Susans father believed that Walsh was being followed by the mob. Det. Rational thought deteriorates sometimes to the point of self inflicted death. Lot of interesting theories suggested which is one reason this has always stuck with me. They lived in the same apartment complex in Nutley, New Jersey. According to James Ridgeway, Susan wrote a detailed article, but she seemed to lose her journalistic objectivity: She believed a lot of the things that these guys were telling her, about how there were secret murders and so on and so forth in the vampire world. Susan was a freelance journalist in 1996, and was enrolled in a master's degree program in writing at New York University. Walshs whereabouts remain unknown, and the case of her disappearance goes unsolved. [1], At the time, Walsh had also participated in a documentary produced by her friend, Jill Morley, titled Stripped, which detailed women working in the sex industry. At the time of her disappearance, Walsh was enrolled in a Masters program in English at New York University, which she had completed half of, while supporting herself and her son as a freelance journalist and various stripper jobs. Susan Walsh got her big break after an investigative report about a strip club in New York that allegedly exploited young female immigrants and was allegedly linked to the Russian mob. She also suffered from depression and had attempted suicide in the past. In 2006, the police announced they were pursuing new leads, and an ex-boyfriend of Susans, Christian Pepo, mentioned she was being stalked and harassed by Billy Walker, another ex, in the time leading up to her disappearance. Anyway I wondered if they were friends, maybe thats how she became a stipper and why people are quick to believethe Russin Mafia has some thing to do with her dissapearence, perhaps they are really too scared to question her husband? C) are these club s raided on a regular basis , where ever they maybe ? So its the her ex husband or stalker most likely. Walsh and her husband, Michael, were estranged at the time but lived in adjoining apartments. Her piece was later rejected for lack of objectivity. E) She has cousin s in Florida , without them knowing , did she not make for Florida and was harmed in anyway on route ? One more fact about this story that is pretty interesting is that Mark Walsh and my friend are the younger brothers of Joe Walsh, the rock star. Enter your email address to receive notifications of new posts by email. Shell talk endlessly on an intellectual level against dancing. Gender: Female Police eliminated Mark as a suspect in Walshs disappearance early on. Hi Bill we do not currently have any new information regarding this case, but if and when we do we will be sure to update it above. She told friends she feared she was being targeted by stalkers and mobsters. WebMissing Susan Walsh Susan, approximately 1996 Date reported missing : 07/16/1996 Missing location (approx) : Nutley, New Jersey Missing classification : Endangered I found an individual that is the same age Susan would be today but without age progressed photo I cant say whether or not its her. I go over there but hes nowhere to found. It's the obvious conclusion in my eyes that maybe she killed herself. Susan Walsh had paid her way through college by dancing at various clubs in New Jersey and continued to dance on the side as she tried to make it as a freelance writer. Susan was last seen wearing a gold ring with a black stone. 2023 Copyright. He genuinely believes that she is being stalked. She also took work for a German documentary crew making a film about Russian immigrants becoming go-go dancers and was subsequently developing a documentary with the BBC on the subject. Susan Walsh published an explosive story about a strip joint ring. It seems quite believable to me. Susan Walsh was born Susan Young on February 18, 1960 in Wayne, New Jersey to parents Martha Young and Floyd Merchant. As her paranoia over the mob tracking her began to grow, she started to drink again. In 1984 she married Mark Walsh, brother of famous musician Joe Walsh, and in 1985 the couple had a son named David, though the couples relationship would not persevere. Omg is she still missing I hope they find her for her safe return. I remember seeing an old unsolved mysteries show about 20 years ago, and they mentioned that Susan was originally born from Wayne,nj. Merchant said he felt that his sister repressed her talents to support her husband's musical aspirations. Walsh's disappearance in the summer of 1996 led to speculation of a mob hit, a drug overdose, some sort of vampiricritual, or Walsh simply walking away from her life. Later that night or early the next morning he took the body to a reservation where he was known to hike and disposed of the body. She aspired to be a poet from a young age. She was last seen wearing a black tank dress and black sandals. He stated his belief that Walsh called someone on the payphone to come to get her, and that she very likely overdosed in the presence of someone that she knew but who was too frightened to do anything about it. Following her failure to get her vampire article published, Walsh went back to stripping and dancing full-time. This case doesnt get enough attention!! Dedicated to covering the stories of the missing, Updated March 11, 2021; Posted March 11, 2021, Name: Susan Suzie Young Walsh Reports indicated that she was to go to a nearby payphone to make a phone call and meet someone. I think it was the ex husband & his brother (they had access to her during time she went missing)c, the current live in boyfriend (who is STRANGE AF and is involved in vampire scene) was in NYC the night/morning she vanished. That person being myself and myself being someone willing to at least be genuine in saying this idea is mine and not teasing some false air of vague legitimacy because I knew someone once. Never Seen Again is Susans. She earned an internship at the New York City newspaper The Village Voice and began researching the sex industry through her club connections for an article. Now lets say your story is true and your bringing a personal conversation you had with a family member of the missing person to the attention of a bunch of strangers on the internet. In 1979, Walsh attended William Paterson College where she studied English and Communications and graduated with a bachelors degree in 1984. To this day, her case has as importance in my subcouncious mind.I think there is more to this case then meets the eye. Walsh reportedly began drinking and taking drugs in collegeand drank to excess when she first started dancing. "She did not decide to freaking go off and not be coming back," Merchant insisted. She had been employed as an exotic dancer occasionally since her college days to finance her education. This is the story his brother told me and he seems to believe it. She was missing was widely publicized in the late 1990s. Since then, no one has seen her alive, except maybe one friend. Clothing and accessories: Susan Walsh's disappearance On July 16, 1996, Susan Walsh reportedly stepped out to use a payphone but never returned. Walshs last know work is her contribution to the book. Walsh had left to run errands and make a telephone call at a payphone across the street, leaving her son for the time being in the care of his father. Its a true shame. I didnt know what to make of his story but I told him he should go to the police if he was so sure that Mark had done it. These clubs attracted kids who self-identified as goths. The investigation into her disappearance is still open and active. In a documentary made by a friend, Susan talked about the toll stripping had taken on her life: Its draining me. Required fields are marked *. She seemed distracted," Merchant said. ", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Susan_Walsh_(missing_person)&oldid=1123104834, Short description is different from Wikidata, Pages using infobox person with multiple employers, Articles with unsourced statements from December 2021, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 21 November 2022, at 21:32. She is a fascinating person. She wrote, she sang and she acted. Susan would come down and use his phone frequently but he would not allow her to use it to call her boyfriends or her drug dealers. The circumstances of Susan Walshs disappearance remain unclear and her case is currently classified as a missing case. Despite all the developments, the case remains unsolved to date. He also told me that Mark removed the page from the calendar because there was something written on it he didn't want the cops to see. IMO her ex-husband did it. She was scared of what this dark man could do. Then her ex came back with her son from Staples. At the time of her disappearance, her friends had become worried that she had relapsed into her drug addiction, after having maintained 11 years of sobriety.[1]. Susan had considered relocating out of state with their son and her husband had strict requirements for her using his phone. I was one of two private detectives that investigated this case. There's an interesting follow-up story here. At one point, Walsh reportedly dated a man who claimed he was an actual vampire. There's no way to vouch for its credibility, but there was a more recent comment that speculated about her estranged husband. On the morning of July 16, 1996, Walsh left her apartment complex in Nutley, New Jersey to run errands and make a call at a nearby payphone across the street. Mark did not initially allow forensic testing inside of Walshs apartment, but when police finally searched the place they discovered the page for the entire month of July 1996 had been torn out from a calendar. I never told anybody about the encounter. After college, Walsh worked as a freelance journalist and writer. Susan Walsh, Missing Stripper | 11 Nov 2014 | 10:54 I love the show America s Most Wanted on Saturday nights. He said he did go to the Nutley PD and sat with a detective and told him everything. A stripper-turned-investigative reporter is missing and some think the disappearance is tied to the Russian Mafia. His father, Floyd Merchant, had hired a private investigator to help with the search, and the investigator turned over his findings to the police. I also wonder why the Nutley PD did not follow up. It's only for people who really look for it. At the time it sounded more like a movie script in the making or book plot. We all have others who look like us. Well, theres a big difference between valium, pot, etc, and, say heroin.. Meth is what she liked it said on the tv show disappeared. "It was around then when Dad was warning me that she was kind of losing the battle with her addiction," Merchant said. We never felt that she ran away. Has anyone considered this? Walsh reportedly became attracted to this vampire world, even dating a man who claimed to be one for some time. Susan Walsh (February 18, 1960 disappeared July 16, 1996)[2] was an American writer and freelance journalist who disappeared outside her home in Nutley, New Jersey, on July 16, 1996. 10 May, 2017; by Unsolved Mysteries; 37 Comments ; A stripper-turned-investigative reporter is missing and some think the disappearance is tied to the Russian Mafia. Her friend Jill Morley knew she was spiraling and in some trouble after she interviewed Walsh for her documentary "Stripped." People in organized crime were concerned that Susan had information that would send them to jail. Walsh also started to become increasingly paranoid as a result of being off her bipolar disorder medications. He was one of the people who think they are undead. This led authorities to question if Susan had ended her own life. Arthur Merchant describes his last phone call with his half-sister, Susan Walsh, as "very weird.". . After high school, she studied English and Communications at a state university in New Jersey. Height: 56 B)Was the month of July missing due to the fact that it had been planned and did not want to be found and not leave evidence / . She acted like a victom of kidnappping. WebMissing Last seen alive: July 16, 1996 Circumstances: Susan Walsh had been depressed prior to her disappearance and she had previously attempted suicide. Walsh's case was featured on "Unsolved Mysteries" and "Disappeared." Several years after her disappearance I met Marks brother when he came to work for the same company I was working for. She said she needed to make some phone calls and run a few errands. Granger Taylor: Found or Missing? I never knew Susan Walsh but I remember when this happened. WebInside the ongoing investigation to find out what happened in the disappearance and the tragic discovery of the 24-year-old single mom. [3] Her disappearance was widely publicized into the late 1990s, especially after several newspapers and media outlets published articles implying that her disappearance was potentially linked to the Russian mafia or New York City's underground vampire community, both subjects that she had investigated while writing for The Village Voice.[4]. And sometimes with great articulation you know, you feel like this is very profound stuff. The Disappearance And Murder Of Aspiring Hollywood Actress Adea Shabani By: Brandon Gates Shabani went missing in She was the subject of a 1998 book titled Piercing the Darkness: Undercover with Vampires in America Today by Katherine Ramsland. Filmmaker Jill Morley was with Susan two days before she disappeared: She said she had bronchitis, emphysema, and an ulcer. Police found no evidence, means or motive for foul play in Susan Walshs disappearance. How long did it take for anyone to alert the police that she was missing? So, if youre curious to discover what led to her disappearance and the recent updates in that case, heres what we know. Although she didn't say where she was "She was a mom, a brilliant writer. She was last seen wearing a black tank dress and black sandals. Melissa said that she think s that she was been followed while driving with Susan in the car , did she ever report this was she at any stage ever harassed as , well as any of Susan s other friend s and collegues ? It makes me wonder why a poser would have so little trust in a story that they heard from someone and it all comes off as being very disingenuous in the least then maybe moving up to gossipy and manipulative and harmful and maybe some other bad things depending on how you view it. Walsh had penned an in-depth report published in The Village Voice about a strip club ring in which members of the Russian mafia were allegedly forcing young girls into the sex industry. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. It was reported that Susan also took Xanax and stopped taking medication for her bipolar disorder. She claimed the work was draining her, that she was damaged by her years in the business, and that she was hurting. New York City Vampires and the Disappearance Of Susan Walsh. Odd. "[1] She had also hired herself out to a German documentary crew making a film about Russian immigrants becoming go-go dancers, and was also in the midst of developing a documentary on the subject with the BBC shortly before her disappearance. 36-year-old Susan Walsh was last seen in Nutley, New Jersey on July 16, 1996. Morley said Walsh had been compelling, articulate and intelligent during the documentary interview, but shehad seen troubling signs. So, if youre curious to discover what led to her disappearance and the recent updates in that case, heres what we know. Eyes: Blue Various seasons available now on Hulu. The Disappeared Blog is a true crime blog dedicated to covering the stories of the missing and to their loved ones. After her report was published in the Village Voice, Susan started worrying about the mob hitting back at her. Susan loved her son very much and she was always there for her son. If you have any information regarding the disappearance of Susan Walsh please contact the Nutley Police Department at (973) 284-4940 or call the New Jersey State Police (800) 709-7090. I never really saw that episode again, and it seemed as if I was dreaming becauase I live close to that area. Need more information regarding ur comments maybe it could help find her. I call up him. it was just very strange, and i always thought the two were related. While she earned much praise for the article, she also received a number of serious threats. MISSING, PRESUMED UNDEAD Susan Walsh appeared to be just another ordinary, aspiring American journalist.Then she stumbled upon what looked like being the She said shed been in the hospital twice that week. On July 16, 1996, a then 36-year-old Susan dropped her then 11-year-old son, David, with her estranged husband, Mark Walsh. He also told me that Mark removed the page from the calendar because there was something written on it he didnt want the cops to see. She claimed the work was draining her, that she was damaged by her years in the business, and that she was hurting. The Essex County Prosecutors Office advised Nutley P D to not cooperate with us because they feared that it would turn into a homicide investigation. . Her editor later refused to run her story as it was deemed not credible and objective enough. WebSusan Walsh (February 18, 1960 disappeared July 16, 1996) was an American writer and freelance journalist who disappeared outside her home in Nutley, New Jersey, on July 16, 1996. Still, she kept her hopes alive, using her dancing tips to pay her way through college. He killed her & Nutley Cops will not do their job. She missing outside her home in Nutley, New Jersey on July 16, 1996. Susan was allegedly sober for several years. WebMissing Person Case Updates with Photos Susan Walsh Susan, date, approximate 1996 Date Missing 07/16/1996 Missing From Nutley, New Jersey Missing Classification Endangered Missing Sex Female Race White Date of Birth 02/18/1960 (62) Age 36 years old Height and Weight 5'6, 110 pounds Clothing/Jewelry Description A gold ring with a just what drug was she addicted to ? I guess that they were afraid of us muddying the waters? Floyd Merchant died in 2013 without knowing why his daughter disappeared. #36. Anyway what they said to me was this: I mean far be it from me to call this redditor a liar but normally when people claim to know someone related/close to a person involved in the case as a leading detail with some explanation it already starts to feel a little goofy to me. He said he called several times to see how the investigation was going but they just kept telling him they were still checking it out and would contact him. It is this SEVERE Low Self Esteem that probably got Susan set up to get murdered too. Your email address will not be published. Born Susan Young, she aspired from a young age to be a poet. Authorities tracked down the man and claimed he may have been with Susan that night. A closer look at mysterious disappearances that continue to baffle detectives. When he questioned Mark about it mark just said he must have misplaced it. Before that, her father had hired a private detective to look into the case. So definitely, somebody was stalking her.. Susan began drinking heavily and using drugs while enrolled in William Paterson College in the 1980s, but became sober by the time she graduated in 1984. [11], In a 2006 article in The New York Post, it was noted that Walsh had confided to a former boyfriend that another of her ex-boyfriends had been stalking her; additionally, the article stated that her husband, Mark, had refused to allow police to perform forensic testing of their home.[7]. On July 16, 1986, Walsh left her Nutley, New Jersey apartment which she shared with her son her estranged husband lived on the floor below to run errands. She disappeared after leaving her Washington Street home in the morning to use a pay phone across the street.
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