What is going on True Crime fans? I'm your host Tee. And I'm your host Daphne. And you're listening to Going Last.

Hello everybody. So sorry this episode is a little bit late. This is our wedding week. So it's a huge week for us.

And we just had our bachelor bachelor at parties over the weekend. Keith was in Big Bear. I was. It was amazing. We did some fishing. We sat around the campfire. And yeah, that was pretty much it. Just had some fun.

Yeah, it looked amazing. I just did mine locally in LA here. We went downtown. We saw a comedy show just with a bunch of my friends. It was super fun. But we have just been hosting family and doing all this stuff getting ready for our wedding this weekend. So we didn't want to rush this episode and have it be low quality.

So thank you guys for your patience with it. And actually also thank you to Amelia for recommending today's case. This one has a lot of crazy elements to it. And there was some resolution for it actually just last year.

So there there are some recent updates for it. So let's not waste any more time. Let's talk about it. Yeah, this is one of those generational cases. Absolutely.

Alright guys, this is episode 341 of Going West. So let's get into it.

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In September of 1991, a 30-year-old woman vanished from a lodge in Pennsylvania. Although she was found shortly after, badly beaten, strangled and burned on a beach in New York, it took 30 years to identify her body.

And when police did, it only deepened the mystery. Because as it turns out, her young daughter is still missing.

This is the story of Christine Balusco and her daughter, Krista Balusco.

Christine Balusco was born in New Jersey in 1961. And if it isn't obvious by that very short sentence, there is shockingly little known about her early life and family. But we do know that she was adopted as a baby.

Now the only information made public about her early years is that her biological mother put her up for adoption when she was a newborn. And that her mother had nine biological children in total.

So Christine had eight biological siblings. And this is going to come up in a bit and actually kind of lead to her disappearance. So it's not clear whether all nine of the children were put up for adoption by their mom or if some of the children lived with her, but Christine was adopted by the Balusco family in Montville, New Jersey, which is about 30 miles or 48 kilometers outside of Manhattan, New York.

She joined parents Dorothy and Frank and was later joined by a little brother named Francis, who was also adopted. Though again, it's not clear if they shared the same biological mother.

Dorothy worked as a secretary at a car dealership and Frank was a glass blower. And they both served in World War II with Dorothy assembling aircraft radios and Frank a medical technician.

At some point in Christine's adult life, she relocated to the small city of Clifton, New Jersey, which is her last known address. And it's about 30 minutes away from Montville where she was raised.

So leading up to her disappearance, she was working for a rainbow brand clothing store. And when she was around 27 years old, Christine got pregnant with a baby girl, though it's never been made clear who the father was or if he even knew of his daughter's existence.

But her daughter, Kristen Nicole, was born on August 1, 1989. It actually seems as if Christine found out that she was adopted later in life because all sources claim that she left New Jersey after finding out that she was adopted with the goal of finding and meeting her birth family.

She apparently located someone that she was biologically related to down in Naples, Florida and told her adoptive parents and brother that she was heading there to find them.

So she left the Clifton area in July of 1991 and her family would never see or hear from her ever again.

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