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The Trail Went Cold

The Trail Went Cold – Episode 41 – Mary Agnes Moroney

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 β€’ 3.2K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 30 August 2017

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

May 15, 1930. Chicago, Illinois. After a newspaper ad seeks assistance for the poverty-stricken family of two-year old Mary Agnes Moroney, a woman calling herself Julia Otis shows up at their home to help. She offers to take Mary Agnes shopping to buy her new clothes, but they never return. 22 years later, a woman […]

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15. 1930. Chicago, Illinois.

0:08.5

After a newspaper ad is placed asking for assistance for the poverty stricken family

0:12.7

of two-year-old Mary Agnes Moroni, a woman named Julia Odis shows up at their home to help.

0:19.0

She offers to take Mary Agnes shopping to buy her some new clothes, but they never return.

0:24.6

22 years later, a woman named Mary McClellan comes forward after suspecting that she might be Mary Agnes,

0:31.5

and experts conclude that she is probably the missing child.

0:35.2

However, after Mary McClellan passes away in 2005, DNA testing shows no genetic connection between her and the Moroni family.

0:45.2

After that, the trail went cold.

0:54.5

The trail was taken by Mary Agnes, a woman named Julia Odis, who was a woman named Mary Agnes,

1:01.5

and was also a woman named Julia Odis.

1:05.5

She was also a woman named Julia Odis, a woman named Julia Odis, who was a woman named Julia Odis,

1:11.5

and was also a woman named Julia Odis.

1:16.4

Hello everyone and welcome to the latest episode of the trail went cold.

1:30.2

I'm your host Robin Warner, and today we will be jumping back 87 years to profile the oldest

1:36.4

cold case we've ever featured on this podcast, the 1930 Disappearance of two-year-old Mary Agnes

1:43.3

Moroni. This is actually the first mystery we've covered involving a missing infant, since those

1:48.8

cases are incredibly heartbreaking. However, this story is pretty unique because it was seemingly

1:54.5

solved two decades later, but a stunning revelation in recent years has turned it into an unsolved

2:00.4

cold case again. You might be familiar with the story of Bobby Dunbar, a four-year-old boy who

2:06.3

disappeared in 1912, and was the subject of a very famous episode of the podcast, This American Life.

2:13.4

A boy resembling Bobby was found in another state eight months later, and even though another

2:18.4

woman insisted that he was her child, the boy was returned to the Dunbar family. He lived the rest

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