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>> Narrator: SUSAN WALSH
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DISAPPEARED ON TUESDAY, JULY 16,
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1996.
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WHEN A PERSON DISAPPEARS WITHOUT
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A TRACE, OFTEN THE MOST CRITICAL
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INFORMATION IS HIDDEN IN THEIR
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ACTIONS AND WORDS FROM THE DAYS
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BEFORE THEY VANISHED.
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SUSAN WALSH'S LAST-KNOWN
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WHEREABOUTS MAY HOLD THE CLUES
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TO WHAT HAPPENED TO HER.
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A SINGLE MOTHER, WRITER, AND
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STRIPPER.
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>> SUSAN WAS NOT A VICTIM.
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WHEN SHE WAS ON THE BAR DANCING,
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SHE WAS DEFINITELY IN CONTROL OF
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WHAT WAS GOING ON.
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>> Narrator: SUSAN WALSH MAKES A
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PHONE CALL ACROSS THE STREET
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FROM HER HOME...
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AND DISAPPEARS...
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>> THE FACT THAT SUSAN DIDN'T
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TAKE ANYTHING WITH HER, THERE
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WAS OBVIOUSLY NO PLANNING IN
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ANYTHING.
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>> Narrator: ...LEAVING AN
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11-YEAR-OLD SON BEHIND.
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>> SHE WOULD HAVE NOT LEFT HIM
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WITHOUT A MOTHER AND JUST PICK
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UP ON HER OWN AND JUST LEFT.
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>> Narrator: AND A MYSTERY THAT
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BAFFLES POLICE.
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>> WELL OVER A DOZEN PEOPLE WERE
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ABLE TO PICK SUSAN'S PICTURE UP
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AND SAY SHE WAS HERE JUST HOURS
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AGO.
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>> Narrator: AS THE SEARCH FOR
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SUSAN GETS UNDER WAY, A STRIKING
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PIECE OF EVIDENCE COMES TO
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LIGHT...
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[ BEEPING ]
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>> THAT'S MY BEEPER.
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IT'S PROBABLY A STALKER RIGHT
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NOW.
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>> Narrator: ...DRAWING HER
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LOVED ONES INTO A WORLD OF
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DANGER.
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>> I WAS TOLD THAT, "YOU MIGHT
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WANT TO STOP ASKING THOSE
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QUESTIONS UNLESS YOU WANT TO
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DISAPPEAR, TOO."
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-- Captions by VITAC --
www.vitac.com
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>> Narrator: JULY 16, 1996.
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IT'S A MUGGY SUMMER'S MORNING IN
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NUTLEY, NEW JERSEY.
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36-YEAR-OLD SUSAN WALSH IS AT
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HOME WITH HER 11-YEAR-OLD SON,
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DAVID.
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>> SUSAN'S SON CAME FIRST IN HER
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LIFE.
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HE WAS LIKE THE NUMBER-ONE
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PRIORITY.
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SUSAN WAS A GREAT MOTHER.
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SHE LOVED HER SON SO MUCH.
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SHE DID ANYTHING FOR HIM.
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EVERY CHANCE SHE HAD, SHE WOULD
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SPEND TIME WITH HER SON.
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>> SHE FINANCIALLY SUPPORTED
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HIM, AND IT WAS ONE OF THE
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THINGS SHE WAS MOST PROUD OF.
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>> Narrator: DESPITE THE RISING
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TEMPERATURES OUTSIDE, SUSAN
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LEAVES THE APARTMENT AROUND NOON
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TO MAKE A PHONE CALL.
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SHE DOESN'T HAVE HER OWN
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TELEPHONE AT HOME.
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>> SHE DIDN'T HAVE MONEY FOR A
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PHONE.
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SHE WAS A VERY SIMPLE PERSON.
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SHE LIKED LITTLE THINGS IN LIFE.
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SHE WASN'T MATERIALISTIC, WHICH
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I REALLY LOOKED UP TO HER THAT
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WAY, BECAUSE A LOT OF PEOPLE
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ARE, AND SHE REALLY DIDN'T LOOK
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AT THOSE THINGS AS BEING
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VALUABLE.
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IT WAS MORE, LIKE, LOVE BETWEEN
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PEOPLE AND FRIENDSHIP FOR HER.
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>> Narrator: ON HER WAY OUT,
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SUSAN STOPS BY HER ESTRANGED
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HUSBAND, MARK'S, APARTMENT.
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ALTHOUGH THEY ARE NO LONGER
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TOGETHER, SUSAN AND MARK LIVE IN
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THE SAME BUILDING.
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>> IT'S HARD TO SAY WHEN THEY
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SEPARATED BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T
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NECESSARILY MOVE AWAY FROM EACH
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OTHER.
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THEY WERE -- FOR FINANCIAL
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REASONS, THEY HAD TO STAY IN THE
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SAME HOUSE.
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>> MARK LIVED IN THE BOTTOM OF
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THIS HOUSE, AND SHE LIVED IN THE
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TOP OF IT.
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THERE WAS A SORT OF A MUTUAL
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ARRANGEMENT WHERE THEY COULD
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HELP BRING THIS KID UP TOGETHER,
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ESSENTIALLY.
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>> Narrator: IT'S AN UNUSUAL
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SITUATION.
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BUT SUSAN IS NOT YOUR TYPICAL
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SINGLE MOTHER.
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TALL, PALE, AND SLENDER WITH
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BLEACHED BLOND HAIR, SUSAN IS A
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STRIPPER.
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>> HI. I'M SUSAN WALSH AND I'M A
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DANCER.
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THIS IS WHAT I DO FOR YOU WHEN I
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DANCE IN GENTLEMEN'S CLUBS.
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>> SUSAN HAD BEEN IN AND OUT OF
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THIS WORLD FOR SOME TIME, SO SHE
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HAD WORKED IN STRIP CLUBS.
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SHE'D SPENT A LITTLE TIME IN A
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MASSAGE PARLOR, AND MAYBE SHE
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HAD DONE SOME S&M.
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SHE HAD BEEN IN CLUBS LIKE THE
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AFTERMATH AND PLATO'S RETREAT.
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I MEAN, THESE WERE SORT OF
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CLEANED-UP CLUBS.
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>> WELL, THE KIND OF STRIPPING
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THAT SUSAN AND I WERE DOING IN
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NEW JERSEY GO-GO BARS, IT WAS
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MORE BIKINI DANCING.
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IT WASN'T TOPLESS.
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YOU WERE NOT ALLOWED TO TOUCH OR
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BE TOUCHED, AND I CERTAINLY
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PREFERRED IT THAT WAY.
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>> Narrator: SUSAN FIRST BEGAN
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DANCING WHILE ATTENDING
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WILLIAM PATERSON COLLEGE IN
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NEW JERSEY.
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IT WAS THERE THAT SHE ALSO BEGAN
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WRITING FOR THE SCHOOL
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NEWSPAPER, THE BEACON.
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>> I MET SUSAN WALSH AT THE
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OFFICES OF THE WILLIAM PATTERSON
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COLLEGE BEACON.
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IT HAD WON A NUMBER OF REGIONAL
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AWARDS.
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SO GETTING IN THERE WAS A PRETTY
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DESIRABLE THING FOR ANYBODY WHO
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WAS INTERESTED IN WRITING OR
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JOURNALISM OR ANYTHING LIKE
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THAT.
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SOMEBODY CALLED ME AND SAID,
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"YOU WON'T BELIEVE WHAT SUSAN IS
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DOING NOW."
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I'M LIKE, "TRY ME."
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AND THEY'RE LIKE, "SHE'S DANCING
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AT SHOW WORLD CENTER IN
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TIMES SQUARE," AND I'M LIKE,
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"YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME."
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>> DANCING IS DEFINITELY
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LUCRATIVE, AND A LOT OF WOMEN,
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YOU KNOW, THEY PUT THEMSELVES
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THROUGH COLLEGE AND, YOU KNOW,
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HAVE A BETTER LIFESTYLE BY
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DANCING.
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AND IT'S NOT NECESSARILY A
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NEGATIVE THING.
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THERE'S A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT
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HAVE A NORMAL LIFE OUTSIDE OF
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THAT.
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THEY JUST HAPPEN TO WORK IN A
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BAR AND DANCE.
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>> Narrator: WHILE DANCING PAYS
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THE BILLS, SUSAN DREAMS OF
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WORKING FULL TIME AS A WRITER.
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SHE GETS HER START WRITING FOR
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INDUSTRY TRADE MAGAZINES.
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>> SHE WAS ABLE TO GET ARTICLES
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IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING, WHICH
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WERE HIGHLY TECHNICAL ARTICLES.
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>> Narrator: SUSAN ALSO ATTENDS
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A GRADUATE PROGRAM AT
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NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, OFTEN
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WRITING ABOUT HER EXPERIENCES
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WORKING AS A STRIPPER.
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>> HER WHOLE IDEA WAS TO BECOME
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A WRITER.
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AND, YOU KNOW, SHE HAD THIS KIND
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OF ROMANTIC IDEA OF WHAT A
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WRITER WAS.
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I MEAN, THE FIRST THING, WRITERS
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DON'T REALLY MAKE VERY MUCH
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MONEY, AND SHE REALLY NEEDED TO
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MAKE MONEY FOR HER KID.
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>> I BASICALLY AM A WRITER,
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FIRST AND FOREMOST.
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I ONLY DABBLE IN THE SEX
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BUSINESS TO FINANCE MY GRADUATE
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SCHOOL, AND I FOUND THE
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ENVIRONMENT SO COMPELLING AND
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INTENSE THAT I HAD TO WRITE
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ABOUT IT.
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>> THE WHOLE TIME THAT SUSAN AND
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MARK WERE TOGETHER, SUSAN WAS
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THE BREAD WINNER.
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AND SUSAN WORKED LIKE THE
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DICKENS TRYING TO BRING HOME THE
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BACON.
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>> SHE HAD ALL THESE
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EXPERIENCES.
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SHE WAS NOT A HARD WOMAN.
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THERE WAS NOTHING HARD ABOUT
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HER.
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SHE WAS VERY, VERY LOVING.
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I HATE TO USE THIS WORD 'CAUSE
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THIS IS WHAT THEY ALL USE IN THE
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STRIPPER BUSINESS, BUT SHE WAS
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THE GIRL NEXT DOOR, BUT SHE
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REALLY WAS THE GIRL NEXT DOOR.
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SHE WAS A VERY UNUSUAL PERSON.
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>> Narrator: ON THAT HOT
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SUMMER'S DAY, SUSAN TELLS HER
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HUSBAND, MARK, THAT SHE NEEDS TO
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CALL HER AGENT, WHO BOOKS HER
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JOBS IN THE GO-GO CLUBS.
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ALTHOUGH MARK HAS A TELEPHONE,
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HE DOESN'T ALWAYS LET SUSAN USE
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IT.
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>> MARK HAD THE PHONE IN HIS
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NAME, SO SHE HAD TO GO OUT AND
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MAKE PHONE CALLS THAT MARK
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DIDN'T APPROVE OF.
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>> Narrator: LIKE MANY OF
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SUSAN'S FAMILY AND FRIENDS, MARK
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HAS BEGUN TO SUSPECT THAT SUSAN
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IS USING DRUGS.
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IN THE PAST, SUSAN HAS STRUGGLED
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WITH ADDICTION, THOUGH WORKED
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HARD TO OVERCOME IT.
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>> ON CHRISTMAS EVE, 1984, SUSAN
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CALLED ME FROM JAIL, AND SHE
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SAID SHE HAD BEEN PICKED UP FOR
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POSSESSION.
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AND WE WERE ABLE TO PUT TOGETHER
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ENOUGH TO PAY THE BAIL, AND WE
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GOT HER OUT OF JAIL.
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AND I TOOK HER HOME TO OUR
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HOUSE, AND THAT WAS THE LAST
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DRINK OR DRUG SHE HAD FOR QUITE
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A NUMBER OF YEARS.
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>> Narrator: AFTER A TWO-MONTH
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STAY IN REHAB, SUSAN REMAINED
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SOBER FOR OVER 11 YEARS.
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>> I KNOW THAT SHE HAD HAD A
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PREVIOUS ADDICTION, AND I DID
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NOT SEE THAT SIDE OF SUSAN AT
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ALL.
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I NEVER SEEN HER DRINK.
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I NEVER SEEN HER SMOKE A
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CIGARETTE.
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BUT SHE DID SLIP, AND I BECAME
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SUSPICIOUS ABOUT IT.
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>> Narrator: NOW, WORRIED THAT
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SUSAN MIGHT BE USING DRUGS
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AGAIN, MELISSA DECIDES TO STAGE
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AN INTERVENTION.
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>> THAT MORNING, I WAS TALKING
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WITH A MUTUAL FRIEND OF HERS,
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JOEY WILLIAMS.
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WE HAD BOTH DECIDED THAT WE WERE
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GONNA CONFRONT HER ABOUT
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EVERYTHING AND TELL HER THAT WE
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WOULD BE THERE FOR HER, THAT WE
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WOULD HELP HER TO GET INTO A
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REHAB AND GET HER LIFE TOGETHER.
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>> Narrator: MELISSA TRIES
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CONTACTING SUSAN BUT IS UNABLE
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TO REACH HER.
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>> BACK THEN, THERE WERE PAGERS,
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NOT CELLPHONES.
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SO SHE HAD A PAGER.
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AND I PAGED HER, AND SHE WOULD
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WALK DOWN THE STREET AND CALL ME
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RIGHT BACK, YOU KNOW, FROM THE
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PUBLIC PHONE.
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AND SHE DIDN'T CALL ME BACK.
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>> Narrator: MELISSA DRIVES TO
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SUSAN'S HOUSE TO SEE IF SHE CAN
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CATCH HER IN PERSON.
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>> I WENT TO HER HOUSE.
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I NOTICED THAT THE DOOR THAT WAS
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USUALLY OPEN WAS LOCKED SHUT.
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THE WINDOWS WERE LOCKED SHUT.
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AND IT WAS 98 DEGREES OUT THAT
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DAY.
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AND I RANG THE DOOR BELL.
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NOBODY ANSWERED.
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NOBODY'S CAR WAS THERE.
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IN THE PIT OF MY STOMACH, I KNEW
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SOMETHING HAD HAPPENED TO HER.
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>> Narrator: CONCERNED, MELISSA
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COMES BACK AN HOUR LATER TO SEE
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IF SUSAN'S RETURNED.
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>> MARK HAD PULLED UP, AND DAVID
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WAS WITH HIM, AND THEY HAD BAGS
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FROM STAPLES.
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THEY WENT THERE, I GUESS, TO GET
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SCHOOL SUPPLIES FOR DAVID.
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AND THEY BASICALLY SAID THAT
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THEY WEREN'T THERE.
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THEY DIDN'T SEE HER.
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>> Narrator: AN HOUR LATER,
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SUSAN'S FRIEND JOEY ARRIVES TO
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PICK HER UP AND TAKE HER TO
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WORK.
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SUSAN DOESN'T OWN A CAR AND
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OFTEN HIRES DRIVERS TO TAKE HER
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TO THE BARS WHERE SHE DANCES.
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>> HE WENT AT 5:00, WHEN HE WAS
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SUPPOSED TO MEET HER, AND THEN
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HE WAITED FOR LIKE AN HOUR.
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HE CALLED ME FROM THE PAY PHONE,
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AND HE SAYS, "I'M WAITING.
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SHE'S NOT COMING."
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>> Narrator: THROUGHOUT THE
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NIGHT AND INTO THE NEXT DAY
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MELISSA KEEPS PAGING SUSAN BUT
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NEVER HEARS BACK FROM HER.
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FINALLY, 24 HOURS LATER, SHE
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RECEIVES A PHONE CALL FROM
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SUSAN'S HUSBAND, MARK.
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>> HE REALLY DIDN'T SAY MUCH.
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HE JUST SAID, "I JUST WANT YOU
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TO KNOW THAT I REPORTED SUSAN
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MISSING TODAY."
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>> Narrator: COMING UP, POLICE
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DISCOVER SUSAN HAS A HISTORY OF
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DESTRUCTIVE RELATIONSHIPS.
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>> WE UNCOVERED PREVIOUS REPORTS
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MADE WITH THE NUTLEY POLICE
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DEPARTMENT WHERE SHE ALLEGED
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THAT SHE HAD BEEN VICTIM OF
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DOMESTIC VIOLENCE.
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>> Narrator: ON JULY 16, 1996,
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SUSAN WALSH LEFT HOME TO MAKE A
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PHONE CALL AND DISAPPEARED.
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HER FRIEND MELISSA HAD A FEELING
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SOMETHING WAS WRONG WHEN SHE
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WASN'T ABLE TO REACH SUSAN.
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HER FEARS WERE CONFIRMED WHEN
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SUSAN'S HUSBAND, MARK, REPORTED
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HER MISSING TO THE NUTLEY
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POLICE.
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>> I KNEW FROM GOING TO THE
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HOUSE THAT SOMETHING HAD
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HAPPENED TO HER.
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THE FEELING THAT I GOT AT HER
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DOORSTEP WAS TERRIBLE.
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>> ON JULY 17, 1996, SUSAN'S
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EX-HUSBAND, MARK WALSH, REPORTED
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HER MISSING AT APPROXIMATELY
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12:15 IN THE AFTERNOON.
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THE LAST TIME SUSAN WAS SEEN WAS
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JULY 16th AT AROUND NOON.
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DETECTIVES IMMEDIATELY STARTED
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TRACING SOURCES OF WHERE SHE HAD
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LAST BEEN SEEN.
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>> Narrator: THE NUTLEY POLICE
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TRAVEL TO SUSAN'S APARTMENT TO
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INTERVIEW MARK AND THEIR SON,
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DAVID, ABOUT HER LAST-KNOWN
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MOVEMENTS.
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THE INVESTIGATION QUICKLY HONES
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IN ON SUSAN'S TELEPHONE CALL.
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>> SUSAN DIDN'T HAVE HER OWN
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PHONE AT THE TIME.
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SHE USED MARK'S PHONE DOWNSTAIRS
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IN HIS BASEMENT APARTMENT, BUT
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FROM WHAT WE FOUND OUT, THERE
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WERE CERTAIN CALLS THAT HE
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DIDN'T WANT HER MAKING FROM HIS
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APARTMENT.
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SOME OF THEM WERE HER AGENTS
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THAT WERE TRYING TO GET HER
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BOOKINGS.
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OTHERS WERE PEOPLE THAT SHE JUST
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HAD NICKNAMES FOR, AND HE HAD
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TOLD HER THAT UNLESS SHE COULD
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MENTION THE ACTUAL NAME OF THE
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PERSON SHE WAS SPEAKING TO, HE
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PREFER TO USE A DIFFERENT PHONE.
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>> Narrator: AT THE TIME, NO
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RECORDS OF THE CALLS MADE AT THE
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PUBLIC PHONE WERE AVAILABLE.
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MELISSA TELLS POLICE THAT IF
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SUSAN DID CALL HER AGENT, SHE
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MAY HAVE BEEN TRYING TO BUY
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DRUGS.
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>> I HAD HEARD STORIES FROM
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PEOPLE THAT HE WAS A DRUG
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DEALER, AND I WAS A LITTLE
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SUSPICIOUS BECAUSE THE GUY WAS A
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LITTLE, YOU KNOW, SHADY.
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>> Narrator: UNABLE TO DETERMINE
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WHO SUSAN CALLED THAT DAY,
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POLICE SEARCHED BOTH HER AND
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MARK'S APARTMENT FOR CLUES.
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THEY FIND SUSAN'S POCKETBOOK IN
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HER KITCHEN, ALONG WITH HER
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WALLET, PAGER, AND OTHER
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PERSONAL ITEMS.
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>> ON THE VERY FACE OF IT, THE
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FACT THAT SUSAN HAD LEFT ALL HER
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MOST INTIMATE BELONGINGS STREWN
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OUT ON A KITCHEN TABLE AND SAID,
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"I'LL BE RIGHT BACK, I'M GOING
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OUT TO MAKE A PHONE CALL," AND
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SHE JUST DIDN'T TAKE ANYTHING
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WITH HER, THERE WAS NO --
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OBVIOUSLY NO PLANNING IN
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ANYTHING.
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>> Narrator: SUSPECTING FOUL
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PLAY, POLICE DIG DEEPER INTO
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SUSAN'S PERSONAL LIFE.
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THEY ENCOUNTER A TANGLE OF
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RELATIONSHIPS, INCLUDING ONE
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WITH 21-YEAR-OLD CHRISTIAN PEPO.
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>> CHRISTIAN WAS LIVING WITH HER
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UPSTAIRS BECAUSE SHE FELT THAT
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SHE COULD COUNT ON HIM TO WATCH
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DAVID OR TO BE THERE IF SHE
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NEEDED TO GO TO WORK, BECAUSE
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SHE COULDN'T COUNT ALL THE TIME
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ON DAVID'S FATHER.
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>> I BELIEVE CHRISTIAN WAS
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ASLEEP AT THE TIME SHE LEFT.
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I THINK SHE MIGHT HAVE WOKE HIM
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UP AND TOLD HIM, "I'LL BE BACK
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IN A LITTLE BIT.
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I'M GOING TO MAKE A COUPLE PHONE
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CALLS."
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SHE DID IT ALMOST ON A DAILY
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BASIS, USE THE SAME PHONE JUST A
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COUPLE HUNDRED FEET FROM HER
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APARTMENT.
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>> Narrator: ACCORDING TO
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CHRISTIAN, SUSAN DID NOT SAY
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WHOM SHE WAS GOING TO CALL, NOR
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DID SHE RETURN BY THE TIME HE
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LEFT THE APARTMENT.
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>> HE HAD BEEN WATCHING A MOVIE
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WITH DAVID, AND THE MOVIE ENDED
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AT APPROXIMATELY 12:45.
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AT APPROXIMATELY 1:45, CHRISTIAN
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WAS WAITING FOR A BUS IN THE
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AREA TO GO TO NEW YORK.
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>> Narrator: IN ADDITION TO
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CHRISTIAN, SUSAN HAD SEVERAL
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OTHER MEN IN HER LIFE, SOME OF
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WHOM HARBORED ROMANTIC INTEREST
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THAT BECAME ABUSIVE.
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>> WE UNCOVERED PREVIOUS REPORTS
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MADE WITH THE NUTLEY POLICE
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DEPARTMENT WHERE SHE ALLEGED
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THAT SHE HAD BEEN A VICTIM OF
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DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ON AT LEAST
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ONE OCCASION.
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THERE WERE A COUPLE ASSAULTS AT
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HER APARTMENT WHERE
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EX-BOYFRIENDS HAD ASSAULTED
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CHRISTIAN.
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>> SHE WAS INVOLVED WITH SOMEONE
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RECENTLY, AND SHE HAD SOME
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PROBLEMS WITH HIM.
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I GUESS HE GOT A LITTLE
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OBSESSIVE WITH HER, AND I TOLD
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HER, YOU KNOW, "LET'S GO TO THE
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POLICE STATION."
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SO WE WENT -- IT WAS A COUPLE
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WEEKS BEFORE SHE DISAPPEARED --
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TO GET A RESTRAINING ORDER.
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>> THERE HAD BEEN SOME
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RESTRAINING ORDERS IN EFFECT.
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WE COULDN'T FIND ANY VIOLATION.
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AFTER LOOKING AT ALL THOSE
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REPORTS, WE COULDN'T ESTABLISH
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ANY CONNECTION TO HER BEING
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MISSING.
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>> Narrator: AS THE NUTLEY
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POLICE FOLLOW UP ON DOZENS OF
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LEADS, SEVERAL WITNESSES COME
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FORWARD CLAIMING TO HAVE SEEN
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SUSAN ON THE DAY SHE
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DISAPPEARED, INCLUDING AN
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EMPLOYEE FROM THE PIZZA PARLOR
499
00:15:41,733 --> 00:15:43,067
ACROSS THE STREET FROM HER
500
00:15:43,067 --> 00:15:44,367
APARTMENT.
501
00:15:44,567 --> 00:15:46,733
>> PIZZA MAN SAID HE SAW HER
502
00:15:46,733 --> 00:15:48,533
GOING BACK INTO HER HOUSE.
503
00:15:48,733 --> 00:15:50,200
SO SHE WASN'T GOING ANYWHERE.
504
00:15:50,200 --> 00:15:51,567
SHE WAS GOING BACK INTO HER
505
00:15:51,567 --> 00:15:52,067
HOUSE.
506
00:15:52,067 --> 00:15:53,433
>> Narrator: FRIENDS AND FAMILY
507
00:15:53,433 --> 00:15:54,767
WONDER IF THE POLICE SHOULD BE
508
00:15:54,767 --> 00:15:57,067
LOOKING CLOSER TO HOME.
509
00:15:57,067 --> 00:15:59,467
>> WHY WAS HER POCKETBOOK AND
510
00:15:59,467 --> 00:16:02,200
HER PAGER HOME IF SHE SUPPOSEDLY
511
00:16:02,200 --> 00:16:04,300
LEFT AND ALL OF A SUDDEN
512
00:16:04,300 --> 00:16:06,100
DISAPPEARED?
513
00:16:06,100 --> 00:16:07,933
I REALLY FEEL THAT WHATEVER
514
00:16:07,933 --> 00:16:09,967
HAPPENED TO SUSAN, IT HAPPENED
515
00:16:09,967 --> 00:16:11,800
IN THAT APARTMENT.
516
00:16:11,800 --> 00:16:13,267
>> Narrator: BUT THE NUTLEY
517
00:16:13,267 --> 00:16:14,867
POLICE CAN'T FIND ANY EVIDENCE
518
00:16:14,867 --> 00:16:16,433
INDICATING FOUL PLAY INVOLVING
519
00:16:16,433 --> 00:16:18,133
SUSAN'S ESTRANGED HUSBAND, MARK,
520
00:16:18,133 --> 00:16:19,500
OR HER LIVE-IN BOYFRIEND,
521
00:16:19,500 --> 00:16:21,200
CHRISTIAN.
522
00:16:21,200 --> 00:16:23,100
>> AT THE BEGINNING, MARK WAS
523
00:16:23,100 --> 00:16:25,067
CONSIDERED A POSSIBLE SUSPECT.
524
00:16:25,067 --> 00:16:27,533
MARK WAS COOPERATIVE.
525
00:16:27,533 --> 00:16:29,133
HE GAVE US ACCESS.
526
00:16:29,133 --> 00:16:30,300
WE NEVER GATHERED ANY
527
00:16:30,300 --> 00:16:31,900
INFORMATION TO REALLY IMPLICATE
528
00:16:31,900 --> 00:16:33,533
HIM IN ANY WRONGDOING.
529
00:16:33,533 --> 00:16:35,300
CHRISTIAN WAS ALSO LOOKED AT.
530
00:16:35,300 --> 00:16:37,067
HE DID COME IN AND COOPERATE.
531
00:16:37,067 --> 00:16:38,867
AND ONCE AGAIN, AS A RESULT OF
532
00:16:38,867 --> 00:16:40,567
WHAT WE FOUND OUT, WE HAD NO
533
00:16:40,567 --> 00:16:42,333
REASON TO BELIEVE AT THE TIME
534
00:16:42,333 --> 00:16:44,067
THAT HE WAS INVOLVED IN ANY
535
00:16:44,067 --> 00:16:50,500
WRONGDOING.
536
00:16:50,500 --> 00:16:51,767
>> Narrator: A MONTH HAS PASSED
537
00:16:51,767 --> 00:16:53,467
SINCE SUSAN WENT MISSING.
538
00:16:53,467 --> 00:16:55,467
BUT JUST AS THE INVESTIGATION
539
00:16:55,467 --> 00:16:57,533
SEEMS TO SLOW, THE MEDIA PICKS
540
00:16:57,533 --> 00:16:59,733
UP SUSAN'S STORY, AND THE NUTLEY
541
00:16:59,733 --> 00:17:02,700
POLICE RECEIVE STARTLING NEWS.
542
00:17:02,700 --> 00:17:04,300
>> NUMBER OF PEOPLE THAT CAME
543
00:17:04,300 --> 00:17:06,067
FORWARD WITH INFORMATION, A LOT
544
00:17:06,067 --> 00:17:07,633
OF WHICH INCLUDED SHE HAD BEEN
545
00:17:07,633 --> 00:17:09,133
SEEN SELLING HERSELF ON THE
546
00:17:09,133 --> 00:17:10,367
STREETS OF NEWARK AND
547
00:17:10,367 --> 00:17:14,567
JERSEY CITY.
548
00:17:14,567 --> 00:17:16,067
>> Narrator: COMING UP...
549
00:17:16,067 --> 00:17:17,300
AN EXTRAORDINARY PIECE OF
550
00:17:17,300 --> 00:17:18,800
DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE COMES INTO
551
00:17:18,800 --> 00:17:19,733
PLAY.
552
00:17:19,733 --> 00:17:21,633
>> JUST LOST 11 1/2 YEARS OF
553
00:17:21,633 --> 00:17:23,533
SOBRIETY BECAUSE OF DANCING,
554
00:17:23,533 --> 00:17:26,300
BECAUSE IT JUST GO TOO PAINFUL.
555
00:17:44,700 --> 00:17:45,867
>> Narrator: SUSAN WALSH HAS
556
00:17:45,867 --> 00:17:46,933
SEEMINGLY VANISHED OFF THE
557
00:17:46,933 --> 00:17:49,467
STREETS OF NUTLEY, NEW JERSEY.
558
00:17:49,467 --> 00:17:51,267
THE COMPLETE LACK OF INFORMATION
559
00:17:51,267 --> 00:17:52,633
REGARDING HER WHEREABOUTS
560
00:17:52,633 --> 00:17:54,067
DOESN'T STOP HER STORY FROM
561
00:17:54,067 --> 00:17:55,333
MAKING THE NEWS.
562
00:17:55,333 --> 00:17:57,433
THE HEADLINES SPUR A FLURRY OF
563
00:17:57,433 --> 00:17:59,200
SIGHTINGS, ONE OF WHICH THE
564
00:17:59,200 --> 00:18:00,833
NUTLEY POLICE TAKE VERY
565
00:18:00,833 --> 00:18:05,600
SERIOUSLY.
566
00:18:05,600 --> 00:18:07,267
ONE MONTH AFTER SUSAN GOES
567
00:18:07,267 --> 00:18:09,067
MISSING, A PROSTITUTE IN THE
568
00:18:09,067 --> 00:18:10,900
CITY OF NEWARK COMES FORWARD,
569
00:18:10,900 --> 00:18:14,600
CLAIMING TO HAVE SEEN HER.
570
00:18:14,600 --> 00:18:16,267
>> THIS INFORMANT, WHO DIDN'T
571
00:18:16,267 --> 00:18:17,900
WISH TO BE IDENTIFIED, STATED
572
00:18:17,900 --> 00:18:19,567
THAT SHE HAD MET SUSAN ON THE
573
00:18:19,567 --> 00:18:22,200
STREETS OF NEWARK.
574
00:18:22,400 --> 00:18:23,500
THEY HAD BEEN WORKING THE
575
00:18:23,500 --> 00:18:24,333
STREETS OF NEWARK.
576
00:18:24,333 --> 00:18:26,100
SHE TOOK HER INTO HER APARTMENT,
577
00:18:26,100 --> 00:18:28,067
GAVE HEAR PLACE TO STAY.
578
00:18:28,267 --> 00:18:29,967
>> Narrator: THE WOMAN SAYS THAT
579
00:18:29,967 --> 00:18:31,600
SUSAN HAD BEEN LIVING WITH HER
580
00:18:31,600 --> 00:18:32,867
FOR THE PAST TWO WEEKS.
581
00:18:32,867 --> 00:18:34,533
LIEUTENANT RYAN BELIEVES SHE IS
582
00:18:34,533 --> 00:18:35,600
TELLING THE TRUTH.
583
00:18:35,600 --> 00:18:37,600
SHE KNEW SOME FACTS ABOUT SUSAN
584
00:18:37,600 --> 00:18:39,633
THAT HADN'T BEEN PRINTED IN THE
585
00:18:39,633 --> 00:18:41,533
NEWSPAPERS THAT TO THIS DAY I
586
00:18:41,533 --> 00:18:42,767
DON'T KNOW HOW ANYBODY COULD
587
00:18:42,767 --> 00:18:44,067
HAVE KNOWN UNLESS, INDEED, SHE
588
00:18:44,067 --> 00:18:44,967
HAD BEEN WITH SUSAN.
589
00:18:44,967 --> 00:18:47,100
SHE SAID SHE HAD CONFIDED IN HER
590
00:18:47,100 --> 00:18:48,933
THAT SHE HAD A SON IN NUTLEY,
591
00:18:48,933 --> 00:18:50,400
SHE LEFT HIM BEHIND, THAT HER
592
00:18:50,400 --> 00:18:51,867
EX-HUSBAND WAS LIVING IN THE
593
00:18:51,867 --> 00:18:53,267
SAME BUILDING, AND THAT SHE
594
00:18:53,267 --> 00:18:54,867
DIDN'T WANT TO GO HOME, AND THAT
595
00:18:54,867 --> 00:18:56,433
IF THE POLICE MADE HER GO HOME,
596
00:18:56,433 --> 00:18:58,800
SHE WAS GONNA KILL HERSELF.
597
00:18:58,800 --> 00:19:00,200
>> Narrator: WHILE THE NUTLEY
598
00:19:00,200 --> 00:19:01,533
POLICE FEEL CONFIDENT THAT THE
599
00:19:01,533 --> 00:19:02,900
ACCOUNT IS LEGITIMATE, SUSAN'S
600
00:19:02,900 --> 00:19:04,767
LOVED ONES ARE DUBIOUS.
601
00:19:04,967 --> 00:19:06,600
>> I THINK SHE FABRICATED THAT
602
00:19:06,600 --> 00:19:08,233
TO GET ATTENTION ON HER, MAYBE
603
00:19:08,233 --> 00:19:09,267
TO GET MONEY.
604
00:19:09,467 --> 00:19:10,433
I DON'T KNOW.
605
00:19:10,433 --> 00:19:11,533
I MET THE WOMAN.
606
00:19:11,533 --> 00:19:13,133
I WENT AND TALKED TO HER.
607
00:19:13,133 --> 00:19:14,700
I REALLY DON'T BELIEVE HER STORY
608
00:19:14,700 --> 00:19:15,400
AT ALL.
609
00:19:15,400 --> 00:19:17,500
>> Narrator: THE NUTLEY POLICE
610
00:19:17,500 --> 00:19:18,967
FOLLOW THROUGH ON THE LEAD, BUT
611
00:19:18,967 --> 00:19:22,867
SUSAN REMAINS JUST OUT OF REACH.
612
00:19:22,867 --> 00:19:24,400
>> IT ALWAYS SEEMED LIKE WE WERE
613
00:19:24,400 --> 00:19:25,867
JUST ONE STEP BEHIND THIS GIRL.
614
00:19:25,867 --> 00:19:27,367
WE COULD NEVER GET CLOSE ENOUGH
615
00:19:27,367 --> 00:19:29,300
TO EITHER CONFIRM OR DENY THAT
616
00:19:29,300 --> 00:19:30,200
IT WAS SUSAN.
617
00:19:30,200 --> 00:19:31,933
I WOULD SAY WELL OVER A DOZEN
618
00:19:31,933 --> 00:19:33,600
PEOPLE WHO WERE ABLE TO PICK
619
00:19:33,600 --> 00:19:35,400
SUSAN'S PICTURE OUT OF A PHOTO
620
00:19:35,400 --> 00:19:36,800
LINEUP, AN ARRAY OF SIX
621
00:19:36,800 --> 00:19:38,600
DIFFERENT FACES, AND WITHOUT A
622
00:19:38,600 --> 00:19:40,367
DOUBT POINT TO THIS PERSON AND
623
00:19:40,367 --> 00:19:42,600
SAY SHE WAS HERE JUST HOURS AGO.
624
00:19:42,600 --> 00:19:44,200
>> Narrator: THE POTENTIAL
625
00:19:44,200 --> 00:19:45,967
SIGHTINGS RAISE HOPE THAT ONE
626
00:19:45,967 --> 00:19:47,767
MONTH AFTER SHE WALKED OUT HER
627
00:19:47,767 --> 00:19:49,367
FRONT DOOR, SUSAN IS STILL
628
00:19:49,367 --> 00:19:50,933
ALIVE, THOUGH POSSIBLY IN
629
00:19:50,933 --> 00:19:52,067
DANGER.
630
00:19:52,067 --> 00:19:53,967
>> FROM THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WE
631
00:19:53,967 --> 00:19:55,800
SPOKE TO AT THAT POINT IN THE
632
00:19:55,800 --> 00:19:57,767
INVESTIGATION, IT APPEARED THAT
633
00:19:57,767 --> 00:19:59,800
SUSAN WAS HOMELESS, THAT SHE WAS
634
00:19:59,800 --> 00:20:01,700
SELLING HERSELF ON THE STREETS
635
00:20:01,700 --> 00:20:03,733
FOR MONEY TO SURVIVE, FOR DRUGS,
636
00:20:03,733 --> 00:20:05,733
AND FOR FOOD AND THAT SHE WASN'T
637
00:20:05,733 --> 00:20:06,600
DOING VERY WELL.
638
00:20:06,600 --> 00:20:07,933
>> Narrator: THOSE CLOSE TO
639
00:20:07,933 --> 00:20:09,367
SUSAN ADMIT THAT IN THE WEEKS
640
00:20:09,367 --> 00:20:11,167
BEFORE HER DISAPPEARANCE, SUSAN
641
00:20:11,167 --> 00:20:12,933
SEEMED TO BE SLIPPING BACK INTO
642
00:20:12,933 --> 00:20:14,067
ADDICTION.
643
00:20:14,267 --> 00:20:15,900
>> I CAN REMEMBER A TELEPHONE
644
00:20:15,900 --> 00:20:17,100
CALL I GOT ONCE FROM
645
00:20:17,100 --> 00:20:18,833
STATEN ISLAND, AND SHE SAID SHE
646
00:20:18,833 --> 00:20:20,400
WAS OUT THERE AND SHE REALLY
647
00:20:20,400 --> 00:20:21,933
DIDN'T HAVE ANY MONEY.
648
00:20:22,133 --> 00:20:24,233
AND I SAID, "OH, FOR GOD'S
649
00:20:24,233 --> 00:20:26,433
SAKES, WHAT ARE YOU DOING?"
650
00:20:26,433 --> 00:20:28,333
SHE NEVER TALKED TO ME LIKE THAT
651
00:20:28,333 --> 00:20:28,867
BEFORE.
652
00:20:28,867 --> 00:20:30,333
SHE WAS ALWAYS SO RESPECTFUL,
653
00:20:30,333 --> 00:20:32,733
HAD SUCH MANNERS AND EVERYTHING.
654
00:20:32,733 --> 00:20:35,133
AND THIS TIME I JUST FELT IN HER
655
00:20:35,133 --> 00:20:39,133
VOICE THIS NOTE OF, LIKE...
656
00:20:39,133 --> 00:20:42,900
KIND OF DESPERATE.
657
00:20:42,900 --> 00:20:44,867
>> Narrator: STILL, JIM FINDS IT
658
00:20:44,867 --> 00:20:46,667
IS IMPOSSIBLE TO IMAGINE THAT
659
00:20:46,667 --> 00:20:48,367
ANYTHING, EVEN DRUGS, WOULD
660
00:20:48,367 --> 00:20:50,267
DRIVE SUSAN TO ABANDON HER SON.
661
00:20:50,267 --> 00:20:52,500
>> HER WHOLE FOCUS WAS HER KID.
662
00:20:52,500 --> 00:20:53,833
TOTAL. THAT'S ALL.
663
00:20:53,833 --> 00:20:55,733
SHE WAS ALWAYS TALKING ABOUT
664
00:20:55,733 --> 00:20:57,800
DAVID, DAVID'S SCHOOL, WHAT SHE
665
00:20:57,800 --> 00:20:59,700
COULD DO, HOW SHE WOULD HAVE
666
00:20:59,700 --> 00:21:01,133
DIFFICULTY HAVE MONEY JUST TO
667
00:21:01,133 --> 00:21:01,900
GET HIS LUNCH.
668
00:21:01,900 --> 00:21:03,300
SHE ALWAYS HAD TO PREPARE HIS
669
00:21:03,300 --> 00:21:03,767
LUNCH.
670
00:21:03,767 --> 00:21:05,733
YOU KNOW, THAT'S ALL SHE TALKED
671
00:21:05,733 --> 00:21:07,567
ABOUT.
672
00:21:07,567 --> 00:21:09,100
>> Narrator: BUT POLICE FIND
673
00:21:09,100 --> 00:21:10,733
PERSUASIVE EVIDENCE OF SUSAN'S
674
00:21:10,733 --> 00:21:12,433
DESPERATE STATE IN AN INTERVIEW
675
00:21:12,433 --> 00:21:14,333
FILMED ONLY TWO DAYS BEFORE SHE
676
00:21:14,333 --> 00:21:15,933
DISAPPEARED.
677
00:21:15,933 --> 00:21:17,200
>> I GO THROUGH SWINGS.
678
00:21:17,200 --> 00:21:18,200
I THINK WE ALL DO.
679
00:21:18,200 --> 00:21:19,633
I'VE BEEN THROUGH SWINGS OF
680
00:21:19,633 --> 00:21:20,100
RAGE.
681
00:21:20,100 --> 00:21:21,733
WHEN I GO OUT WITH MY GIRLFRIEND
682
00:21:21,733 --> 00:21:23,400
AND DO MALE-BASHING AND MAKE FUN
683
00:21:23,400 --> 00:21:24,833
OF MEN, AND THEN I'VE CRIED
684
00:21:24,833 --> 00:21:25,400
ONSTAGE.
685
00:21:25,400 --> 00:21:26,733
AND THEN THERE'S TIMES --
686
00:21:26,733 --> 00:21:28,233
THERE'S A GOOD SONG ON, AND I
687
00:21:28,233 --> 00:21:29,633
JUST ESCAPE INTO THE MUSIC.
688
00:21:29,633 --> 00:21:31,300
AND SOMETIMES IT'S EASIER, AND
689
00:21:31,300 --> 00:21:34,267
THEN SOMETIMES I FEEL THE PAIN.
690
00:21:34,267 --> 00:21:35,700
>> Narrator: THE FOOTAGE IS PART
691
00:21:35,700 --> 00:21:36,800
OF A DOCUMENTARY CALLED
692
00:21:36,800 --> 00:21:38,433
"STRIPPED" MADE BY SUSAN'S
693
00:21:38,433 --> 00:21:40,400
FRIEND JILL MORLEY.
694
00:21:40,600 --> 00:21:42,600
>> I STARTED MAKING A FILM ABOUT
695
00:21:42,600 --> 00:21:44,433
STRIPPERS BECAUSE I HAD FOUND
696
00:21:44,433 --> 00:21:47,567
MYSELF IN THAT JOB, AND I FOUND
697
00:21:47,567 --> 00:21:49,433
WOMEN TO BE REALLY FASCINATING.
698
00:21:49,633 --> 00:21:51,567
AND I WONDERED WHY THEY WERE
699
00:21:51,567 --> 00:21:52,767
DOING IT.
700
00:21:52,767 --> 00:21:54,900
AND I DON'T THINK THAT PEOPLE
701
00:21:54,900 --> 00:21:57,100
KNOW HOW SMART AND INTERESTING
702
00:21:57,100 --> 00:21:59,367
AND FUNNY AND WHOLE THESE WOMEN
703
00:21:59,367 --> 00:22:00,067
ARE.
704
00:22:00,067 --> 00:22:02,133
I WANTED TO HUMANIZE THEM.
705
00:22:02,133 --> 00:22:03,233
>> Narrator: SUSAN IS ONE OF
706
00:22:03,233 --> 00:22:04,333
SEVERAL WOMEN FEATURED IN THE
707
00:22:04,333 --> 00:22:05,367
FILM.
708
00:22:05,367 --> 00:22:07,067
ON CAMERA, SHE SPEAKS CANDIDLY
709
00:22:07,067 --> 00:22:08,833
ABOUT THE DIFFICULT TIME SHE IS
710
00:22:08,833 --> 00:22:10,267
GOING THROUGH.
711
00:22:10,267 --> 00:22:11,667
>> I JUST RECENTLY STARTED
712
00:22:11,667 --> 00:22:13,367
DRINKING, AND I JUST LOST 11 1/2
713
00:22:13,367 --> 00:22:15,067
YEARS OF SOBRIETY BECAUSE OF
714
00:22:15,067 --> 00:22:16,867
DANCING, BECAUSE IT JUST GOT TOO
715
00:22:16,867 --> 00:22:17,700
PAINFUL.
716
00:22:17,700 --> 00:22:20,067
>> I WAS CONTACTED BY THE POLICE
717
00:22:20,067 --> 00:22:21,700
WHEN SHE FIRST WENT MISSING.
718
00:22:21,700 --> 00:22:23,333
I ACTUALLY HANDED OVER THAT
719
00:22:23,333 --> 00:22:25,200
FOOTAGE AS EVIDENCE, THE FOOTAGE
720
00:22:25,200 --> 00:22:26,867
OF THE WOMEN TALKING AND HER
721
00:22:26,867 --> 00:22:27,533
TALKING.
722
00:22:27,533 --> 00:22:30,133
SUSAN WAS USUALLY PRETTY BUBBLY
723
00:22:30,133 --> 00:22:31,400
AND FRIENDLY.
724
00:22:31,400 --> 00:22:34,067
AND THEN AT THAT TIME, FOR THAT
725
00:22:34,067 --> 00:22:35,833
INTERVIEW, SHE JUST WAS REALLY
726
00:22:35,833 --> 00:22:38,933
DRAWN AND FATIGUED.
727
00:22:38,933 --> 00:22:40,067
>> WELL, I'M FACED WITH THE
728
00:22:40,067 --> 00:22:41,300
PROBLEM NOW WHERE I WOULD GET A
729
00:22:41,300 --> 00:22:42,500
REGULAR JOB RIGHT NOW BECAUSE
730
00:22:42,500 --> 00:22:43,767
I'M SO SCARED OF WHAT IT'S DONE
731
00:22:43,767 --> 00:22:44,300
TO ME.
732
00:22:44,300 --> 00:22:46,067
AND YET I HAVE STAYED IN IT SO
733
00:22:46,067 --> 00:22:47,767
LONG THAT MY HEALTH IS SO BAD
734
00:22:47,767 --> 00:22:49,367
THAT I'D BE CALLING IN SICK
735
00:22:49,367 --> 00:22:50,567
EVERY OTHER DAY.
736
00:22:50,567 --> 00:22:52,700
>> I NOTICED SUSAN JUST SEEMED A
737
00:22:52,700 --> 00:22:54,733
LITTLE OFF, BUT I COULDN'T TELL
738
00:22:54,733 --> 00:22:56,867
IF IT WAS FROM DRUGS OR FROM HER
739
00:22:56,867 --> 00:22:58,867
PERSONALITY OR BEING OVERTIRED
740
00:22:58,867 --> 00:23:00,233
OR WHAT.
741
00:23:00,233 --> 00:23:01,633
BUT I JUST REMEMBER SOMETHING
742
00:23:01,633 --> 00:23:02,567
WASN'T RIGHT.
743
00:23:02,567 --> 00:23:04,400
>> Narrator: POLICE SCRUTINIZE
744
00:23:04,400 --> 00:23:06,167
THE MATERIAL, LOOKING FOR ANY
745
00:23:06,167 --> 00:23:07,833
CLUES FORESHADOWING SUSAN'S
746
00:23:07,833 --> 00:23:09,933
DISAPPEARANCE TWO DAYS LATER.
747
00:23:09,933 --> 00:23:11,733
ONE MOMENT IN PARTICULAR GRABS
748
00:23:11,733 --> 00:23:13,067
THEIR ATTENTION.
749
00:23:13,067 --> 00:23:13,933
[ BEEPING ]
750
00:23:13,933 --> 00:23:15,067
>> THAT'S MY BEEPER.
751
00:23:15,067 --> 00:23:16,500
IT'S PROBABLY A STALKER RIGHT
752
00:23:16,500 --> 00:23:16,900
NOW.
753
00:23:16,900 --> 00:23:17,933
[ LAUGHTER ]
754
00:23:17,933 --> 00:23:22,333
I DO HAVE A STALKER.
755
00:23:22,333 --> 00:23:23,800
>> SUSAN HAD MADE SEVERAL
756
00:23:23,800 --> 00:23:25,500
REPORTS THAT SHE FELT SHE WAS
757
00:23:25,500 --> 00:23:27,267
BEING FOLLOWED AND STALKED BY A
758
00:23:27,267 --> 00:23:29,467
MALE SHE HAD MET AT STRIP CLUBS.
759
00:23:29,467 --> 00:23:32,367
SUSAN OFTEN DATED PEOPLE SHE HAD
760
00:23:32,367 --> 00:23:33,800
MET IN STRIP CLUBS.
761
00:23:33,800 --> 00:23:36,200
THERE WERE SEVERAL REPORTS THAT
762
00:23:36,200 --> 00:23:38,467
SOME OF HER MALE FRIENDS WERE
763
00:23:38,467 --> 00:23:41,100
VERY POSSESSIVE OF HER.
764
00:23:41,100 --> 00:23:42,800
>> THERE WAS ONE GUY THAT I
765
00:23:42,800 --> 00:23:44,633
REMEMBER SHE TOLD ME THAT HAD
766
00:23:44,633 --> 00:23:46,533
SEEN HER AT A CLUB DOWN THE
767
00:23:46,533 --> 00:23:47,567
STREET.
768
00:23:47,567 --> 00:23:49,567
AND HE ACTUALLY CAME AND RANG
769
00:23:49,567 --> 00:23:51,400
HER DOORBELL, AND THAT WAS
770
00:23:51,400 --> 00:23:53,733
MAYBE TWO MONTHS BEFORE SHE
771
00:23:53,733 --> 00:23:55,633
DISAPPEARED, TOO.
772
00:23:55,633 --> 00:23:57,067
>> Narrator: BUT POLICE FIND NO
773
00:23:57,067 --> 00:23:58,567
CONNECTION BETWEEN THESE MEN AND
774
00:23:58,567 --> 00:24:00,900
SUSAN'S DISAPPEARANCE.
775
00:24:00,900 --> 00:24:02,100
>> THERE WERE OFTEN FIGHTS
776
00:24:02,100 --> 00:24:04,300
BETWEEN HER MALE FRIENDS AND
777
00:24:04,300 --> 00:24:06,733
CHRISTIAN PEPO OR AN OLDER MALE
778
00:24:06,733 --> 00:24:09,200
FRIEND VERSUS A NEW MALE FRIEND.
779
00:24:09,200 --> 00:24:10,767
HOWEVER, AS FAR AS WE CAN
780
00:24:10,767 --> 00:24:12,333
INVESTIGATE THOSE CLAIMS,
781
00:24:12,333 --> 00:24:14,267
NOTHING SHOWED WHERE SUSAN WOULD
782
00:24:14,267 --> 00:24:16,367
HAVE BEEN IN JEOPARDY.
783
00:24:16,367 --> 00:24:17,667
>> Narrator: FRIENDS AND FAMILY
784
00:24:17,667 --> 00:24:19,633
AGREE THAT DESPITE THE UNWANTED
785
00:24:19,633 --> 00:24:21,300
ATTENTION SUSAN SOMETIMES
786
00:24:21,300 --> 00:24:23,067
ATTRACTED, THE 36-YEAR-OLD
787
00:24:23,067 --> 00:24:24,867
NEW JERSEY NATIVE KNEW HOW TO
788
00:24:24,867 --> 00:24:26,400
HANDLE HERSELF.
789
00:24:26,400 --> 00:24:28,133
>> SUSAN WAS NOT A VICTIM.
790
00:24:28,133 --> 00:24:30,067
I THINK THAT SHE WAS TOTALLY IN
791
00:24:30,067 --> 00:24:32,067
CONTROL WHEN SHE WAS ON THE BAR
792
00:24:32,067 --> 00:24:34,200
DANCING.
793
00:24:34,200 --> 00:24:35,833
SHE WAS IN CONTROL OF THOSE MEN.
794
00:24:35,833 --> 00:24:37,333
SHE KNEW HOW TO HANDLE THEM.
795
00:24:37,333 --> 00:24:38,933
AND THERE WAS NO QUESTION THAT
796
00:24:38,933 --> 00:24:41,467
SHE WAS IN CONTROL.
797
00:24:41,667 --> 00:24:43,567
>> THERE'S A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF
798
00:24:43,567 --> 00:24:45,467
TURNING THE TABLES INVOLVED IN
799
00:24:45,467 --> 00:24:47,267
HER BECOMING A STRIPPER, THE
800
00:24:47,267 --> 00:24:48,900
PSYCHOLOGICAL DYNAMIC OF IT.
801
00:24:49,100 --> 00:24:50,200
"YOU'RE NOT GONNA TAKE ME
802
00:24:50,200 --> 00:24:51,500
SERIOUSLY DESPITE THE FACT THAT
803
00:24:51,500 --> 00:24:52,867
I'M INTELLIGENT, ARTICULATE, AND
804
00:24:52,867 --> 00:24:54,733
TALENTED, AND YOU'RE INSTEAD
805
00:24:54,733 --> 00:24:56,633
JUST GONNA LOOK AT MY BREASTS
806
00:24:56,633 --> 00:24:58,333
OR BUTT OR WHAT HAVE YOU.
807
00:24:58,333 --> 00:25:00,333
OKAY, FINE, WELL, GUESS WHAT.
808
00:25:00,333 --> 00:25:01,600
HERE IT IS, YOU KNOW.
809
00:25:01,600 --> 00:25:03,067
FEAST YOUR EYES, FELLAS.
810
00:25:03,067 --> 00:25:04,233
HAVE A LOOK, BUT BY THE WAY,
811
00:25:04,233 --> 00:25:06,500
SCREW YOU."
812
00:25:06,500 --> 00:25:07,933
>> Narrator: BUT THE DARK TONE
813
00:25:07,933 --> 00:25:09,167
THAT SUSAN TAKES IN JILL'S
814
00:25:09,167 --> 00:25:10,633
FILM SUGGESTS THAT SHE MAY HAVE
815
00:25:10,633 --> 00:25:12,200
REACHED HER LIMIT.
816
00:25:12,200 --> 00:25:13,733
>> YOU'RE DEALING WITH
817
00:25:13,733 --> 00:25:15,700
SEXUALITY, WHICH REALLY IS SO
818
00:25:15,700 --> 00:25:17,700
INTRINSIC TO YOUR PSYCHE, YOUR
819
00:25:17,700 --> 00:25:19,667
SOUL, AND THE WAY I FEEL WHEN
820
00:25:19,667 --> 00:25:21,667
I'M DANCING IS THAT I'M LYING
821
00:25:21,667 --> 00:25:22,633
THROUGH MY MOTIONS.
822
00:25:22,633 --> 00:25:24,167
THIS IS NOT ME.
823
00:25:24,167 --> 00:25:25,967
>> WELL, THERE'S A SAYING FOR
824
00:25:25,967 --> 00:25:27,900
DANCERS THAT YOU USE IT UNTIL IT
825
00:25:27,900 --> 00:25:29,433
STARTS TO USE YOU.
826
00:25:29,433 --> 00:25:31,767
I THINK SHE WAS ABLE TO USE IT,
827
00:25:31,767 --> 00:25:33,933
BUT IT WAS REALLY PENETRATING
828
00:25:33,933 --> 00:25:35,233
HER A LOT MORE.
829
00:25:35,233 --> 00:25:36,533
BECAUSE FROM WHAT I SAW, SOME OF
830
00:25:36,533 --> 00:25:37,700
HER WRITINGS AND HER WORK, IT
831
00:25:37,700 --> 00:25:39,333
WAS -- IT WAS UPSETTING TO ME,
832
00:25:39,333 --> 00:25:40,900
BECAUSE I COULD TELL SHE WAS
833
00:25:40,900 --> 00:25:42,067
REALLY GETTING HURT.
834
00:25:42,067 --> 00:25:43,667
AND FOR ME, WHEN THAT POINT
835
00:25:43,667 --> 00:25:46,933
HAPPENED, I GET OUT.
836
00:25:46,933 --> 00:25:50,500
EASIER SAID THAN DONE.
837
00:25:50,500 --> 00:25:51,700
>> Narrator: SUSAN HAD BEEN
838
00:25:51,700 --> 00:25:52,967
TALKING RECENTLY ABOUT MAKING
839
00:25:52,967 --> 00:25:54,967
BIG CHANGES IN HER LIFE.
840
00:25:54,967 --> 00:25:56,867
>> SHE HAD TOLD ME THAT SHE
841
00:25:56,867 --> 00:25:59,067
WANTED TO START HER LIFE NEW IN
842
00:25:59,067 --> 00:26:00,900
FLORIDA, WHERE HER COUSINS
843
00:26:00,900 --> 00:26:01,833
LIVED.
844
00:26:01,833 --> 00:26:04,200
SHE HAD A JOB LINED UP.
845
00:26:04,200 --> 00:26:06,933
SHE FELT THAT SHE NEEDED A FRESH
846
00:26:06,933 --> 00:26:09,633
START TO GET OUT OF DANCING AND,
847
00:26:09,633 --> 00:26:11,200
YOU KNOW, GIVE HER AND DAVID A
848
00:26:11,200 --> 00:26:12,067
BETTER LIFE.
849
00:26:12,067 --> 00:26:13,800
>> Narrator: THE NUTLEY POLICE
850
00:26:13,800 --> 00:26:15,267
RUN WITH THE THEORY THAT SUSAN
851
00:26:15,267 --> 00:26:16,533
WILLINGLY LEFT ON HER OWN
852
00:26:16,533 --> 00:26:17,667
WITHOUT HER SON.
853
00:26:17,667 --> 00:26:19,633
>> SUSAN HAD OFTEN MADE COMMENTS
854
00:26:19,633 --> 00:26:21,400
ABOUT HOW TOUGH IT WAS BEING A
855
00:26:21,400 --> 00:26:23,200
SOLE CARE PROVIDER FOR A NUMBER
856
00:26:23,200 --> 00:26:25,067
OF YEARS FOR DAVID, HOW SHE WAS
857
00:26:25,067 --> 00:26:26,900
STRUGGLING FINANCIALLY, AND THAT
858
00:26:26,900 --> 00:26:28,267
SHE WAS REALLY GETTING TIRED OF
859
00:26:28,267 --> 00:26:29,767
IT -- NOT THAT SHE DIDN'T LOVE
860
00:26:29,767 --> 00:26:31,200
DAVID, BUT JUST THAT SHE WAS
861
00:26:31,200 --> 00:26:32,700
FEELING THE PRESSURES OF BEING
862
00:26:32,700 --> 00:26:34,600
MORE OR LESS A SINGLE PARENT.
863
00:26:34,600 --> 00:26:36,067
>> Narrator: BUT THOSE WHO KNOW
864
00:26:36,067 --> 00:26:39,067
SUSAN CALL THE IDEA RIDICULOUS.
865
00:26:39,067 --> 00:26:41,133
>> THEY INSISTED THAT SHE HAD
866
00:26:41,133 --> 00:26:43,200
DISAPPEARED ON HER OWN, AND I
867
00:26:43,200 --> 00:26:45,633
WAS TOTALLY AGAINST THAT.
868
00:26:45,633 --> 00:26:47,333
SHE WOULD HAVE NOT LEFT HIM
869
00:26:47,333 --> 00:26:49,300
WITHOUT A MOTHER AND JUST PICKED
870
00:26:49,300 --> 00:26:51,733
UP ON HER OWN AND JUST LEFT.
871
00:26:51,733 --> 00:26:53,500
>> I'M A MOM AT HOME.
872
00:26:53,500 --> 00:26:57,767
THAT'S MY NUMBER-ONE JOB.
873
00:26:57,767 --> 00:26:59,200
>> Narrator: SUSAN'S ROLES AS
874
00:26:59,200 --> 00:27:00,733
MOTHER AND STRIPPER DIVIDE THE
875
00:27:00,733 --> 00:27:02,233
INVESTIGATION.
876
00:27:02,233 --> 00:27:04,300
DID SHE LEAVE ON HER OWN ACCORD,
877
00:27:04,300 --> 00:27:08,767
OR WAS FOUL PLAY INVOLVED?
878
00:27:08,767 --> 00:27:09,633
COMING UP...
879
00:27:09,633 --> 00:27:11,400
A THIRD ROLE IS ABOUT TO TAKE
880
00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:13,267
THE SEARCH FOR SUSAN IN A WHOLE
881
00:27:13,267 --> 00:27:14,867
NEW DIRECTION.
882
00:27:14,867 --> 00:27:16,100
>> I THINK SHE WAS PUTTING
883
00:27:16,100 --> 00:27:17,567
HERSELF IN REALLY BAD SITUATIONS
884
00:27:17,567 --> 00:27:20,267
WERE SHE COULD HAVE BEEN KILLED.
885
00:27:24,167 --> 00:27:25,433
>> Narrator: GET MORE
886
00:27:25,433 --> 00:27:29,233
"DISAPPEARED" ONLINE AT...
887
00:27:37,367 --> 00:27:38,833
>> Narrator: IT'S BEEN OVER A
888
00:27:38,833 --> 00:27:40,233
MONTH SINCE SUSAN WALSH WENT
889
00:27:40,233 --> 00:27:41,700
MISSING.
890
00:27:41,700 --> 00:27:43,233
POLICE ARE BEGINNING TO BELIEVE
891
00:27:43,233 --> 00:27:44,567
THAT THE 36-YEAR-OLD SINGLE
892
00:27:44,567 --> 00:27:47,400
MOTHER LEFT ON HER OWN ACCORD.
893
00:27:47,400 --> 00:27:48,900
BUT HER LOVED ONES BELIEVE THAT
894
00:27:48,900 --> 00:27:50,467
SUSAN'S WORK IN THE SEX INDUSTRY
895
00:27:50,467 --> 00:27:52,400
HAS CLOUDED THE INVESTIGATION.
896
00:27:52,400 --> 00:27:54,367
>> I THINK THEY STEREOTYPED HER
897
00:27:54,367 --> 00:27:56,067
BECAUSE OF THE FACT THAT SHE WAS
898
00:27:56,067 --> 00:27:57,767
A DANCER, YOU KNOW.
899
00:27:57,967 --> 00:27:59,133
USUALLY DANCERS HAVE THAT
900
00:27:59,133 --> 00:28:00,600
REPUTATION OF BEING A DRUG
901
00:28:00,600 --> 00:28:02,067
ADDICT OR BEING A PROSTITUTE OR
902
00:28:02,067 --> 00:28:02,867
WHATEVER.
903
00:28:03,067 --> 00:28:06,067
THEY DEVALUED HER LIFE.
904
00:28:06,067 --> 00:28:07,567
>> I COULD WHOLEHEARTEDLY SAY
905
00:28:07,567 --> 00:28:08,733
THAT WASN'T THE CASE.
906
00:28:08,733 --> 00:28:10,433
I SPENT COUNTLESS HOURS.
907
00:28:10,433 --> 00:28:12,367
I VISITED ALMOST EVERY STRIP
908
00:28:12,367 --> 00:28:13,800
CLUB IN THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY
909
00:28:13,800 --> 00:28:15,300
AND SOME IN NEW YORK LOOKING FOR
910
00:28:15,300 --> 00:28:19,067
SUSAN.
911
00:28:19,067 --> 00:28:20,433
>> Narrator: SUSAN'S DOUBLE LIFE
912
00:28:20,433 --> 00:28:21,767
PRESENTS A CHALLENGING CASE TO
913
00:28:21,767 --> 00:28:23,433
LAW ENFORCEMENT.
914
00:28:23,433 --> 00:28:25,167
WHERE TO BEGIN SEARCHING FOR A
915
00:28:25,167 --> 00:28:27,067
SINGLE MOTHER WHO IS A STRIPPER
916
00:28:27,067 --> 00:28:29,833
BY NIGHT AND REPORTER BY DAY?
917
00:28:29,833 --> 00:28:32,133
>> THAT'S WHAT'S SO HARD ABOUT
918
00:28:32,133 --> 00:28:33,067
HER CASE.
919
00:28:33,067 --> 00:28:34,767
SHE WAS INVOLVED WITH SO MANY
920
00:28:34,767 --> 00:28:36,567
DIFFERENT THINGS, AND THERE WAS
921
00:28:36,567 --> 00:28:38,300
SO MUCH GOING ON WITH HER LIFE
922
00:28:38,300 --> 00:28:40,133
AND HAD SO MANY DIFFERENT PEOPLE
923
00:28:40,133 --> 00:28:41,167
AROUND HER.
924
00:28:41,167 --> 00:28:43,233
THE DISTRACTIONS HELPED TO DETER
925
00:28:43,233 --> 00:28:49,267
THE POLICE FROM THE TRUTH.
926
00:28:49,267 --> 00:28:50,367
>> Narrator: AS THE
927
00:28:50,367 --> 00:28:52,067
INVESTIGATION CONTINUES, POLICE
928
00:28:52,067 --> 00:28:53,400
LOOK INTO SUSAN'S WRITING
929
00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:55,067
CAREER, INCLUDING HER WORK WITH
930
00:28:55,067 --> 00:28:56,533
VILLAGE VOICE STAFF WRITER
931
00:28:56,533 --> 00:28:58,900
JIM RIDGEWAY.
932
00:28:58,900 --> 00:29:00,733
>> I WAS WORKING ON A BOOK ABOUT
933
00:29:00,733 --> 00:29:02,267
THE SEX INDUSTRY, AND I WAS
934
00:29:02,267 --> 00:29:03,967
TRYING TO DO IT FROM THE POINT
935
00:29:03,967 --> 00:29:05,567
OF VIEW OF THE PEOPLE IN THE
936
00:29:05,567 --> 00:29:06,233
INDUSTRY.
937
00:29:06,233 --> 00:29:07,867
AND I HAD A REALLY HARD TIME
938
00:29:07,867 --> 00:29:09,467
FINDING ANYBODY TO HELP ME.
939
00:29:09,467 --> 00:29:11,500
I MEAN, THE PEOPLE I APPROACHED,
940
00:29:11,500 --> 00:29:13,867
YOU KNOW, WERE VERY LEERY.
941
00:29:13,867 --> 00:29:15,067
THEY DIDN'T WANT TO DO IT.
942
00:29:15,067 --> 00:29:16,667
>> Narrator: FOR HELP, JIM TURNS
943
00:29:16,667 --> 00:29:18,467
TO AL GOLDSTEIN, EDITOR OF
944
00:29:18,467 --> 00:29:20,367
SCREW A POPULAR MUCKRAKING
945
00:29:20,367 --> 00:29:22,133
MAGAZINE ABOUT THE SEX INDUSTRY.
946
00:29:22,333 --> 00:29:23,800
>> I EXPLAINED TO HIM THAT I WAS
947
00:29:23,800 --> 00:29:25,067
COMPLETELY GOING NUTS DOING
948
00:29:25,067 --> 00:29:26,067
THIS.
949
00:29:26,200 --> 00:29:28,167
AND HE THEN SAID, WELL, HE KNEW
950
00:29:28,167 --> 00:29:29,800
THIS YOUNG STRIPPER NAMED
951
00:29:29,800 --> 00:29:31,733
SUSAN WALSH WHO WANTED TO BE A
952
00:29:31,733 --> 00:29:32,833
WRITER.
953
00:29:32,833 --> 00:29:33,967
AND HE THOUGHT MAYBE, YOU KNOW,
954
00:29:33,967 --> 00:29:34,767
THAT WE SHOULD MEET.
955
00:29:34,767 --> 00:29:36,233
I REMEMBER HER COMING TO THE
956
00:29:36,233 --> 00:29:37,667
VILLAGE VOICE, AND WALKING
957
00:29:37,667 --> 00:29:39,767
ACROSS THE STREET, SHE HAD THIS
958
00:29:39,767 --> 00:29:42,800
FACE THAT WAS EXTREMELY KIND OF,
959
00:29:42,800 --> 00:29:45,767
LIKE, INNOCENT AND OPEN.
960
00:29:45,767 --> 00:29:47,167
>> Narrator: JIM HIRES SUSAN TO
961
00:29:47,167 --> 00:29:48,467
HELP HIM ACCESS THE WORLD SHE
962
00:29:48,467 --> 00:29:50,100
KNOWS SO INTIMATELY.
963
00:29:50,100 --> 00:29:51,633
IT'S A BIG OPPORTUNITY, AND
964
00:29:51,633 --> 00:29:53,167
SUSAN TRIES HARD TO GET JIM
965
00:29:53,167 --> 00:29:55,667
WHATEVER HE NEEDS.
966
00:29:55,667 --> 00:29:57,400
>> SHE WAS THE MOST DEPENDABLE
967
00:29:57,400 --> 00:29:58,900
PERSON I'VE EVER WORKED WITH.
968
00:29:58,900 --> 00:30:00,467
WHENEVER SHE SAID SHE WAS GONNA
969
00:30:00,467 --> 00:30:01,767
DO SOMETHING, SHE DID IT.
970
00:30:01,767 --> 00:30:03,433
IF IT WAS HARD TO FIND SOMEBODY,
971
00:30:03,433 --> 00:30:04,633
SHE WOULD GO FIND HIM.
972
00:30:04,633 --> 00:30:06,300
BUT SHE NEVER FAILED, EVER.
973
00:30:06,500 --> 00:30:07,900
>> SUSAN STARTING TO WORK AT
974
00:30:07,900 --> 00:30:09,233
THE VOICE AND WORKING WITH
975
00:30:09,233 --> 00:30:10,667
JIM RIDGEWAY WAS A HUGE BREAK
976
00:30:10,667 --> 00:30:12,133
FOR HER, AND IT WAS SOMETHING
977
00:30:12,133 --> 00:30:13,667
SHE WAS VERY DETERMINED TO MAKE
978
00:30:13,667 --> 00:30:14,967
THE MOST OUT OF.
979
00:30:15,167 --> 00:30:16,500
THERE WAS NOW A JOURNALISTIC
980
00:30:16,500 --> 00:30:17,967
CONTEXT IN WHICH SHE COULD TAKE
981
00:30:17,967 --> 00:30:19,033
HER KNOWLEDGE AND HER
982
00:30:19,033 --> 00:30:20,433
CONNECTIONS AND HER EXPERIENCE
983
00:30:20,433 --> 00:30:21,867
AND WRITE ABOUT IT IN A REALLY
984
00:30:21,867 --> 00:30:23,733
MEANINGFUL WAY.
985
00:30:23,733 --> 00:30:25,767
>> Narrator: ON AUGUST 2, 1994,
986
00:30:25,767 --> 00:30:27,333
SUSAN GETS HER FIRST ARTICLE
987
00:30:27,333 --> 00:30:29,033
PUBLISHED IN THE VILLAGE VOICE,
988
00:30:29,033 --> 00:30:31,167
A COLLABORATION WITH JIM
989
00:30:31,167 --> 00:30:32,733
EXPOSING THE DARK SIDE OF A
990
00:30:32,733 --> 00:30:34,533
RECENT INFLUX OF RUSSIANS IN THE
991
00:30:34,533 --> 00:30:37,067
LOCAL GO-GO CLUBS.
992
00:30:37,067 --> 00:30:39,633
>> THE RUSSIAN DANCERS WERE
993
00:30:39,633 --> 00:30:41,233
THESE WOMEN WHO WOULD COME TO
994
00:30:41,233 --> 00:30:43,633
ANSWER ADS IN THE UNITED STATES.
995
00:30:43,633 --> 00:30:45,333
SOME OF THEM WERE CLASSICALLY
996
00:30:45,333 --> 00:30:46,367
TRAINED DANCERS.
997
00:30:46,367 --> 00:30:48,333
I MEAN, THEY WERE TOLD THAT THEY
998
00:30:48,333 --> 00:30:49,900
COULD DANCE, YOU KNOW, IN
999
00:30:49,900 --> 00:30:51,700
NEW YORK, DO SERIOUS DANCING.
1000
00:30:51,700 --> 00:30:53,033
BUT, OF COURSE, THAT WASN'T
1001
00:30:53,033 --> 00:30:54,733
TRUE.
1002
00:30:54,733 --> 00:30:55,767
>> Narrator: INFILTRATING THE
1003
00:30:55,767 --> 00:30:56,833
CLUBS WHERE THE RUSSIAN WOMEN
1004
00:30:56,833 --> 00:30:58,467
DANCE, SUSAN ENJOYS THE
1005
00:30:58,467 --> 00:31:00,367
INVESTIGATIVE ASPECT OF THE
1006
00:31:00,367 --> 00:31:01,767
WORK.
1007
00:31:01,767 --> 00:31:03,200
IT'S ANOTHER YEAR BEFORE SHE
1008
00:31:03,200 --> 00:31:04,533
GETS TO DO ANOTHER SIMILAR
1009
00:31:04,533 --> 00:31:06,533
STORY, THIS TIME ABOUT A CULT
1010
00:31:06,533 --> 00:31:08,633
OF SO-CALLED VAMPIRES WHO DRINK
1011
00:31:08,633 --> 00:31:10,733
BLOOD STOLEN FROM NEW YORK CITY
1012
00:31:10,733 --> 00:31:13,367
HOSPITALS.
1013
00:31:13,367 --> 00:31:15,733
>> WELL, I HAD GOTTEN A TIP FROM
1014
00:31:15,733 --> 00:31:18,067
SOMEBODY THAT THERE WAS A THEFT
1015
00:31:18,067 --> 00:31:21,067
OF BLOOD BY VAMPIRE PEOPLE.
1016
00:31:21,067 --> 00:31:22,733
SO, I SUGGESTED TO SUSAN THAT
1017
00:31:22,733 --> 00:31:24,467
SHE GO TO A CLUB OR SOMETHING.
1018
00:31:24,467 --> 00:31:26,200
SO SHE WENT TO A COUPLE PLACES,
1019
00:31:26,200 --> 00:31:27,833
AND IT WAS A TOTAL ZERO, YOU
1020
00:31:27,833 --> 00:31:30,800
KNOW, JUST A WASTE OF TIME.
1021
00:31:30,800 --> 00:31:32,067
>> Narrator: ALTHOUGH HER
1022
00:31:32,067 --> 00:31:33,467
RESEARCH DOESN'T PAN OUT FOR THE
1023
00:31:33,467 --> 00:31:35,333
EXPOSé SHE HAD PLANNED, SUSAN
1024
00:31:35,333 --> 00:31:37,233
WRITES THE ARTICLE AND SUBMITS
1025
00:31:37,233 --> 00:31:40,267
IT TO THE VOICE FOR PUBLICATION.
1026
00:31:40,267 --> 00:31:41,900
>> THEY WOULDN'T RUN IT, AND SHE
1027
00:31:41,900 --> 00:31:43,300
FELT REALLY BAD, AND I FELT
1028
00:31:43,300 --> 00:31:44,200
TERRIBLE.
1029
00:31:44,200 --> 00:31:46,567
THIS WAS AT THE END OF THE WORK,
1030
00:31:46,567 --> 00:31:48,633
AND I WASN'T SEEING SUSAN THAT
1031
00:31:48,633 --> 00:31:50,667
MUCH, AND SHE WAS BEGINNING TO
1032
00:31:50,667 --> 00:31:52,167
HAVE PROBLEMS.
1033
00:31:52,167 --> 00:31:55,367
SHE WAS DEFINITELY GOING DOWN.
1034
00:32:02,667 --> 00:32:04,433
>> Narrator: IN JUNE, 1996,
1035
00:32:04,433 --> 00:32:06,633
JIM RIDGEWAY'S BOOK, "RED LIGHT"
1036
00:32:06,633 --> 00:32:08,533
IS PUBLISHED, AND SUSAN IS
1037
00:32:08,533 --> 00:32:09,833
CREDITED AS THE RESEARCH
1038
00:32:09,833 --> 00:32:11,700
ASSOCIATE.
1039
00:32:11,700 --> 00:32:13,067
IT'S THE CULMINATION OF THREE
1040
00:32:13,067 --> 00:32:14,600
YEARS OF WORK.
1041
00:32:14,600 --> 00:32:16,067
SUSAN FEELS VERY PROUD OF HER
1042
00:32:16,067 --> 00:32:18,333
CONTRIBUTION.
1043
00:32:18,333 --> 00:32:19,833
>> SUSAN WAS REALLY SUPER
1044
00:32:19,833 --> 00:32:21,633
EXCITED, 'CAUSE SHE WAS HAVING,
1045
00:32:21,633 --> 00:32:23,367
YOU KNOW, A BOOK PARTY, A BOOK
1046
00:32:23,367 --> 00:32:25,600
THAT SHE WAS A BIG PART OF.
1047
00:32:25,800 --> 00:32:27,867
AND I REMEMBER GOING WITH HER,
1048
00:32:27,867 --> 00:32:29,567
AND SHE WAS TALKING TO ME THE
1049
00:32:29,567 --> 00:32:31,400
WHOLE WAY THERE, AND THEN WE GOT
1050
00:32:31,400 --> 00:32:33,067
THERE, AND SHE STARTED DANCING
1051
00:32:33,067 --> 00:32:36,400
AND SMILING AND JUST -- SHE WAS
1052
00:32:36,400 --> 00:32:39,233
JUST AT THE TOP OF THE WORLD.
1053
00:32:39,433 --> 00:32:41,067
>> THERE WAS ONE PARTY AT
1054
00:32:41,067 --> 00:32:43,067
SALLY'S HIDEAWAY.
1055
00:32:43,067 --> 00:32:44,667
IT WAS THE BOOK PEOPLE AND SOME
1056
00:32:44,667 --> 00:32:46,367
OF THE DRAG QUEENS, AND SHE'S ON
1057
00:32:46,367 --> 00:32:47,767
THE DANCE FLOOR, AND SHE'S
1058
00:32:47,767 --> 00:32:49,400
TRYING TO, LIKE, YOU KNOW, SHOW
1059
00:32:49,400 --> 00:32:50,967
UP THE DRAG QUEENS, WHICH YOU
1060
00:32:50,967 --> 00:32:53,600
DON'T DO, YOU KNOW.
1061
00:32:53,600 --> 00:32:54,500
WE WERE BOTH DRINK.
1062
00:32:54,500 --> 00:32:55,833
WE WERE BOTH THERE -- IT WAS A
1063
00:32:55,833 --> 00:33:00,467
PARTY.
1064
00:33:00,467 --> 00:33:01,933
>> Narrator: AS THE NIGHT GOES
1065
00:33:01,933 --> 00:33:03,333
ON, SUSAN MENTIONS TO SEVERAL
1066
00:33:03,333 --> 00:33:05,567
PEOPLE THAT SHE IS WORRIED ABOUT
1067
00:33:05,567 --> 00:33:07,633
HER SAFETY.
1068
00:33:07,633 --> 00:33:09,967
>> SHE THOUGHT SOMEBODY WAS
1069
00:33:09,967 --> 00:33:12,667
AFTER HER, AND SHE DROPPED A LOT
1070
00:33:12,667 --> 00:33:15,133
OF DIFFERENT POSSIBILITIES.
1071
00:33:15,133 --> 00:33:17,567
SHE TALKED ABOUT THE C.I.A.
1072
00:33:17,567 --> 00:33:19,133
SHE TALKED ABOUT THE RUSSIAN
1073
00:33:19,133 --> 00:33:20,167
MOB, WHICH SHE HAD WRITTEN
1074
00:33:20,167 --> 00:33:20,533
ABOUT.
1075
00:33:20,533 --> 00:33:22,233
SHE TALKED ABOUT UNDERCOVER FBI
1076
00:33:22,233 --> 00:33:23,300
CONTACTS.
1077
00:33:23,300 --> 00:33:25,467
IT WAS -- IT WAS KIND OF CRAZY.
1078
00:33:25,467 --> 00:33:26,767
>> Narrator: SUSAN'S FRIENDS
1079
00:33:26,767 --> 00:33:28,200
WONDER IF HER PARANOIA IS JUST A
1080
00:33:28,200 --> 00:33:29,567
RESULT OF BEING OVERWORKED AND
1081
00:33:29,567 --> 00:33:30,433
BURNT OUT.
1082
00:33:30,433 --> 00:33:32,400
>> I KNOW SHE WAS, LIKE, SUPER
1083
00:33:32,400 --> 00:33:33,700
STRESSED OUT, BUT I'D SEEN HER
1084
00:33:33,700 --> 00:33:36,233
SUPER STRESSED OUT BEFORE.
1085
00:33:36,233 --> 00:33:37,900
AND I REALLY THOUGHT SHE WAS
1086
00:33:37,900 --> 00:33:39,600
GONNA BE ABLE TO PULL HERSELF
1087
00:33:39,600 --> 00:33:41,100
OUT OF IT.
1088
00:33:41,100 --> 00:33:43,067
ABOUT A WEEK LATER, SHE SEEMED
1089
00:33:43,067 --> 00:33:45,100
TO BE PULLING THINGS TOGETHER A
1090
00:33:45,100 --> 00:33:46,700
BUILT, AND SHE SAID, "WELL, I'M
1091
00:33:46,700 --> 00:33:48,200
GOING TO GET A CELLPHONE, AND
1092
00:33:48,200 --> 00:33:49,733
I'M GONNA GIVE YOU THE NUMBER,
1093
00:33:49,733 --> 00:33:51,300
AND WE'RE GONNA STAY IN TOUCH,
1094
00:33:51,300 --> 00:33:52,933
AND, YOU KNOW, THAT WAS THE LAST
1095
00:33:52,933 --> 00:33:55,133
TIME I SAW HER."
1096
00:33:55,133 --> 00:33:56,600
>> I WASN'T SURE WITH SUSAN
1097
00:33:56,600 --> 00:33:57,967
SOMETIMES IF WHAT SHE WAS
1098
00:33:57,967 --> 00:33:59,533
TELLING ME THE TRUTH OR IF IT
1099
00:33:59,533 --> 00:34:01,200
WAS SOMETHING SHE HAD CONJURED
1100
00:34:01,200 --> 00:34:02,300
UP IN HER MIND.
1101
00:34:02,300 --> 00:34:04,333
IN RETROSPECT, I BELIEVE SUSAN
1102
00:34:04,333 --> 00:34:07,133
DID HAVE A STALKER.
1103
00:34:07,133 --> 00:34:10,100
I THINK SHE WAS ADDICTED TO
1104
00:34:10,100 --> 00:34:11,200
DRUGS.
1105
00:34:11,200 --> 00:34:13,200
AND I THINK SHE WAS PUTTING
1106
00:34:13,200 --> 00:34:15,533
HERSELF IN REALLY BAD SITUATIONS
1107
00:34:15,533 --> 00:34:17,400
WHERE SHE COULD HAVE BEEN
1108
00:34:17,400 --> 00:34:19,133
KILLED.
1109
00:34:19,133 --> 00:34:20,433
>> Narrator: COMING UP...
1110
00:34:20,433 --> 00:34:21,933
LOVED ONES LOOK FOR SUSAN IN
1111
00:34:21,933 --> 00:34:23,600
SOME OF THE DARK REALMS SHE
1112
00:34:23,600 --> 00:34:24,300
EXPLORED.
1113
00:34:24,300 --> 00:34:26,133
>> I WENT UNDERCOVER IN THE BARS
1114
00:34:26,133 --> 00:34:27,867
THAT SUSAN USED TO WORK AT AND
1115
00:34:27,867 --> 00:34:29,567
ASK QUESTIONS, AND I WAS TOLD
1116
00:34:29,567 --> 00:34:31,233
THAT, "YOU MIGHT WANT TO STOP
1117
00:34:31,233 --> 00:34:32,933
ASKING THOSE QUESTIONS UNLESS
1118
00:34:32,933 --> 00:34:34,800
YOU TO DISAPPEAR, TOO."
1119
00:34:46,067 --> 00:34:47,433
>> Narrator: MONTHS HAVE GONE BY
1120
00:34:47,433 --> 00:34:49,167
SINCE SINGLE MOTHER, STRIPPER,
1121
00:34:49,167 --> 00:34:50,500
AND WRITER SUSAN WALSH
1122
00:34:50,500 --> 00:34:51,800
DISAPPEARED.
1123
00:34:51,800 --> 00:34:52,933
HER DOUBLE LIFE SENDS
1124
00:34:52,933 --> 00:34:54,367
INVESTIGATORS IN A MYRIAD OF
1125
00:34:54,367 --> 00:34:56,167
DIRECTIONS.
1126
00:34:56,167 --> 00:34:58,067
THE NUMEROUS LEADS SEEM TO
1127
00:34:58,067 --> 00:35:00,100
STIFLE THE SEARCH FOR HER.
1128
00:35:00,100 --> 00:35:02,067
BUT AS TIME PASSES, POLICE
1129
00:35:02,067 --> 00:35:03,933
NARROW THEIR SIGHTS ON SUSAN'S
1130
00:35:03,933 --> 00:35:05,400
WRITING -- INVESTIGATIVE
1131
00:35:05,400 --> 00:35:07,133
REPORTING IN THE SEX INDUSTRY
1132
00:35:07,133 --> 00:35:08,600
THAT MAY HAVE LED TO HER
1133
00:35:08,600 --> 00:35:10,067
DISAPPEARANCE.
1134
00:35:10,200 --> 00:35:11,633
>> THERE HAD BEEN SEVERAL
1135
00:35:11,633 --> 00:35:13,367
REPORTS THAT SUSAN MAY HAVE BEEN
1136
00:35:13,367 --> 00:35:15,133
TARGETED BY DIFFERENT GROUPS DUE
1137
00:35:15,133 --> 00:35:16,500
TO ARTICLES SHE WROTE IN
1138
00:35:16,500 --> 00:35:18,267
THE VILLAGE VOICE AND BOOKS SHE
1139
00:35:18,267 --> 00:35:19,767
HAD RECENTLY WRITTEN AND
1140
00:35:19,767 --> 00:35:20,867
RESEARCHED FOR.
1141
00:35:20,867 --> 00:35:22,133
>> Narrator: COLLEAGUES ADMIT
1142
00:35:22,133 --> 00:35:23,467
THAT SUSAN OFTEN APPROACHED HER
1143
00:35:23,467 --> 00:35:24,933
WORK WITH A GUSTO THAT BORDERED
1144
00:35:24,933 --> 00:35:26,433
ON RECKLESSNESS.
1145
00:35:26,433 --> 00:35:27,900
>> SUSAN SEEMED TO ALWAYS BE
1146
00:35:27,900 --> 00:35:29,400
SEEKING ADVENTURE AND FINDING
1147
00:35:29,400 --> 00:35:30,833
THE STORY, AND IT WAS ALMOST
1148
00:35:30,833 --> 00:35:32,400
LIKE SHE WAS LIVING IN A MOVIE
1149
00:35:32,400 --> 00:35:33,933
OF HER LIFE WHERE SHE COULDN'T
1150
00:35:33,933 --> 00:35:35,433
REALLY GET HURT BUT SHE COULD
1151
00:35:35,433 --> 00:35:36,933
COME AND HAVE ALL THESE GREAT
1152
00:35:36,933 --> 00:35:38,433
EXPERIENCES, AND I DON'T THINK
1153
00:35:38,433 --> 00:35:40,067
SHE THOUGHT OF THE REALITY, THE
1154
00:35:40,067 --> 00:35:41,500
DANGER SHE WAS PUTTING HERSELF
1155
00:35:41,500 --> 00:35:42,667
IN.
1156
00:35:42,867 --> 00:35:44,200
>> Narrator: SUSAN ALSO SEEMED
1157
00:35:44,200 --> 00:35:45,467
TO BLUR THE LINE BETWEEN HER
1158
00:35:45,467 --> 00:35:48,433
ROLES AS AUTHOR AND SUBJECT.
1159
00:35:48,433 --> 00:35:50,200
IN THE BOOK "RED LIGHT," SHE WAS
1160
00:35:50,200 --> 00:35:51,933
NOT ONLY THE RESEARCH ASSOCIATE
1161
00:35:51,933 --> 00:35:55,233
BUT ALSO A FEATURED SEX WORKER.
1162
00:35:55,233 --> 00:35:56,833
>> THEY'RE VERY HAUNTING
1163
00:35:56,833 --> 00:35:58,067
PICTURES, YOU KNOW.
1164
00:35:58,067 --> 00:35:59,900
THEY'RE THESE BURLY GUYS IN
1165
00:35:59,900 --> 00:36:01,600
BASEBALL CAPS BEING ALL SORT OF
1166
00:36:01,600 --> 00:36:04,167
PAPISH AND SUSAN BEING RATHER
1167
00:36:04,167 --> 00:36:06,300
KIND OF VULNERABLE.
1168
00:36:06,500 --> 00:36:07,633
AND AT A CERTAIN POINT WHEN
1169
00:36:07,633 --> 00:36:08,967
YOU'RE DOING THAT SORT OF THING,
1170
00:36:08,967 --> 00:36:10,267
IF YOU'RE NOT CAREFUL, YOU KNOW,
1171
00:36:10,267 --> 00:36:12,067
YOU'RE NOT RESEARCHING ANYMORE.
1172
00:36:12,200 --> 00:36:13,067
YOU'RE THERE.
1173
00:36:13,067 --> 00:36:14,600
YOU GET VERY CONFUSED.
1174
00:36:14,600 --> 00:36:16,067
>> Narrator: IN PARTICULAR,
1175
00:36:16,067 --> 00:36:17,633
SUSAN'S VILLAGE VOICE ARTICLE
1176
00:36:17,633 --> 00:36:19,167
ABOUT RUSSIAN DANCERS BEING
1177
00:36:19,167 --> 00:36:20,733
TRICKED INTO SEX WORK LIKELY
1178
00:36:20,733 --> 00:36:22,733
EXPOSED HER TO SOME VERY
1179
00:36:22,733 --> 00:36:24,733
DANGEROUS PEOPLE.
1180
00:36:24,733 --> 00:36:26,367
>> THE RUSSIAN MAFIA WAS A PIECE
1181
00:36:26,367 --> 00:36:27,933
OF THE PUZZLE THAT YOU COULDN'T
1182
00:36:27,933 --> 00:36:30,400
REALLY DISCOUNT BECAUSE IT WAS A
1183
00:36:30,400 --> 00:36:32,267
VERY REAL THING.
1184
00:36:32,267 --> 00:36:33,700
SO I DID A STORY FOR
1185
00:36:33,700 --> 00:36:35,433
"THIS AMERICAN LIFE" WITH
1186
00:36:35,433 --> 00:36:37,167
SANDY TOLAN ON NPR, AND I
1187
00:36:37,167 --> 00:36:39,367
BASICALLY WENT UNDERCOVER AS A
1188
00:36:39,367 --> 00:36:41,067
DANCER.
1189
00:36:41,067 --> 00:36:42,667
ONE CLUB, I WAS ASKING THE GIRL
1190
00:36:42,667 --> 00:36:44,100
SOME QUESTIONS, AND SHE WAS
1191
00:36:44,100 --> 00:36:46,433
SPEAKING ENGLISH.
1192
00:36:46,433 --> 00:36:48,133
AND THE BOUNCER CAME OVER AND
1193
00:36:48,133 --> 00:36:49,667
ASKED ME WHAT I WAS DOING.
1194
00:36:49,667 --> 00:36:50,900
AND I SAID, YOU KNOW, "I'M
1195
00:36:50,900 --> 00:36:52,233
THINKING ABOUT WORKING HERE,
1196
00:36:52,233 --> 00:36:53,467
JUST ASKING HER WHAT IT 'S
1197
00:36:53,467 --> 00:36:53,900
LIKE."
1198
00:36:53,900 --> 00:36:55,900
AND HE TOTALLY DIDN'T BELIEVE
1199
00:36:55,900 --> 00:36:56,367
ME.
1200
00:36:56,367 --> 00:36:59,100
IT WAS ALL-RUSSIAN CLUB, YOU
1201
00:36:59,100 --> 00:37:02,200
KNOW, SO HE STARTED TO MOTION TO
1202
00:37:02,200 --> 00:37:04,267
THIS OTHER GUY, BUT I WAS
1203
00:37:04,267 --> 00:37:06,733
WEARING A WIRE SO I KIND OF RAN
1204
00:37:06,733 --> 00:37:08,433
OUT OF THERE.
1205
00:37:08,433 --> 00:37:09,767
JUST PEELED OUT OF THE PARKING
1206
00:37:09,767 --> 00:37:12,167
LOT.
1207
00:37:12,167 --> 00:37:13,833
>> Narrator: POLICE EVENTUALLY
1208
00:37:13,833 --> 00:37:15,400
RULE OUT THE RUSSIAN MAFIA,
1209
00:37:15,400 --> 00:37:17,533
VAMPIRE-CULT MEMBERS, AND ALL
1210
00:37:17,533 --> 00:37:19,267
THE SUBJECTS OF SUSAN'S ARTICLES
1211
00:37:19,267 --> 00:37:20,700
OF HAVING ANYTHING TO DO WITH
1212
00:37:20,700 --> 00:37:22,633
HER DISAPPEARANCE.
1213
00:37:22,633 --> 00:37:24,100
REACHING ANOTHER INVESTIGATIVE
1214
00:37:24,100 --> 00:37:26,367
DEAD END, THE CASE BEGINS TO
1215
00:37:26,367 --> 00:37:27,533
STALL.
1216
00:37:27,533 --> 00:37:29,233
>> IT WAS MY OPINION THAT FOR
1217
00:37:29,233 --> 00:37:31,067
WHATEVER REASON, SHE HAD CHOSEN
1218
00:37:31,067 --> 00:37:32,567
TO LEAVE HER LIFE BEHIND.
1219
00:37:32,567 --> 00:37:35,233
TO THIS DAY, I STILL HOPE THAT
1220
00:37:35,233 --> 00:37:36,567
SHE'S ALIVE.
1221
00:37:36,567 --> 00:37:38,900
HOWEVER, HONESTLY, I DON'T KNOW
1222
00:37:38,900 --> 00:37:40,767
WHAT HAPPENED TO SUSAN.
1223
00:37:49,233 --> 00:37:50,467
>> Narrator: ALMOST A DECADE
1224
00:37:50,467 --> 00:37:52,167
AFTER SUSAN'S DISAPPEARANCE,
1225
00:37:52,167 --> 00:37:54,167
LIEUTENANT STEVE ROGERS BECOMES
1226
00:37:54,167 --> 00:37:55,800
COMMANDER OF THE NUTLEY POLICE
1227
00:37:55,800 --> 00:37:57,400
DEPARTMENT'S DETECTIVE BUREAU.
1228
00:37:57,400 --> 00:37:59,167
HIS FIRST ORDER OF BUSINESS --
1229
00:37:59,167 --> 00:38:00,567
TO REOPEN THE COLD
1230
00:38:00,567 --> 00:38:02,167
MISSING-PERSONS CASE OF
1231
00:38:02,167 --> 00:38:03,300
SUSAN WALSH.
1232
00:38:03,500 --> 00:38:04,900
>> MY IDEA WAS, YOU KNOW,
1233
00:38:04,900 --> 00:38:06,467
SOMETIMES A FRESH SET OF EYES
1234
00:38:06,467 --> 00:38:08,200
WILL PICK UP SOMETHING THAT
1235
00:38:08,200 --> 00:38:10,067
MAYBE THE OLD SET OF EYES DID
1236
00:38:10,067 --> 00:38:11,100
NOT.
1237
00:38:11,300 --> 00:38:12,567
>> Narrator: AMONG THE BOXES OF
1238
00:38:12,567 --> 00:38:13,900
EVIDENCE ARE MANY PERSONAL ITEMS
1239
00:38:13,900 --> 00:38:15,100
THAT THE POLICE GATHERED FROM
1240
00:38:15,100 --> 00:38:17,867
SUSAN'S APARTMENT, INCLUDING A
1241
00:38:17,867 --> 00:38:18,833
WALL CALENDAR THAT
1242
00:38:18,833 --> 00:38:20,300
LIEUTENANT ROGERS PAYS SPECIAL
1243
00:38:20,300 --> 00:38:21,967
ATTENTION TO.
1244
00:38:21,967 --> 00:38:23,133
>> SO, I'M GOING THROUGH
1245
00:38:23,133 --> 00:38:24,333
JANUARY, FEBRUARY, MARCH.
1246
00:38:24,333 --> 00:38:25,733
EACH MONTH, SHE HAD SOMETHING
1247
00:38:25,733 --> 00:38:27,100
LOGGED IN -- PRETTY MUCH WHAT
1248
00:38:27,100 --> 00:38:28,500
HER APPOINTMENTS WERE, WHO SHE
1249
00:38:28,500 --> 00:38:29,967
WAS GONNA SEEK, PHONE CALLS SHE
1250
00:38:29,967 --> 00:38:30,367
MADE.
1251
00:38:30,367 --> 00:38:31,667
AS I'M LOOKING THROUGH THE
1252
00:38:31,667 --> 00:38:33,067
CALENDAR, I NOTICE THAT THE
1253
00:38:33,067 --> 00:38:35,233
MONTH OF JULY WAS MISSING, AND I
1254
00:38:35,233 --> 00:38:36,733
LOOKED THROUGH ALL OF OUR BOXES,
1255
00:38:36,733 --> 00:38:37,800
THROUGH ALL THE FILES.
1256
00:38:37,800 --> 00:38:40,367
I'M A LITTLE PUZZLED OVER WHY
1257
00:38:40,367 --> 00:38:42,767
WOULD JULY 1996 BE MISSING.
1258
00:38:42,767 --> 00:38:44,367
WELL THAT HAPPENS TO BE THE
1259
00:38:44,367 --> 00:38:45,933
MONTH THAT SHE WAS REPORTED
1260
00:38:45,933 --> 00:38:46,500
MISSING.
1261
00:38:46,500 --> 00:38:47,933
>> Narrator: CONSIDERING THE
1262
00:38:47,933 --> 00:38:49,267
LEVEL OF DETAIL THAT SUSAN
1263
00:38:49,267 --> 00:38:51,067
RECORDED ON THE CALENDAR, THE
1264
00:38:51,067 --> 00:38:52,733
MISSING MONTH IS EXTREMELY
1265
00:38:52,733 --> 00:38:53,700
SUSPICIOUS.
1266
00:38:53,700 --> 00:38:55,733
>> DID SHE TAKE THAT CALENDAR
1267
00:38:55,733 --> 00:38:57,567
AND RIP IT OUT BEFORE SHE LEFT
1268
00:38:57,567 --> 00:38:59,167
THE HOUSE AND GO MAKE THAT
1269
00:38:59,167 --> 00:39:00,233
PHONE CALL?
1270
00:39:00,233 --> 00:39:02,200
DID SOMEBODY RIP THAT PIECE OF
1271
00:39:02,200 --> 00:39:02,933
CALENDAR OUT?
1272
00:39:02,933 --> 00:39:04,333
WHY NOT GET RID OF THE ENTIRE
1273
00:39:04,333 --> 00:39:04,900
CALENDAR?
1274
00:39:04,900 --> 00:39:06,500
ONE THING IS FOR SURE IN MY
1275
00:39:06,500 --> 00:39:08,333
MIND -- THAT THERE MAY HAVE BEEN
1276
00:39:08,333 --> 00:39:09,667
SOMETHING ON THAT CALENDAR THAT
1277
00:39:09,667 --> 00:39:11,833
SOMEONE DID NOT WANT US TO SEE.
1278
00:39:11,833 --> 00:39:13,933
>> Narrator: LIEUTENANT ROGERS
1279
00:39:13,933 --> 00:39:15,300
DECIDES TO TAKE A SECOND LOOK AT
1280
00:39:15,300 --> 00:39:16,600
THE APARTMENT WHERE SUSAN ONCE
1281
00:39:16,600 --> 00:39:20,333
LIVED, BUT HE HITS A WALL.
1282
00:39:20,333 --> 00:39:21,800
HER ESTRANGED HUSBAND, MARK, IS
1283
00:39:21,800 --> 00:39:23,200
NOW LIVING THE UNIT WITH THEIR
1284
00:39:23,200 --> 00:39:25,233
SON, DAVID, AND HE IS NO LONGER
1285
00:39:25,233 --> 00:39:26,100
COOPERATING.
1286
00:39:26,100 --> 00:39:27,533
>> I GOT A CALL FROM HIS
1287
00:39:27,533 --> 00:39:28,233
ATTORNEY.
1288
00:39:28,233 --> 00:39:30,733
WE HAVE TO STOP SPEAKING TO HIM.
1289
00:39:30,733 --> 00:39:32,267
AND WHY HE DID THAT, TO THIS
1290
00:39:32,267 --> 00:39:34,067
DAY, I DON'T KNOW, BECAUSE THERE
1291
00:39:34,067 --> 00:39:35,667
WAS A POINT IN TIME WHEN HE WAS
1292
00:39:35,667 --> 00:39:37,300
VOLUNTEERING INFORMATION EVERY
1293
00:39:37,300 --> 00:39:38,067
SINGLE DAY.
1294
00:39:38,067 --> 00:39:39,433
>> Narrator: WITHOUT ENOUGH
1295
00:39:39,433 --> 00:39:40,867
EVIDENCE TO OBTAIN A SEARCH
1296
00:39:40,867 --> 00:39:42,733
WARRANT, LIEUTENANT ROGERS HAS
1297
00:39:42,733 --> 00:39:44,267
NO WAY TO RE-EXAMINE THE
1298
00:39:44,267 --> 00:39:46,067
APARTMENT.
1299
00:39:46,067 --> 00:39:47,367
NEVERTHELESS, HE BELIEVES THAT
1300
00:39:47,367 --> 00:39:48,867
MARK'S WITHDRAWAL FROM THE
1301
00:39:48,867 --> 00:39:50,467
INVESTIGATION IS FAR FROM AN
1302
00:39:50,467 --> 00:39:52,133
ADMISSION OF GUILT.
1303
00:39:52,133 --> 00:39:53,967
>> I SUPPOSE MAYBE IN MARK'S
1304
00:39:53,967 --> 00:39:55,900
CASE, BASED ON INTERVIEWS WITH
1305
00:39:55,900 --> 00:39:57,667
PEOPLE, THAT HE JUST DIDN'T WANT
1306
00:39:57,667 --> 00:39:59,367
THE ATTENTION ANYMORE, HE JUST
1307
00:39:59,367 --> 00:40:00,900
PUT A WALL UP AND SAID, "THAT'S
1308
00:40:00,900 --> 00:40:01,467
IT."
1309
00:40:01,467 --> 00:40:02,967
>> Narrator: LIEUTENANT ROGERS
1310
00:40:02,967 --> 00:40:04,433
CONTINUES TO COMB THROUGH THE
1311
00:40:04,433 --> 00:40:06,033
CASE FILES, EVENTUALLY MAKING AN
1312
00:40:06,033 --> 00:40:07,767
IMPORTANT FIND.
1313
00:40:07,767 --> 00:40:09,400
>> THIS PIECE OF EVIDENCE
1314
00:40:09,400 --> 00:40:11,400
CLEARLY COULD HAVE HAD SOMETHING
1315
00:40:11,400 --> 00:40:13,000
TO DO WITH A RELATIONSHIP
1316
00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:15,000
BETWEEN SUSAN AND SOMEBODY ELSE.
1317
00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:16,667
IF THERE WAS AN ARGUMENT AND
1318
00:40:16,667 --> 00:40:18,167
THAT ARGUMENT TURNED INTO
1319
00:40:18,167 --> 00:40:19,867
SOMETHING TRAGIC AND THEN THE
1320
00:40:19,867 --> 00:40:21,733
PERSON WHO WAS INVOLVED WITH HER
1321
00:40:21,733 --> 00:40:23,333
PANICKED AND DID SOMETHING WITH
1322
00:40:23,333 --> 00:40:24,833
HER OR THAT SHE JUST DECIDED,
1323
00:40:24,833 --> 00:40:25,733
"YOU KNOW WHAT?
1324
00:40:25,733 --> 00:40:26,700
I'M GETTING AWAY FROM ALL OF
1325
00:40:26,700 --> 00:40:27,733
THIS AND I'LL SEE YOU IN ABOUT
1326
00:40:27,733 --> 00:40:28,933
30 YEARS."
1327
00:40:28,933 --> 00:40:30,367
>> Narrator: BECAUSE THE CASE IS
1328
00:40:30,367 --> 00:40:31,733
STILL ACTIVE, LIEUTENANT ROGERS
1329
00:40:31,733 --> 00:40:33,400
CANNOT REVEAL WHAT THE NEW
1330
00:40:33,400 --> 00:40:35,267
DISCOVERY IS OR WHO IT APPEARS
1331
00:40:35,267 --> 00:40:36,833
TO INCRIMINATE, BUT OTHER
1332
00:40:36,833 --> 00:40:38,700
EVIDENCE SEEMS TO SUGGEST THAT
1333
00:40:38,700 --> 00:40:40,633
SUSAN KNEW THAT HER LIFE WAS IN
1334
00:40:40,633 --> 00:40:41,967
DANGER.
1335
00:40:41,967 --> 00:40:43,600
>> YOU KNOW, THERE WAS A LETTER
1336
00:40:43,600 --> 00:40:45,267
THAT SHE HAD WRITTEN TO HER SON,
1337
00:40:45,267 --> 00:40:46,733
DAVID, MORE OR LESS SAYING,
1338
00:40:46,733 --> 00:40:48,333
"LOOK, IF ANYTHING HAPPENS TO
1339
00:40:48,333 --> 00:40:49,900
ME, I WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT I
1340
00:40:49,900 --> 00:40:51,000
LOVE YOU."
1341
00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:52,367
SO, AGAIN, THE QUESTION GOES
1342
00:40:52,367 --> 00:40:53,733
BACK, DID SHE KNOW SOMETHING
1343
00:40:53,733 --> 00:40:55,500
THAT WE STILL DON'T KNOW?
1344
00:40:55,500 --> 00:40:57,467
WAS SHE IN FEAR OF HER LIFE?
1345
00:40:57,467 --> 00:40:59,000
>> Narrator: LOVED ONES ADMIT
1346
00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:00,667
THAT SUSAN'S RELATIONSHIPS WERE
1347
00:41:00,667 --> 00:41:02,767
OFTEN VERY COMPLEX.
1348
00:41:02,767 --> 00:41:04,867
>> SHE KNEW SHE WAS ATTRACTIVE.
1349
00:41:04,867 --> 00:41:07,500
AND SHE KNEW HOW TO WORK BEING
1350
00:41:07,500 --> 00:41:08,700
ATTRACTIVE.
1351
00:41:08,700 --> 00:41:10,867
SHE ALSO WOULD MAKE A POINT OF
1352
00:41:10,867 --> 00:41:12,867
BEING KIND OF NOT EASY TO READ
1353
00:41:12,867 --> 00:41:14,567
IN TERMS OF DIRECT ACCESS TO HER
1354
00:41:14,567 --> 00:41:16,067
EMOTIONS.
1355
00:41:16,067 --> 00:41:17,900
AND I THINK IN A LOT OF SENSES,
1356
00:41:17,900 --> 00:41:20,100
THIS WAS JUST HER WAY OF MASKING
1357
00:41:20,100 --> 00:41:21,933
A REALLY DEEP VULNERABILITY.
1358
00:41:21,933 --> 00:41:23,267
I THINK SHE REALLY NEEDED TO BE
1359
00:41:23,267 --> 00:41:24,967
LOVED, AND IF YOU TOLD HER THAT
1360
00:41:24,967 --> 00:41:26,500
YOU LOVED HER, SHE WOULD NOT
1361
00:41:26,500 --> 00:41:28,200
BELIEVE YOU FOR A MINUTE.
1362
00:41:28,200 --> 00:41:29,700
HER RELATIONSHIP WITH HER SON
1363
00:41:29,700 --> 00:41:31,133
WAS, OF COURSE, I THINK VERY
1364
00:41:31,133 --> 00:41:33,133
DIFFERENT, AND THAT WAS REAL AND
1365
00:41:33,133 --> 00:41:34,333
UNCONDITIONAL LOVE.
1366
00:41:34,333 --> 00:41:36,900
SO IT'S PRETTY SAD.
1367
00:41:36,900 --> 00:41:38,067
>> Narrator: DESPITE THE NEW
1368
00:41:38,067 --> 00:41:39,267
EVIDENCE, LIEUTENANT ROGERS AND
1369
00:41:39,267 --> 00:41:40,833
THE NUTLEY POLICE DO NOT HAVE
1370
00:41:40,833 --> 00:41:42,400
ENOUGH INFORMATION TO MAKE AN
1371
00:41:42,400 --> 00:41:43,933
ARREST.
1372
00:41:43,933 --> 00:41:45,733
BUT THEY MAINTAIN THAT EVEN 15
1373
00:41:45,733 --> 00:41:47,400
YEARS LATER, THE SEARCH FOR
1374
00:41:47,400 --> 00:41:49,700
SUSAN WALSH IS STILL ACTIVE.
1375
00:41:49,700 --> 00:41:51,633
>> YOU NEVER GIVE UP.
1376
00:41:51,633 --> 00:41:53,333
YOU NEVER EVER GIVE UP.
1377
00:41:53,333 --> 00:41:54,833
YOU MAY GET A PHONE CALL, YOU
1378
00:41:54,833 --> 00:41:56,233
MAY GET A LETTER, YOU MAY GET AN
1379
00:41:56,233 --> 00:41:58,300
ANONYMOUS TIP THAT THE PERSON
1380
00:41:58,300 --> 00:42:00,867
YOU'RE LOOKING FOR, JUST GO IN
1381
00:42:00,867 --> 00:42:01,567
THAT DIRECTION, YOU'LL FIND
1382
00:42:01,567 --> 00:42:03,067
HIM.
1383
00:42:03,067 --> 00:42:04,267
>> Narrator: BUT FRIENDS AND
1384
00:42:04,267 --> 00:42:05,633
FAMILY FIND IT HARD TO KEEP HOPE
1385
00:42:05,633 --> 00:42:07,967
ALIVE WHEN THEY FEEL SUSAN'S
1386
00:42:07,967 --> 00:42:10,067
ABSENCE SO DEEPLY.
1387
00:42:10,067 --> 00:42:11,467
>> IT'S NOT SOMETHING THAT I
1388
00:42:11,467 --> 00:42:12,833
TALK ABOUT EVERY DAY.
1389
00:42:13,067 --> 00:42:15,067
I THINK I KEEP THAT PART TO
1390
00:42:15,067 --> 00:42:17,300
MYSELF, AND I DON'T REVEAL THIS
1391
00:42:17,300 --> 00:42:18,633
TO JUST ANYBODY.
1392
00:42:18,833 --> 00:42:20,567
I THINK WHEN SHE DISAPPEARED, IT
1393
00:42:20,567 --> 00:42:22,267
WAS LIKE A PART OF ME THAT KIND
1394
00:42:22,267 --> 00:42:26,200
OF, LIKE, DISAPPEARED, TOO.
1395
00:42:26,200 --> 00:42:27,767
>> IT'S KIND OF A WEIRD THING
1396
00:42:27,767 --> 00:42:29,533
BECAUSE I THINK SHE WAS REACHING
1397
00:42:29,533 --> 00:42:31,900
A POINT WHERE THERE WAS A
1398
00:42:31,900 --> 00:42:34,767
POTENTIAL RESOLUTION OF THE TWO
1399
00:42:34,767 --> 00:42:36,733
DIFFERENT SIDES OF HER LIFE,
1400
00:42:36,733 --> 00:42:37,967
THAT IT WAS ALL GONNA COME OUT
1401
00:42:37,967 --> 00:42:39,067
IN THE WASH.
1402
00:42:39,067 --> 00:42:40,367
AND, AGAIN, THAT'S ONE OF THE
1403
00:42:40,367 --> 00:42:41,733
THINGS ABOUT HER DISAPPEARANCE
1404
00:42:41,733 --> 00:42:43,767
THAT MAKES IT SO TRAGIC, IS
1405
00:42:43,767 --> 00:42:47,700
THAT...
1406
00:42:47,700 --> 00:42:49,967
IT WAS -- I FEEL IT WAS DECIDED
1407
00:42:49,967 --> 00:42:52,067
FOR HER AND THAT THERE WAS NOT
1408
00:42:52,067 --> 00:42:54,767
GOING TO BE A RESOLUTION.
1409
00:42:54,967 --> 00:42:57,067
>> MY MAJOR CONCERN ALWAYS FROM
1410
00:42:57,067 --> 00:42:59,167
THE BEGINNING WAS WHAT I THOUGHT
1411
00:42:59,167 --> 00:43:01,100
SUSAN'S MAJOR CONCERN WOULD
1412
00:43:01,100 --> 00:43:03,167
BE, WHICH IS THAT HER CHILD WAS
1413
00:43:03,167 --> 00:43:06,700
ABLE TO GROW UP AND BE SAFE.
1414
00:43:06,700 --> 00:43:08,567
BUT AS TIME HAS GONE ON, I FEEL
1415
00:43:08,567 --> 00:43:11,733
REALLY HORRIBLE ALL THE TIME.
1416
00:43:11,733 --> 00:43:13,233
I JUST FEEL LIKE IT WAS
1417
00:43:13,233 --> 00:43:15,633
TOTALLY...
1418
00:43:15,633 --> 00:43:19,333
JUST TOTALLY AWFUL.
1419
00:43:19,333 --> 00:43:21,300
BECAUSE SHE WAS SUCH A GOOD
1420
00:43:21,300 --> 00:43:24,733
PERSON, YOU KNOW?
1421
00:43:24,733 --> 00:43:28,333
I THINK ABOUT IT ALL THE TIME.
1422
00:43:28,333 --> 00:43:30,833
I THINK ABOUT HER ALL THE TIME.
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