25 Years Ago She Left A Bizarre Note Then Poisoned Herself All Alone In A Hotel Room And Nobody Knows Who She Really Was
Seattle, Washington. It was October 9th, 1996, when a woman walked into the Hotel Vintage Park located on 5th Avenue in downtown Seattle.
A little less than 2 hours before she stepped out of a cab and through the hotel’s front doors, she had placed a phone call requesting a room for the day.
She gave the front desk staff her name, Mary Anderson, and she provided them with New York-based contact information.
Mary said that her phone number was 212.569.5549, and she said that her address back in the city was 132 East Third Street, New York, NY 11103.
Strangely enough, Mary’s phone number and address never existed at all back in New York City.
As she stood at the front desk with several suitcases that she brought with her, she handed over a few hundred dollars, which covered the cost of the room she had booked for two nights.
The front desk staff recalled that Mary seemed put together. Her fingers were neatly manicured with creamy white nail polish and she was carrying a leather handbag with her that seemed to have cost some money.
Mary finished checking in, went directly to her room, and she didn’t come out. She did not make any calls on the phone in her room, and she did not interact with any of the hotel’s staff after going up to her room.
Natalie Murry; pictured above artist Natalie Murry recreated what Mary most likely looked like when she was alive
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When her stay came to an end and she had not checked out of the hotel, staff members went up to Mary’s room, and they found that she had taken her own life.
Mary was flat on her back on the hotel bed, dressed in black-colored leggings and a black shirt, with a black-colored bible open across her chest.
Mary left behind a bizarre note scrawled atop stationary provided by the hotel:
To Whom It May Concern. I have decided to end my life and no one is responsible for my death. Mary Anderson. P. S. I have no relatives. You can use my body as you choose.
When investigators were called to look into Mary’s death, they found a few things in her room, but none of them provided much information to go on.
Mary had black-colored leather gloves, her purse, perfume, Crystal Light, several velour outfits, slippers, pantyhose, shoes, an iron, a bowl from a kitchen, and cosmetics with her from Estée Lauder.
Mary had mixed some Metamucil (also found in her room) with Cyanide and drank it, ending her life.
Investigators believe that Mary could have been as young as 30 or as old as 50. She had auburn-brown hair that had been neatly brushed when she was discovered.
Mary put a lot of makeup on her face, so that could have potentially left people thinking she was older than she had been.
Mary had some scarring on her breasts, which made investigators think that she had undergone some kind of surgery. She also had a copper intrauterine device.
Mary was around 240 pounds and stood about 5’8″.
The hotel where Mary was found eventually came under new ownership and is now called the Kimpton Hotel Vintage Seattle.
In the 25 years since Mary took her own life, her fingerprints and dental records were used to try to identify her without any success.
Her DNA has been run through the CODIS database, her story and photos have been shared across the nation, and yet, nobody knows who she really was.
Recently, the King County Medical Examiner’s Office reached out to Othram to take Mary’s DNA and try to figure out who her closest surviving relatives are.
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