MURDERED: Joyce LePage Part 2
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And I'm Britt.
Last episode, I told you the story of Joyce LePage, a WSU student who went missing from Stevens Hall on campus in 1971. The same night in 1971 that a swath of green carpet from the building went missing, too. And 55 years after that, we still don't know what happened to Joyce on July 22nd, 1971. Over the years, police have developed a number of suspects and theories, and I'm walking you through six of them. Last episode, I told you about Mike Finch, who investigators cleared with a past polygraph in 2013, despite a shaky alibi and changing timeline. They also cleared a tile setter who was working just yards from Stevens Hall the night that Joyce vanished because he, too, passed a polygraph. And although Ted Bundy seemed like a contender in the case of a brown-haired missing Pacific Northwest co-ed in the 70s, most investigators agree that it is much more likely that Joyce was killed by someone a little closer to home.
Maybe even her new home. Because it turns out Joyce was planning to move to a house not far from where her abandoned car was found. And one man inside that house has a scary past that Joyce talked about in her letters. Let's dive back in, because I've got three more theories to tell you about, starting with the meditation group theory.
I told you Joyce was one in a million. She was adventurous and curious. She had her pilot's license by the time she was 18. And at 21, she was taking skydiving lessons. And the 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 Lindbergh, and another guy named Mark Wadley.
I'll just refer to them as the meditation group.
What new suspects and evidence are introduced in Part 2 of Joyce LePage's case?
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 anything. 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 realize that she was missing.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–3:27
2
What new suspects and evidence are introduced in Part 2 of Joyce LePage's case?
3:27–14:08
3
How could Joyce's involvement with the Student International Meditation Society (SIMS) connect to her disappearance?
14:08–21:58
4
What did police learn from interviewing the meditation group members Mike, Celeste, and Mark?
21:58–47:37
5
What do Joyce’s own letters reveal about Mark Wadley and potential threats she mentioned?
47:37–49:22