#Joan Risch

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On October 24, 1961, the quiet town of Lincoln, Massachusetts, became the center of a strange mystery that has been likened to the plot of "Gone Girl" when 31-year-old Joan Risch vanished from her home under inexplicable circumstances.

Joan lived with her husband, Martin, and their two young children. That morning, Martin had departed for a business trip to New York, leaving Joan to care for their 4-year-old daughter, Lillian, and 2-year-old son, David. The day began routinely, with Joan running errands and tending to her children. After putting David down for a nap, she sent Lillian to play at a neighbor’s house, unaware that this would be the last time anyone would see her under normal circumstances.

Later that day, Lillian returned home briefly before reappearing at the neighbor’s house in distress, crying that her mother was missing and that there was "red paint all over the kitchen." Alarmed, the neighbor rushed to the Risch home and quickly realized that what Lillian had described as paint was actually blood.

Investigators were called to the scene and discovered that the blood seemed to originate from a superficial wound. It was splattered across the kitchen, leading to a chilling trail that wound through the house, from David’s nursery to the kitchen, and out toward the car. There were signs that someone had attempted to clean up the blood, but no one had called for help—although the phone had been ripped from the wall, and the phone book was open to the emergency numbers page.

Authorities initially suspected an abduction, but the investigation soon took a strange turn. A neighbor reported seeing Joan earlier that day, outside her home, looking disoriented and running in the yard, possibly after one of her children. Meanwhile, motorists claimed to have seen a woman matching Joan’s description walking near a highway construction site with what appeared to be blood on her legs.

Even more puzzling was the discovery that Joan had recently checked out several library books on disappearances and murders, including one about a woman who faked her own disappearance, leaving behind blood to make the ruse more convincing.

These revelations led to a compelling theory: Joan, possibly dissatisfied with her life after leaving a publishing career in New York City, might have staged her own disappearance. However, this theory remains speculative, as no concrete evidence has surfaced to confirm it. Joan Risch was never found, and no one has ever been charged in connection with her disappearance.

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The Violent Disappearance of Joan Risch

Joan was the picture of a mid-century American housewife, though her background hinted at a more complex story. Born in Brooklyn in 1930, she had been orphaned at a young age when her parents died in a suspicious house fire. She was adopted by relatives and grew up under the name Joan Nattrass, leaving her past behind. Joan was bright and driven; she attended Wilson College in Pennsylvania, where…

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The mysterious disappearance of Joan Risch in 1961 remains one of the most perplexing unsolved cases in the annals of American true crime. Risch, a 31-year-old wife and mother from Lincoln, Massachusetts, vanished without a trace from her home on October 24, 1961, under circumstances that have led to decades of speculation and investigation. #JoanRisch #UnsolvedMystery #MissingSince1961 #TrueCrimeMystery #LincolnMassachusetts #ColdCase #VanishedWithoutATrace #UnsolvedDisappearance #DecadesOfSpeculation #AmericanMysteries What really happened to Joan Risch, who mysteriously vanished from her home in 1961? published first on https://www.youtube.com/@bafflingmysteries/

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Joan Risch

On the morning of October 24 1961, Martin Risch got up early and left the house in his car for Logan Airport to catch an 8 a.m. flight to New York City. It was a business trip he had planned earlier, with the intention of staying overnight in Manhattan. Shortly after his departure, Joan woke the children and served them breakfast. She took her son across the street to the house of a neighbor, Barbara Barker, and left with Lillian in her car, a blue 1951 Chevrolet, for an appointment with a Bedford dentist who had been recommended by her college friend Morton.

Following the appointment, Joan took Lillian on a brief shopping trip to a nearby department store, paying in cash. At the family home on Old Bedford Road, milk and mail were delivered while the Risches were absent. Neither the milkman nor postman reported anything unusual at the residence when questioned later.

After picking up David at the Barkers', Joan and the children returned home at roughly 11:15 am. Shortly afterward, a delivery driver for a dry cleaner came to the house to pick up several of Martin's suits. He entered the house to do so and did not recall anything out of the ordinary about Joan or the house. Following his visit, Joan changed from the more formal clothing she had worn to the dentist's appointment and her shopping into a blue house dress and white sneakers.

Joan made lunch for her children and put David into his room for his afternoon nap, which almost always lasted until 2 p.m. At 1 p.m., Barbara Barker brought her son, Douglas, also 4, over to play with Lillian. During the time they were there, they observed Joan come in and out to prune some plants and put the shears she had used back in the garage.

Shortly before 2 p.m. Joan came out again and took the children back across the street to the Barkers' house. She told the two she would be back. Lillian later told police she did not see anyone else in the area at the time. She and Douglas played on a swing set from which they could not see the Risch house.

Around 2:15 p.m., Barker briefly saw Joan, wearing what she thought was a trench coat over her clothing, move quickly up her driveway, carrying something red with outstretched arms from her car towards the garage. At the time she assumed her neighbor was chasing one of the children. It was the last confirmed time anyone saw Joan Risch.

An hour later, Virginia Keene, the daughter of the Risches' next-door neighbors, got off the school bus and as she neared her home, she recalled seeing an unfamiliar car, possibly a General Motors model, dirty and two-tone with one of the colors being blue. Five minutes later, another local resident who lived on a nearby street said they stopped while driving up Old Bedford to let a car back out of either the Keenes' or the Risches' driveway. Both Virginia and her mother said there was no car in their driveway at that time.

Barker took Lillian back to her home at 3:40 p.m., intending to take her children out on a shopping trip with her. Believing Joan was still in the house, she left. When she returned at 4:15 p.m., Lillian came back to the Barkers' house. "Mommy is gone and the kitchen is covered with red paint", she told Barbara. Her brother was crying in his crib because his diaper needed to be changed. After Barbara went to the Risch house herself and verified Lillian's account, she called the police at 4:33 p.m.

Mike McHugh of the Lincoln police arrived at the house within five minutes. After briefly talking with Barbara Barker, he went into the Risch house. In the kitchen, he found the bloody smears on the walls, an overturned table, and the handset of the wall-mounted telephone ripped loose and thrown in the wastebasket, which had been taken from its usual place under the sink and left in the middle of the floor.

McHugh believed Risch might have committed suicide, and searched the house for her body. When he did not find it, he realized he would need backup searching the surrounding area. He called the desk officer who had dispatched him and advised him to call the chief, Leo Algeo. It was possible, he believed, that the entire department would need to be involved.

The department called local hospitals and asked to be notified if a woman matching Risch's description showed up, or already had been admitted. Barker had called Martin Risch's company to find out where he was; when she learned he was in New York on business, the Massachusetts State Police called him there to inform him of the family emergency. He changed his plans and caught the next flight back to Boston.

In the house, the police found some further clues. Four letters delivered that day to the mailbox at the foot of the driveway had not yet been brought in. In the kitchen, the telephone directory was found to have been opened to the page where emergency numbers could be written down, although none had been. Martin Risch explained that an empty liquor bottle found in the wastebasket was one he and his wife had finished the night before, but could not explain where empty beer bottles found in it might have come from.

Joan Risch had left behind the trench coat she had worn to the dentist that morning but appeared to have taken a plainer cloth coat. Also in the house was her pocketbook. Investigators determined that after her purchases since cashing the check the previous evening, she would have had less than $10 ($90 in modern dollars) left.

In canvassing the neighborhood, police found several other residents who reported possible sightings of Joan Risch after Barbara Barker had last seen her. At 2:45 p.m. that afternoon a woman wearing clothing similar to what Risch had last been seen in, along with a kerchief over her head tied around her chin, was seen walking along the north side of Route 2A west of its junction with Old Bedford, headed toward Concord. She appeared to be wandering, hunched over as if she were cold, and appeared untidy.

A similarly dressed woman, with blood running down her legs, was seen walking north on the Route 128 median strip in Waltham between 3:15 p.m. and 3:30 p.m., just north of Winter Street. She, too, seemed disoriented and appeared to be cradling something at her stomach. Another sighting, reportedly around 4:30 p.m., had the woman walking south along Route 128 near Trapelo Road.

Police also received some reports of the car that Virginia Keene had reported in the Risches' driveway. Their regular milkman stated that he had seen it there when he made his morning delivery five days earlier. Another neighborhood resident told investigators she had seen a blue two-tone car parked on Sunnyside Lane, a street that intersected Route 2A near Old Bedford, at 4:15 p.m. She saw a man get out, cut some branches from the nearby woods, and put them in his vehicle. Another man said he saw a light blue 1959 Ford sedan parked along Sunnyside at 2:45 p.m.

Although the blood evidence was plentiful, investigators could not conclude from it what might have occurred. Large smears were on the kitchen walls and floor; some were on the phone as well. Three bloody fingerprints were unidentified; in Joan's absence, they could not be compared with hers. A roll of paper towels was on the floor; one had been used to wipe some blood, possibly off of a hand.

Also, a coverall and pair of underpants belonging to David were on the floor. Both were bloodied as well, possibly from an attempt to clean up the blood. The coverall also appeared to have been pressed into the floor, as if a heavy weight—such as a body—had lain on them for some time. Police said later that while the bloodstains in the kitchen might have resulted from a struggle, they seemed more consistent with someone staggering around and trying to support themselves following an injury.

But the kitchen was not the only place blood was found, and the blood found elsewhere in the house—as well as outside—complicated that narrative. A 1⁄8-inch-wide (3.2 mm) drop was on the first step of the stairway. Two more of similar size were found at the top of the stairs, along with eight in the master bedroom and one near a window in the children's bedroom.

Another trail of blood led out of the kitchen into the driveway. It ended at Joan's car, which was stained in three places: the right rear fender, the left side of the hood near the windshield, and the very center of the trunk. Investigators found this last one particularly hard to interpret.

It could not be determined where the bleeding might have started—upstairs, in the kitchen, or the driveway; all possibilities supported by the evidence. Also, open was the question of whether she had left under her power or had been accompanied or even carried, perhaps involuntarily. The end of the trail in the driveway might have indicated that she had gotten into another car at that point, but that was not certain either.

What they did not find was also significant. Despite the large bloody smears on the kitchen floor and the apparent activity elsewhere in the house, there were no bloody footprints. Whoever had been walking there had either been extremely careful or very fortunate.

The blood was found to have been Type O, the most common, and the type Risch was known to have. A state police chemist found that despite appearances of a severe wound, the total blood shed amounted to merely half a pint (240 ml), which would not have suggested a life-threatening injury.

Confirmed alibis proved that Risch's husband, the mailman, and the milkman were elsewhere at the time of Risch's disappearance. Police also investigated a man on whom neighbors had cast suspicion, Robert Foster of East Walpole. In 1959 Congress had designated an area which included the Risch's neighborhood as Minute Man National Historical Park, recognizing its historical importance as the route British troops had taken when they marched out of Boston to the Battles of Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775, considered the beginning of the Revolutionary War. Plans called for acquiring and removing all structures built after 1775, thus restoring the area to its historic appearance. Foster, a purchasing agent with the National Park Service, had been visiting homes in the area to discuss the project. According to a state police detective who interviewed him a week after the disappearance, some of the women he had talked to felt he had "overstayed his welcome." Records showed Foster had visited the Risch home on September 25, a month before Joan vanished.

On the day Risch disappeared, Foster told the detective, he went out for lunch with his supervisor around 1 p.m. By 3 p.m., he recalled, he went back to the Lincoln area to meet with a property appraiser. The supervisor verified the account and also vouched for two civil engineers who had been working in the area for him making preparations for the park, saying they were in his office around 3 p.m. as well.

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The Disappearance of Joan Risch

October 26, 2021

Joan Risch (Joan Carolyn Bard) was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1930 to parents Harold and Josephine Bard. Her family moved to New Jersey when Joan was 9, and in 1940 both of her parents died in what was described later as a suspicious fire. 

It was reported that Joan had later told a friend that she had been sexually abused as a child, and after the fire she had moved in with relatives who had formally adopted her. Joan took the relatives last name, Nattrass, and had applied for a social security number under that name. 

Joan graduated in 1952 from Wilson College in Pennsylvania with a degree in English literature and she later went to work in publishing. She began working as a secretary, later moving to supervise the secretarial pool and after that became the editorial assistant at Harcourt Brace and World and later at Thomas Y. Crowell Co. In 1956 she married Martin Risch, an executive at one of the companies and left work to raise her family. 

The couple lived in Ridgefield, Connecticut, where they had their first child, a daughter named Lillian in 1958 and then a son named David in 1959. In 1961, the couple moved to Lincoln, Massachusetts. Joan became active in the League of Women Voters and Martin worked with the Fitchburg Paper Company. Joan had dreams to pursue teaching when her children became older. 

On October 24, 1961, Martin Risch woke up early and left the house to catch an 8 am flight to New York for a business trip he had planned. He was going to be staying the night in Manhattan. Shortly after Martin left, Joan woke the children up and gave them breakfast. She took David across the street to a neighbour’s house, Barbara Barker, and then took Lillian in her blue 1951 Chevrolet for a dentist appointment. 

After the appointment, Joan took Lillian shopping at a nearby department store and paid for their items in cash. Milk and the mail had been delivered to the Risches home while they were gone. Neither the milkman or postman reported seeing anything unusual. 

Joan picked up David and then they all returned home around 11:15 am. Shortly after, a delivery driver for a dry cleaner came to the house to pick up some of Martin’s suits. He entered the house and did not notice anything strange about Joan. After the delivery man left, Joan changed from her formal clothing to a blue housedress and white sneakers. 

Joan made the children lunch and put David into his room for his nap, which always lasted until 2 pm. At 1 pm, Barbara Barker, the neighbour, brought her son, Douglas over to play with Lillian. During this time, Joan was seen coming in and out of the house to prune some plants. 

Shortly before 2pm Joan came out and took the children across the street to the Barker’s house. She told them she would be back. Lillian later told police she did not see anyone else in the area at the time and that she and Douglas had played on a swing set, though they could not see the Risch house from where they were playing. 

Around 2:15 pm,  Barbara briefly saw Joan, wearing what looked like a trench coat over her clothes and moving quickly up her driveway, carrying something red and outstretched in her arms from her car to the garage. This was the last confirmed sighting of Joan Risch. 

An hour later, Virgina Keene, the daughter of the Risches’ next door neighbours, got off the school bus and as she got closer to her house she noticed an unfamiliar car, that was dirty and two-toned with one of the colours being blue. Five minutes later, another local said they stopped while driving up Old Bedford to let a car back out of either the Keenes’ or the Risches’ driveway. Both Virginia and her mother said there was no car in their driveway at that time. 

Barbara took Lillian back home at 3:40 pm, because she was going to take her children out to shop. She believed Joan was in the house, so she left. When she returned from shopping at 4:15 pm, Lillian came back over and said that her mother was gone and that the kitchen had been covered in red paint. David had been crying in his crib because his diaper needed to be changed. Barbara ran over to the house, and confirmed what Lillian had told her. She called the police at 4:33 pm. 

Sgt. Mike McHugh arrived at the Risch residence within 5 minutes. In the kitchen he found the bloody smears on the walls, the table overturned and the handset of the wall-mounted telephone ripped loose and thrown in the wastebasket, which was in the middle of the floor, not under the sink in it’s usual place. 

McHugh thought Joan may have taken her own life and searched the house for her body. He did not find it and realized he would need more help, this was not going to be an open and shut case. The police department called local hospitals and said to keep an eye out if a woman matching Joan’s description show up. Martin Risch was notified of what was going on and got on the next flight back to Boston. 

In the house, police found 4 letters delivered to the mailbox that had yet not been brought inside. In the kitchen, the telephone directory was found to have been opened to the page where emergency numbers could be written down, though no numbers had been written down. There was an empty liquor bottle found in the wastebasket, but Martin claimed him and his wife had finished it the night before, though he could not explained the empty beer bottles that were also found. 

Joan had left the trench coat she had worn earlier in the morning and appeared to have left somewhere wearing a plainer cloth coat. Her pocketbook was also found in the house and police determined she would’ve had less than $10 ($90 in today’s time) left. 

Several people reported that they had seen Joan after Barbara Barker had last seen her the afternoon of October 24. At 2:45 pm, a woman wearing clothing similar to what Joan had last been seen in, was seen walking along the north side of Route 2A west of its junction with Old Bedford, heading toward Concord. The woman had a kerchief over her head tied around her chin and appeared to be hunched over as if she were cold. The woman appeared untidy. 

Another similar looking woman to Joan was scene with blood running down her legs, walking north on the Route 128 median strip in Waltham between 3:15 and 3:30 pm just north of Winter Street. The woman appeared disoriented and was cradling something at her stomach. Another person reported seeing the woman walking south along Route 128 near Trapelo Road around 4:30 pm. 

Police received reports of the car that Virgina Keene had reported in the Risches driveway. The milkman claimed to have seen it there when he made his morning delivery. Another resident told police she had seen a blue two-toned car parked on Sunnyside Lane, at 4:15 pm. She witnessed a man get out of the car, cut some branches from the nearby woods, and put them in the car. Another man said he saw a light blue 1959 Ford sedan parked along Sunnyside at 2:45 pm. 

Though there was tons of blood in the Risch kitchen, police could not determine from where the blood might have been from. Large smears were on the walls and the floor, as well as some found on the telephone. Three bloody fingerprints were unidentified, and police were unable to see if they matched Joan’s as she was gone. A roll of paper towels was on the floor, one had been used to wipe up some blood. 

A coverall and pair of underpants belonging to David were also on the floor, covered in blood, possibly from an attempt to wipe some of it up. The coverall looked like it had been pressed into the floor, as if a heavy weight had lain on them for a while, possibly a body. Police said that the bloodstains might have been a result of a struggle, but that it mostly likely was from someone staggering around and trying to support themselves following an injury. 

Blood was also found outside the house, a 1/8 inch wide drop was found on the first step of the stairway. Two more similar sized drops were found at the top of the stairs, along with 8 drops found in the master bedroom and one near a window in the children’s bedroom. 

A trail of blood led out of the kitchen into the driveway and ended at Joan’s car, which was stained in three places: the right rear fender, the left side of the hood, and the very centre of the trunk. It could not be determined where the bleeding actually started. Some believed Joan had been carried out of the house against her own will and placed in another car. 

There was no bloody footprints found despite the amount of blood. The blood was found to be Type O, the most common blood type and it was said that this was Joan’s blood type. A police chemist determined the the amount of blood was also half a pint, not enough to have been from a life-threatening injury. 

Sareen Gerson, a reporter, went into the local library to research similar cases and came across a book about the disappearance of Brigham Young’s 27th wife, which Joan Risch had checked out the book in September, a month before she disappeared. Another book was about a woman who went missing and left behind blood smears and a towel. Gerson saw that Joan had also checked out this book. 

Gerson reported these findings in the newspaper, and volunteers looked through records, discovering that Joan had taken out 25 books over the summer of 1961, many of which had to do with murders and missing people. Due to this, some believe that Joan had staged her own crime scene and disappeared purposely. 

Police determined that Martin Risch, the mailman and the milkman had all been elsewhere during Joan’s disappearance. Police looked into a man named Robert Foster, as neighbours believed he was suspicious. Foster had been known to visit homes in the area discussing a project to restore the area back to its historical appearance from the Revolutionary War. Some women told police that Foster had “overstayed his welcome” while visiting homes to discuss this project. Foster had visited Joan Risch on September 25, almost exactly a month before she went missing. 

On the day Joan disappeared, Foster told detectives that he went out for lunch with his supervisor around 1 pm. By 3 pm, he went back to the Lincoln area to meet with a property appraiser. This alibi was completely confirmed. 

Martin Risch continued to live in the house and raise the children. He never had Joan legally declared as dead. Eventually, Martin moved to a house in Lexington and died in 2009. 

There are many theories about what happened to Joan Risch, with many believing she wanted to run away from her life. Though, a friend of hers said that Joan was very satisfied with her life and wouldn’t of had a reason to run away. Martin proposed that maybe his wife had an amnesia episode or a psychological breakdown and forgotten how to return home. Joan had no history of mental illness. 

There was another popular theory, that Joan was pregnant and had died as a result from a botched abortion performed in her house. Some believe the blue two-toned car that many saw, belonged to a person who had come to perform the abortion and that at some point something had gone wrong. The loss of blood may have disoriented Joan, where she had stumbled around the kitchen trying to call 911 but had been stopped possibly. This also matches up with the police thinking she may have been carried from the house to a car in the driveway and driven off. This matches the blood trail that led outside the house and stopped in the driveway. This also would describe Barbara Barker, who claimed she saw Joan wearing a trench coat and carrying something red. 

None of this has ever been confirmed, it is unknown if Joan was pregnant, and none of the reported sightings of her walking along the road make sense. Why would she be walking along the road? 

It is unlikely that the whereabouts of Joan Risch will ever been known, as the last investigator on the case died in 2009, and most people involved would probably be dead. If Joan was alive today and had left her old life behind, she would be 91 years old. 

[thornswithroses]

I think of all the missing person cases I’ve read, Joan Risch’s has to be one of the most haunting ones. I feel this impenetrable sadness each time I read about it.

I have my own theory of what happened. I mean, it’s up in the air if it’s likely or not, but I always wondered if Risch had done a botched abortion at home. Maybe she left home because she didn’t want anyone to find out and have that be a scandal for her family. 

People wonder if she had faked her disappearance due to the true-crime books (about missing persons) she had checked out in the library.  I guess I can add another layer to that and theorize that she knew that if she attempted an abortion, there was a likelihood that she could die. If the abortion went well, she would keep it a secret, if it didn’t, she would disappear to die and not risk anyone finding out. 

I guess the reason I am so drawn to this case is that I feel that she was afraid to share whatever was hurting her. I feel like she was more mysterious than even her own situation was. Mind you, these are the vibes I get whenever I read about her. 

It’s probably too late now, but I hope her children find peace. 

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A,U,B,R,E and Y? :3c

A - If I’m in love.

YES  w myself

U - How many texts I send daily.

answered!!

B - Who the last person I talked to on the phone was.

probably jackie and her sister who is THE funniest person alive

R - For me to tell 10 of my curiosities.

hmm

1. why there are so many jane doe cases

2. who jonbenet ramsey’s killer was. i have so many theories.

3. why true crime people fetishize serial killers when true crime should be about honoring victims and helping their families

4. why tf raspberries are good

5. just everything about math 

6. why was american vandal canned

7. how to gain more weight on a budget

8. where joan risch is

9. h

10. why can’t i have 10,000 dollars

E - How many holes I have in my ears.

2, but i want my conch done!

Y - If I like my town and why.

i miss it like crazy. i miss all the amazing food. i miss my cat. i miss walking outside at night during the summer. 

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31-year-old Joan Risch lived in Lincoln, Massachusetts, with her husband, Martin, and their two children. On 24 October, 1961, Martin went on a business trip to New York, leaving his wife at home with their children. The morning was an uneventful one, with Joan running her regular errands before putting 2-year-old David, her son, down for a nap. As David was napping, Joan sent her 4-year-old daughter, Lillian, over to a neighbour’s house to play with their son, Douglas. What took place next is shrouded in mystery.

Later in the day, Lillian arrived back home before showing up at the neighbour’s house once again, wailing that her mother had disappeared and that there was “red paint all over the kitchen.” An investigation revealed that the paint the little girl described was actually blood. Investigators concluded that the blood was from a superficial wound. The phone had been ripped from the wall and beside it lay the phone book, open at the emergency phone numbers page, although no calls had made. Nothing appeared to be out of place and nothing had been stolen, ruling out robbery. Drops of blood led to then David’s nursery, where he remained untouched, and then the blood led to the kitchen and then out to the car. An attempt had been made to mop some of the blood up.

Authorities immediately thought that an abduction had taken place but some eyewitness statements complicated this theory. Douglas’ claimed that they had seen Joan earlier in the day. She looked dazed and confused and was running outside her house, wearing a dark trench coat. The neighbour also said it appeared as though she was carrying something red as she ran towards the garage. She confessed that she had assumed that she was chasing one of her children. Several motorists also reported seeing a woman that matched Joan’s description, walking near a highway construction site, with what appeared to be blood on her legs. Even more bizarrely, instigators discovered that Joan had check out numerous library books in the run up to her disappearance; all of these books were about murders and disappearances. One book was, suspiciously, about a woman who faked her own disappearance; leaving behind her own blood to make it more believable

Many people theorise that Joan, bored with her marital life after abandoning her publishing career in New York City, staged her own disappearance. If this is true or not, Joan has never been found and nobody has been charged with her disappearance.

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Still doing Unsolved ask meme? How about 5, 14, 19?

5) What, in your eyes, really happened to Brent?

I like to think that either he was (1) fired or left, which is boring, but also consider that (2) he went out to find Bigfoot and was eaten by him.

14) What’s your favorite urban legend?

The hook man because of the “man door hook hand car door” meme and it’s also scared me badly. The babysitter and the clown statue/man upstairs/calls are coming from inside the house are overplayed but still fun to read. (Oddly enough this urban legend is based on some truth and it’s n u t s.)

19) What is your favorite true crime story? (Not just on Unsolved, overall.)

I’m still interested in the Zodiac, Alphabet Killer (my mom went to school with one of the girls that was killed so thanks for telling me that when I was 10, mom), whatever is happening in Rochester right now with the burning bodies, the Villisca axe murders, the Hinterkaifeck murders, I’m counting the Lost Colony at Roanoke because that scares me still, David Webster the original Shark Boy who probably got eaten by sharks, and Joan Risch is the one I’m super interested in right now.

Thanks for asking!!

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18 Unsolved Missing Persons Cases That'll Shake You To Your Core

18 Unsolved Missing Persons Cases That’ll Shake You To Your Core

18 Unsolved Missing Persons Cases That’ll Shake You To Your Core

We asked the BuzzFeed Community to tell us which unsolved missing persons cases interest them the most. Here are the creepy, sad, and mind-boggling results. Note: Not all submissions are from Community users.

1. Joan Risch, disappeared 1961 Wikipedia Commons / Public Domain

Risch was 31 when she vanished from her Boston home ,…

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Week 3: Missing Person

This week’s topic is a missing person, she disappeared in 1961 so it’s kind of old and it’s still unsolved. 

Joan was born on May 12, 1930 in Brooklyn, NY. When she was only 10 years old, her parents passed away in a suspicious fire in 1940. That didn’t stop her from getting a good education; she went to Wilson College in Chambersburg, PA and graduated in 1952 with an English Degree. After getting her degree she started working as a secretary and later moved to the secretarial pool at her job. Later become an editorial assistant at Harcourt Brace & World-- later worked at Thomas Y. Crowell. Joan met a guy at one of her jobs and later married him in 1956, she left work to start a family. After 5 years, Martin and Joan moved to Lincoln, Massachusetts where they lived until her disappearance. Joan became very active in her community, actually becoming very active in the League of Women Voters society.

 Now you’ve gotten kind of a background of Joan and who she was in this world, let start with her disappearance because there’s a lot to cover. On October 24,1961 Martin left early to catch a flight at Logan Airport to NYC for business. Joan started her morning as usual, waking up the kids and getting them breakfast and ready for the day ahead of them. She had a dentist appointment so she dropped off her youngest child, David, with a neighbor, Barbara Baker and just took Lillian, her daughter, with her to the appointment. After the appointment, the girls went shopping for a few items. Joan picked up David roughly around 11:15am from Barbara and stayed home for the rest of the day. Barbara reports seeing Joan in a trench coat and carrying a red item to her car around 2:15pm, which Barb found odd. They had milk dropped off by the milkman, which he reported nothing unusual, same with the mailman.

 The investigation is little tricky because there isn’t a whole lot of evidence. Barb called the police after going to the Risch’s residence to pick up her child, to find Joan missing and some blood splatters around the house. Barb called the police at 4:33pm and Sergeant Mike McHugh arrived about five mins later. McHugh saw some blood smears on the wall, the living room table was overturned, and the kitchen phone was ripped loose and thrown in the trash, which was taken from the usual place of under the sink to the middle of the floor. They also found empty beer bottles in the trash can which no one in the household drink, and there was four letters delivered at the foot of the driveway on the same day of Joan’s disappearance. Another odd thing they found while the detectives were looking for other clues in the house, was library books. Joan had been checking out books with the topics of staging your own disappearance and how to disappear pretty much. As soon as the police knew that Joan wasn’t in the house at all, they informed Martin and he jumped on the next flight to Boston. Most of the evidence the police found was blood. The blood smears appeared as if someone was staggering, trying to support themselves, not so much as a struggle scene. The blood was mainly in the kitchen but it lead outside too, but there wasn’t any blood footprints as you would assume. There was blood on the stairway, eight drops in the master bedroom, one drop near the window of a child’s room, top of the stairs, and on Joan’s car; right rear fender, left side of hood near the windshield, and the center of the truck. Those are some oddly specific places for blood to just land there. The blood wasn’t Joan’s I should add, it wasn’t the kids or anyone in the family. The DNA was not in the system so they still don’t know to this day whose blood that was in the house and around the car.

They had one possible suspect. It was Robert Foster of East Walpole, he was a purchasing agent with National Park services. He visited Joan a month before her disappearance but he was ruled out because he was having lunch with his supervisor between 1pm-3pm. He was pretty much the only suspect because Joan didn’t get a lot of visitors so that was another hard thing about this case. There was a lot of “sightings” people claimed to be Joan after the disappearance. One witness said that a person walking along route 2A west was wearing similar clothes to Joan but had a kerchief over the head, and appeared wandering aimlessly, hunched over as if she was cold, and looked untidied. Another witness sighted seeing a women in similar clothing of Joan but had blood running down her leg, walking north on route 128 around 3:15-3:30pm. She also appeared disorientated and cradling something at her stomach. Since there isn’t a lot of solid evidence or witnesses or even suspects, we like to form theories. One theory was that she fell into a construction site along route 128 and the workers didn’t see her body and just buried her. The theory I briefly brought up of her staging her own disappearance, Martin and friend’s of Joan say that that is very unlikely of her. The easiest theory probably has to be she had an accident on route 128 and passed away, everyone is unsure of why she would be walking along the highway but it’s more likely than staging her own disappearance and the construction workers burying a body theories. But Martin was hopeful until the day he passed on, he never declared her dead and he probably has the answers now since they’re probably together now.

It’s an odd and old case but it’s still interesting to see how police and detectives work to get evidence together and get answers. If Joan is still alive to this day, she would be turning 89 this year. Her kids have stayed out of the media since they were young and can’t really help, so we will continue to do theories.

[hauntedlindsays-blog]

053 - Mysterious Disappearance-stravaganza

The Lindsays are doing a final episode about mysterious disappearances, after which that topic will not-so-mysteriously disappear! So this week it's the MV Joyita, Dorothy Arnold, Frederick Valentich, Joan Risch, Ray Gricar, Béla Kiss, the Sodder Children and Louis Le Prince. We'll be back with a new episode next week (unless we mysteriously disappear, which we... probably won't).

Our latest spookybits

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President Trump Makes Progress on Judicial Vacancies

On August 1, 2017, Alex Swayer of the Washington Times reported that while President Donald Trump has had difficulty filling many posts in the Executive Branch, he is moving at a brisk pace on judicial nominations.[1]

Five of the judges nominated thus far by President Trump have already been confirmed by the Senate, including one to the Supreme Court of the United States, three to Federal circuit courts, and one to a Federal district court. At the same point in his first term, President Barack Obama had no judges confirmed and President George W. Bush had only three (one circuit and two district court judges).

The article notes that President Trump had a total of 137 judicial vacancies to fill. He has already nominated 28 individuals, which is more than did President Obama but slightly fewer than President Bush at comparable times in their first terms in office. With five nominees already confirmed, there are 23 outstanding nominees. Six are nominees for critical Federal circuit court openings and sixteen are nominees for Federal district court openings.

The following are the names and profiles of the five judges who have been confirmed thus far:

1. Justice Neil Gorsuch

Court: United States Supreme Court

Confirmed on April 7, 2017 by a vote of 54-45

We wrote a comprehensive profile on Justice Gorsuch during the confirmation process [see blog]. Please see our short post on Justice Gorsuch's confirmation to see a list of articles we wrote on the subject [see blog].

2. Judge Amul Thapar

Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

Confirmed on May 8, 2017 by a vote of 52-44

Judge Thapar had previously been a judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky. Judge Thapar features on President Trump's list of potential Supreme Court nominees, and he was reportedly one of the finalists interviewed for the vacancy that eventually went to now-Justice Gorsuch [see blog]. Judge Thapar will be a name to watch in the event that another vacancy opens on the Supreme Court during President Trump's term. Judge Thapar also has experience as an assistant U.S. attorney and in private practice. He graduated from California, Berkeley School of Law.[2]

3. Judge David Nye

Court: United States District Court for the District of Idaho

Confirmed on May 8, 2017 by a vote of 100-0

Judge Nye had been a state court judge in Idaho. He had been nominated to the same seat by President Barack Obama in 2015 but was not confirmed before President Obama left office. President Trump re-nominated Nye on the advice of Idaho Senators Mike Crapo and Jim Risch, who had previously recommended him to then-President Obama.[3]

4. Judge John Bush

Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

Confirmed on July 20, 2017 by a vote of 51-47

John Bush was a nationally-recognized corporate attorney prior to being confirmed to the Sixth Circuit. He graduated from Harvard Law School.[4] Judge Bush joins Judge Thapar as a second new judge on the Sixth Circuit.

5. Judge Kevin Newsom

Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

Confirmed on August 1, 2017 by a vote of 66-31

Kevin Newsom worked in private practice prior to being confirmed to the Eleventh Circuit. Prior to that, he served for four years as Solicitor General of Alabama. In 2011, Newsom was appointed by Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts to serve on the 10-member Advisory Committee on Appellate Rules. Judge Newsom graduated from Harvard Law School and clerked for then-Supreme Court Justice David Souter. It is worth noting that Judge Newsom is the youngest of the new judges at only 44 years of age.[5]

The following is the list of President Trump's pending circuit court nominees:

Stephanos Bibas (Third Circuit);

Joan Larsen (Sixth Circuit);

Amy Coney Barrett (Seventh Circuit);

Ralph R. Erickson (Eighth Circuit);

David Stras (Eighth Circuit); and

Allison H. Eid (Tenth Circuit).

It is worth noting that Judges Larsen, Stras, and Eid are all on President Trump's Supreme Court list. Judge Eid is President Trump's pick to fill the Tenth Circuit seat vacated after Justice Gorsuch was confirmed to the Supreme Court.

We will update the site periodically with information about news on judicial nominees and confirmations.

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Wood, Mary. “Lecturer, Judge Amul Thapar Nominated to 6th Circuit Court of Appeals.” University of Virginia School of Law. May 25, 2017. Law.virginia.edu

Russell, Betsy Z. “New Judge Nye sworn in today, going right to work.” The Spokesman Review. Aug. 1, 2017. Spokesman.com

Severino, Carrie. “Who is John Bush?” National Review Online. May 7, 2017. Nationalreview.com

Severino, Carrie. “Who is Kevin Newsom?” National Review Online. May 7, 2017. Nationalreview.com

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