The Trail Went Cold - Episode 43 - Joan Risch

The Trail Went Cold

Robin Warder

True Crime, Tv & Film

4.5 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2017

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

October 24, 1961. Lincoln, Massachusetts. 30-year old housewife and mother Joan Risch vanishes from her home and the evidence at the scene suggests a violent abduction. Witnesses report seeing a bloody, disoriented woman matching Joan’s description walking down the road that day, but this woman is never found. Over one year later, evidence is uncovered to suggest Joan might have decided to stage her own disappearance. Was Joan Risch abducted, did she disappear voluntarily, or is there an altogether different explanation for what happened? We shall explore all the different angles of one of our most baffling and requested cases on this week’s episode of “The Trail Went Cold”. Additional Reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Joan_Risch http://charleyproject.org/case/joan-carolyn-risch http://archive.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/1996/08/28/8_28_96_spatterd_blood_and_speculation/ “The Search for Joan Risch: Presented by New England’s Untold Stories” Thanks to Winc for supporting our podcast. Get $22 and free shipping on your first order of wine at http://trywinc.com/cold. Please take a moment to complete a listener survey on behalf of our sponsors. The Trail Went Cold is produced and edited by Magill Foote. All music is composed by Vince Nitro.

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0:29.0	October 24th, 1961. Lincoln, Massachusetts.
0:36.2	30 year old housewife and mother Joan Risch vanishes from her home and the evidence
0:41.0	that the scene suggests a violent abduction.
0:43.0	Witnesses report seeing a bloody disoriented woman matching Jones description walking down the road that day,
0:50.0	but this woman is never found.
0:52.0	Investigators eventually uncover evidence to suggest that Joan might have decided to stage your own disappearance,
0:58.0	causing debate about whether she was really attacked or took off voluntarily. After that, the trail went cold. Oh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, it's. Oh, uh, and uh, uh,
1:25.0	uh, uh, uh, uh, uh,
1:27.0	and uh,
1:28.0	uh, uh, uh, uh, uh,
1:31.0	uh, Hello everyone and welcome to the latest episode of the Trail went cold.
1:45.0	I'm your host Robin Mordor and today we are going to be featuring one of this
1:49.7	podcast's most requested missing persons cases, the 1961 disappearance of Joan Risch.
1:57.0	I've had quite a few people ask that I cover this one, including a listener named Stacey,
2:02.0	and another listener named Alan, made a post about the case in our Facebook discussion group
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