The Trail Went Cold - Episode 38 - Mary Shotwell Little

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2017

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

October 14, 1965. Atlanta, Georgia. After having dinner with a friend, 25-year old bank secretary Mary Shotwell Little vanishes without explanation. The following day, her abandoned vehicle is discovered with traces of blood and Mary’s neatly folded undergarments inside. Mary’s gasoline card is also used at two separate service stations in North Carolina by a woman matching her description and two unidentified male companions. The case would contain a number of bizarre developments, including an odd kidnapping story from a prison inmate, allegations of a scandal at Mary’s workplace, and the subsequent unsolved murder of the woman who took over Mary’s job. Was Mary Shotwell Little abducted and murdered… or could she have actually staged her own disappearance? This week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold” is undoubtedly one of the strangest, most convoluted missing persons cases we’ve ever covered. This episode also contains a promo for “The Fall Line”, a new investigative true crime podcast on the disappearances of Jeannette and Dannette Milbrook. Additional Reading: http://charleyproject.org/case/mary-shotwell-little http://www.buckhead.net/history/mystery/msl_a.html http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1102670/posts http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/article9204080.html http://maryshotwelllittle.blogspot.ca/2010/06/mary-shotwell-little-and-diane-shields.html 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	October 14th, 1965, Atlanta, Georgia.
0:07.0	After having dinner with a friend, 25-year-old bank secretary Mary Shotwell Little vanishes without explanation.
0:15.0	The following day, her abandoned vehicle is discovered with traces of blood and Mary's undergarments inside.
0:22.0	The case would contain many bizarre developments,
0:25.6	including alleged sightings of Mary using her gasoline card in North Carolina alongside
0:30.4	unidentified male companions and the subsequent unsolved murder of the woman who took over Mary's job at the bank.
0:37.0	However, Mary shot well little is never found.
0:41.0	After that, the trail went cold. Oh, uh, uh, uh,
0:54.0	uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, yeah.
1:03.0	Oh, uh, uh,
1:05.0	uh, and uh, uh, uh, uh, uh,
1:08.0	uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, Hello everyone and welcome to the latest episode of the Trail Went Cold.
1:25.0	I'm your host Robin Warder and today I will be covering a very strange
1:30.0	missing person's case.
1:31.0	The 1965 disappearance of Mary Shotwell Little.
1:36.2	It's a common practice to refer to the truly bizarre and convoluted unsolved mysteries
1:40.8	as rabbit holes, but this case, it's not so much a rabbit hole as it is a rabbit bottomless pit.
1:48.8	When selecting stories for this podcast, I often have a tendency to focus on mysteries which have a lot of inexplicable elements, but this one ranks right up there as one of the weirdest I've ever come across.
2:00.0	We have a young newlywed woman who goes missing and while there's a lot of compelling evidence to suggest foul play
2:06.7	There's other evidence which convinced some of the original investigators that Mary might have staged her own disappearance.
2:13.0	This is one of those mysteries where there are numerous possible explanations about what happened,
2:18.0	but none of them make complete sense.
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