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After 24 Years, Where is Missing Suzanne Lyall?
The student’s mother has vowed to search on for her daughter, who has not been seen since March 1998.
This spring marks 24 years since 19-year-old State University of New York (SUNY) at Albany student Suzanne Lyall was last seen making her way back to her college dorm, a journey she never completed.
Although so much time has passed and the mystery of what happened to Suzy has never been solved, her mother Mary has vowed she will not stop searching for answers about her youngest daughter.
Speaking to CBS 6 Albany this month, she described the agony of seeking someone who has disappeared without a trace.
“There’s always that hole in your heart. It’ll never heal. It’s the worst thing that could happen to a parent. I want to find out what happened,” she commented.
Where is Suzy?
Suzy was a computer science student at SUNY, and something of a whizz with the burgeoning new technology at a time when it being online was much rarer than it is today. She also worked part-time to support her studies at Babbage’s Software in the nearby Crossgates Mall.
On March 2nd 1998, Suzy left her place of work following an evening shift and got a Capital District Transit Authority bus to Collins Circle at around 9:20 PM. Witnesses have her disembarking the bus at her stop at approximately 9:45 PM.
However, she was not seen after this. Suzy’s boyfriend Richard Condon was waiting for her to call him from her dorm room as she usually did when she finished work, but she failed to do so. Although he reported trying to call her several times, there was no answer.
When there was still no sign of Suzy the next morning, Condon called her parents back home. They were immediately worried, telling People magazine she wasn’t the sort of person who would just take off without letting someone know first.
Furthermore, Suzy’s dorm-mates said they couldn’t recall hearing her come back to her suite the night before, suggesting she never actually made it back inside once she got off the bus.
