Disappearance of Joan Risch
- Year
- 1961
- Where
- Massachusetts
- Source
- Wikipedia
- Evidence
- 1
On October 24, 1961, Joan Carolyn Risch (née Bard; also known as Joan Nattrass), a 31-year-old housewife, disappeared under mysterious circumstances from her home in Lincoln, Massachusetts. That afternoon, a neighbor discovered a trail of blood leading from the house to the driveway after Risch's young daughter returned from a playdate to find her mother missing. Several unconfirmed sightings of a disoriented woman…
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Podcast episodes
- A Bloody Kitchen, Coat Hangers & A Missing Mother: The Disappearance of Joan RischMile Higher · 2023
- The Trail Went Cold - Episode 43 - Joan RischThe Trail Went Cold · 2017
- Joan Risch // 347Going West: True Crime · 2023
- The Baffling Disappearance of Joan Risch, Part OneMurder, She Told · 2026
- 275: The Mysterious Disappearance of Joan Risch w/ Stephen Ahern - A True Crime History PodcastMost Notorious! A True Crime History Podcast · 2022
In the Internet Archive
- Episode 33: The Unsolved Disappearance of Joan RischAudio · 2020
- The Bizarre Disappearance of Joan Risch - The NUTV FilesVideo · 2022
- 267: A Bloody Kitchen, Coat Hangers & A Missing Mother: The Disappearance of Joan RischAudio · 2023
- DARK MATTERS # 3 The Disappearance Of Joan RischVideo
- Ep62 New England's Nightmare on Elm StreetAudio · 2021
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