i went to our house i noticed that the door that was usually open was locked shot the windows were
locked shot and it was 98 degrees out that die and i rang the doorbell nobody answered
nobody's car was there in the pit of my stomach i knew something had happened to her
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today we're going to be discussing three journalists that mysteriously disappeared
let's get into it number one susan walsh on july 16 1996 36 year old susan walsh needed to make
a phone call since she didn't have a phone she planned to use a pay phone a block away from her
nutley new jersey apartment like she usually did it was around noon when she left and on her way
out she told her estranged husband mark walsh that she was stepping out mark lived in a connecting
apartment to where susan lived with her 12 year old son but susan never returned mark reported
her missing and a day or two later police searched her home they didn't find anything indicating a
crime had occurred there and no one saw susan leave her home or use the pay phone that day
in fact no outgoing calls were made from any other pay phones near her apartment on the morning she
went missing there was one thing in the apartment that caught the attention of the police though in
her wall calendar the month of july had been torn out to detective lieutenant steven rogers of the
nutley police department the missing month is a mysterious clue in susan's disappearance to me
that's significant he said did she have something planned on that that someone didn't want us to see
susan had been juggling a lot in the months leading up to her disappearance
she was a freelance journalist for the new york weekly the village voice and was working on her
master's degree in writing at new york university she also occasionally worked as an exotic dancer
at the clubs around new jersey for extra money which she'd done on and off since college
according to susan's father she struggled to leave behind the easy money that came with dancing
even though she aspired to be a full-time writer she did it to earn some extra money and support
her and her son and it was also where she got a lot of information for her stories
one of her recent articles had garnered a lot of attention it was an expose in the village
voice about the russian mob who allegedly forced female immigrants to work in strip clubs for them
susan's father floyd merchant believes the article opened up a threat to her
friends say susan was getting more and more paranoid telling people she was being targeted
by mobsters and stalkers she believed two contracts had been taken out to kill her
she feared for her life and started drinking again after over a decade of sobriety and stopped
taking the medication she was on to stabilize her mental health the last time i met her she
was worried about someone having her killed she was coming apart at the seam said her father
susan was also working as a researcher on the book titled red light inside the sex industry the book
was co-authored by her mentor at the village voice james ridgeway and focused on the corruption and
criminal activity in the industry she had also written an article for the village voice about
the underground vampire scene in manhattan she was led to the story after she received a tip about
blood going missing from nyc hospitals susan became immersed in the underground subculture
even reportedly dating a man who believed he was a vampire she wrote a follow-up piece on the topic
but it rejected because according to ridgeway susan got totally absorbed with the vampire thing
the theories the energy flows some suspect that her disappearance is related to the article
and its subjects however there's no evidence to support that theory
in 1996 susan was interviewed for a documentary about exotic dancers called stript
in the interview she spoke about how she'd become disenchanted by the industry when her beeper goes
off she laughs and says it must be my stalker then her tone turns more serious as she says
no i do have a stalker two days later she went missing susan's father suspects that the police
initially discredited susan's case because she was an exotic dancer at one point police suspected
that she left voluntarily her father never believed that theory especially because she left
everything behind her purse pager keys medication and most importantly her son he says susan was
a devoted mother who never would have abandoned her child stephen rodgers doesn't believe there's
a connection between susan's death and the mob story she published however foul play is suspected
her estranged husband mark walsh was never considered a suspect in the case police say
susan's case has been especially difficult to investigate because so many people who were in
her life when she went missing have either died or couldn't be reached they're still searching
for a person of interest who they believe have information about susan's disappearance
and ask anyone with information to reach out to the netley police department in new jersey
number two noriko sushi day november 24th 1998 was a long day of work for noriko touched
the 24 year old was an editing reporter for aisle shima a community magazine in my prefecture japan
she had just returned from a trip to thailand the day before and didn't leave the office until 11 pm
unfortunately noriko never made it home to her family
they started to worry and reported her missing when her car was discovered the next morning
it was located in a parking lot one kilometer from her work but her bag and keys were nowhere to be
found inside the car police found cigarette butts even though noriko didn't smoke and
the driver's seat was pushed back much further back than noriko would typically have it set
the may prefectural police initially treated it as a runaway case but her family believed
she was a victim of foul play and that she wouldn't have run off on her own accord
the police eventually opened an official investigation into noriko's disappearance and
80 police officers searched the area surrounding her work which included a wooded area and a lake
investigators also questioned approximately 700 people in connection to nuriko's disappearance but
they didn't establish any leads a former detective said that he was suspicious of the case from the
beginning the parking lot where noriko's car had been found belonged to an insurance company
and it wasn't where she usually parked her car was also parked diagonally which he found strange
there was one person of interest identified in the case a man who noriko previously interviewed
for the magazine he'd called her four times the day she went missing the man was questioned by
police and he admitted to seeing her on the night of november 24th according to him they'd met to
discuss the previous interview he picked her up and they talked in his car and then he dropped her
off where her car was later found but he said that he didn't know what happened to her after that
in 2008 rumors began to circulate that noriko had been kidnapped and taken to north korea
according to a government official they had a source who specifically named
nuriko as someone who may have been abducted and taken to the country
the may prefectural police then re-investigated her case to look into the claim
a government official said it's strange that a person from a third country would know the name
of a person who is not designated as an abductee or a missing person this claim has yet to be
confirmed by police for years noriko's family and friends would meet on the anniversary of
her disappearance and distribute flyers with her photos in hopes that it would help them find her
right now it is still unknown how and why she disappeared 20 years ago
number three jody who'sentroot
it's been 22 years since a young anchor woman from minnesota went missing she was on her way
to work when police believe she was attacked jodie who's intrude was last heard from on june 27 1995.
she overslept that morning for the early shift at her station in mason city iowa and got a call from
her newsroom to check on her investigators believe someone grabbed jody as she was headed to her car
kate raditz looks back on the search for her that's now been going on more than two decades for
many residents of mason city iowa judy husentrut was a familiar face she was a news anchor for the
k-i-m-t tv and they saw her almost every morning when she hosted the six o'clock morning news
but on june 27 1995 she was running late typically jody would arrive at the station around 3 am but
by 4 am there was no sign of jody so her producer amy coons gave her a call jody answered her phone
she had slept in but would be right there since she lived just five minutes away from the station
it wouldn't take her long according to amy jodie seemed normal during their call but when 5am hit
and jody still wasn't at work amy called again but this time there was no answer instead she anchored
the 6am show herself and asked a co-worker to call the police and request a welfare check on jody
at 7 16 am the police arrived at jodi's apartment complex and realized a crime had occurred in the
parking lot jody's red mazda miata was still there there were signs of a struggle around it
they could see drag marks on the wet pavement and they found her bent car key nearby along
with her red high heels blow dryer and earrings search teams combed through the surrounding area
but didn't find anything else police believe jody was abducted from a parking lot of our apartment
between 4 and 4 30 am there were no signs that jody or her abductor entered her car but they
found a partial palm print on the vehicle when police searched her apartment they noticed a
toilet seat was lifted which suggested to them that a man was the last one to use it
while police were investigating the scene jody's friend john vesice was walking by and started
talking with the police he told him that he saw jody the night before she had been at his house
to watch a video of her surprise 27th birthday party which she hosted for her earlier that month
he'd also spent the weekend prior with her and a few other friends waterskiing in iowa city john
was 22 years older than jody and although friends believed he was interested in her she denied being
romantically involved with him when police asked him about his whereabouts that morning
john said that he was home and had his friend ladonna call him around 6 am to confirm their
morning walk which she confirmed he provided a palm print and was given a polygraph test
though the results of both were never released police also interviewed jody's neighbors who
reported hearing a scream around 4 30 am since the apartment complex was next to a busy campsite
the residents drugged the scream off as noisy campers and didn't report it to the police
a neighbor also reported seeing a light-colored van in the apartment parking lot early that
morning but the vehicle was never discovered the police also considered how jody's job might have
played a part in her disappearance since she was in the public eye on october 8th she called the
police after being followed by someone in a white truck while she was out for a run she began taking
self-defense classes and told her instructor that she thought she was being followed the day before
her disappearance she was at an awards dinner at the mason city country club she talked with some
guests and mentioned that she needed to change her phone number as she was getting nasty and naughty
phone calls but didn't share any further details about who they were from with no solid evidence
or leads jody's case went cold on may of 2001 she was declared legally dead by a judge on the 10th
anniversary of her disappearance her friends created jody's network of hope a non-profit
that hosts an annual golf tournament in long prairie to honor jody and raise safety awareness
in 2020 drug kingpin dustin honkin who is awaiting execution for killing five people in the 90s
was suggested as a suspect some speculated that he and his accomplice angela johnson were involved in
jody's disappearance johnson previously worked at the mason city country club as a server where jody
was seen the night before she went missing johnson stated that she wasn't working that night which
was corroborated by a server who knew johnson and was working at the time no evidence has been
found to concretely connect dustin honkin or angela johnson to jody's disappearance
in late 2020 a private investigator named steven ridge announced that someone interviewed by police
at the time of jody's disappearance confess to him that they destroyed potential key evidence in the
case he'd been in touch with federal authorities and had passed the information along to them in
hopes that it was pivotal information they need to open the case though the informant
and potential evidence has not been revealed ridge says i believe that this will continue
to fuel uh an investigation that's going to result in an outcome here that in terms of identifying
a perpetrator the mason city police department is still currently investigating jody's disappearance
with help from the iowa department of criminal investigation and the fbi well that is going to be
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