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Meditation Group Suspects

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Brief overview

Three more suspects in Joyce LePage's 1971 murder: her meditation group, roommate Bruce, and classmate Steve Solly.

  1. Mark's strangulation history was never investigatedJoyce's own letter names a mental institution stay for trying to strangle people, and no investigator followed it up.
  2. Bruce is now the sheriff's primary focusChanged timelines, a broken vase, a missing coat rack and refused polygraphs put the roommate at the center in 2026.
  3. A $100,000 reward is still openJoyce's brother Bruce LePage funds $60,000 for an arrest and $40,000 more for a conviction, tips to 509-397-6266.
Executive Summary AI
  • Ashley Flowers and Britt continue the case of Joyce LePage, a WSU student who vanished from Stevens Hall in 1971 along with a swath of green carpet, and walk through three more of the six suspect theories 55 years later.0:32
  • The meditation group theory centers on SIMS leaders Mike and Celeste Lindbergh and their roommate Mark Wadley at 400 Howard Street, three or four houses from where Joyce's car was found on Opal Street and the house she planned to move into that fall; Mike showed nervousness on his polygraph when asked whether Mark was involved, and the officer concluded Mark could not be eliminated as a suspect.3:14
  • A letter in Joyce's own handwriting, found in the case file, says Mark had once been in a mental institution for trying to strangle people and that she suspected he informed to a narc about a drug bust two years earlier, yet no past or present investigator appears to have looked into either claim.11:22
  • Roommate Bruce Beerbomb, who wrote Joyce's father asking for $90 weeks into her disappearance, changed his account of when he last saw her, never took the polygraph he claimed, and is today the primary focus of the Whitman County Sheriff's Office after ex-wives reported a missing coat rack, a suspicion he killed Joyce, and a poem about a dead girl in a river.28:08
  • The final theory is Steve Solly, who filmed Joyce for a communications class, held her typewriter, was the last person seen with her when a tipster said she appeared distressed on July 19th, and quit school mid-semester for New York before passing a polygraph two years later that is missing from the file.35:06
Key Quote
“but maybe I am holding back because I feel a certain responsibility towards Joyce.”
— Mike Lindbergh7:46
Key Quote
“I discovered that Mark once stayed at a mental institution for trying to strangle people.”
— Joyce LePage11:22
Key Quote
“She said, well, I understand it too well. I understand it so well that I think that I'm going to hurt somebody.”
— Kay Garrison13:58