197. Mary Ellen Tanner, nearly 50 years of questions

About this episode

The episode discusses the mysterious murder of Mary Ellen Tanner and the unanswered questions surrounding her case nearly 50 years later.

Mary Ellen Tanner had planned to go to Massachusetts for the weekend to attend the funeral of her boyfriend’s brother the weekend of July 7, 1978. It wasn’t until two days later that anyone knew she’d never left her hometown in Maine — when her beaten body was found in a remote field in Lyman, […]

People in this episode

Host: Crime&Stuff gals

Topics covered

• murder
• unsolved cases
• true crime
• history
• investigation

Keywords

• Mary Ellen Tanner
• murder
• true crime
• unsolved mystery
• July 7, 1978

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Massachusetts, Maine, Lyman

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