237 - The Disappearance of Cathy Moulton

Trace Evidence

Steven Pacheco

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.7 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2024

⏱️ 92 minutes

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On Friday, September 24th, 1971, sixteen year old Cathy Moulton disappeared while walking home in downtown Portland, Maine. Despite the desperate pleas of her family, local law enforcement treated the case as that of a runaway and did almost no investigation whatsoever.

For more than twenty years, the Moulton family did their best to investigate the case themselves. They followed leads, interviewed witnesses and hired private investigators but could get no closer to the truth. Finally, in 1995, a new detective looked at the case and was determined to find answers.

Detective Kevin Cady would quickly uncover a series of eyewitnesses who were able to track the missing teen's movements out of Portland and to the northern tip of the state before she disappeared across the Canadian border. Perhaps what was most disturbing was the realization that, had investigators in 1971 taken the case seriously, they might have been able to bring Cathy home alive.

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0:00.0	Before diving into today's episode, did you know that this podcast has a supporters club?
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0:14.0	Now let's get back to the episode. This episode is dedicated to the memory of
0:19.0	Jacqueline Zeman. demon.
0:30.0	16-year-old Kathy Malton was excited for the end of the school day on September 24th, 1971.
0:37.1	Rushing home, she asked her father if he could give her a ride into town for supplies.
0:42.3	There was a dance that night and the teen was
0:44.6	planning to attend but she needed to finish the hem of her dress. Her father
0:49.2	watched as she climbed out of his car and walked towards the store, never imagining that that would
0:54.7	be the last time he would ever see her.
0:58.4	Desperate to find their eldest daughter, the Moltenes were hit with a series of roadblocks. Most notable was that the Portland Police Department tried to convince them that she was a runaway and would return in her own time.
1:10.8	Resentfully, they accepted a missing person's report but no solid
1:15.0	investigation was conducted and it wouldn't be until decades later that new
1:19.7	detectives would take on the case with all of its twists and turns.
1:24.0	Working from behind the eight ball, throughout the 1990s,
1:28.0	detectives managed to unlock more information that eventually led them north of Portland and across the border into Canada.
1:35.7	They learned about the last days of Kathy's life, where she had been taken and by whom.
1:41.3	They also quickly discovered that had police initially taken the case seriously, they might
1:46.8	have been able to bring the teenager home alive.
1:50.5	Instead, the disappearance of Kathy Moulton not only remains open, but is the oldest missing
1:56.2	person's case in the state of Maine.
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