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I can only speculate about why Roy never talked about Mary's disappearance. I can't even rule Roy out as a suspect definitively. I suppose, the primary issue for me is that I've come to believe that Mary and Diane Shields' deaths are connected. Given that, I can't really see Roy being the...

Roy H. Little, Jr. was a bank examiner for the Georgia Department of Banking and Finance (GDBF) at the time he and Mary married, which coincidentally was also my first job out of college - though I worked at the GDBF about 15 or 20 years after Mary disappeared. One of my colleagues remembered...

Mary and Roy Little got married at the Myers Park Presbyterian Church (Mary's family church) in Charlotte over the Labor Day weekend in September 1965. Mary's parent's (who wanted the best for their first-born) gave Mary a beautiful wedding. But one friend from Mary's high school days said she...

Mary had one best friend all through high school - I'd have to look up her name now - I think her first name was Janet. All of Mary's friends wanted to know if I'd talked to Janet about Mary. Sadly Janet died of cancer about a year before I started my research on Mary in 2007.

Mary was liked in school, but she was far from the popular girl or the sensual beauty her photos from the era might suggest. Mary's friends said she was a well-behaved, but somewhat shy girl. She participated and was liked well-enough but she tended to live on the periphery - never seeking or...

Mary's middle name was "Wallace" a family name that was significant in her father's family - I can't remember the details exactly now, but it seems Mary was named for a "Johnnie Wallace" who had been a maternal figure (maybe a mother or stepmother) to her father. Mary had only one sibling - a...

Mary's father died about 1979 - the Shotwell family continued to live in the 117 Placid Place house for decades after Mary's disappearance. Mary's mother lived to be well into her 90s in a nursing home - IIRC she died only in the last 10 years or so - she was still alive at the time I did my...

Mary's father - Nathan Shotwell's family was from Rutherford County, NC. But he had relatives in Greensboro, NC and Guilford County, where Mary was born. Mary's mother's family was from Gaston County, NC (west of Charlotte and the location of Mount Holly).

Odd Bits & Pieces Here are some things I found in my research of Mary's life that remain questions in my mind - I don't know if they mean anything. They're just observations or questions in my mind. As part of my research, I ordered Mary's birth certificate (she was born in Guilford Count, NC...

Isla Stack was reported to be the older woman and C&S Bank coworker who met Mary at Lenox Square after work that Thursday, October 14, 1965. Apparently Mary went to the grocery store - then at the South end of the shopping center - and bought several bags of groceries before she met Isla...

I first read Mary Shotwell Little's story in the AJC Sunday magazine when I was a child in the late 1960s. Every few years, the AJC would run a follow-up to Mary's story - usually calling it Atlanta's most baffling unsolved crime. In about 2007, I took an extended leave of absence from work...

In answer to your question, my impression is that Mary and Diane did know each. They had both friends and roomates in common. I don't know when Diane started to work at C&S, so I can't say for sure that they knew each from work, as well, but I suspect they did. I believe I read that Diane had...

Org.phantom, that's amazing. Are you saying that you were there that day, October 15, 1965? And you knew Mary? I would love to hear your opinions about these cases.

The details of this case are heartbreaking. As you point out, the movement of the car and the proximity to the mall are eeriely similar to Mary's case. I'm amazed that I've never heard Carlene Tengelsen's story. Westgate was an open air shopping center - like Lenox Square was originally...

Karen, I like the way you phrased your answer. When I was doing most of my research a couple of years ago, I also found Eugene Rackley was still alive and living on Sea Island, GA, a very affluent, gated community near St Simons Island. I agree, both men probably know more than what is known...