May 15, 1930. Chicago, Illinois. After a newspaper ad seeks assistance for the poverty-stricken family of two-year old Mary Agnes Moroney, a woman calling herself Julia Otis shows up at their home to help. She offers to take Mary Agnes shopping to buy her new clothes, but they never return. 22 years later, a woman named Mary McClelland comes forward after suspecting she might be Mary Agnes and experts conclude that she is probably the missing child. However, after Mary McClelland passes away in 2005, DNA testing shows no genetic connection between her and the Moroney family. So what happened to the real Mary Agnes Moroney? This week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold” features the oldest cold case we’ve ever covered, which has gone from solved to unsolved again over the course of several decades.

Additional Reading:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Agnes_Moroney

http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/m/moroney_mary.html

LIFE Magazine (Sep. 22, 1952)

The Trail Went Cold is produced and edited by Magill Foote.

All music is composed by Vince Nitro.