In 2016, Kristen was all grown up and a mom of her own when she decided to take her mom's

cold case into her own hands.

I got to a point about seven years ago where I was like, okay, I want to do this.

I was sitting at home with little kids and I just started reaching out and like, hey,

is there anything new?

Anything going on?

Who can I talk to?

I'm not going to love them more.

No, there's nothing new.

There's nothing I can tell you because I don't know anything.

She was asking all those questions over the phone and via email from hundreds of miles away.

So it's not like she could just march down to the prosecutor's office and demand answers.

You see, it had been decades since Kristen or any of her immediate family members had

lived in Indiana.

Back in 1989, five years after Darling's murder, Ron got a new job opportunity with the

door manufacturing company.

So the whole family moved away from Argus and not just out of town to a whole different

state.

This is episode eight.

It all goes through one guy.

By then, Ron and his wife, Chris, had also added a son to the family.

Marie, Melissa and Kristen had a new baby brother.

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