Their skiff'd have ever received has to be a bike when I was younger, a pedal bike.

It was a sort of slick little road bike and I remember it was all like it was so it was all wrapped up

but it was so obvious what it was obviously because nothing shaped like a bike and had a little ribbon on it

and I was so gas. For that was a life changer and I'm still sort of big on cycling around my area now

so for that one change really a little.

Joy in every sip with red cups now back at Starbucks.

Alright it is time for April birthday shoutouts and I purposely saved them for this episode because this episode releases in the main feed on April 18th which happens to be my birthday.

So for all my fellow April Aries babies I say Aries as though I'm a horoscope person I actually don't know what that means

but we are all in the same boat for whatever that does mean so I want to say happy birthday to Ali, Annie, Bill, Kara, Carol, Chelsea, Denise, Eileen, Elizabeth, Jessica M, Jessica O, Cody, Kristen, Lark, Laura, Leslie, Lisa Marie, Maria, Melanie, Nikki, Quinn, Sarah, Suzy, Tamar, Tiffany, and Zoe.

Happy birthday everyone go have some cake enjoy your day your month whatever you celebrate and have a great birthday.

In 2009 a young woman went out to celebrate Marty Grah with her friends when she didn't return home everyone was worried but when the suspects pointed fingers at each other learning what happened would be difficult but even more difficult was the question of why.

I'm Charlie and welcome to crime lines.

Welcome to crime lines today's case was suggested by Jessica so thank you for sending it in I then had my patreon supporters choose cases off of a list and this is one of the ones they picked as an added perk on patreon I have added occasional live streams where.

We discuss cases that I've covered and plan some episodes so thank you to my patrons for also helping me narrow down my very long list and as way of another announcement I will be bringing public live streams back to my youtube channel those of you who watch on Facebook will still be able to see it there but I do recommend going out to the crime lines youtube channel.

And subscribing there the reason I stopped doing them and stop doing video content was that I wanted to put more effort into the podcast and to bring back the live streams I will be having rotating guest host to will also be bringing cases to us that you've not heard before so I won't have to do all of it by myself and so that's going to be a very big help and it'll get you to meet some new.

I'm going to apologize for my voice I thought I sounded fine I have a little bit of a head cold but now that I'm recording I can hear it's I'm assuming you can too so I do apologize for that.

Let's get into this week's case starting with Kristi Lynn Espinoza Kristi was born and raised in Austin Texas she had a big and vivacious personality in school she was voted class clown and a former teacher said that there are some students that a teacher just doesn't forget and Kristi was one of those she loved music and dance and was on the high school dance team.

After Kristi graduated high school she did take some time off and she worked as a server at a local restaurant she was saving some money enjoying the freedom of being an adult while she tried to figure out what she wanted to do next her plan was to enroll at a local college in the fall of 2009 to continue her education and find a career path.

In February 2009 Kristi was dating a man named Mike stackable someone she had actually first met in elementary school they recently reconnected as adults and just hit it off they had a great relationship Michael really encouraged Kristi to get back to school and to follow her dreams.

On Tuesday February 24th 2009 21 year old Kristi went out with friends to celebrate Marty Grah. Though not on the scale of somewhere like New Orleans Austin Texas does have a vibrant Marty Grah season and it's particularly active on the night of Marty Grah.

Mike worked as a bouncer at the Ivy Lounge so he was working that night. Being Marty Grah it was super busy at all the bars at night clubs this wasn't a usual Tuesday night.

Kristi was at the Ivy club with her best friend Carly hanging out with Mike whenever he had a break.

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