Disappearances are always hard to understand. 

Most of the time, we’re looking for someone that was taken from us against their will. Sometimes, they’re a mystery that we can’t explain. Every once in a while though, the disappearance is voluntary, and maybe that’s what we’re dealing with here. 

Was Judge Joe Crater murdered? Or did he stage an elaborate exit leaving his wife, friends, and colleagues scratching their heads in frustration? On the night of August the 6th 1930, Crater stepped out of a well-known steak house and into a cab on the streets of New York never to be seen again. Or, maybe not.

In part two of our series, we’ll dig deeper into those questions, and we’ll try to make sense of the timeline leading up to August the 6th. Season 3 continues as we welcome you back to Vanished: Judge Crater.

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Show Notes & Further Reading

• Finding Judge Crater: A Life and Phenomenal Disappearance in Jazz Age New Yorkby Stephen J. Riegel 

• The Wife, the Maid, and the Mistress: A Novelby Ariel Lawhon

•  Joseph Force Crater Becomes the Missingest Man in New York@ History
• Vanishing Point: The Disappearance of Judge Crater, and the New York He Left Behindby Richard J. Tofel 
• Joseph Force Crater @ Wikipedia