Episode 71: Olga Schultz Mauger with guest reader Susan Ruttan

She Goes By Jane

September 1934, a 21-year-old newlywed, Olga Schultz Mauger, heads to Togwotee Pass in Wyoming to hunt elk on her honeymoon with her new husband. He says he last saw her sitting on a boulder in the mountains when they stopped to rest. Then, she simply vanished. Now, 90 years later, Olga is considered Wyoming’s oldest known missing persons case.

This week we’re joined by Susan Ruttan. Known for her role for her role of ‘Roxanne’ on the acclaimed “L.A. Law”, for which she was nominated for Emmys on four consecutive seasons, she has seamlessly moved between television, stage and film through her career. She has many memorable television appearances on shows like “Bosom Buddies”, “Newhart”, “Grey’s Anatomy” “Mom” and most recently a recurring role on the Netflix hit series, “A Man on the Inside” starring Ted Danson”.

She teamed with Brian Dennehy and Treat Williams in several NBC ‘Jack Reed’ movies for television. Other television movie roles included “Helter Skelter”, “Terror in the Towers”, a recounting of the 1993 terrorist bombing under the World Trade Towers in Manhattan and was ‘Mrs. Claus’ in “The Ultimate Christmas Present” for the Disney Channel.

Susan has appeared in the feature films: “The Sure Hand of God”, “Love Kills”, “Honky Tonk Freeway”, “Independence Day”, and portrayed Gene Wilder’s stepmother in Paramount’s “Funny About Love”.

Born in Oregon, she started her career as a costume designer in the theatre in Santa Cruz, then moved to Los Angeles and worked as an assistant casting director At Universal and Paramount before landing her first professional acting job. Susan lives in Los Angeles with her son Jackson.

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