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Sources can be found in the show notes. Hello and welcome back to Colt Leader. I'm your cult leader, Spencer Henry, and this week, Colbaves, we are discussing a case involving a woman who disappeared seemingly

out of nowhere. As perplexing as that is on its own, it's really the theories that have erupted

since her disappearance that sent me and many others on a deep dive, scrambling to learn more

information about possible mafia connections,

and an alleged vampire cult. Yeah, I mean, there's a lot of layers to this. This is the story

of Susan Walsh, a 36-year-old journalist who walked out of her New Jersey apartment complex in the summer of 1996, never to be

seen again. To this day, not a single person in Susan's life knows what happened to her.

Or if they do know anything, they haven't come forward with any information whatsoever pertaining to

what happened to her on that day.

You know, the more I learned about Susan's story, her disappearance, the more that I felt

pulled in several different directions. There were times where I'd finished watching an interview

or a news special reading an article.

And I'd feel really confident that one of the suspects involved was at fault.

But then I'd read a report from the police department or a document related to the case that would push me into this entirely different thought pattern.

And at the end of the day, this has got to be one of the most

perplexing disappearances that I've researched to date. I mean, we're talking notes, on notes,

on notes, I've got all the police files, I've got everything here. So I mean, Susan, Susan Walsh,

by all accounts, she was an enigma. Born in 1960s, she was a gal who went after what she

wanted in life. And above all else, Susan wanted to be a journalist. But she was up against

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