Thirteen Years
In 2010, the search for Crystal was going on for 13 years. The Baltimore police had tried everything within their power to locate the missing woman. By that time, however, they had no choice but to tell her mother, Cynthia, that all efforts to locate her daughter had been “exhausted”. Cynthia stopped celebrating Christmas after that.
Life Must Go On
And so, Cynthia spent twenty years, 10 months, and two weeks wishing and hoping to someday see her precious daughter again. She refused to sell the house – what if Crystal would decide to come back home?