taken from a google cache
i thought this article was particularly interesting considering that it related not only to the scene but to an event not many are aware of. regardless of the circumstances, it's def a modern outlook on what norm would be considered perhaps a suicide but in this case could be more related to a woman stepping inside a dark culture , starting at research but eventually participating in the culture to better understand it. what would you do looking threw her eyes, would you make the same mistakes or perhaps that's the only sanctuary she found was seeking knowledge not as easily obtained.

- static chaos


"NAME: Susan Walsh
DOB: 2/18/60
AGE: 36
HEIGHT: 5'6"
WEIGHT: 110
HAIR: Bleached blonde
EYES: Blue



As seen on Unsolved Mysteries on July 11, 1997 (Originally broadcast on January 31, 1997)

SYNOPSIS: On July 16, 1996 Susan Walsh hurriedly dropped her son, David, off with her estranged husband. She never said exactly where she was going, but did claim she'd be back within a few minutes. But that morning, 36-year-old Susan Walsh disappeared into the streets of Nutley, New Jersey, only a brief commuter train trip from Manhattan. What happened to Susan Walsh? The police believe she simply chose to disappear. But some say Susan Walsh was murdered by mobsters. Others say she overdosed on drugs. Still others believe she vanished into the sub-culture of sex and danger that lured her in and wouldn't let go.

From early childhood Susan Walsh's dream was to be a poet and a writer. But a broken home and an unhappy childhood made reaching that goal a constant struggle. By the time Susan was in her twenties, she was an admitted alcoholic, drug addict, and a stripper. Still, she kept her dream alive. Stripping paid her way through college. When Susan graduated in 1984, she cleaned up her act. By 1988, Susan had been sober for four years. She had married and had become a devoted mother. According to friends, the two things that mattered most to Susan were her son and her career as a journalist. Eventually, Susan and her husband separated. Though Susan still dreamed of being a writer, she had a tough time getting breaks. To support her son, she went back to stripping, unable to resist the easy money and seductive lifestyle.

Ironically, stripping helped provide the critical boost to Susan's journalistic career. Eventually she landed an internship at New York's free-wheeling Village Voice, researching the sex industry. She soon turned up a hot story. Russian mobsters in New Jersey were allegedly forcing young Russian women to work in strip clubs like slaves. Susan earned praise for the Russian mob article but she also got threats. She felt she may have made enemies. Susan's next big project may also have put her in jeopardy. In the early 1990's, bizarre vampire clubs began springing up in New York's Greenwich Village. The clubs boasted a dicey clientele, many of whom claimed to be real blood drinkers. Susan was so taken with the vampire world, she started dating a man who claimed to be one of the undead. Susan wrote a detailed article, but in this case her judgement seemed skewed. She apparently believed a lot of what was being told to her. To Susan's disappointment, the Village Voice never ran her article on vampires.

But in June of 1996, the month before she disappeared, Susan's career was again on an upswing. She had done primary research for a book by James Ridgeway and Sylvia Plachy called Red Light: Inside the Sex Industry. However, the night of the publisher's party, James Ridgeway noticed that Susan's wrists were bandaged. Ridgeway was also concerned that Susan was taking tranquilizers and had started drinking again. Susan brushed it all off, claiming she would get help when she needed to. By now, Susan was back to dancing full time. In a documentary being made by an old friend, Susan talked about the heavy toll stripping had taken. Friends say she was having a hard time simply trying to hold on to live. Forty-eight hours after a friend last saw her, Susan disappeared.

Did Susan collapse somewhere because of her depression and poor health? If so, police say her body would have been found or she would have surfaced in a hospital. Her continued absence has forced her family and friends to believe the worst possible scenario: that Susan is dead. The police, however, have a completely different theory. They believe that for some unknown reason Susan has chosen to disappear. Detectives have spoken to a number of people who believe they've actually seen Susan, including one of Susan's old friends. Although police checked out all the leads, there has been no positive identification. Was Susan the target of a mob hit? Did she cross paths with the wrong person in vampire clubs? Or was she the victim of her own paranoia, brought on by drug use?"