Recent content by jude_061

I was packing this evening and found a note that I had written to myself about a message that I received, probably in about 2009, from Katherine Hearon, a classmate of Susan’s. Ms. Hearon said that her ex-husband and Ms. Caira’s husband,Emilio, whom she called ”JR” or “Junior,” had hung out...

Alphawrench, I sent you a private message with my email address. I hope to hear from you.

Two years after Caira disappeared, her ex husband was arrested with another Watertown man in Westfield, NY by NY State police when their van was stopped on the way from Illinois to Massachusetts. Inside the van was 200 lbs of marijuana estimated to be worth $100,000 (over $600,000 today)...

On Tuesday morning, September 17, 1968, Susan Caira’s mother, Elma Fortier, arrived at her house at 87a Pearl St. to find the 21 year old single mother of two missing and the children, aged 3 and 1, unattended. Fortier had made plans to watch the children while Susan shopped in the morning. She...

The O'Gorman family engaged the services of a lawyer shortly after Michael disappeared. The lawyer was the point person for the police and the press. He stated that all of the alleged sightings of Michael were disproven by the police investigation. James' request for reports detailed almost...

The rest stop was closed by the state in 1983 after state police stings. A hundred or so yards behind it is a knoll where the body was buried. I think the killer was a frequent visitor to that rest stop. He was familiar with the terrain behind it -- he carried a hundred pound body into the...

I think the rest stop and it's use is significant. The killer likely was familiar with it and its use. It would also explain why no witnesses came forward -- they would have outed themselves. Also, the connection to a rest stop frequented by gay men for encounters could explain why there has...

This past winter, police in Georgetown, MA, searched the house of a recently-deceased man whom another man implicated in the bludgeoning death of a boy in about 1970. Georgetown is about 35 miles from Gloucester, where Michael was last seen. One of the items recovered in the search of the...

Thanks for starting this post, dotr. I've been researching Michael's abduction and murder for about three years now. It's not much talked about in Gloucester anymore. James' article encompasses much of what we uncovered and what is known about the case with a few exceptions, which I'll add...

My mom grew up down the street from where SC was abducted and my dad was a police officer in the next town over and was involved to some extent in later years of the investigation. The murder case I referenced was that of Michael O'Gorman in 1974 in Gloucester, Mass. Being new to the WS...

Hi, My name is Jude and I'm a middle school teacher and the son of a police detective. I have been interested in cold cases for nearly fifteen years. I began researching the Joan Risch and Susan Caira disappearances in the early 2000s. More recently, I have been researching the abduction...