Hi, crime junkies. I'm your host, Ashley Flowers.

And I'm Britt.

And today, we wanted to hop in your feed with an extra special,

add free, surprise episode.

This is a story about a woman who seemed to have everything she could ever want.

She had a steady job, a loving husband, and a life-long best friend.

Everything seemed to be going perfectly.

Until the day she vanished.

This is the story of Esther Hollis.

On September 13, 2011, in Bloomington, Indiana, which is like this college town that's about

an hour and a half from where I'm sitting right now in India,

this woman named Natalie Starratt is at her favorite restaurant, waiting for her very best friend,

Esther Hollis, to come meet her.

Now, everyone calls Esther by her nickname, Estee.

Calling her Esther would honestly be like me calling you Britney.

Oh, yeah, let's not do that.

I saw on Twitter the other day someone was like, in an old episode, you called Britt Britney,

and it honestly like took me by surprise.

I never even considered that her name was anything other than just Britney.

I think I even said to that person, like most of my friends don't even realize my name is Britney,

it needs to be honest.

So Natalie and Estee, I mean, honestly, they sound a lot like you and me, right?

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