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Going West: True Crime

Joan Webster // 551

Going West: True Crime

Dark West Productions

True Crime, Society & Culture, News

4.610.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

In November of 1981, a 25-year-old graduate student at Harvard vanished after arriving at Boston’s Logan Airport after being with family for Thanksgiving. For years, investigators chased down connections to an alleged serial killer, and yet no answers emerged. When her remains were discovered nearly a decade later in a secluded Massachusetts wood, the mystery only deepened, with two completely different disturbing ideas as to what happened to her. This is the murder of Joan Webster.

Transcript

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0:00.0

What is going on true crime fans? I'm your host Heath and I'm your host Daphne.

0:18.8

And you're listening to Going West. Hello everybody.

0:22.4

Thank you so much for tuning in. If you're listening when this episode comes out, hope you had a very

0:26.3

safe and fun Halloween. Keith and I are so ready to like settle into the cozy season. So today we have a

0:32.9

very suspicious autumn case for you guys with a potential cover up. There's a lot of mystery associated with this one.

0:41.1

Yeah, and this case takes place right around Thanksgiving,

0:44.3

so we figured that this would be the perfect time to cover it.

0:47.9

So put your sleuthing caps on for this wild episode of Going West.

0:52.9

Should we make a sleuthing cap merch? I think we should. We need like a hat that just says sleuthing on it. This is my sleuthing cap. Actually, we, I don't know if we've said this yet. We posted on socials, I did like a try-on video with a bunch of merch that we're coming out with soon. No hats, but maybe.

1:11.7

Yeah, maybe sometimes soon, but we'll keep you guys posted when we do have those items up for sale.

1:18.5

Yeah, hopefully very soon.

1:19.9

Okay, so without further ado, let us.

1:23.1

Oh, you almost stop.

1:24.3

I never know what to say.

1:26.0

All right, guys, this is episode 551 of Going West, so let's get into it. The

1:47.0

The In November of 1981, In November of 1981, a 25-year-old graduate student at Harvard vanished after arriving at Boston's

2:21.8

Logan Airport after being with family for Thanksgiving. For years, investigators chased down

2:29.3

connections to an alleged serial killer, and yet no answers emerged.

2:35.4

When her remains were finally discovered nearly a decade later in a secluded Massachusetts

2:41.8

wood, the mystery only deepened, with two completely different disturbing ideas as to what

2:50.6

happened to her.

2:53.6

This is the murder of Joan Webster.

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