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summer that she was killed, one of Joyce's focuses was meditation. And I don't mean in a casual sense. Joyce was
an initiated member of Sims, the student international meditation society. The group practiced transcendental
meditation. They gathered for group meditations weekly, and Joyce had even traveled to Spokane for a week-long
course on meditation a month before she vanished. Joyce was socially linked to at least three other people from Sims.
This married couple named Mike and Celeste Lindberg and another guy named Mark Wadlay. I'll just refer to them as
the meditation group. Well, Mike and Celeste were the leaders of Sims and Mark was their roommate and they all
lived at 400 Howard Street. This matters because their house was just three or four houses away from where Joyce's car
was found on Opal Street. and Joyce was planning to move in with them in the fall. The meditation group offered her a
room that upcoming semester because Mike and Celeste were going to be going to Spain. Mark needed to fill their room to
cover rent. And they all knew that Joyce wasn't happy living with Bruce. So, are
we thinking that Joyce drove to their house on the night of the 22nd, and that's just like the closest parking
space she could find? >> Anything is a possibility, especially because try as they might, police were
finding zero connection between Joyce and the frat house that her car was parked closest to. So, if she is the one
who drove her car there and it wasn't just randomly dumped by somebody, it would stand to reason that she may have
been there to visit someone in her meditation group. >> Wait, did they not notice her car parked
there the whole time she was MIA? >> No, they did. Or at least one of them did. When police went knocking at the
door of 400 Howard in the very early days of the missing person investigation, it was the single guy,
Mark, who answered. And he says that he knows Joyce and he had noticed her car parked down the road, but that he didn't
know where she was, nor did he even realized that she was missing.

Joyce LePage had recently become involved with the Student International Meditation Society and was planning to move in with members of the group. When investigators found Joyce's abandoned car, they realized it was parked just a few houses away from their home, raising new questions about where Joyce was headed the night she disappeared.

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Brief Summary

Joyce's disappearance linked to her meditation group and car location.

Key points

Joyce's Meditation Group. Joyce was deeply involved in a meditation group just before her disappearance.
The Mystery of the Car. Joyce's car was found near a frat house, raising questions about her last movements.
Mark's Alarming Ignorance. Mark, a member of Joyce's meditation group, claimed he didn't know she was missing.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

Anything is a possibility.

Discussing the uncertainty of Joyce's disappearance.

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