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If investigators missed someone that obvious, it raises a bigger question. What else could they be missing? But,
here is the wild thing. During one of these like meetings where they were like talking to people and bringing people
together, they caught the officers in a straight-up lie. So, police are in this meeting. They're
saying they're interviewing everyone. They're specifically saying that they've interviewed everyone who was on Joan's
flight. But, then someone in the room is like, "Um hi. Uh I was on Joan's flight
and you never talked to me." Oh, like egg on the face, right? >> Yeah. But, even if this was like a
simple slip-up, it was a big one. Yeah. This is why when Joan's classmates start getting the
feeling that police think she just like ran away on her own, they get right to work. They start
calling newsrooms all over New England. They contact local papers. They work the
phones nonstop. They're passing out flyers. They're just trying to keep Joan's story in the public [music] eye.
It would've been real nice to include a suspect sketch in one of those appeals to the public. For the life of me, I
cannot figure out why this wasn't widely distributed. >> or distributed at all, widely or not.
Like, this Even if you don't want to call this guy a suspect, even if you think there is a chance that that might
not even have been Joan, until you can say who it >> found this guy, we talked to him, we
know it's not him. >> that wasn't Joan or whatever. Like, I feel like you have to show it. Like, you
have to find the guy who has this unusually heavy suitcase, last seen with a woman who looked like your missing
person. But, they don't seem to do anything to find that guy. Instead, most of the press pick up
just features Joan's family, who by this point have flown to Boston themselves to
help out with searches and speak to the press. By January, even with a $10,000 reward
offered for any information, no one knows where Joan could be. Little did anyone know Joan's luggage had actually
been hiding in plain sight since just hours after she walked off that plane. And where it's found could be the
biggest clue in this case.

Her luggage had actually been sitting at Logan Airport the entire time.

Who rented the locker?

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Brief Summary

Police mishaps hinder the investigation into Joan's disappearance, while her classmates work tirelessly to keep her story alive.

Key points

Police Caught in a Lie. During a meeting, officers claimed to have interviewed everyone on Joan's flight, but a passenger revealed they hadn't.
Joan's Classmates Take Action. Feeling ignored by police, Joan's classmates mobilize to keep her story in the public eye.
The Missing Suspect Sketch. Despite a potential suspect, police fail to distribute a crucial sketch to the public.
A Clue in Plain Sight. Joan's luggage, a key piece of evidence, was hiding in plain sight since she disappeared.

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What else could they be missing?

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