144: San Diego’s Lost Women, Episode 2: Mary Colette Rawlinson
About this episode
This episode examines the case of Mary Colette Rawlinson and the pattern of disappearances of women in San Diego during the 1980s.
In October 1985, 19-year-old Mary Colette Rawlinson walked out of a home in San Diego, California, telling her boyfriend she'd be right back. She was never seen again. As more women disappeared from El Cajon Boulevard and the surrounding communities, investigators struggled to answer a troubling question: were these isolated crimes, or was someone hunting women across San Diego County? In Part Two of our three-part series, we widen the lens beyond a single case to examine the growing pattern of disappearances and murders targeting women living at the intersection of addiction, poverty, and survival sex work. Through the stories of Mary Colette Rawlinson and the women who vanished alongside her, we look at how fear spread through the community while families fought to convince authorities that their daughters deserved to be searched for. The mounting number of victims would eventually force law enforcement to confront the possibility that the cases were connected, but by then, many women were already gone. This is Part Two of our three-part series, San Diego's Lost Women . 📍 San Diego, California | October 1985 📖 Featuring an original poem written and read in her honor by Lahna…
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