American Writer Susan Walsh Goes Missing Outside Her Home

Susan Walsh was a writer and freelance journalist from Wayne, New Jersey. Born Susan Young, she aspired from a young age to be a poet. She attended William Paterson University, where she studied English and Writing and worked as a journalist for the university paper. She also worked intermittently as a stripper and erotic dancer to help pay her tuition. Despite the development and struggles with substance abuse and alcoholism, she graduated with a bachelor’s degree in 1988 and found work as a writer for engineering and business publications. Later on, she was employed by Screw Magazine.

In 1984 she married Mark Walsh, brother of famous musician Joe Walsh, and in 1985 the couple had a son named David, though the couple’s relationship would not persevere. On July 16, 1986, Walsh left her Nutley, New Jersey apartment which she shared with her son — her estranged husband lived on the floor below — to run errands. She left her son in his father’s care while she walked to a payphone across the street to make a call.

At the time of her disappearance, Walsh was enrolled in a Master’s program in English at New York University, which she had completed half of, while supporting herself and her son as a freelance journalist and various stripper jobs. Her friends at the time worried that she relapsed into substance abuse after being clean for right-about 11 years.

Police eliminated Mark as a suspect in Walsh’s disappearance early on. They also noted that the entire page for…