In October 1961, a quiet Massachusetts neighborhood was shaken by the sudden and strange disappearance of Joan Risch, a 31-year-old mother and housewife. What was first believed to be a violent abduction soon became one of America’s strangest cold cases: bloodstains across the kitchen, phone ripped from the wall, child left unharmed and no clear suspect. Even stranger? Joan had borrowed multiple library books about disappearances in the weeks prior. In this episode of Threads of Truth, we examine what Joan may have been planning and whether she ever meant to be found.

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