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Inside the Roses | The investigations
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East Point Police Det. J.T. Gordy investigates Diane Shields' case in 1967.
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A cold case investigation into two women's twist of fate and their eternal connection to one city's ‘innocence lost’ forever.
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Investigators uncovered a fingerprint from Diane Shields' car.
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Investigators uncovered a print from Diane Shields' car.
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Investigators uncovered a fingerprint from Diane Shields' car.
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Investigators uncovered a print from Diane Shields' car.
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Investigators uncovered a print from Diane Shields' car.
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A cold case investigation into two women's twist of fate and their eternal connection to one city's ‘innocence lost’ forever. One of those women was Diane Shields.
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A cold case investigation into two women's twist of fate and their eternal connection to one city's ‘innocence lost’ forever. One of those women was Diane Shields.
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A cold case investigation into two women's twist of fate and their eternal connection to one city's ‘innocence lost’ forever. One of those women was Diane Shields.
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A cold case investigation into two women's twist of fate and their eternal connection to one city's ‘innocence lost’ forever. One of those women was Diane Shields.
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A cold case investigation into two women's twist of fate and their eternal connection to one city's ‘innocence lost’ forever. One of those women was Diane Shields.
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Maj. Russell Popham discusses the Diane Shields case with 11Alive investigative journalist, Jessica Noll.
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Maj. Russell Popham discusses the Diane Shields case with 11Alive investigative journalist, Jessica Noll.
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Maj. Russell Popham discusses the Diane Shields case with 11Alive investigative journalist, Jessica Noll.
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Diane Shields' car was found alongside a laundry mat and dry cleaners in 1967. Her body was discovered inside her trunk.
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Diane Shields' car was found alongside a laundry mat and dry cleaners in 1967. Her body was discovered inside her trunk.
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Diane Shields' car was found alongside a laundry mat and dry cleaners in 1967. Her body was discovered inside her trunk.
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Maj. Russell Popham discusses the Diane Shields case with 11Alive investigative journalist, Jessica Noll.
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Maj. Russell Popham has been investigating Diane Shields' case since 2003.
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Maj. Russell Popham discusses the Diane Shields case with 11Alive investigative journalist, Jessica Noll.
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Maj. Russell Popham discusses the Diane Shields case with 11Alive investigative journalist, Jessica Noll.
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Maj. Russell Popham discusses the Diane Shields case with 11Alive investigative journalist, Jessica Noll.
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Maj. Russell Popham discusses the Diane Shields case with 11Alive investigative journalist, Jessica Noll.
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Maj. Russell Popham discusses the Diane Shields case with 11Alive investigative journalist, Jessica Noll.
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East Point Det. (ret.) Bob Matthews discusses the Diane Shields case with 11Alive investigative journalist, Jessica Noll.
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Diane Shields' car was found alongside a laundry mat and dry cleaners in 1967. Her body was discovered inside her trunk. That location is now a strip mall.
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Diane Shields' car was found alongside a laundry mat and dry cleaners in 1967. Her body was discovered inside her trunk.
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Diane Shields' car was found alongside a laundry mat and dry cleaners in 1967. Her body was discovered inside her trunk. The area is now overgrown and fenced in.
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Diane Shields' car was found alongside a laundry mat and dry cleaners in 1967. Her body was discovered inside her trunk. The area is now overgrown and fenced in.
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Diane Shields' car was found alongside a laundry mat and dry cleaners in 1967. Her body was discovered inside her trunk. The area is now overgrown and fenced in.
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Diane Shields' car was found alongside a laundry mat and dry cleaners in 1967. Her body was discovered inside her trunk. The area is now overgrown and locked.
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Diane Shields' car was found alongside a laundry mat and dry cleaners in 1967. Her body was discovered inside her trunk. The area is now overgrown and locked.
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Both Mary Shotwell Little and Diane Shields worked for C&S Bank's Mitchell Street branch. In fact, Shields took Little's place just weeks after she disappeared in 1965.
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Both Mary Shotwell Little and Diane Shields worked for C&S Bank's Mitchell Street branch. In fact, Shields took Little's place just weeks after she disappeared in 1965.
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Both Mary Shotwell Little and Diane Shields worked for C&S Bank's Mitchell Street branch. In fact, Shields took Little's place just weeks after she disappeared in 1965.
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Along with the FBI, Atlanta Police Lt. Jack Perry investigated Mary Shotwell Little's disappearance in 1965.
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Along with the FBI, Atlanta Police Lt. Jack Perry investigated Mary Shotwell Little's disappearance in 1965.
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Along with the FBI, Atlanta Police Lt. Jack Perry investigated Mary Shotwell Little's disappearance in 1965.
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Along with the FBI, Atlanta Police Lt. Jack Perry investigated Mary Shotwell Little's disappearance on Oct. 14, 1965.
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Mary Shotwell Little vanished from Lenox Square after shopping and dinner with a friend and co-worker on Oct. 14, 1965.
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Mary Shotwell Little vanished from Lenox Square after shopping and dinner with a friend and co-worker on Oct. 14, 1965.
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Mary Shotwell Little vanished from Lenox Square after shopping and dinner with a friend and co-worker on Oct. 14, 1965.
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Mary Shotwell Little vanished from Lenox Square on Oct. 14, 1965. Her car was found in the parking lot the next day around noon. There was blood in and on the car.
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Mary Shotwell Little vanished from Lenox Square on Oct. 14, 1965. Her car was found in the parking lot the next day around noon. There was blood in and on the car.
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Mary Shotwell Little vanished from Lenox Square on Oct. 14, 1965. Her car was found in the parking lot the next day around noon. There was blood in and on the car.
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Larry Stargel confessed in 1966 to police that he witnessed Mary Shotwell Little's murder.
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Lt. Danny Agan, the head of homicide at Atlanta Police Department in 1994, led the investigation into Mary Shotwell Little's break in the case in Cumming, Ga.
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Lt. Danny Agan, the head of homicide at Atlanta Police Department in 1994, led the investigation into Mary Shotwell Little's break in the case in Cumming, Ga.
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John Fedack, a retired DeKalb County Police officer, formed a task force of investigative minds, including a criminal profiler, an attorney, a crime scene analyst and several retired detectives, to look into the two cold cases.
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John Fedack, a retired DeKalb County Police officer, formed a task force of investigative minds, including a criminal profiler, an attorney, a crime scene analyst and several retired detectives, to look into the two cold cases.
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John Fedack, a retired DeKalb County Police officer and member of the task force, explains to 11Alive investigative journalist, Jessica Noll, what happened to Mary Shotwell Little in the Lenox Square parking lot.
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CSI Sheryl McCollum and John Fedack, a retired DeKalb County Police officer, formed a task force of investigative minds, including a criminal profiler, an attorney, a crime scene analyst and several retired detectives, to look into the two cold cases.
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Retired journalist, Gerdeen Dyer, is part of the investigative task force that is looking into the two cold cases.
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Retired journalist, Gerdeen Dyer, is part of the investigative task force that is looking into the two cold cases.
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Retired journalist, Gerdeen Dyer, is part of the investigative task force that is looking into the two cold cases.
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Lt. Danny Agan, the head of homicide at Atlanta Police Department in 1994, led the investigation into Mary Shotwell Little's break in the case in Cumming, Ga.
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5 Roses- Inside the Mary Shotwell Little investigation
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5 Roses- Inside the Mary Shotwell Little case file
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5 Roses- Inside the Mary Shotwell Little investigation
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5 Roses- Inside the Mary Shotwell Little case file
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5 Roses- Inside the Mary Shotwell Little case file
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5 Roses- Inside the Mary Shotwell Little case file
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5 Roses- Inside the Mary Shotwell Little case file
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5 Roses- Inside the Mary Shotwell Little case file

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