ABOUT THIS EPISODE
In October 1961, 31-year-old Joan Risch vanished from her home in Lincoln, Massachusetts, leaving behind a blood-smeared kitchen and a telephone ripped from the wall. There was no body and no sign of forced entry, but there were fingerprints on the wall that seemingly weren't hers. Some witnesses reported a dazed, bleeding woman wandering a nearby highway that afternoon. Others pointed to the stack of library books Joan had checked out about staged disappearances. But more than sixty years later, her case still remains unsolved.
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