Susan Walsh was 36 when she disappeared from her Nutley, New Jersey, apartment on July 16, 1996. A mother, writer and student, she was balancing a master’s program at New York University, freelance journalism and exotic dancing to support her young son. Friends reported she had a history of substance abuse and bipolar disorder, had relapsed shortly before vanishing, and had stopped taking medication while showing signs of paranoia.

Two days before she went missing she told an interviewer for a documentary about the sex industry that she had a stalker. On the day she vanished she left her son with her estranged husband, saying she would run errands and use a nearby payphone; she left behind personal items including her wallet and pager.

The Nutley Police at first considered voluntary disappearance; family and friends insisted she would not have abandoned her son. Her estranged husband was questioned but not treated as a suspect, and it was later reported he had not allowed forensic testing of their home. A later detail noted the page for July 1996 was missing from her apartment calendar. No credible leads have explained what happened to Susan Walsh. Did anyone in Nutley or the surrounding area know Susan’s routines or see her on or after July 16, 1996?