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4 days after Joan Webster vanished, her wallet turned up in a place known as like a dump ground, sometimes even for
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dumping bodies. Joan Webster was a 25-year-old Harvard grad student who flew into Boston the
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Saturday after Thanksgiving back in 1981. Within a few days, her mom knew something was wrong because Joan had
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missed class. Her dorm room looked untouched as if she had never even made it back.
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And then, a fisherman called Joan's dad's office because he'd found Joan's wallet on the riverbank about 6 mi from
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Logan Airport in the opposite direction of where she should have been headed. Now, when police go to the scene, they
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also find her red leather pocketbook nearby. And that marsh was like already known as a bit of a dumping ground. So,
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investigators wondered if somebody maybe threw her belongings from a moving car on the highway that was overhead, which
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meant that at that point Joan could be anywhere. But like, help me out. What other possibilities could there be? If
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she planned to go straight to campus from the airport, how did her wallet end up in a marsh miles away in the wrong
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direction?