It's time for some more October birthday shout outs. These are shout outs to my patrons. Those who are able to help financially support the show over on patron.

If you go over there, there's a $2 level that gets you ad free episodes. There's a $3 level that gets you an extra bonus episode and the ad free episodes.

And then at the $5 level, you get stickers and I think you card in the mail and starting this month, most months you will get another bonus episode that will be me and another podcaster sitting down to talk about a case.

And another way I say thank you to everybody who supports on Patreon, regardless of the tier is a birthday shout out. So I want to say a very happy birthday to Gina, Carolyn, Caitlin, Sydney, Sandra, Maggie, Danielle, Connie and Jenny.

Thank you so much for your support. I hope you have a wonderful birthday. The month is about half over now. So hopefully if your birth area passed you had a great one.

If it's coming up, you have amazing plans and I hope you also enjoy getting the birthday horn. I used a happy birthday noise one time and I have gotten resounding feedback that everybody loves the birthday horn.

So I want to say a very happy birthday.

In 1957, William and Margaret Patterson disappeared without a trace. Even their families couldn't agree what happened to them.

The theories have evolved and changed in the last 64 years, but the case remains unassolved. I'm Charlie and welcome to Crime Lines.

Welcome to Crime Lines. Thank you for spending some time with me this week. If this is your first time joining us, welcome. But I do feel like I need to give a preface.

Maybe even a disclaimer that this is not the usual type of case I cover here. This is a missing person's case from the 1950s. It is a throwback to the types of cases I used to cover on my old podcast insight.

Being that it's October and Halloween is coming up, I did want to do at least one case this month that has a little bit more of that spooky mysterious element. But I'm not entirely into the whole ghostly supernatural side of things.

So the best I could do was an older case. I did talk about this case last year on a live stream, but those average about 30 viewers. So I know this is new content for the majority of you.

Tonight we're going to talk about the mysterious disappearance of William and Margaret Patterson.

The Patterson are a mysterious couple overall, not just because of their disappearance. They showed up in El Paso, Texas, put down some roots and then told people next to nothing about themselves.

Even their closest friends knew little about them to give just one example, Margaret's age at the time she disappeared was reported as anywhere between 43 and 48, depending on the source of course.

And you will see it repeated today that she was in her mid 40s, but you know me I love my archive records I managed to find Margaret on the census. She was actually 52 years old in 1957.

So her friends did not even know how old she was.

So you are going to get a little bit of a head start on this case ahead of what William and Margaret Patterson's friends knew about them and ahead of what the police would uncover we're going to go over all that is known about their past now at the start.

William Patterson went by Pat as his nickname and he grew up in Chicago.

He left home at the age of 18 and started as a Barker at carnivals a Barker is the person who tries to get people to come try the activities play the games give their money over which was a perfect job for Pat since he was a natural born salesman.

So with a traveling carnival he met Margaret Matilda Keifer whose family called her Tilly she grew up in a large family in Kentucky and the couple probably met in Indiana.

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