walks back into the parking lot, Mari Ann vanishes without a trace and surveillance footage from a security camera shows that she was abducted by the unidentified driver of a pick-up truck. Months later, serial killer Derrick Todd Lee is arrested after being linked to the murders of multiple women. While there’s evidence to suggest he could have been responsible for Mari Ann’s disappearance, investigators cannot conclusively link him to the crime and her body is never found. Was Mari Ann Fowler an unconfirmed victim of the notorious Baton Rouge Serial Killer? On this week’s holiday-themed episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we explore a terrifying Christmas Eve abduction. If you have any information about this case, please contact the West Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Office at (225) 343-9234. Additional Reading: http://charleyproject.org/case/mari-ann-fowler https://www.wafb.com/story/1061608/search-for-mari-ann-fowler-enters-third-day https://www.ksla.com/story/3774629/memorial-services-held-for-mari-ann-fowler/ https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/crime_police/article_d4d1fa86-5a90-5b13-9000-b93f52cf0543.html https://www.lsureveille.com/new-evidence-emerges-in-fowler-investigation/article_508e928b-5bd2-5c16-b008-d3c0ea3d4dbf.html “I’ve Been Watching You: The South Louisiana Serial Killer” by Susan D. Mustafa, Tony Clayton & Sue Israel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derrick_Todd_Lee “The Trail Went Cold” is on Patreon! Visit www.patreon.com/thetrailwentcold to become a patron and gain access to our exclusive bonus content. Join us on Saturday, December 12 at 8:00pm EST for an online streaming marathon where we will be watching classic segments from “Unsolved Mysteries”. You can enter our screening room by clicking on this link. “The Trail Went Cold” is going to be appearing on podcast row at “Crimecon 2021: Austin” at the Fairmont Hotel in Austin, Texas on June 2-4, 2021, as well as “Crimecon UK” at the Leonardo Royal Hotel & Spa in London on June 12-13, 2021. To get a 10 % discount on the purchase of tickets to either event, please use our specialized promo code, “COLD21”, by visiting https://www.crimecon.com/CC21 or https://www.crimecon.co.uk. “The Trail Went Cold” is now doing a weekly livestream show on GetVokl every Thursday from 7:00-8:00 PM ET as part of their “True Crime Thursday” line-up. For more information, please visit their website. The Trail Went Cold is produced and edited by Magill Foote. All music is composed by Vince Nitro.

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0:00.0	Christmas Eve, 2002.
0:03.6	Port Allen, Louisiana.
0:06.2	After leaving home on a long drive to visit her husband in prison, 65-year-old Mary Ann Fowler
0:11.7	stops off at a strip mall to purchase some food from a subway sandwich shop.
0:16.0	When she walks back into the parking lot, Mary Ann vanishes without a trace, and surveillance footage shows that she was abducted by the driver of a pickup truck.
0:25.4	Months later, serial killer Derek Todd Lee is arrested after being linked to the murders of multiple women, but while there's evidence to suggest he could have been responsible for Mary Ann's abduction,
0:37.0	investigators cannot conclusively link him to the crime, and Mary Ann's body has never found.
0:43.0	After that, the trail went cold. Oh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, yeah. Oh, uh, uh,
1:05.0	uh, and uh, uh, uh,
1:06.0	uh, uh,
1:07.0	uh,
1:08.0	uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, Hello everyone and welcome to our latest episode of the Trail Went Cold.
1:25.0	I'm your host Robin Warder and today we're going to be covering an horrific unsolved
1:29.4	abduction, the 2002 disappearance of Mary Ann Fowler.
1:34.0	Since we've entered the month of December,
1:36.0	and are edging ever so closer to Christmas,
1:39.0	our podcast is going to spend the next two weeks
1:42.0	covering some cold cases which took place around the holidays.
1:46.0	This particular case was suggested to me last year by a listener from Louisiana named Cody,
1:51.5	so I thought now would be an ideal time to cover it.
1:55.0	Before she went missing, Mary Ann Fowler was best known for being the husband of Louisiana's
2:00.6	former elections commissioner who wound up going to prison after he became embroiled
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