The Mysterious Disappearance of Suzanne Lyall
The 19-year-old student vanished without a trace on her way home from work in 1998.
When Suzanne Lyall showed up for work on the afternoon of Monday, March 2, 1998, she appeared to be in a good mood. Suzy, who was a sophomore at the State University of New York at Albany, had spent the weekend worried about a midterm she had to take that morning; she was relieved when it hadn’t turned out to be as hard as she expected. As she breezed through the entrance of Babbage’s computer store, located at the Crossgates Mall in Guilderland, NY, she told her boss that she thought she had passed her midterm. Suzy was scheduled to work until 9:00 pm that night, and she left the mall immediately after her shift was over so she could catch her bus back to campus.
The driver of the Capital District Transportation Authority bus that Suzy normally rode recalled seeing her get on the 9:20 pm bus at the Crosswood Mall, but didn’t remember seeing her get off the bus. She would normally get off at the Collins Circle bus stop, just a short walk away from her Colonial Quad dormitory. A classmate thought she saw Suzy get off the bus there at 9:45 pm that night, but wasn’t absolutely certain. She only knew Suzy by sight and had never spoken to her.