The Trail Went Cold - Episode 291 - Margie Dabney

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

December 5, 2001. Dallas, Texas. After boarding a flight from Indianapolis to Los Angeles, 70-year old Marjorie “Margie” Dabney and her husband stop for a layover at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. Before they can make their connecting flight, Margie winds up disappearing and since she suffers from Alzheimer’s disease, there is fear that she might have become confused and wandered outside the airport. Nearly seven years later, skeletal remains found in a wooded area 15 miles away are positively identified as belonging to Margie. Since her cause of death is determined to be blunt force trauma, Margie’s case is ruled to be a homicide. But did how Margie go missing to begin with and what could the motive have been for her murder? On this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold”, we chronicle an incredibly sad, but bizarre cold case in which a victim somehow managed to go missing from an airport. In addition, we’ll also be discussing the unsolved disappearance of 14-year old Charlotte Loomis, who vanished from Newark International Airport in September 1972. If you have any information about the death of Margie Dabney, please contact the Lewisville Police Department at (972) 219-3640 or the Denton County Crime Stoppers tip line at 1-800-388-TIPS (8477). If you have any information about the disappearance of Charlotte Loomis, please contact the Eatontown Police Department at (732) 389-7649. Additional Reading: https://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/25/us/robbed-by-alzheimer-s-lost-by-an-airline.html https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Mystery-of-vanished-Alzheimer-s-patient-deepens-3258599.php https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/haunting-mystery-of-alzheimer-patients-disappearance-death/ https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/missing-woman-was-murdered/287-338775216 https://www.nbcdfw.com/local/womans-disappearance-death-haunts-family/1846941/ https://www.bakersfield.com/news/police-case-cold-again-despite-recent-finding-of-womans-remains/article_f1ba4899-1813-52ec-9556-18df647610b9.html https://www.newspapers.com/image/legacy/646214007/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/legacy/644773134/ https://www.newspapers.com/image/legacy/658441409/ https://investigationsforthemissing.org/blog/f/arrival-unknown-the-disappearance-of-charlotte-loomis “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” will be appearing at the True Crime Podcast Festival, taking place at the Westin Park Central Hotel in Dallas, Texas on August 27-28, 2022. To purchase tickets, please visit https://truecrimepodcastfestival.com/ “The Trail Went Cold” is now doing a weekly livestream show on Vokl 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	December 5th, 2001.
0:03.0	Dallas, Texas.
0:05.0	After boarding a flight from Minneapolis to Los Angeles,
0:08.0	70-year-old Margie Dabney and her husband
0:11.0	stopped for a layover at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport.
0:15.2	Before they can make their connecting flight, Margie winds up disappearing and since she suffers
0:19.8	from Alzheimer's disease, there's fear that she became confused and wandered outside the airport.
0:25.2	Nearly seven years later, skeletal remains found in a wooded area 15 miles away are identified as
0:30.8	belonging to Margie.
0:32.9	Since her cause of death is determined to be blunt force trauma, Margie's case is ruled
0:37.0	to be a homicide, but there are no conclusive answers about how she was killed.
0:41.5	After that, the trail went cold. Oh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh,
0:53.4	uh, uh, uh, I'm not. Oh, uh, and uh, and uh,
1:05.0	uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh,
1:08.0	uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, Hello everyone and welcome to our latest episode of the Trail Went Cold.
1:23.2	I'm your host Robin Water, and we're going to be exploring a very tragic and bizarre
1:27.4	mystery, the 2001 disappearance and subsequent death of Marji Daveney.
1:33.2	This coming weekend, I'm going to be appearing at the True Crime Podcast Festival in Dallas, Texas,
1:38.4	and per tradition, whenever I attend one of these podcasting events, I like to cover a case from the host city that very same week.
1:46.1	Today's feature story involves an elderly woman named Margie Daveney who was traveling
1:50.5	from Indianapolis to Los Angeles alongside her husband Joe, but somehow wound
1:55.0	up disappearing during a layover at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport.
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