The Trail Went Cold - Episode 256 - Mary Elizabeth Edens

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Christmas Eve 1924. Babbs Switch, Oklahoma. A fire breaks out at a Christmas party taking place at a schoolhouse and claims the lives of 36 people. The remains of one of the presumed victims, three-year old Mary Elizabeth Edens, cannot be found and since Mary’s aunt recalls handing the child to an unknown person, her family believes Mary might have been abducted. Over 32 years later, evidence is found to suggest that a California woman named Grace Reynolds might be Mary and she winds up having a reunion with the Edens family. However, in 1999, it is revealed that additional evidence was uncovered to indicate that Grace was not actually Mary after all, so the actual fate of the missing child remains unknown. For this year’s final holiday-themed episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we will be exploring a tragic Christmas Eve mystery that has gone from unsolved to solved to back unsolved again over the course of a century. Thanks Faherty. Get 20% off your first purchase by going to fahertybrand.com/COLD with promo code COLD at checkout. Additional Reading: https://oklahoman.com/article/2679856/journalist-honors-pledge-to-family-of-missing-girl https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babbs_Switch_fire http://rebelcherokee.labdiva.com/babbsfire.html http://genealogytrails.com/oka/kiowa/babbsfire.html https://oklahoman.com/article/5378711/deadly-1924-christmas-eve-fire-in-oklahoma-brought-reform https://www.newspapers.com/image/596063048/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/455386905/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/603696188/ “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 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	We would like to send out a special thanks to Ferridi for supporting the trail and cold.
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0:17.0	Thank you and enjoy the show.
0:19.8	Christmas Eve, 1924.
0:23.0	Babs Switch, Oklahoma.
0:25.0	A fire breaks out at a Christmas party taking place at a schoolhouse and claims the lives of 36 people.
0:33.5	When the remains of one of the presumed victims,
0:36.0	three-year-old Mary Elizabeth Edens,
0:38.2	cannot be found, her family believes she may have been abducted.
0:43.0	Over 32 years later, evidence is found to suggest that a California woman named Grace Reynolds might be Mary,
0:51.0	and she winds up having a reunion with the Eden's family.
0:55.0	However, in 1999, it has revealed that additional evidence was uncovered to show that Grace was not actually married after all, so no one knows what really happened to the missing child.
1:08.9	After that, the trail went cold. Oh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, and uh, uh, uh, and uh, and uh,
1:34.0	uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh,
1:37.0	uh, uh,
1:38.0	uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, Hello everyone and welcome to our latest episode of the trail went cold.
1:52.9	I'm your host Robin Warder, and for our final episode before the holidays, we're going to be covering
1:58.0	an obscure but very unusual Christmas Eve mystery which took place nearly a century ago. The 1924 disappearance of
2:05.3	three-year-old Mary Elizabeth Edens. That voice you just heard narrating our intro was Katie Stanko,
2:11.5	the most recent winner of our Tra went cold listener voiceover contest, so thank you very much, Katie.
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