The Trail Went Cold - Episode 225 - Leila & Mary Rachel Bryan

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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May 10, 1941. Carolina Beach, North Carolina. 36-year old Leila Bryan and her three-year old daughter, Mary Rachel Bryan, leave their home in the family car in order to drive to a nearby store, but never return. After they are reported missing, an extensive search fails to turn up any trace of them or their car, but Leila’s family suspects that her husband, E.C. Bryan, might be responsible for the disappearances. Decades later, investigators perform a dig under the concrete foundation of E.C.’s former residence, but fail to turn up anything, so Leila and Mary Rachel remain missing persons. At the request of Leila’s great grand-niece, this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold” will be commemorating the 80th anniversary of the baffling unsolved disappearance of a mother and daughter. If you have any information about this case, please contact the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation at (919) 662-4500. Join us on Saturday, May 15 at 8:00pm ET 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. Download Best Fiends FREE today on the Apple App Store or Google Play. Additional Reading: https://charleyproject.org/case/lelia-lewis-bryan https://charleyproject.org/case/mary-rachel-bryan https://ncmissingpersons.org/mary-rachel-bryan/ https://www.starnewsonline.com/article/20081113/News/605097408 https://www.starnewsonline.com/article/20090106/News/605093045 https://www.wral.com/nc-wanted-75-years-later-questions-remain-in-case-of-missing-mother-daughter/15890760/ https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/kp4k2j/left_to_buy_a_bra_and_was_never_seen_or_heard/ https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/3uv7si/left_to_buy_a_bra_and_was_never_seen_or_heard/ “The Trail Went Cold” is on Patreon! Visit www.patreon.com/thetrailwentcold to become a patron and gain access to our exclusive bonus content. “The Trail Went Cold” is going to be appearing on podcast row at “Crimecon UK” at the Leonardo Royal Hotel & Spa in London on September 25-26, 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.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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0:17.0	May 10th, 1941. Carolina Beach, North Carolina.
0:24.5	36 year old Lila Bryan and her three year old daughter Mary Rachel Bryan,
0:29.0	leave their home in the family car in order to drive to a nearby store but never return.
0:34.0	After they are reported missing, an extensive search fails to turn up any trace of them or their
0:39.6	car, but Lila's family suspects that our husband, E.C. Bryan, might be responsible for the disappearances.
0:47.0	Decades later, investigators perform a dig under the concrete foundation of E.C.'s former residence but failed to turn up anything, so Lila and Mary Rachel remain
0:57.0	missing persons. After that, the trail went cold. when called. I'm going to Oh, uh, yeah.
1:23.0	Ah, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, Hello everyone and welcome to our latest episode of the Trail went cold.
1:39.6	I'm your host Robin Warder and today we're going to be covering an unsolved missing
1:43.9	person's case which took place 80 years ago, the 1941
1:48.3	disappearances of Lila and Mary Rachel Bryan. This story was requested by Lila Bryan's great-grand niece, Becca Chavis, who has done extensive research by digging up all the available information about this case, and she has even gone so far as to publish a couple of posts about it on the Unresolved
2:05.8	Mystery Sub-reddit.
2:07.6	I thought now would be an ideal time to put together a podcast episode because the date of our
2:12.4	release, May the 12th, is just two days after the official
2:16.1	80-year anniversary of Lila and Mary Rachel's disappearances.
2:20.8	While this case generated some publicity when it originally happened, it pretty much languished in obscurity for decades
2:27.0	until one of Lila's nephews pushed law enforcement to reopen the investigation and perform a dig underneath the house where she once lived.
2:35.8	Lila's relatives have always had suspicions about her husband, E.C. Bryan,
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