Mary Shotwell Little, 25 and newlywed, disappeared after an evening at Lenox Square in Atlanta. She had bought groceries for a dinner she planned for her husband, ate with a coworker at the S&S Cafeteria, and was last seen walking to her 1965 Mercury Comet at about 8:00 p.m. She never returned home.

Her car was found the next afternoon in the shopping-center parking lot covered in fine red dust and containing the groceries she had bought; her purse, keys, and the clothes she’d been wearing were missing. Several undergarments were recovered, some folded on the console and others on the floor, and traces of blood were noted on the garments, the steering wheel, and both front doors. Her gas credit card was later used twice in North Carolina, in Charlotte and Raleigh, with receipts bearing signatures thought to be hers and witnesses who recalled a distressed, injured woman like Mary with one or two men. The car’s mileage did not match a round trip to North Carolina, and the case file later disappeared.

What further leads or memories might people who shopped or worked at Lenox Square that night be able to share?