
Fall Asleep to the Cold Case of Meyer and the 1964 Towpath Evidence
In October 1964, artist Mary Pinchot Meyer took her customary walk along the C&O Canal towpath in Georgetown and never returned. Although a suspect was tried and acquitted, her death remains one of Washington, D.C.’s most quietly enduring unsolved cases.This thoughtful retelling returns to the witness accounts, disputed evidence, courtroom record, and questions left waiting in the case file. Settle in for a calm examination of what investigators knew, what time obscured, and what the Meyer towpath may still reveal.
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