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I'll try to link the article. I paid $10 for a month long subscription to archives of the Boston Globe, and the case got a ton of coverage in '61-'62. I'm not sure if the reporting was accurate or not, because that seems like such a huge piece of the puzzle that didn't seem to get mentioned...

I actually live in MD, but I have been fascinated with this case, probably because I'm about Joan's age and stage in life. Plus I'm a teacher and I have way too much time on my hands in the summer, lol.

Another tidbit I dug up that I hadn't read before- police, for a time, speculated that she had been stalked by an attacker before he made his move. The reasoning behind this is that the Risch house was in a somewhat rural area, but that the road it was on was actually widely used by military...

About #6: I came across a Boston Globe article from 1962 that said the unidentified two tone car that 2 neighbors saw parked in the Risch's driveway had actually been reported stolen (!!?!) and was later found, but with no evidence linking it to Joan. I'm surprised I hadn't read about this in...