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I mean, it's been devastating. It's been a roller coaster. A lot of times it's even unbelievable. Sometimes I don't even...

I can't even fathom it. This is reality. This is real. Anger, sadness, absolutely horrible.

She needs to be back home. We're devastated that her mom has gone and the least they can do is return to Ariana to her family. That's where she needs to be. We just want her back home.

I want Ariana home and I want people who are behind all of this for something to be done. Too much time has gone by and we just need to be resolved.

On April 1, 2016, 32-year-old Nicole Fitz told her roommate that she had to run a quick errand to meet somebody at a restaurant nearby.

Nicole's two-year-old daughter, Ariana, had been staying with some babysitters in a nearby city while Nicole worked. But Nicole decided it was time to pick up her toddler after the babysitters made excuses for not giving Ariana back.

She took some money from an ATM and went to pay the babysitters and retrieve Ariana. One week later, Nicole was found murdered in a San Francisco park.

Her body was found in a shallow grave covered by a wooden board. Her daughter, Ariana, has never been seen again.

I'm Marissa and from OneDream, this is episode 217 of The Vanished. Ariana fits this story.

Hello, I'm Hannah. And I'm Sirete. And we are the hosts of A Red Handed, a weekly true crime podcast.

Every week on Red Handed, we get stuck into the most talked about cases. From the Idaho student killings, the Delphi murders and our recent rundown of The Murdoch's Arga.

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The 20-somethings had big hopes for their new lives in a new city and found the perfect apartment in Pacifica, a small coastal enclave just southeast of the big city, where housing was more affordable.

For this story, we spoke to Nicole's roommate Claire and she told us about the move.

I want to say in early 2012, when we moved up here to Pacifica, it's just below St. Francisco.

There's Bailey City and then there's Pacifica, Pacifica is the coastal part.

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