In the summer of 1974, two teenage cousins placed a classified ad offering their babysitting services. A man responded saying he was looking for someone to babysit his five-year-old son. When the younger girl’s parents weren’t comfortable with her traveling for the job, he moved on to her 14-year-old cousin, Margaret Fox.Over the next several days, plans were made, canceled, and eventually rescheduled for a Monday morning. That morning, Margaret boarded a bus to a nearby town where she was supposed to meet the man’s wife and be brought back to their home.Margaret never came home.When her father called the number the man had given them, he discovered it went to a payphone outside of a grocery store. Then, in the days after Margaret disappeared, her family received a ransom demand, and police were able to record part of the caller’s voice. That recording still exists today.More than 50 years later, Margaret has never been found. No one knows who the man was who arranged that babysitting job, whether the family he described even existed, or who was behind the ransom call that came after she disappeared.TIPS: contact the FBI’s Newark Field Office at 973-792-3000, or submit a tip online at tips.fbi.govNEW SUBREDDIT: https://www.reddit.com/r/ASimplerTimeTrueCrime/Case suggestions: simplertimecrimepod@gmail.comIG: @simplertimecrimepodYoutube: https://youtube.com/@simplertimecrimepod?si=OlCWQ2Ky8qFaof02TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@simplertimecrimep?_t=8s31x9iCrNv&_r=1Music By Universfield: https://pixabay.com/music/mystery-dramatic-atmosphere-with-piano-and-violin-143149/Sound Effect by OpenMindAudio from PixabayThumbnail Art: Lauren Kelty, host of True Crime BFF PodcastSource Material: https://charleyproject.org/case/margaret-ellen-foxhttps://www.fbi.gov/audio-repository/newark-margaret-ellen-fox-phone-call-062419.mp3/viewhttps://www.newspapers.com/article/the-times-search-for-sitter-focuses-on-m/206803593/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-courier-news-fbi-joins-hunt/206804089/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-record-search-widens/206804219/https://www.newspapers.com/article/courier-post-pi-12/206804604/https://www.newspapers.com/article/courier-post-do-we-have-our-own-boston-s/206804741/https://www.newspapers.com/article/courier-post-many-tips-no-clues/206804924/https://www.newspapers.com/article/courier-post-fake-model-calls/206805112/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-times-one-girl-returns/206805521/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-news-ransom-call/206805550/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-times-nov-1975-false-confession/206805822/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-times-sept-86-haunted-by-cases-12/206806030/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-times-haunted-by-missing-persons-cas/206806046/https://www.newspapers.com/article/asbury-park-press-atlantic-highlands-jan/206806348/https://www.newspapers.com/article/asbury-park-press-more-on-jane-doe/206806708/https://www.newspapers.com/article/south-jersey-times-2017-retired-cop/206806796/https://www.newspapers.com/article/asbury-park-press-fbi-25k-reward/206807028/https://www.newspapers.com/article/new-jersey-herald-enhanced-audio-clip/206807069/https://www.newspapers.com/article/burlington-county-times-cold-cases-2024/206807132/https://www.newspapers.com/article/burlington-county-times-2024-cold-cases/206807196/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-central-new-jersey-home-news-acquitt/206807903/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-central-new-jersey-home-news-1969-at/206807954/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-central-new-jersey-home-news-jack-ho/206808012/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-central-new-jersey-home-news-1973-re/206808094/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-central-new-jersey-home-news-mom-beg/206808170/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-central-new-jersey-home-news-mom-com/206808261/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-star-ledger-missing-girl-found-dead/206809336/https://www.newspapers.com/article/courier-post-lured-to-job/206809436/https://www.newspapers.com/article/courier-post-sex-offender-charged/206809574/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-star-ledger-indicted/206810278/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-times-admits-to-crime/206810366/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-star-ledger-life-in-prison/206810494/https://www.newspapers.com/article/asbury-park-press-gf-guilty-of-concealin/206810547/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-central-new-jersey-home-news-susan-s/206810650/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-central-new-jersey-home-news-susan-s/206810692/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-central-new-jersey-home-news-ss-miss/206810747/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-central-new-jersey-home-news-still-n/206810793/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-central-new-jersey-home-news-susan-s/206810854/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-central-new-jersey-home-news-500-re/206810905/https://www.newspapers.com/article/...
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