Episode 2.24 // Gilded & Gone: The Disappearance of Dorothy Arnold

One December morning in turn-of-the-20th-century New York City, a young society woman went out to run errands and never returned home. Dorothy Arnold’s forbidden love affair, writerly aspirations and wealth combined to stir up intrigue over what happened to her at the time. Today –over a hundred years on– her disappearance is still a mystery.

SOURCES:

• https://allthatsinteresting.com/dorothy-arnold

• https://www.americanheritage.com/girl-who-never-came-back

• https://morbidology.com/the-missing-heiress/

• https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/unsolved-mystery-sexy-nyc-heiress-vanished-1910

• The Dorothy Arnold Mystery.The Tuscaloosa News - Sep 27, 1932.

• Gethard, Chris. Weird New York: Your Travel Guide to New York's … Best Kept Secrets. 2005.

• https://www.nytimes.com/1911/01/26/archives/niece-of-peckham-strangely-missing

• https://www.officialdata.org/us/inflation/1910?amount=25

• Katz, Hélèna. Cold Cases: Famous Unsolved Mysteries…in America. 2010.

• GRISCOM WOULD WED HER. The Baltimore Sun. 12 Feb 1911.

• DOROTHY ARNOLD MAY BE HOME. The New York Times 28 Jan 1911.

• SILENCE OF DEATH, SAYS GIRL'S FATHER. The New York Times. 29 Jan 1911

• SEEK MISS ARNOLD IN PHILADELPHIA. The New York Times. 3 Feb 1911.

• POLICE DROP WORK ON THE ARNOLD CASE. The New York Times. 7 Feb 1911.

• NONSENSE, SAYS GIRL'S FATHER. The Baltimore Sun. 12 Feb 1911.

• MISS ARNOLD DEAD, FLYNN NOW BELIEVES. The New York Times. 25 Feb 1911.

• DOROTHY ARNOLD STORY. The New York Times. 10 Apr 1914.

• Special to The New York Times. 11 Apr 1914.

• https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1126&dat=19140413&id

• Dorothy Arnold Case. The Gazette Times. 10 Apr 1914

• Says He Helped Bury Body of Dorothy Arnold The Lewiston Daily Sun - Apr 18, 1916

• "Rich Man Had Her Killed". The Capital Journal. Salem, Oregon. April 17, 1916.

• DOROTHY ARNOLD MYSTERY SOLVED, SAYS CAPT. AYERS. The New York Times. 9 Apr 1921.

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