It has been more than three decades since the day 41-year-old Audrey Grot left her

Northfield Vermont home supposedly for an afternoon of shopping,

only to vanish without a trace.

The initial search for the missing mother

had just a few details to go on,

but not even those details can really be trusted. The most important question still

lingers. What really happened on that August afternoon in 1993.

I'm Kylie Lowe and this is the case of Audrey Grote on Dark Down East.

Audrey Grot was a dedicated adoring mother and a busy one, too.

She had six daughters with about an eight-year gap between the oldest and youngest, and four of

the youngest lived at home with her.

Audrey and her husband of 11 years, James Cody, divorced in 1983, and he moved out of state, so times were tough and money was tight as a single mom, but she did everything she could to make a comfortable life for her family.

According to Peter Hirschfield's reporting for the Times Argus, Audrey and the girls were living in a small

Northfield Vermont apartment in 1990 when she presented an idea.

She had a small plot of land on Holstrom Road, a more rural part of the same town, and Audrey

suggested they build a house of their own. The girls were all

in on the plan and together they began construction that very summer. One of Audrey's daughters

later reflected on their home with pride, quote,

Mom and us girls built it. It was pretty cool. End quote.

Whenever there was time and money to spare, Audrey was working away on the house.

Deborah Derby writes for the Rutland Herald that Audrey referred to it as a pioneer project.

It didn't have electricity for about eight months and it never had

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