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 this week's case is one that hasn't garnered a whole lot

of media attention and I have absolutely no idea why. On April 18th I was contacted by a

handful of listeners about the same victim and just a few hours later I got a message from her

aunt. When I went to talk to her about her niece she referred me instead to the victim's mother

and so we talked and talked and talked. This is the story of Destiny Avery, small talk sucks,

so let's dive in.

Destiny Avery was born into an extraordinarily normal family in Denver, Colorado. She was the youngest

of three girls and loved playing sister sister sister. Like marriages sometimes do, her parents

didn't work out in split when she was only two years old. Her mother Doreen didn't have anywhere

to live at the time so Destiny went to live with her father. Once Doreen got her affairs in order

and a home big enough for the kids Robert fought to keep Destiny with him. But Destiny was a mama's

girl through and through and every weekend and school breaks just was not enough for her. When she

was 14 she started regularly running away from her dad's house and to her moms and every time he

brought her back. Eventually she told her dad that she didn't want to live with him anymore and

Doreen welcomed having her daughter who doubled as her best friend in the house all the time. Destiny

was described by everyone she knew as caring. That's the word I see over and over again. She was

the kind of person who always wanted a friend and always wanted to be a friend. She was kind and

thoughtful but she was also incredibly independent. School was not her favorite but she loved the

friends that she made there and she made some lasting ones. By the time she was 17 she decided

school just wasn't for her so she dropped out with plans to get her GED. She lived at home for

a few months after leaving high school before noticing that her cousin in Texas was struggling to

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