5 Roses

11Alive Investigators Jessica Noll and Brendan Keefe discuss the 5 Roses cases.

A convicted murderer makes an extensively detailed admission to police from inside his prison cell in 1966. He says he watched Mary Shotwell Little get killed.

At least one investigative task force member insists that Mary Shotwell Little and Diane Shields did not meet the same assailant when they met their fate in the '60s.

30 years after Mary Shotwell Little's disappearance, a new detective takes a crack at her infamous case.

Just a few weeks after Mary Shotwell Little goes missing, Diane Shields takes over her position at Citizen and Southern National Bank. But that isn’t the only thing that connects the two women who never meet each other.

A newly engaged Diane Shields leaves work in May 1967, but she never arrives at home for a date with her fiancé. Early the next morning, her body is discovered inside the trunk of her own car.

Newlywed Mary Shotwell Little vanishes from Lenox Square in October 1965, while her husband is at work. Her car is found in the parking lot with blood on it. But gas receipts indicate that she may have been in North Carolina after going missing.

Newlywed bride Mary Shotwell Little vanished from Lenox Square in 1965. A year and a half later, Diane Shields was found brutally murdered in her own car’s trunk.  Atlanta would never be the same.