WEBVTT - Hell and Gone Murder Line: Maud Crawford 0:00:46.480 --> 0:00:51.960 School of Humans. Helen Got Murder Line actively investigates cold 0:00:52.040 --> 0:00:55.360 case murders in an effort to raise public awareness invite 0:00:55.400 --> 0:00:58.760 witnesses to come forward and present evidence that could potentially 0:00:58.840 --> 0:01:02.960 be further investigated by law enforcement. While we value insights 0:01:03.000 --> 0:01:06.160 from family and community members, their statements should not be 0:01:06.200 --> 0:01:09.960 considered evidence and point to the challenges of verifying facts 0:01:10.040 --> 0:01:14.000 inherent in cold cases. We remind listeners that everyone has 0:01:14.080 --> 0:01:17.160 presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. 0:01:17.960 --> 0:01:20.840 Nothing in the podcast is intended to state or imply 0:01:21.040 --> 0:01:23.600 that anyone who has not been convicted of a crime 0:01:24.120 --> 0:01:28.600 is guilty of any wrongdoing. Thanks for listening. 0:01:30.560 --> 0:01:34.120 On March second, nineteen fifty seven, sixty five year old 0:01:34.160 --> 0:01:36.880 Maude Crawford, who is one of the most well known 0:01:36.880 --> 0:01:40.960 women in her hometown of Camden, Arkansas, after she made history, 0:01:41.040 --> 0:01:43.520 is the only female attorney to ever practice law. 0:01:43.560 --> 0:01:45.880 There was stringing beans at home. 0:01:47.000 --> 0:01:50.360 Maud and her husband Clyde lived in a stately two 0:01:50.400 --> 0:01:54.640 story historic home on Clipton Street in Camden, but on 0:01:54.840 --> 0:01:58.160 that night, Maud was on her own. Clyde had gone 0:01:58.200 --> 0:02:01.640 out to see a movie, and she had her Dalmatian dog, Dow, 0:02:01.920 --> 0:02:06.160 who was her constant companion at her side. After his 0:02:06.320 --> 0:02:09.600 night out, Clyde arrived home at around eleven thirty pm. 0:02:10.120 --> 0:02:11.000 He saw that. 0:02:10.880 --> 0:02:15.120 Maud's car, a blue Tudor nineteen fifty six Mercury sedan, 0:02:15.720 --> 0:02:18.680 was in the back driveway. The keys were in the ignition, 0:02:19.000 --> 0:02:22.080 the way that Maud usually left them there. The lights 0:02:22.080 --> 0:02:24.800 in the house and on both porches were still on, 0:02:25.320 --> 0:02:26.680 so Clyde walked inside. 0:02:27.840 --> 0:02:30.520 Clyde later told investigators. 0:02:30.040 --> 0:02:32.760 That he wasn't immediately alarmed that night when he got 0:02:32.760 --> 0:02:37.160 home because everything seemed so normal. The TV was on 0:02:37.520 --> 0:02:39.760 and the pan of string beans that Maud had been 0:02:39.760 --> 0:02:42.320 snapping was sitting beside the chair. 0:02:42.120 --> 0:02:43.280 That she normally sat in. 0:02:44.400 --> 0:02:46.680 He looked all over the house for his wife and 0:02:46.720 --> 0:02:50.000 found nothing. Her clothes were still in the closet, her 0:02:50.040 --> 0:02:52.280 purse was in the living room, and there was money 0:02:52.320 --> 0:02:56.200 in the wallet. Her dog, who usually freaked out if 0:02:56.200 --> 0:03:00.280 anyone approached her, was unharmed and resting peacefully on the floor. 0:03:00.960 --> 0:03:05.320 Nothing was missing except Maud. It's as if she had 0:03:05.360 --> 0:03:07.920 literally stepped out of the room for a minute, but 0:03:08.040 --> 0:03:13.400 then she never came back. I'm Catherine Townsend. 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Line 0:04:39.400 --> 0:04:41.680 clyde waited a couple of hours to see if mob 0:04:41.720 --> 0:04:45.320 would come back. Home after one, am he got in 0:04:45.360 --> 0:04:48.520 his truck and started driving around town to look for, 0:04:48.560 --> 0:04:51.120 her thinking maybe she had been involved in a car, 0:04:51.120 --> 0:04:55.840 accident but after no, luck the next day he reported 0:04:55.880 --> 0:04:59.440 her missing to The Camden Police. Department police came to 0:04:59.480 --> 0:05:03.320 the residence and searched the surrounding, area but they found 0:05:03.320 --> 0:05:10.040 no sign Of. Maud Maud crawford was born On june twenty, 0:05:10.080 --> 0:05:14.280 second eighteen ninety, one In, Greenville. Texas her mother died 0:05:14.320 --> 0:05:16.560 when she was nine years, old so she ended up 0:05:16.600 --> 0:05:20.560 moving To, Warren arkansas to live with her. Grandmother maud 0:05:20.720 --> 0:05:23.720 was smart and. Talented she thrived at her high, school 0:05:23.760 --> 0:05:26.720 where she was. Valedictorian she went on to college at 0:05:26.760 --> 0:05:30.400 The university Of arkansas At, bayble But maud dropped out 0:05:30.520 --> 0:05:32.840 after her first. Year she went on to get a 0:05:32.920 --> 0:05:35.400 job as a secretary at a law firm in nineteen. 0:05:35.440 --> 0:05:39.360 Sixteen maud had big dreams of becoming a, lawyer but 0:05:39.640 --> 0:05:42.840 at the, time the state Of arkansas did not allow 0:05:42.880 --> 0:05:46.240 women to practice. Law they were allowed into the state 0:05:46.320 --> 0:05:50.560 bar for the first time in nineteen, seventeen So maud 0:05:50.720 --> 0:05:51.840 had not gone to law. 0:05:51.880 --> 0:05:53.800 School she hadn't even graduated from. 0:05:53.800 --> 0:05:57.720 College But maud was determined to pursue a legal, career 0:05:58.040 --> 0:06:01.160 and she found a. Way at the, time you were 0:06:01.200 --> 0:06:03.600 allowed to sit for the bar exam without going to 0:06:03.680 --> 0:06:07.200 law school if you could prove you had the. Knowledge 0:06:07.280 --> 0:06:09.160 it was a system they called read for the. 0:06:09.240 --> 0:06:10.800 Law so that's What maud. 0:06:10.840 --> 0:06:14.440 Did she had a tremendous amount of. Knowledge so she 0:06:14.520 --> 0:06:16.800 sat for the bar exam in nineteen twenty seven and 0:06:16.880 --> 0:06:20.480 she passed that. Year she was admitted to The Arkansas State. 0:06:20.520 --> 0:06:25.040 Bar she became the first female attorney In. Camden not 0:06:25.200 --> 0:06:27.560 only did she pass the bar by the, way she 0:06:27.720 --> 0:06:31.880 scored the highest score on The Arkansas Bar. Exam maud 0:06:32.200 --> 0:06:35.080 made history in a lot of different. Ways she was 0:06:35.120 --> 0:06:38.280 also the first woman elected ever to The Camden City. 0:06:38.320 --> 0:06:42.760 Council she was very passionate about helping and mentoring. Women 0:06:43.480 --> 0:06:46.000 was a member of The business And Professional Women's, club 0:06:46.320 --> 0:06:51.560 The American Legion auxiliary and The Pilot, club among. Others around, 0:06:51.600 --> 0:06:55.800 town everyone knew her As Miss. Maud maud married her 0:06:55.840 --> 0:07:00.280 Husband Clyde Folwell crawford in nineteen twenty. Five from the, 0:07:00.360 --> 0:07:04.360 Beginning maud was the. Breadwinner clyde didn't really have a regular. 0:07:04.440 --> 0:07:07.360 Job he was described in media reports as a cabinet. 0:07:07.360 --> 0:07:10.560 Maker he did odd jobs assembling, furniture and he had 0:07:10.560 --> 0:07:13.800 a woodworking shop in the back of the. House maud 0:07:13.880 --> 0:07:17.080 And clyde never had, children but over the years they 0:07:17.120 --> 0:07:20.120 had a lot of borders in their, home mainly single 0:07:20.280 --> 0:07:24.160 young women in the Rambling colonial house and every Night 0:07:24.360 --> 0:07:27.160 clyde had a. Routine he would go to the movie 0:07:27.240 --> 0:07:31.680 theater The malco and sit through movies by. Himself according 0:07:31.760 --> 0:07:35.120 to media, reports some people around town said he would 0:07:35.160 --> 0:07:36.800 also sometimes spy. 0:07:36.680 --> 0:07:38.760 On the young couples who were making out in the. Dark. 0:07:38.800 --> 0:07:42.400 There people around town Thought clyde was a little bit. 0:07:42.400 --> 0:07:45.680 Weird he would run around town by himself and drank 0:07:45.800 --> 0:07:49.480 pretty much every, night which even, now and especially back 0:07:49.520 --> 0:07:52.320 in nineteen fifty seven could make a guy in a 0:07:52.320 --> 0:07:56.640 Small arkansas town the subject of speculation and. Gossip But 0:07:57.080 --> 0:08:00.760 clyde was cooperative with. Police they found no evidence to 0:08:00.800 --> 0:08:03.320 indicate that he was involved in any way In maud's. 0:08:03.320 --> 0:08:08.480 Disappearance if someone did Take maud against her will or 0:08:08.560 --> 0:08:11.080 lure her out of the, house what was their? 0:08:11.120 --> 0:08:13.080 Motive it was clearly not. 0:08:13.240 --> 0:08:16.480 Robbery since nothing was, missing there was zero evidence that 0:08:16.520 --> 0:08:19.600 foul play had happened at the. House maud had money 0:08:19.680 --> 0:08:21.960 one hundred and forty two dollars still sitting in her, 0:08:22.000 --> 0:08:25.600 purse which back then was a significant amount of. Money 0:08:26.240 --> 0:08:28.400 there was no sign of a struggle inside the, home 0:08:28.760 --> 0:08:31.040 so one early theory was That maud may have left, 0:08:31.120 --> 0:08:35.040 voluntarily or that she was lured out of the house by. 0:08:34.880 --> 0:08:35.960 Someone who wanted her. 0:08:35.960 --> 0:08:39.880 Gone Since maud's car was still there with the keys in, 0:08:39.920 --> 0:08:42.440 it presumably someone would have to pick her. 0:08:42.520 --> 0:08:44.920 Up but who and Why. 0:08:45.920 --> 0:08:49.240 The theory About maud leaving on her own became less 0:08:49.280 --> 0:08:52.120 and less likely as time. Passed if she wanted to 0:08:52.200 --> 0:08:55.040 leave of her own free, will it seemed unlikely she 0:08:55.080 --> 0:08:58.320 would literally walk out of her entire life and leave 0:08:58.520 --> 0:09:03.120 absolutely everything she owned, behind including her beloved, dog who 0:09:03.160 --> 0:09:03.760 never left her. 0:09:03.800 --> 0:09:06.760 Side police started reaching. 0:09:06.520 --> 0:09:09.120 Out to people who had recent contact With, bond and 0:09:09.160 --> 0:09:12.000 this was a long and varied list Because maud did 0:09:12.080 --> 0:09:15.080 legal work for a lot of people and some of 0:09:15.120 --> 0:09:16.280 them were very. 0:09:16.320 --> 0:09:31.080 Powerful one name that was mentioned WAS Us Senator john. 0:09:31.160 --> 0:09:35.360 McClellan senator McClellan was at the time chairman of A 0:09:35.400 --> 0:09:39.720 senate inquiry into organized, crime so one possibility that the 0:09:39.760 --> 0:09:43.120 police reportedly looked into was That maud might have been 0:09:43.200 --> 0:09:46.920 kidnapped by the, Mob but there was no threat or 0:09:47.000 --> 0:09:50.440 ransom note ever, received and the mob, theory in my, 0:09:50.520 --> 0:09:53.880 opinion didn't really make a ton of, sense because even 0:09:54.040 --> 0:09:57.480 if the mob wanted to Target senator, McLellan the link 0:09:57.520 --> 0:10:02.040 between him And Maud crawford was. Supertenuous they didn't even 0:10:02.080 --> 0:10:05.560 work at the firm at the same. Time two weeks 0:10:05.600 --> 0:10:10.240 After maud's, disappearance The Camden Police CHIEF Gb cole was 0:10:10.320 --> 0:10:12.920 quoted and The Camden news is saying we have not 0:10:13.080 --> 0:10:18.640 turned up a single. Clue The Arkansas State police were 0:10:18.640 --> 0:10:22.560 brought in to take over the. Investigation law enforcement continued 0:10:22.600 --> 0:10:25.280 to focus On maud's timeline the day of her, disappearance 0:10:25.720 --> 0:10:28.280 and they found she had had a lot going. On 0:10:29.080 --> 0:10:32.280 they talked To Ida Belle, Tinsley maud's sixty year old 0:10:32.280 --> 0:10:35.640 housekeeper who'd been working for her and her husband for fourteen. 0:10:35.720 --> 0:10:38.480 Years ida said she got to the home at four 0:10:38.600 --> 0:10:42.280 Fifty Clifton street at around eight. Am she told, Investigators 0:10:42.400 --> 0:10:44.840 maud spent the day working at the kitchen table on 0:10:44.880 --> 0:10:48.360 her legal papers like she usually. Did ida made some 0:10:48.440 --> 0:10:52.200 lunch and they ate together around, noon and Then maud continued. 0:10:52.240 --> 0:10:56.120 Working ida Said maud was still pouring over those papers 0:10:56.240 --> 0:10:56.640 when she. 0:10:56.680 --> 0:10:57.960 Left at around one thirty that. 0:10:58.040 --> 0:11:01.880 Afternoon ida told Police maud appeared to be completely. 0:11:01.880 --> 0:11:03.480 Normal she was in a good. Mood that. 0:11:03.560 --> 0:11:07.520 Day at around two THIRTY, pm someone who worked in 0:11:07.560 --> 0:11:09.720 a local furniture store came over To maud's. 0:11:09.720 --> 0:11:12.440 House she was there for a while measuring some. 0:11:12.560 --> 0:11:17.000 Drapes maud was really excited to finally be doing renovations 0:11:17.040 --> 0:11:19.800 on her, house she told the woman measuring the. 0:11:19.880 --> 0:11:21.800 Drape she had waited years to do. 0:11:21.840 --> 0:11:24.360 This she had also taken out a loan of several 0:11:24.400 --> 0:11:27.520 thousand dollars to fund. It the fact that she was 0:11:27.560 --> 0:11:31.240 looking forward to this project and seemed happy was just 0:11:31.320 --> 0:11:34.040 one more reason why people didn't think she would just 0:11:34.080 --> 0:11:39.480 suddenly disappear. Voluntarily the furniture store employee Left maud's house 0:11:39.520 --> 0:11:42.840 at around four pm that. Day she later told police 0:11:43.040 --> 0:11:46.240 she didn't notice anything out of the ordinary. Either, then 0:11:46.400 --> 0:11:49.200 at five, Pm maud put a leash On dal and 0:11:49.240 --> 0:11:51.560 took him for a, walk which was part of their daily. 0:11:51.640 --> 0:11:54.680 Routine she stopped at a nearby corner store to buy. 0:11:54.720 --> 0:11:58.120 Groceries she grabbed some green, beans and when the clerk 0:11:58.200 --> 0:11:58.680 rang her. 0:11:58.640 --> 0:11:59.480 Up he talked To. 0:11:59.560 --> 0:12:02.640 Maud he said she made the purchase in a usual. 0:12:02.720 --> 0:12:05.920 Manner maud made a comment to the grocery store clerk 0:12:05.960 --> 0:12:09.120 about saving her some more beans For monday because of 0:12:09.160 --> 0:12:12.240 how much her husband liked. Them maud got home from 0:12:12.280 --> 0:12:14.880 that daily walk at five thirty. Pm since it had 0:12:14.920 --> 0:12:18.360 already started, raining the dog was. Wet the coat That 0:12:18.400 --> 0:12:21.400 maud was wearing was also, wet So maud took her 0:12:21.440 --> 0:12:23.720 wet clothes and shoes out on the back porch and 0:12:23.800 --> 0:12:26.640 left them. There she spread the coat over a chair 0:12:26.800 --> 0:12:30.720 so it would. Dry after, that it was. Dinnertime maud 0:12:30.800 --> 0:12:33.320 Cooked clyde a supper of steak and, eggs which he 0:12:33.520 --> 0:12:37.160 ate at six. Pm clyde left the house at around 0:12:37.200 --> 0:12:40.320 six thirty. Pm he drove his red truck To Main 0:12:40.400 --> 0:12:44.000 street And camden and parked in his usual spot right 0:12:44.040 --> 0:12:44.800 in front. 0:12:44.520 --> 0:12:45.320 Of Bird's jewelry. 0:12:45.360 --> 0:12:49.280 Store clyde then went into The Malco theater to see 0:12:49.280 --> 0:12:52.800 the movie among her other. Chores that, day back at the, 0:12:52.880 --> 0:12:56.360 House maud was getting ready for her, Cousin Martha, carver 0:12:56.800 --> 0:12:59.560 And martha's husband and three year old child to come 0:12:59.640 --> 0:13:03.200 visit that. Weekend martha and her husband were planning to 0:13:03.240 --> 0:13:06.800 spend That saturday night At, maud's But martha and her 0:13:06.800 --> 0:13:08.760 family went to a friend's house once they got to, 0:13:08.760 --> 0:13:12.160 Town So martha Called maud at around eight thirty pm 0:13:12.320 --> 0:13:14.840 and talked to. Her When maud asked if they were 0:13:14.880 --> 0:13:18.080 coming over that, Night martha said she and her family 0:13:18.160 --> 0:13:20.440 were going to stay at the friend's house, instead but 0:13:20.880 --> 0:13:23.240 she made plans With maud to have dinner on another. 0:13:23.320 --> 0:13:27.600 Night martha later told detectives that when she Told maud 0:13:27.680 --> 0:13:29.280 she wasn't coming over to the house that. 0:13:29.400 --> 0:13:31.440 Night maud sounded short with. 0:13:31.480 --> 0:13:34.400 Her When martha hung up the, phone she turned around 0:13:34.400 --> 0:13:37.080 and told her husband That maud was peeved at. Her 0:13:38.000 --> 0:13:41.720 that was the last known conversation that anyone had With 0:13:41.840 --> 0:13:46.000 maud at Around at the same time eight, Thirty clyde 0:13:46.040 --> 0:13:48.560 was coming out of the. Theater by the, Way since 0:13:48.600 --> 0:13:51.800 it's important to cover all bases during that crucial window 0:13:51.800 --> 0:13:54.440 of time After maud was last known to be, ALIVE 0:13:55.040 --> 0:13:59.320 i should say there's no definitive proof That clyde stayed 0:13:59.320 --> 0:14:02.520 for the whole. Movie police did try to verify, that 0:14:03.080 --> 0:14:06.520 but they reportedly didn't find a ticket or an usher 0:14:06.640 --> 0:14:09.920 or another person who could Say clyde was definitely. There 0:14:10.440 --> 0:14:13.320 but a lot of other people Saw clyde around town that. 0:14:13.440 --> 0:14:17.640 Night After clyde's movie ended at around eight, thirty he 0:14:17.760 --> 0:14:20.400 went to a newsstand where he talked to the, Owner Guy, 0:14:20.480 --> 0:14:23.840 pennington who was his good. Friend they chatted until around 0:14:23.920 --> 0:14:26.920 nine TEN. Pm Then clyde got back in his truck 0:14:27.160 --> 0:14:30.240 and drove To carter's liquor. Store he talked to another 0:14:30.280 --> 0:14:32.560 one of his friends there who worked At carter's and 0:14:32.640 --> 0:14:35.800 also had a few more. Beers while drinking his, Beers 0:14:35.960 --> 0:14:39.840 clyde watched THE tv at the liquor. Store now this 0:14:40.000 --> 0:14:42.400 sounds a little bit, odd but apparently this was part 0:14:42.400 --> 0:14:42.920 Of clyde's. 0:14:42.960 --> 0:14:45.920 Routine he went into the liquor store every night to WATCH. 0:14:45.960 --> 0:14:50.080 Tv, normally he would watch until exactly ten fifteen, pm 0:14:50.160 --> 0:14:53.400 when the weather report on the evening news. Ended but that, 0:14:53.600 --> 0:14:56.960 night after the weather, Report clyde started watching A tv 0:14:57.080 --> 0:15:00.120 movie and after about half an, hour at ten forty five, 0:15:00.160 --> 0:15:02.280 pm he made a comment about it getting. 0:15:02.320 --> 0:15:04.600 Laid he left and drove. 0:15:04.640 --> 0:15:08.760 Home clyde arrived home between eleven and eleven thirty pm 0:15:09.200 --> 0:15:13.040 to find all Of maud's stuff, there their Dog, dal 0:15:13.320 --> 0:15:17.080 who was usually high. Strung in, fact people were actually 0:15:17.120 --> 0:15:20.160 afraid to Approach maud's dog If maud wasn't with, him 0:15:20.680 --> 0:15:24.000 But clyde later told police that night the dog seemed totally, 0:15:24.000 --> 0:15:27.040 calm So clyde WATCHED tv at home for a little. 0:15:27.040 --> 0:15:28.560 While he wasn't worried at. 0:15:28.560 --> 0:15:31.160 First he thought Maybe maud had gone out with one 0:15:31.200 --> 0:15:34.160 of the four young women who board it. Upstairs sometimes 0:15:34.160 --> 0:15:35.760 she would go to the drive in with them or 0:15:35.800 --> 0:15:38.360 out to get some. Food he went into his bedroom 0:15:38.400 --> 0:15:41.160 and put on his, pajamas cracked open another, beer and 0:15:41.240 --> 0:15:45.560 started reading a detective, novel but he couldn't. Sleep at 0:15:45.560 --> 0:15:48.800 one fifteen, am when she still wasn't, back he looked 0:15:48.840 --> 0:15:50.560 at the newspaper to see if there was a late, 0:15:50.600 --> 0:15:53.400 show a midnight. Show he saw that there, was and, 0:15:53.440 --> 0:15:56.240 so thinking maybe she went to, That clyde got back 0:15:56.280 --> 0:15:58.840 in his truck and drove around again around the theater 0:15:59.040 --> 0:16:02.000 to see if he could Find maud, there but she wasn't, 0:16:02.000 --> 0:16:05.080 there so he came back home again and that's when 0:16:05.120 --> 0:16:08.680 he said he noticed That maud's car was parked at 0:16:08.680 --> 0:16:10.880 the rear of the, house where she always left it 0:16:11.240 --> 0:16:13.240 and where it had been two hours earlier when he 0:16:13.280 --> 0:16:16.240 first got. Home the garage is in the back of 0:16:16.280 --> 0:16:18.440 the house and it's a little bit of a walk 0:16:18.680 --> 0:16:23.000 between the house and the. Garage once he saw That 0:16:23.040 --> 0:16:26.080 maud's car was, There clyde got back in his, truck 0:16:26.160 --> 0:16:29.000 drove around town, again and when he didn't find her that, 0:16:29.080 --> 0:16:32.480 time he walked straight into The Camden police station and 0:16:32.560 --> 0:16:33.760 asked if there had been any car. 0:16:33.800 --> 0:16:36.160 Wrecks after he left the police. 0:16:35.800 --> 0:16:38.680 Station at around two twenty five, Am clyde went back. 0:16:38.720 --> 0:16:43.200 Home he stayed there until around four, thirty then he 0:16:43.320 --> 0:16:46.320 drove and did one more round of looking For. Maud 0:16:47.440 --> 0:16:51.240 the next, morning he started Contacting maud's, friends but no 0:16:51.280 --> 0:16:54.680 one had seen. Her that's When clyde called the police 0:16:55.040 --> 0:16:59.800 and officially Reported maud. Missing of, course police looked Into 0:16:59.800 --> 0:17:03.080 clyde as a. Suspect first of, all people in town 0:17:03.160 --> 0:17:05.640 thought he was. Odd clyde had. 0:17:05.520 --> 0:17:08.280 Served In World War one. 0:17:07.640 --> 0:17:10.120 And after he got back about ten years into his 0:17:10.160 --> 0:17:13.080 marriage With, maud so around twenty two years Before maud, 0:17:13.160 --> 0:17:17.760 Disappeared clyde had had a mental. Breakdown there are not 0:17:17.880 --> 0:17:21.880 a ton of details about what exactly happened With, clyde 0:17:22.240 --> 0:17:24.240 but he was very open about the fact that he 0:17:24.320 --> 0:17:26.960 had had a breakdown And maud had nursed him through. 0:17:26.960 --> 0:17:30.760 It after, That maud became more like a mother than 0:17:30.800 --> 0:17:33.520 a wife To, clyde and they started sleeping in separate. 0:17:33.520 --> 0:17:37.000 Bedrooms over the, Years maud And. 0:17:36.960 --> 0:17:39.920 Clyde got along really, well but they were an unconventional. 0:17:39.920 --> 0:17:41.840 Couple they had separate. 0:17:41.920 --> 0:17:46.120 Routines clyde's told Police maud lived her life and he lived. 0:17:46.160 --> 0:17:51.240 His according to police, documents investigators did explore the possibility 0:17:51.520 --> 0:17:54.440 That clyde might have planned her murder for a period of. 0:17:54.440 --> 0:17:58.040 Time they were suspicious because on That saturday, night the 0:17:58.120 --> 0:18:02.040 night When maud went, missing very, unusually all four of 0:18:02.080 --> 0:18:05.080 the boarders who lived upstairs With maud And clyde had 0:18:05.120 --> 0:18:08.520 other plans or were away that, Weekend and it does 0:18:08.560 --> 0:18:11.440 seem like quite a coincidence that between the cousin and 0:18:11.520 --> 0:18:14.000 the baby and the, borders there should have been at 0:18:14.080 --> 0:18:16.680 least four and as many as seven people in the 0:18:16.720 --> 0:18:20.040 house other Than clyde And maud that, night but for 0:18:20.120 --> 0:18:23.040 one reason or, Another maud and her husband were in 0:18:23.080 --> 0:18:27.280 the house. Alone but police struggled to find a reason 0:18:27.480 --> 0:18:32.120 Why clyde would Kill maud or, who if, anyone could 0:18:32.160 --> 0:18:40.200 have been out to get. Her there was a life 0:18:40.200 --> 0:18:43.280 insurance policy for ten thousand, dollars but even though that 0:18:43.560 --> 0:18:45.920 was more money in nineteen fifty seven than it is, 0:18:46.000 --> 0:18:49.360 now it's around one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars in today's, 0:18:49.360 --> 0:18:53.600 money it's still not a massive. Amount maud was the 0:18:53.640 --> 0:18:56.680 one bringing money into the, home and there's absolutely no 0:18:56.800 --> 0:18:59.800 indication That clyde had any other reason for wanting or. 0:18:59.880 --> 0:19:04.120 Gone in, Fact maud was clearly worth a lot more 0:19:04.160 --> 0:19:08.240 alive than, dead and on a personal, Level clyde seemed 0:19:08.240 --> 0:19:13.200 devastated by her. Disappearance police wondered If maud's legal career 0:19:13.240 --> 0:19:16.960 could provide some. Clues investigators review the cases that she 0:19:16.960 --> 0:19:19.880 had been working on in an effort to determine whether 0:19:19.960 --> 0:19:23.520 she had been involved in any disputes or litigation anything 0:19:23.560 --> 0:19:28.120 that might provide possible motive for foul. Play maud's career 0:19:28.160 --> 0:19:31.760 as a real estate attorney. Flourished she developed an outstanding. 0:19:31.800 --> 0:19:35.200 Reputation she worked on a lot of big oil deals 0:19:35.560 --> 0:19:38.440 and she was very well, respected but also had to 0:19:38.480 --> 0:19:41.640 deal with her share of, sexism including from the men 0:19:41.720 --> 0:19:46.360 in her own law, Firm, gaggin McClellan And. Laney according 0:19:46.360 --> 0:19:49.560 to wit'smen, reported these guys seemed to kind of not 0:19:49.720 --> 0:19:53.160 Let maud forget she started out as a. Secretary but 0:19:53.560 --> 0:19:57.680 police didn't find any concrete information indicating that anyone had 0:19:57.720 --> 0:20:00.760 been Threatening. Maud she had never made any comments about 0:20:00.800 --> 0:20:03.200 being worried about her. Safety in, fact she had her. 0:20:03.320 --> 0:20:07.640 Routines she lived her life pretty. Publicly officers checked with 0:20:07.680 --> 0:20:12.160 transportation companies in The camden, area including taxi services and. 0:20:12.200 --> 0:20:15.360 Buses they were trying to figure out whether she left 0:20:15.400 --> 0:20:19.240 town using any of those, methods but they never found 0:20:19.320 --> 0:20:20.920 any record that she had left on her. 0:20:20.960 --> 0:20:22.560 Own once The. 0:20:22.560 --> 0:20:25.960 Arkansas State police took over the, investigation they conducted searches 0:20:26.000 --> 0:20:28.800 of roads and wooded areas inside and outside the city. 0:20:28.840 --> 0:20:33.560 Limits they found no trace Of. Maud police did interview 0:20:33.600 --> 0:20:36.240 a man Named Ray miller On march, night a week 0:20:36.280 --> 0:20:39.680 After maud. Disappeared he claimed that he Saw maud on 0:20:39.720 --> 0:20:42.600 the evening Of march twenty, second nineteen fifty, seven that 0:20:42.680 --> 0:20:45.920 she was near the Down town area at approximately eight thirty. 0:20:45.920 --> 0:20:48.800 Pm he said when he Saw, maud she appeared to 0:20:48.800 --> 0:20:51.480 be alone and that she seemed. Fine he said he 0:20:51.560 --> 0:20:54.040 didn't talk To, maud but he said he recognized. Her 0:20:54.680 --> 0:20:57.480 he knew her as the prominent attorney in. Town he 0:20:57.520 --> 0:21:01.680 had seen her around on several occasions. Before police officers 0:21:01.720 --> 0:21:04.160 tried to confirm this, sighting but they were unable to do. 0:21:04.240 --> 0:21:07.520 So maud's case was big. 0:21:07.560 --> 0:21:11.080 NEWS a reward was, announced THE fbi got, involved and 0:21:11.280 --> 0:21:14.960 The governor Of, Arkansas Orval, faubus said he wanted to 0:21:15.000 --> 0:21:18.520 be personally updated on the progress of this, case but 0:21:19.040 --> 0:21:21.960 after a while it went. Cold in nineteen sixty, nine 0:21:22.240 --> 0:21:25.920 The Probate court Of Washata county declared Maud crawford dead 0:21:26.360 --> 0:21:30.600 and said she had likely been a victim of foul. Play, 0:21:30.640 --> 0:21:34.920 then in nineteen eighty, Six Beth, brokel an, actress screenwriter 0:21:35.000 --> 0:21:37.640 and producer who was a native Of, camden came back 0:21:37.680 --> 0:21:40.960 home and tried to help crack the. Case according To Ay, 0:21:41.040 --> 0:21:44.400 magazine best agent At cia told her. 0:21:44.360 --> 0:21:47.600 The story would make a great. Movie So beth had an. 0:21:47.640 --> 0:21:50.360 Idea she was going to research this case and write 0:21:50.360 --> 0:21:53.440 a screenplay about. It beth came To camden with a. 0:21:53.440 --> 0:21:55.360 Plan that's what she Told Ay. 0:21:55.480 --> 0:21:56.000 Magazine. 0:21:56.080 --> 0:21:59.320 QUOTE i planned to ask questions for three, weeks write 0:21:59.320 --> 0:22:01.680 a rough draft of a screenplay in three, weeks and 0:22:01.760 --> 0:22:04.880 return TO LA i learned within the first week that 0:22:04.960 --> 0:22:08.480 the case had never been properly, investigated AND i decided 0:22:08.480 --> 0:22:10.920 to forget the screenplay for the time being and put 0:22:10.960 --> 0:22:12.760 on my investigative reporter hat. 0:22:12.880 --> 0:22:16.080 Instead end. QUOTE i really relate To. 0:22:16.040 --> 0:22:18.800 Beth when she said, that because there are a lot 0:22:18.800 --> 0:22:22.120 of parallels between what she did and she experienced and 0:22:22.200 --> 0:22:25.080 WHAT i. Experienced going back To arkansas to investigate The 0:22:25.080 --> 0:22:28.600 Rebecca gould case in twenty, eighteen even though it had 0:22:28.600 --> 0:22:31.760 been thirty years Since man. Disappeared she found out a 0:22:31.800 --> 0:22:34.000 lot of people were afraid to talk to, her and 0:22:34.240 --> 0:22:40.840 she said she got. Threats beth wrote a series of 0:22:40.960 --> 0:22:44.360 articles for The Arkansas, gazette but the story got bigger 0:22:44.360 --> 0:22:47.120 Than beth ever expected because after the first article was 0:22:47.160 --> 0:22:50.240 published in The Arkansas, gazette the newspaper was threatened with 0:22:50.240 --> 0:22:54.200 a lawsuit if they continued their, Coverage but to the newspaper's, 0:22:54.240 --> 0:22:58.000 credit The gazette back there. Reporter they kept publishing articles 0:22:58.040 --> 0:23:01.560 over a series of five, months and best investigation centered 0:23:01.600 --> 0:23:04.600 on someone who had been mentioned multiple times In maud's case, 0:23:04.600 --> 0:23:09.160 file a woman named Rose berg and her, family specifically her, 0:23:09.200 --> 0:23:24.320 nephew The Arkansas State Police Commissioner Mike. Berg aside from 0:23:24.360 --> 0:23:27.200 her passion for her legal, Work Maud crawford had a 0:23:27.280 --> 0:23:30.040 lot of hobbies and interests that kept her, busy and 0:23:30.080 --> 0:23:32.120 in addition to her job at the law, firm she 0:23:32.320 --> 0:23:34.840 was also paid to be the personal guardian to a 0:23:34.880 --> 0:23:38.920 woman Named Rose Newman. Berg Rose berg was an elderly 0:23:38.960 --> 0:23:41.200 woman who lived across the street From maud And. 0:23:41.240 --> 0:23:42.760 Clyde she was very. 0:23:42.800 --> 0:23:46.040