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Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries

36: Into Thin Air: The Unsolved Disappearance of Joan Risch

Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries

Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries

True Crime, Fiction, Drama, History

4.83.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

What happened to Joan Risch the last day she was ever seen?

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Heart Starts Pounding is written and produced by Kaelyn Moore.

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0:00.0

If you're tuning into this podcast, you've got a thing for True Crime.

0:03.8

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0:06.4

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0:13.2

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0:17.6

most prominent figures in the world of True Crime.

0:20.1

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0:22.7

The expert led True Crime channel available on your platform of choice.

0:26.8

Head to CrimeCon.co.uk to book now.

0:30.5

Listen to discretion as advised.

0:35.5

October 24th, 1961.

0:39.0

Officer B.Q. parked his cruiser by the suburban home on Old Bedford Road, around 5 pm.

0:45.8

His shift was nearly over.

0:48.0

It had been an otherwise uneventful day, and he hoped this would be the last dispatch

0:53.0

before driving home for the night.

0:55.4

The emergency call had come from another woman who lived on Old Bedford Road in Massachusetts.

1:00.6

A neighbor.

1:02.0

She seemed stressed, but composed.

1:05.5

Almost as if she was trying to convince herself everything was fine.

1:09.9

The woman told McEw that she was worried about her neighbor, Joan Rish.

1:14.4

Joan's four-year-old daughter had wandered over to the woman's house around 4.15 pm,

1:19.7

and told her that mommy was gone, and there was red paint all over the kitchen.

1:25.7

Could someone please come over and just take a look?

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