Unsolved Disappearance: Attiin Shaw

Last Seen Alive

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Society & Culture, True Crime

4.2 • 773 Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

When a mom-of-four moves halfway around the world to a remote corner of northern Maine, she soon disappears from her new home. State investigators assume control of a case originally handled by a criminally corrupt small-town police department in this episode of Last Seen Alive.

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0:00.0	When a mom of four moves halfway around the world to a remote corner of northern Maine, she soon disappears from her new home.
0:08.1	State investigators assume control of a case originally handled by a criminally corrupt small-town police department in this episode of Last Seen Alive.
0:16.8	Music Thanks for listening to Last Seen Alive. I'm your host, Leah, crime analyst by day and true crime
0:40.0	storyteller by night. And as always, I'm your co-host, Scott. Atten Shaw was last seen alive in
0:46.3	September of 2021. She was 33 years old at the time and lived in Washburn, Maine. Washburn is a very
0:54.0	small community, home to only about
0:56.1	1,500 people, located in the northernmost part of the state, not far from the Canadian border.
1:02.0	It's an extremely rural place. Some might even consider it desolate, depending on what they're
1:06.8	accustomed to. And Atten may have been one of those people because she was new to Washburn
1:11.9	and had lived the majority of her life in a place that, in many ways, was the opposite of rural
1:17.1	northern Maine. Atten was from Indonesia, specifically the province of Papua. It's an extremely
1:24.2	beautiful place. Picture lots of green and misty mountains in a balmy subtropical highland climate.
1:30.5	Lots of rain, lots of trees, just abundant natural beauty.
1:35.4	Of course, northern Maine is beautiful as well, but the climate is much harsher, and it's a sparsely populated place.
1:42.6	Atten's home province had been more densely populated, home to a
1:46.1	diverse population of Indonesian people and the occasional foreigner, like, for example, her husband.
1:52.7	While living in her home country, Atten had met a man named Mike Shaw. He was an American ex-patriot,
1:58.7	a teacher by trade who taught math and science at an international school.
2:03.0	He and Atten met in 2011. At the time, Atten was a single mom in her early 20s who worked in a beauty spa.
2:10.2	Once she and Mike met, their relationship moved quickly. On her personal blog, Atten wrote that it was love at first sight, and they married just a few months after meeting.
2:20.5	Atten and Mike were, in many ways, a case of opposites attracting.
2:24.9	They were from very different cultures, but that wasn't their only difference.
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