The Missing Woman Who Might Not Exist: The Joanna Lopez Case

Podcast: Mysteries and Histories · Georgia Marie

Opublikowano: 2026-10-21

In January 1989, Chicago television station WMAQ ended its overnight broadcast with a haunting missing-person notice: a grainy photograph, the name Joanna Lopez, and a phone number. There was no age, no description, and no explanation of when or where she had disappeared. Decades later, the footage drew internet sleuths into a mystery with remarkably little evidence. Researchers reported finding no matching entry in major missing-person databases, leaving Joanna’s identity and the circumstances behind the broadcast unverified. Was she a missing girl whose story slipped through the records or was there another explanation? The notice ex...