Noirdame79
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So creepy!
Understood. My comment was directed to bulldoggirl77 as she specifically asked if anyone knows who was working with Ray Pate and I am able to put her in contact with that team if she had something to share. I am a family member of a victim, so I appreciate anything that anyone can share regardless of whether it is concrete information or perhaps a theory that we haven't considered.I can't speak for kh—1975, but most people here don't have information to provide; we're interested in learning information so that we can try to solve the case ourselves. We all want to know who Ray Pate's prime suspect was.
#7 - maybe she had a female friend she used to meet at the friend’s house and then they’d go out together drinking and partying? Maybe the friend still wanted to do the things they did before Mary was married? By telling the caller they could come over, maybe just meaning we can still hang out, so feel free to come over, but I can’t meet you at your place and go out like we used to?I am a new member. Although I have lived in Dallas for 5 years, I am an Atlanta native and old enough to remember this case and am still disturbed by it. After reading the posts here, other material on the internet, watching the 5 Roses podcasts and other podcasts I have a few observations and questions andI would appreciate any responses.
1) Is it true as I read that employees at the S&S cafteria could not say they saw Mary and Isla there having dinner ? I ate
there frequently and although it was popular and busy, it was truly a cafeteria where you moved down a line and had
contact with several servers as a checkout and cashier.
2) When Mary and Isla went shopping, what if any items did Mary purchase? Could sales clerks identify them? If Mary
bought anything, was the bag and merchandise in the car ?
3) Like others have mentioned, it defies logic that Mary would do her grocery shopping hours before arriving home rather
than after dinner and shopping. The grocery shopping was supposedly for a dinner party so it is likely she would have
perishable items. in the 4 grocer bags found in the car, were there perishable items ? Normally, you would assume going
straight home after shopping so proving they had dinner and did shopping is obviously important. There is no reason to
believe Isla Stack's testimony but you would think it was confirmed.An Isla Stack Hunter, who worked in the C&S
personnel department, died on March 16,2017.
4) On a podcast I heard it said that the FBI closed the case because they never were convinced it was under their
jurisdiction, i.e. that she was taken out of state ? If true, did they dismiss the 2 gas station interactions ? I question
the podcast statement since Mr Ponder continued to follow the case for years.
5) The last televised report by an Atlanta station I could find was 2 years ago when the reporting indicated someone was
contacting the station and Sheryl McCollum via emails and phone calls. Ms. McCollum believed the person was involved in
or knew who was in the murder of Diane Shields. Has there not been an update since those reports ?
6) I read that Mary Little was introduced to Roy Little by William McIntosh Fambrough who Mary once dated. Fambrough and
Little were friends and fellow Citadel graduates, apparently. Did Roy and/or Mary continue to have contact and or
socialize with Mr. Fambrough ?
7) Mary was supposedly overheard at the bank telling a caller she was a married woman now, that the caller could come
over but she wasn't going there. I assume that the person was either known by Roy and wouldn't arouse jealously or
was a woman. What am I missing ?
8) It was bold and reckless to return Mary's car to Lenox Mall in broad daylight particularly since she would have likely
been reported missing by then which was the case. Could it be the person's car was in the area and they were just
willing to take the chance ? If so, then the person could have driven to Charlotte that day and met up with his
accomplice.That could explain why at the gas station in Charlotte there was one man in the car and in Raleigh
there were 2.
It may be they wanted the police to see the car with the blood, undergarments, cut stocking, and North Carolina tag.
To taunt them ? To throw them off by N.C. focus ? Regarding the N.C. tag , could it be they orginally planned to take her
car to N.C. but changed their mind. Might it be someone said to return the car. It has been said Roy wanted to know
when he could have the car back.
9) I have never read any testimony by Judy Brownlee. Is any available ? I have read that someone thought they saw Judy
and Diane Shields eating at a diner late night on the night of her disappearance . Was that ever confirmed or denied ?
10) One of the detectives in reopening of the case a few years ago said he was struck by how authorities...he reluctantly
said the F.B.I....were not being cooperative even after all these years. If so, then why ?
11) It has been said that during the go go boom days in Atlanta in the 60s that there was a lot going on at the
Mitchell Street location of the C&S Bank where both Mary and Diane worked. Cash would be left laying around
in envelopes. Offices were used to have sex with prostitutes that worked out of a hotel across the street.
The bank had a love shack where female employees had encounters with other employees or customers.
That upstairs employees used binoculars to watch prostitutes in the hotel across the street.
Have you read if these rumors were confirmed to be true ?
These rumors seem sensationilzed but the 60s were kind of crazy. IF true they lend some credence that things were
very loose.
Maybe even to the extent money laundering was going on and the Dixie Mafia involved.
And maybe Mary and Diane had knowledge of the activities.
In reading about other murders committed by the Dixie Mafia the way Diane Shield was killed would fit them.
Sheryl McCollum is very familiar with the Dixie Mafia and their violent crimes...Billy Sunday Birt in particular.
He was young then and I don't know if he was active in violent crimes then.
12) Even though it was a different time, what was it that both of the gas station attendants saw or heard or thought that
made them not call the police when observing a woman bleeding from her head and had blood on her legs ? What
did they say to the police when asked that question which I assume they were.
13) Rather than the murderer coming from her banking connections, could it have gone back to when she quit her
volunteer work due to obscene phone calls. He could have followed her from that world.
14) Has Roy Little or Gene A. ( Mary's boss at C&S Bank ) made any public statement in the last 50 years about
Mary's disappearance ?
The car may have returned to Lenox because someone involved in the act needed to get back to that area because that was near where they lived or worked or their car was.
That’s my guess rather than returning the car to make it seem she was abducted there.
Here are a few things as I understand them:
1) Mary was not reported missing until the following morning. Police would not have been looking for her car the day/night before. The car was likely never driven after she was actually reported missing. The reporting is a little unclear here. Did security search the entire lot or just the area they were told the car was? How close to the original area did her boss find the car?
2) Just because someone needed to get back to Lenox and returned her car there does not necessarily mean they had another car left in the lot. Perhaps they lived close by and walked to work.