Blood on kitchen floor spelled out message before Joan Risch vanished
When 31-year-old mother Joan Risch disappeared from her Massachusetts home, police found blood wiped into words on her kitchen floor.
Blood on Joan Risch's Massachusetts kitchen floor had been wiped into words. The 31-year-old mother vanished from the room, leaving the door open, her phone unanswered, and no body ever found.
Police recorded the stain before it disappeared into evidence.
The message in the blood
Decades later, investigators could still read three words in the blood: I'm coming home.
The case remains one of the most puzzling disappearances in Massachusetts history. The blood evidence, the open door, and the unanswered phone all pointed to something sudden and violent, yet Joan Risch was never seen again.
An unsolved mystery
The message wiped into the blood raises more questions than it answers. Who wrote it? Was it Joan herself, or someone else? And if she was coming home, where did she go?
The physical evidence was preserved, but without a body or witnesses, the case went cold. The three words remain the only clue to what happened that day in Joan Risch's kitchen.
