What Ever Happened to Mary Day?
48 Hours
CBS News
4.1 • 7.8K Ratings
🗓️ 24 December 2023
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
A 13-year-old girl vanishes in 1981. Detectives believe she was murdered. Years later, a woman appears and claims to be the missing girl. Is she an impostor? "48 Hours" correspondent Maureen Maher reports.
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| 0:00.0 | Mary Louise Day was a girl that lived in seaside. |
| 0:26.6 | In about 1981, she disappeared. |
| 0:34.6 | What do you mean she disappeared? She disappeared off the face of the earth. |
| 0:39.3 | I just knew something was wrong in the house. |
| 0:56.9 | Mary Day is my sister. |
| 1:04.4 | One day Mary was in California, and then she was gone. |
| 1:13.5 | Laying about one night with Kathy, I asked her, you know, I was like, what happened with Mary, you know? |
| 1:15.8 | And she was like, shh, don't say anything. |
| 1:17.6 | We're not allowed to talk about Mary. |
| 1:24.9 | When I was 18 and I was like, now I can, you know, go and try to find her. |
| 1:32.3 | It was a very hard case to deal with. |
| 1:37.3 | Other than the family, nobody knew she was gone. |
| 1:41.3 | Didn't seem to really concern them. She started running away. |
| 1:43.3 | You turn around and she was gone. You turn around and she was gone. |
| 1:45.0 | You turn around and she was gone. |
| 1:47.0 | I've never seen a case like this. |
| 1:50.0 | My mother told me that there were a lot of places in California |
| 1:56.0 | that you could bury a body and they'd never be found. |
| 1:59.0 | I started believing she was murdered. you could bury a body and they'd never be found. |
| 2:03.3 | I started believing she was murdered. |
| 2:10.4 | The dogs went into the backyard. |
| 2:13.3 | We just had an indication from the cadaver dogs that there was human remains there. |
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