February 12, 2009. Washington, DC.

46-year-old Pamela Butler arrives at her house, which is monitored by surveillance cameras.

After not hearing from her for five days, Pam's family visits her home and discovers

that she is vanished without explanation. Confusingly, even though the surveillance cameras

show Pam entering her house, no footage exists of her leaving.

However, Pam's boyfriend is shown entering and exiting the home multiple times, yet there

is no evidence to indicate what actually happened to her. After that, the trail went cold.

Hello, everyone, and welcome to the trail went cold. I'm your host, Robin Mortar, and

for our first mini-sode of 2017, I've selected a pretty strange mystery. The 2009 disappearance

of Pamela Butler, which is a unique variation of a locked room mystery. A locked room mystery

is when someone is murdered under seemingly impossible circumstances, such as when a body

is discovered in a room which was locked from the inside. Well, this particular case

could almost be described as a locked room disappearance, as a woman somehow vanished

without a trace inside her locked home, even though the house was monitored by surveillance

cameras, and none of the existing footage shows her leaving. I previously featured this

case in an article I wrote for listfirst.com titled, Ten Unsolved Mysteries with Creepy

Surveillance Footage, which was originally published in August of 2015. I also got a

refresher on this case when I saw it at the official Unsolved Mysteries website. Even

though this story was never featured on Unsolved Mysteries, the site allows people to submit

their own personal mysteries which can subsequently be turned into YouTube videos. Pamela Butler's

brother, Derrick, recorded a webcam video in which he made a public plea for information,

and was posted on the website. Derrick has often stated that he doesn't think his sister's

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