Hi, Crime Junkies. I'm your host Ashley Flowers.

And I'm Britt.

And we already brought you one full-length episode this week.

But when a fan reached out and asked us to help her tell her own story,

I had to put out an extra episode just for this because for years,

one of our own crime junkies,

Sherry Snyder has been doing everything she can to find out what happened to her missing mother.

It hasn't been easy for her because she has almost nothing to go off of.

No one knows exactly when her mom went missing.

And she's been trying to piece together this story,

one interview and police report at a time from a decade away.

What she needs now is your help to get the word out.

This is the story of Diane Frances.

By the time Sherry Snyder realizes that her mom Diane Frances is missing,

she's already had a severe disadvantage because it's been years since anyone has heard from Diane

and even longer since Sherry herself has seen her.

You see, Diane struggled with substance use disorder,

which led to her losing custody of her children multiple times.

By the time Sherry was 10 in 2003,

she and her sister were permanently removed from Diane's care.

And they spent the next five or six years bouncing around between foster homes and shelters,

somewhere good and somewhere bad.

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