I posted a link to an article back in April similar to others posted on here. But I did a search and found a new article about classic crimes in Atlanta. They had this to say about Mary Shotwell Little:
The Disappearance of Mary Shotwell Little
On the night of Oct. 14, 1965, twenty-five-year-old Mary Shotwell Little disappeared from the Lenox Mall. Little was newly married to Roy Little and employed at C&S Bank.
Roy Little was out of town so his wife had dinner with co-worker Ila Stock.
The next morning, Little neither showed up for work nor called in to explain her absence. Bank workers phoned her home but got no answer. Her boss, Eugene M. Rackley, discussed her absence with Stock.
Stock recalled the section Little said she had parked in; Rackley contacted Lenox security, asking them to look in that area for her Comet. They reported back that they could not find it. The boss drove down to look for himself and found Little's car right in the sector that security said they had searched.
The automobile contained a blood-smeared stocking.
Roy Littles alibi checked out and investigators found that he had nothing to gain by her death. There were no reports of major discord in the marriage.
In November 1965, evidence appeared. Little's gasoline credit card had been used both in Charlotte and Raleigh, North Carolina, the day after her disappearance. Both receipts bore Little's signature in handwriting that experts said "resembled" hers.
Gas station attendants remembered servicing a woman who may have been Little. They had seen a bloodied woman accompanied by a man or two men. Why hadn't the workers alerted authorities to an injured woman? Perhaps due to an attitude of not getting involved.
If the woman was Little, why had her abductor(s) forced her to drive to her hometown of Charlotte?
As investigators pursued the case, they accumulated a large box of data. It has been lost. This eerie coincidence need not indicate anything sinister, according to John P Quigley, Atlanta Police Public Information Officer: "The turnover in personnel probably has something to do with items getting lost. New people come in and they're not aware of whether some items are properly stored."
*******"The last major activity in the case was in 1994. Detective Carl Price worked on it. An informant appeared to have valid information and passed two polygraphs. Then we obtained a search warrant for the mechanic's shop in Cumming, Georgia, under which the witness claimed Little had been buried, Price recalls. The FBI has an instrument to locate a grave, and they flew it down along with two forensic anthropologists to supervise. The imaging machine got hits which indicated the ground had been disturbed. They dug but found nothing. The disturbance in the imaging turned out to be because a petrified fence post was there," Price explains."*********************
The case remains open. Major Lloyd says, "We'll check any new information. We solve cold cases all the time.
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It says mostly the same things as in other articles but I don't remember reading before that they had a lead in 1994 and dug up a mechanic's shop in Cumming, GA looking for her. As far as getting any kind of a break in the case now, I know it's going on 42 years, but it's possible people involved in her disappearance are still alive.