It started like so many Saturday nights at Mountain Park.

Music, crowded dance floors, and teenagers trying to stretch the night a little longer before

heading home.

But sometime before midnight on October 5, 1968, a teenager stepped out of that crowd and into the dark, beginning a walk she would never

finish.

In the days after she disappeared, there were delays, missed opportunities, and details that

didn't always line up.

Some witnesses came forward, while others stayed quiet, and critical information surfaced only long after it might have made a difference.

This case has been stagnant for far too long, and it's time that changes.

So let's talk about it.

I'm Kylie Lowe, and this is the case of Christine Hurlbert on Dark Down East.

It was the night of Saturday, October 5th, 1968, and just as it was on many Saturday nights before this one, the ballroom at Mountain

Park in Holyoke, Massachusetts was packed to the brim with teenagers dancing to live rock and

roll music. The main season at the popular amusement park was almost over, but that holiday

weekend, the fun and merriment carried on late into the night.

The place was packed with more than 800 people crowded inside, everyone from locals to out-of-towners,

all cutting a rug to the music echoing out into the fall air.

Among the hundreds of attendees in the ballroom that night was 15-year-old Christine Hurlbert.

According to reporting by Charles E. Goddoux for the Morning Union, she had left the dance with friends once already,

but she returned some time before walking out again. This time, she was alone and on foot.

Christine had options for leaving the dance that night. She'd reportedly been

offered several rides home, but for reasons that have never been publicly explained, she turned

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