275: The Mysterious Disappearance of Joan Risch w/ Stephen Ahern - A True Crime History Podcast

Most Notorious! A True Crime History Podcast

Erik Rivenes

True Crime, History, Education

4.7 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2022

⏱️ 122 minutes

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Summary

On October 24th, 1961, one of the greatest unsolved mysteries in Massachusetts history began when housewife and mother Joan Risch vanished from her home. Investigators were perplexed by a kitchen floor smeared with blood, a telephone receiver ripped from the wall and placed gently on the edge of a trash basket, and a bloodhound who traced her scent to the middle of her driveway. Later, drivers would report seeing someone resembling Joan stumbling along local highways, apparently dazed and injured.

My guest, Stephen Ahern, is author of "A Kitchen Painted in Blood: The Unsolved Disappearance of Joan Risch". He teamed up with a retired FBI profiler and a cold case detective to try and piece together a possible explanation of what happened to Joan that fateful day.

More about the author and his book here: https://expositbooks.com/product/a-kitchen-painted-in-blood/

Buy it through Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Kitchen-Painted-Blood-Unsolved-Disappearance/dp/1476681848/

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0:00.0	Kofugist glev födga efter en vandal.
0:04.6	Morse ausgivar beroent bak reasoning.
0:07.1	Kommer du att man compares till en ägs
0:26.2	Ikea är WTOFizin som sidan.
0:56.2	Hallo MYG!
1:26.2	Tack så mycket för att komma in.
1:28.2	Great to have you.
1:29.2	Nice to... Thank you very much.
1:32.2	Så, this is a case you remember hearing about as a child, right?
1:38.2	I do.
1:40.2	My folks and I used to travel up to see an uncle in Concord, Massachusetts.
1:47.2	And on our way back we would drive on our road called Route 2A.
1:52.2	As we passed Old Bedford Road, which is the road that the richest had their home.
1:59.2	My father pointed out the window to the road and said basically that's the road that Joan Rich had gone.
2:06.2	I didn't fully understand the reference, but I started looking at the newspapers and saw that it was a big issue
2:13.2	in the local newspapers.
2:16.2	And for some reason I've always remembered it.
2:19.2	So when I got back from Maryland in 2019, I started looking into it again.
2:26.2	And I was able to get records from the District Attorney's Office that allowed me to investigate.
2:35.2	It was about 5,000 pages of records.
2:38.2	And I was able then to investigate the case more fully and write a book about it.
2:46.2	And as you put this book together, you had help from a former FBI criminal profiler and a cold case detective, right?
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