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Joan Webster

Case from Hamilton, MA dated Nov 28, 1981

Victim Details

Joan Webster

Female

White / Caucasian

Hamilton

MA

1981-11-28

25

Joan

Webster

07/21/2026

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On a cold November evening in 1981, Joan Webster, a 25-year-old White female, stepped off her flight at Boston's Logan Airport and vanished. A promising second-year student at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, she was returning from a Thanksgiving visit with her family in New Jersey. After collecting her luggage, she was last seen heading towards the taxi stand at approximately 10:30 p.m. on November 28th. In the days that followed, her disappearance baffled investigators and gripped the co ...
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