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    Disappearance of Joan Risch and murder of Yancy Noll

    en-usMay 06, 2021
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    About this Episode

    Joan Risch was a 31 year old mother and wife that disappeared under mysterious circumstances on October 24 1961. We might never know what happened, but to this day people are still astonished to how eerily similar this case is to the popular book and movie, Gone Girl.  Then we dive into the death of Yancy Noll, a popular wine steward who was shot and killed as he sat in his car at a stoplight in Seattle, Washington. Was this road rage? Or MURDER?

    Sources
    https://morbidology.com/gone-girl-joan-risch/
    https://icestationpoetry.medium.com/into-thin-air-what-is-the-likeliest-explanation-for-the-disappearance-of-joan-risch-1bdd4953b4e
    https://historichorrors.com/2019/04/04/the-mysterious-unsolved-disappearance-of-joan-risch/
    https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/5yitmk/the_very_strange_disappearance_of_joan_risch/
    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/a-student-of-murder/
    https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/defendant-in-yancy-noll-death-called-lsquoa-student-of-murderrsquo/

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