Ashley Flowers

Hi, Crime Junkies.

I'm your host, Ashley Flowers.

And I'm Britt.

And this story is about what can happen when a case feels solved, even when it may not be.

In Massachusetts, two women from very different worlds disappeared within a few years of each other.

One was last seen leaving a bar.

The other vanished after stepping out of Logan Airport.

Police would eventually say that these two cases were connected and that they had found the man responsible.

But after spending more than a year reporting on this case, interviewing witnesses, tracking down survivors, and reviewing thousands of pages of records, we found a story that doesn't sit quite right.

And our question is,

Was the wrong man blamed for these crimes?

And if so, then is the person or people who actually committed these murders still walking free?

These are the stories of Joan Webster and Marie Iannuzzi.

December 1st, 1981 is a Tuesday.

The Tuesday after Thanksgiving break.

And the day that Terry Webster really starts feeling anxious about not hearing from her youngest daughter, Joan.

Their whole family had been together for the holiday weekend at their home in New Jersey.

But instead of driving back to college in Massachusetts with her older sister, as planned, on Sunday, 25-year-old Joan left on Saturday night because she wanted to make it to a study group.

So her dad booked her a flight to Boston Logan Airport.

Yeah, so she is in grad school there for architecture.