Joan Rish: An unfortunate victim or a pragmatic fugitive? (6 photos)

Joan Risch, 31, has had everything she can think of in her life. dream of a normal woman: a loving husband, two lovely children, a cozy house. But the woman has always been cramped within the framework of a boring life. What, may have been the cause of the following events.





October 24, 1961 from a resident of Lincoln, State Connecticut police received a wake-up call. The woman stated that Joan - her neighbor something happened. She helped Rish with the children. And took eldest daughter, 4-year-old Lillian, for a couple of hours so that Joan could get some rest while the younger David slept in the afternoon. But at the appointed time time the mother did not take the child. And when the neighbor went to find out if something happened, she did not find the owner.



Joan Rish

The sergeant who arrived at the call found chaos at home. But strange. The kitchen was smeared with blood, but the stains were neat. Coffee table flipped but not broken. The phone book is open on the page with emergency numbers, and off-hook. But calls from the Rish family's home that day did not arrive.

Sergeant Mike McHugh inspected the house for the discovery body, suspecting suicide. But he wasn't. But the walls, including the nursery, where baby David was still sleeping peacefully in his crib, were speckled bloody handprints.

The woman's car was parked outside the house. Handbag and keys were on place. Urgently called husband Martin returned from a business trip in full bewilderment. He had no motive to get rid of his wife. Environment confirmed that the couple lived quite happily. Enemies in a young woman also didn't exist. It turns out that what happened to Joan was either real kidnapping, or its staging.



Kitchen photo

The experts determined that the bloodstains and prints that tried to wipe off with paper towels and children's clothes - the result non-serious superficial wound that could not lead to a fatal exodus. On the driveway, the tracks broke off. That is, a woman apparently got into the car. Or they put it there.

Several townspeople claimed to have seen Joan or a woman who looked like her, in a conspicuous coat, who aimlessly wandered along the track. The lady's feet were covered in some kind of red substance, and the general appearance left much to be desired: hunched, wandering eyes, disheveled hair.



The case received wide publicity and was covered in the press. IN As a result, the police had no suspects left. And it was even voiced unexpected version - staging. According to which a woman just tired of boring life and decided to run away, furnishing her disappearance in this way.

The results of a small journalistic investigation, which was organized by a reporter from one of the local publications Sarin Gerson. It turned out that Joan loved to read. And not ladies' novels. The housewife's passion was detectives, which she took to local library and swallowed packs. And just before disappearing once took a book with a similar plot - about a woman who staged own disappearance.



Rish family home

However, the public considered this version to be far-fetched. ears. And put forward others, more prosaic, starting with the kidnapping and loss memory that caused Joan to fall into some hole in the highway and die, and ending with a criminal abortion explaining the bloody prints all over home.

Martin Risch never remarried until his death in 2009 year believed that his wife was alive and would definitely make itself felt.

And what version of the disappearance of a respectable wife and mother seems most likely to you?

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