When 25-year-old Nadeen Mandansa went to her favorite hangout in downtown Fall River, Massachusetts

for a casual night out, neither she nor her family could have expected it would end the way it did.

To this day, Nadine's family is still trying to figure out exactly what happened that July

night in 1991, and after over 30 years where exactly Nadine could be now.

I'm Kylie Lowe and this is the story of Nadine Mandansa on Dark Down East.

What Sean Mendonza remembers most about his big sister is her natural musical

talent and her all-around good vibes personality. She was just easy to be around and she loved to sing and she played the guitar and she was an awesome singer and guitar player. She's been in a few bands. She was good-natured. She liked to make people laugh and she was always on the

ball with things. Very active and very friendly. She was born and raised in Fall River, Massachusetts, and though not technically a small town, Nadeen knew just about everyone. Her older sister Angela Mandansa told me,

Nadine made friends easily.

She definitely embodied the concept of a stranger is a friend that I haven't met yet.

Angela painted a vivid picture of Nadine for me.

This four foot ten woman who had to sit on a pillow to see over the dash of her car

and who could make anyone laugh by changing the lyrics to a song into a comical parody.

Nadeen also had a way of catching people off guard, like they underestimated her in some way. That was especially true for the unsuspecting bar patrons

she'd challenge at the pool table. She had her pool cue and she used to go play and I watched her play and she was very good.

I mean she used to beat most of the guys they'd all walk away pissed off because

this itty bitty little four foot ten barely a hundred pound pip squeak of a girl was beaten all of these

big old bubbers you know at the game of pool. She had her own custom pool cue and darts and that's how she liked to unwind on the weekends with her friends.

But she was a bit of a party girl too, you know, back in those years that kind of was the norm especially for that part of

New England being in an old mill town there that was basically becoming an obsolete place to be. A lot of the mills had closed, you

know, work was difficult to come by, many people were moving away because you

couldn't find work.

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