Hey everyone and welcome back to Big Mad True Crime where we get Big Mad over true crime

I'm your host Heather Ashley and today's case is another one of those small towns that go rogue if you thought

Canadian Texas was small

It's got nothing on Berkeley Springs West Virginia

Small talk is like playing tetherball against yourself. So let's save ourselves a misery and just dive into this case

Riley Crossman was a cute little blonde 15 year old girl who had the perfect high school romance that was going on a full year

Which is like a decade in teenage years?

Her parents were divorced but shared her well. She lived in a tiny town in West Virginia called Berkeley Springs

A town so small that it makes Canadian Texas look big. They have a population of

602 whole people and only cover 0.34 square miles

I'm pretty sure I've been in Walmart's bigger than this town

Everyone who knew Riley loved Riley. I mean the girl was excited about getting braces freaking metal mouth traps

But she found the silver lining in them like she did in everything

But on Tuesday May 7th

2019 Riley Crossman woke up her mother shantal up from a nap before an evening shift at work

She hadn't been feeling well, but she knows she could count on Riley to wake her up when she got home from school

And she did school that out at 2.51 pm and by 3.30 pm

She had walked back home in time to wake her mom up for work

Though her mother left Riley's grandmother was at the house with her and her two younger brothers until 7.30 pm that night while her mom worked

According to date line shantal got home from working the evening shift at 10.30 pm and walked by Riley's room

Her door was closed, but saw that the light was still on and didn't feel the need to go in and check on her

I mean why would you teens will be teens?

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