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Anonymous ID: 915602 March 22, 2020, 8:13 p.m. No.8526347   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6396 >>6592

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>https://people.com/crime/kristin-smart-missing-college-student-fbi-tells-mom-be-ready-news/

https://www.recordnet.com/news/20200118/could-answers-be-coming-in-kristin-smarts-disappearance

 

Kristin’s mother, Denise Smart, said she recently has been contacted an agent retired from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and told to be ready for a development that might bring closure to her 23-year nightmare. Denise said she was told by authorities, “Be ready. This is really going to be something you don’t expect. We want to give you the support you need.”

 

The retired FBI agent also suggested she secure a family spokesperson and the family “might want to get away for a while.” What the retired agent didn’t say is when this development might be announced.

 

“It’s like, ‘Can you give me the flight plan?’ ” Denise said. “When is this happening?”

 

The preparation alert certainly has brought renewed optimism. Though answers finally might be coming, not knowing what to be prepared for or when news might break has been agonizing.

 

“I wish I knew when,” Denise said softly, “because it’s very anxiety-producing.”

 

Hope. Anxiety. Disappointment.

 

That’s the roller coaster the Smarts involuntarily boarded and have ridden every day since 19-year-old Kristin vanished from the Cal Poly campus late her freshman year. Fingers have been pointed at Cal Poly’s campus Police Department, which handled the early stages of the investigation, and the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Office. Optimism has been raised time and time again then shattered. New leads led to brick walls. The bottom line: Kristin Smart has not been found.

 

Denise Smart said she never has harbored more hope, even more than in 2016, when the FBI and the Sheriff’s excavated a Cal Poly hillside following a tip that proved to be fruitless.

 

“When they did the big dig, I had no anxiety,” Denise said. “I said she’s not there.”

 

But now, there is belief the end may be near.