Newlywed bride, Mary Shotwell Little, vanished from Atlanta's famous Lenox Square parking lot in 1965. A year and a half later, Diane Shields was found brutally murdered inside the trunk of her own car, parked next to a busy East Point laundry mat.
Atlanta would never be the same.
While they would never meet, their stories would forever impact the booming city of Atlanta—creating an intense fear among women throughout the 1960s. The crimes would change the metro's landscape of false security, amid the shadows of alleged corruption, sex scandals and murder.
More than 50 years later, their cases have Gone Cold.
11Alive Investigative Digital Journalist, Jessica Noll, spent the last year digging into their cold cases to find out if they're connected in a seven-chapter podcast series: 5 Roses. A new chapter will be released each Friday throughout December 2018, into January 2019.
5 Roses is part of Gone Cold—an ongoing digital series, where Noll investigates some of the most infamous and lesser-known cold cases in Georgia. She's digging for answers for the still-grieving families who long for them, and for the victims who have never found their justice.
Dig deeper into the investigation at www.11Alive.com/FiveRoses.
CHAPTER I: Innocence lost
"People are killed for three reasons: revenge, sex and money."
CHAPTER II: Trail of breadcrumbs
"He gets furious. He murders her. He buries her in North Carolina."
CHAPTER III: A blushing bride-to-be and her secrets
"The way that she was murdered was a signal, ‘You better keep [your] mouth shut.’”
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CHAPTER IV: Money runs this town
"The people who are still trying to cover this up, want that to go away... I think the most important thing about this whole thing, is that they're connected. And I think that the way that we'll find out what happened is because they're connected."
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CHAPTER V: Break in the case
"I use gut feelings and my gut feelings have always paid off."
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CHAPTER VI: The killers
"The bogeyman does come out sometimes and just randomly pick people..."
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CHAPTER VII: A confession and a cover up
"That chilled me for a week a week... I could not get that out of my damn brain."
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11Alive Investigative Digital Journalist, Jessica Noll, spent the last year digging into their 50-year-old cold cases to find out if they're connected in a seven-chapter podcast series: 5 Roses. Each Friday, a new chapter will be released.
5 Roses is part of Gone Cold—an ongoing digital series, where Noll investigates some of the most infamous and lesser-known cold cases in Georgia. She's digging for answers for the still-grieving families who long for them, and for the victims who have never found their justice.
CONTACT THE REPORTER |
Jessica Noll is a multimedia journalist, who focuses on in-depth, investigative crime/justice reports for 11Alive's digital platforms.
Follow her on Twitter @JNJournalist and Facebook @JessicaNollJournalist, to keep up with her latest work. If you have a tip, story idea or cold case suggestion, email her at jnoll@11Alive.com or call, text at (404) 664-3634.
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