I was one of two private detectives that investigated this case. Susan Walsh Lacking Husband, Boyfriend. Susan's career as a journalist was faltering at the time. CNN's Brian Todd reports. Unfortunately Susan had so much other things going on that lead to so many red herrings I think this wasnt able to be solved quick enough. Still, she kept her hopes alive, using her dancing tips to pay her way through college. American Writer Susan Walsh Goes Missing Outside Her Home Susan Walsh was a writer and freelance journalist from Wayne, New Jersey. Following this article, Walsh had also explored an underground vampire community in New York City, but the newspaper did not run the story as it felt Walsh's writing on the matter was not objective. He wasnt a troublemaker,and he got good grades, but he wore that belt buckle all through school ever year and sometimes people would question him about it ,mockingly. Susan Walsh Case File 1578DFNJ The Doe Network She is even the right age. It is a bit weird I tried to find something that could point out its not her, but didnt really see anything that stood out. As per reports, Susan got quite immersed in that subculture, leading to her work losing objectivity. To this day, her case has as importance in my subcouncious mind.I think there is more to this case then meets the eye. These clubs attracted kids who called themselves Goths. They were known for their outrageous black outfits. Arthur Merchant describes his last phone call with his half-sister, Susan Walsh, as "very weird.". Weight: 110 lbs. However, analyzing moments from her final months could still prove to be instrumental. Yes! It makes me wonder why you havent gone to police with this and/or why you felt it was okay to bring a personal conversation such as that up on the internet at all. It was in Chicago. In September, Merchant filed a lawsuit against the Nutley Police Department seeking information on the investigation into his sister's disappearance. The Vampires of New York - Shortly after the report on the mafias sex work operation, Walsh wrote an article that explored an underground vampire community in New York City, but The Village Voice did not publish it, as the report did not meet the papers standard for objectivity. She's a whole person," Morley said. I was told a very interesting story about this case by the brother of her ex husband Mark. Location: Nutley, New Jersey She would have never left her son. When my friend went to see his brother after Susan disappeared he noticed the frying pan was gone. No one should have to live with those unanswered questions. For now, the case remains open, and as of 2009, the authorities had not ruled out the possibility of Susan still being alive. She seemed distracted," Merchant said. I can understand not wanting to slander or accusebut the way you clearly dont seem comfortable with the veracity of this story and the length of your post, plus the details you conveniently touch on, explain away, stuff you trade out, and then what details are there and what you dont explainleads me to believe you are doing this for attention and make me wonder if you arent just some other sad lonely sack of shit with no friends running your mouth on the internet like the one typing out this response right now. joseph.kulik.919@gmail.com. Police eliminated Mark as a suspect in Walshs disappearance early on. This is what he told me: Mark and Susan were separated and Susan was living with their son David in the apartment upstairs while Mark was living in one room in the basement. #ThrowbackThursday That time she is in limelight. But despite all of this information, the authorities had little to go on when it came to Susans whereabouts. In a fit of rage he grabbed a frying pan and smashed her across the head with it, killing her. The features are very similar, but you would have to imagine a lot of blond hair, blue-eyed ladies look like this. And I would think on normal occasions you wouldn't notice if someone was missing a pan, but I guess if he didn't even have a kitchen in his tiny place it could be different. Her disappeared is one of my favorites. A lot of these delusions are things that really could happen in their minds. Walsh cut her teeth as ajournalist working for the Village Voice, investigating club subcultures, exposing how the Russian mob was sex-trafficking young girls through clubs. Morley stated that Susan occasionally took Xanax, a powerful prescription anti-anxiety drug, to achieve highs around the same time. C) are these club s raided on a regular basis , where ever they maybe ? Christian claimed Susan had a recording of Billy threatening to kill her and alleged she had a plan to get rid of him. Looks to me like Susan was suffering from SEVERE Low Self Esteem as well. Walsh's own experience at the clubs reportedly allowed her access that other journalists had been unable to gain in the past. That's a very common theory when someone with any mob connection, no matter how tenuous, disappears, but it's usually just a few isolated people that feel that way. Its a true shame. . Required fields are marked *. Powered by WordPress.com VIP. Wiki says Susan got her BA from Paterson Univ/NJ ( with10k students) & had almost completed her MA at NYU when she disappeared. Susan Walsh was born in February 1960 and grew up in a middle-class family. Not like the Disney cartoon character but more like this seems goofy in the way that I suspect someone is going to post their own personal theory and attempt to view it as an outsider themselves in presentation to other people online and then see how much attention they can garner. Jill Morley, a documentary filmmaker and friend of Susan's, produced a film in 1996 entitled Stripped. According to journalist James Ridgeway, she went back to stripping, unable to resist the easy money: Susan would say she was like an addict and the whole sex business was kind of like an addiction and she was trying to break this addiction. Hines produced a license plate number that police tracked and found. The paper's reasoning was that Walsh had lost her objectivity as a journalist while conducting research. A subreddit dedicated to the unresolved mysteries of the world. One night she calls me up hysterical that her ex is in front of her house, hiding in the bushes across the street. Kaitlyn Kanzler covers Essex County for NorthJersey.com. Susan Walsh said she would only be gone a half hour the day she disappeared. Morley felt that Walsh's disappearance was sensationalized because she had been an exotic dancer. In September 2020, her half-brother, Arthur Merchant, filed a lawsuit against the Nutley Police Department for information regarding the investigation. She was a sporadic presence for years but came back into his life regularly when he wasa teenager, after she became sober and gave birth to her son, David. "She was very intellectual," Morley said. How does the brother know so much about what happened, but yet has to ask why the frying pan is missing? After high school, she studied English and Communications at a state university in New Jersey. Omg is she still missing I hope they find her for her safe return. I dont ever seeing her though,she is older. This case doesnt get enough attention!! She was very high and depressed. She was scared for her life and I think she was also feared her sons life could be in danger too. She was missing at her home in Nutley, New Jersey on July 16, 1996. Later reports also suggested that an ex-boyfriend of Susan's may have been stalking her. I asked him what he thought happened to Susan and he told me he knew exactly what happened to her. The friend stopped by & all the windows & doors locked in the heat of summer & they were always open. According to her father, Floyd Merchant, she believed there were two contracts out there to have her killed, and she had started drinking after staying sober for over a decade. She even started dating a man who claimed to be one of the undead. CASE. Learn how your comment data is processed. Susan Walsh was born Susan Young on February 18, 1960 in Wayne, New Jersey to parents Martha Young and Floyd Merchant. Caucasian female with bleached blonde/strawberry hair and blue eyes. Tell me what you think. Walsh brought their young son, David, to Michael's apartment so he could watch him while she made a phone call from a payphone. She claimed the work was draining her, that she was damaged by her years in the business, and that she was hurting. 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. No, she is no longer alive.I dont buy that and I think the police put on blinders because of who she was and what others said about hermisleading things..thats why police need to investigate with an open mind. The detective said they would investigate and they would be in touch, but he never heard a word from them. Wow, started skimming expecting the usual obviously it was the husband but the police didnt pursue it story. First Name: Susan Last Name: Walsh Details Age When Last Known Alive: 36 Race: White Sex: By most accounts, it was a bitter childhood. As part of her work with The Village Voice, she published an article that alleged Russian mobsters were controlling immigrant women, forcing them into sex work. Thanks. About a month before she vanished, Susan attended a party held for the publication of James Ridgeway and Sylvia Plachy's book Red Light: Inside The Sex Industry. After her first article, she was commissioned for an investigative piece about stolen blood from a local hospital. Filmmaker Jill Morley was with Susan two days before she disappeared: She said she had bronchitis, emphysema, and an ulcer. We had our own theory but no defining proof. Walshs last know work is her contribution to the book. Read more. Susan Walsh Lacking Ethnicity, This led her to a Vampire subculture in New York, which allegedly performed rituals and drank human blood. I never knew Susan Walsh but I remember when this happened. Another theory of what happened came from Detective John Rhein of the Nutley Police Department. [11] Walsh's last work was her contributions to the book Red Light: Inside the Sex Industry by Ridgeway and Sylvia Plachy; Walsh served as the primary researcher for the book and also contributed photographs and personal writings within a month before her disappearance. Did she collapse because of her depression and poor health? According to Ridgeway, she believed a lot of what the vampires were telling her, about things like secret murders in the vampire world, and he even recalled one time Walsh expressed reservations and concerns. So I was googling this case and actually came across a writer named Susan Walsh and she looks just like the missing Susan. WebInside the ongoing investigation to find out what happened in the disappearance and the tragic discovery of the 24-year-old single mom. Susan, circa 1996 Missing Since 07/16/1996 Missing From Nutley, New Jersey Classification Endangered Missing Sex Female Race White Date of Birth Others fear she may have met an untimely end. Omg! Walsh also started to become increasingly paranoid as a result of being off her bipolar disorder medications. Many news channels told that he disappears linked to the Russian mafia or New York Citys underground vampire community. [6][7] The couple had one son, David, born in 1985. All Mark had was a bed, a dresser, a telephone and his few personal belongings. No one leaves without that stuff. After college, Walsh worked as a freelance journalist and writer. 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. I hope hes well. Her friend Jill Morley knew she was spiraling and in some trouble after she interviewed Walsh for her documentary "Stripped." She reportedly told him about two men who had a van, whom she was looking to interview, but that she was scared to go into the van with them. In 1979, Walsh attended William Paterson College where she studied English and Communications and graduated with a bachelors degree in 1984. Anyone try searching for her on social media like facebook? I remember seeing an old unsolved mysteries show about 20 years ago, and they mentioned that Susan was originally born from Wayne,nj. they showed a kindergarten photo of her and even mentioned the street she lived on and her father talked a while. Honestly yeah, she looks quite a bit like her. They didnt want to find her. I watched thi episode alot , I try to watch it as often as possible.When they said , Susan wrote for the Village Voice paper , I thought it to be nice,because lots of sweet people live in the Grenich Village area. Her lacking files became once likely linked to the Russian mafia or New York Morley questioned Russian dancers in New York area clubs about a possible link between Susan's disappearance and the article she wrote about the Russian crime families earlier in the 1990s, but little more than speculation was uncovered. I never really saw that episode again, and it seemed as if I was dreaming becauase I live close to that area. What is to say she didnt go to the mental health facility. Enter your email address to receive notifications of new posts by email. Walsh took an active part in a number of other journalism projects at the time, including a documentary by her friend Jill Morley, titled Stripped, which discussed women in the sex industry. I was born and raised in Nutley and still reside there. She also suffered from depression and had attempted suicide in the past. She was scared of what this dark man could do. Or the Russian Mob? After separating from her husband, Walsh lived with her eleven year old son on the ground level of a rundown brick tenement on 32 Washington Street in Nutley, New Jersey. Notify me of follow-up comments by email. As a freelance journalist, she wrote an acclaimed article in the the early-90s about a sex-trafficking ring in New York and New Jersey. Whatever happened to Susan Walsh, she's remembered by friends and family as a devoted mother and gifted writer. The detective said they would investigate and they would be in touch, but he never heard a word from them. The new season of Never Seen Again is all set to cover the story of Susan Walsh, a mother, aspiring journalist, and nightclub dancer, who suddenly went missing after she stepped out to use the local payphone on July 16, 1996. I think a very important question here is why "many of her peers" feel she may have been the victim of a mob hit. Eventually, she and her husband separated. "[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. The call was just weeks before the freelance journalist and exotic dancer disappeared off the hotstreets of Nutley in July 1996. Walsh eventually got her break when she landed a research job at the iconic Village Voice in New York City. Was Journalist Susan Walshs Disappearance Linked To Drugs, The Mob, Or An Underground Vampire Club. Picture: Supplied THE DAY SHE DISAPPEARED About noon on July 17, 1996, Walsh told her He also told me that Mark did not have much money and when he visited his brother about a week before the disappearance Mark had shown him the new frying pan he had just bought and how expensive it was. The day of her disappearance they had a huge argument about her using the phone so she went across the street to use the pay phone. But Susan never returned. 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. Another wierd, strange thing is that a female student there, became an adult film star, and she lived close to Susans house ,too. Her husband, Mark Walsh, is the brother of Eagles member Joe Walsh. But recently I found a website that explained that she wrote for Screw newspaper starting since around 1981 and they said she was really impressing the owner of the Screw paper, about a year before she dissapeared. In a fit of rage he grabbed a frying pan and smashed her across the head with it, killing her. "She did not decide to freaking go off and not be coming back," Merchant insisted. Susan Walshs marital and relationship set apart of living will not be identified yet at any time as soon as we fetch the thought we are able to update it. they are very vague about it just saying she took substances. 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 ? Or if they did maybe it was all a lie. 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. I made him send me proof before I realized that she was having paranoid delusions. I think if she really believed the mob was after her her friends would belive her, because why wouldnt they. 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. Following her failure to get her vampire article published, Walsh went back to stripping and dancing full-time. Ridgeway feared that during this time of darkening mood and mental/emotional struggles, Walsh had relapsed and become addicted to drugs again. WebMissing Susan Walsh Susan, approximately 1996 Date reported missing : 07/16/1996 Missing location (approx) : Nutley, New Jersey Missing classification : Endangered There's an interesting follow-up story here. Although Walsh spent a significant amount of time researching her article about the vampire underground, the Village Voice ultimately decided not to run the article. When my friend went to see his brother after Susan disappeared he noticed the frying pan was gone. Her writing jobs didnt pay enough to support her son. Susan's case remains open and unsolved. Morley also recalled a conversation she had with Walsh two days before she disappeared. She likes meth and is dating my cousin, everything is secretive, she disappears for days and he can never depend on her to show up for any family get togethers. Shes from jersey Im from jersey and every time I go to look into it theres road blocks. Distinctive Physical Features: Susan said that her opinions about dancing had changed since she initially joined the profession in the mid-1980s. Notwithstanding her struggles with substance abuse and alcoholism, she graduated from college with a bachelor's degree in 1988[citation needed] and then worked as a writer for engineering and business publications. Morley stated that Susan seemed to be having many personal problems at the time, but everyone assumed she would pull herself together. Susan said that she was enthralled with the money and lifestyle in the beginning of her stripping career, but had quickly become disenchanted with the job and began to detest the patrons and the profession. He hid the body in his basement room and once her boyfriend had gone to work he took David to Staples. The story is an in-depth report about Russian mobsters who allegedly exploited immigrant young girls into working in strip clubs . She had also gotten in deep with an underground club of people who claimed to be vampires, and her years of work as an exotic dancer had begun to affect her mental and physical health. Defining Characteristics: Scar on her right wrist 36-year-old Susan Walsh was last seen in Nutley, New Jersey on July 16, 1996. She talked about her mood swings and being depressed and about just holding on to live.. 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